Member

I cannot resist coming to Amendment 59B in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Grender. An argument could be made to say that the inherited consumer protection rights should not be diluted—I can understand that and indeed she has an amendment to that effect—but this amendment is completely wrongheaded with the idea that we will always and everywhere adopt the consumer protection rights of the European Union. We will not have been consulted on them and will not have participated in decisions. These are not trivial things. I think that I mentioned earlier that the current improvements that it is working on have been highly contested; there have been lengthy debates. These changes are not controversial, but we would have no say in that controversy whatever. We would simply, if this amendment were adopted by statute, be required to incorporate them, whether they work for our civil aviation sector or not.