Member

So, for all that the Minister maintains that it is somehow improper for us to be questioning this, we have the Government bang to rights on this one. I therefore hope that she will take this away and give it careful consideration, because she is playing with something quite dangerous here. I am no longer a politician—I sit in your Lordships’ House—but I am still alert enough to the political dangers of getting something like this badly wrong, and I have to say to the Minister and her colleagues in the Government that, if this goes badly wrong, they are going to own it.