Member

I know the Minister is rightly anxious to get this Bill without delay on to the statute book, and I commend him strongly for that. However, there will not be any significant delay. One of the Whips is moving their hand; I was wondering if that was addressed to me, but apparently it is not. The reason there would not be a significant delay is because of what I envisage, if the Minister will assist. This very simple amendment should be sent before all the bodies that appeared before the Committee chaired by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas. Each of those parties—the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the London Court of International Arbitration, the ICC and so forth—should have an opportunity to express their views. Following the request from the noble and learned Lord, Lord Bellamy, when he was the Minister, letters were sent out and received in reply from the main institutes on the issue of corruption, but that was a wide remit. This is a very precise and small remit—namely, the wording of my amendment.