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I hope it will also be enough to reassure noble Lords that I was not looking backwards in tabling the amendment but looking forwards, to simply make it possible for a Prime Minister who had a serious concern not to increase the general number of the membership of this House to still be able to appoint a good person who is not in the House of Commons to be a Minister. That is often what we need, as the Minister himself and other noble Lords have given many examples of.