Member

I want to make some brief remarks about other comments made by noble Lords. It is always a pleasure—and I mean that—to listen to my noble friend Lord Young of Cookham develop a case with both charm and ineluctable logic. It is very difficult at the end not to agree with what he said. I am sure that the whole Committee feels that. That puts a special burden on the Minister to come up with some grudging and unpersuasive comments as to why my noble friend has got it all wrong.