Member

There was consultation; there was engagement. We undertook targeted engagement with relevant government authorities, including the police, who had some severe concerns about policing some of these protests—they wanted some clarity about that—the Crown Prosecution Service and the Office for Life Sciences. We undertook that consultation, which is an important measure of the issues, so I say to those who are concerned about the SI provision: now is the time. There will be a possibility to vote on it very shortly and I ask for their support on it, for the reasons I have outlined.