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Amendments 6 and 13, again with the welcome support of my noble friends Lady Wolf and Lord Hampton and the noble Lord, Lord Storey, would require the Secretary of State to publish within six months of the Bill’s passage specific criteria for exercising the power not to convene a group of persons. The noble Baroness, Lady Barran, also spoke about that, so I will limit myself to saying that without such criteria, there appears to be no restriction on when the power could be used, so that, potentially, employers and other interested parties could be completely cut out of the process of preparing standards and assessment plans.