Member

There is a certain delicious arrangement of the groupings in that we start with Amendment 1 and, in the same group, consider Amendment 347, also in the name of my noble friend, which is right at the back of the book, just to demonstrate our flexibility. As I understand it, my noble friend is saying in Amendment 347 not to bring all this into force until we see how it is intended to be applied in practice, with a wide range of documents that need to be published. That may or may not be a practical proposition; none the less, I think he makes a very good point, which is that there is a great deal by way of the detail of how this is to work that we do not yet see. Simply the fact that some of these things are published does not mean that we know how it will develop over time, because some of these documents will be published with, as it were, the state of play as it is now. We do not know what decisions GBR will take in the future that will change all these propositions. It is quite a relevant factor, I have to say.