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I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Fox—although I am not entirely sure I would be so highfalutin as to use the term “fungible”—that the prescription this sets out would create some hostages to fortune. I apologise for not seeing the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, when she came in; but perhaps I was doing my Two Ronnies impersonation of answering a question before it has been asked. In speaking to an earlier group, I did indeed quote ACAS’s eight examples of things that can be described as flexible working. It can be compressed hours, hybrid working, part-time, or differing start and finish times. There are a range of things, not just working from home, which, as I said in the debate on the previous group, has become a bit of an idée fixe when we talk about flexible working.