Member

Finally, the Minister gave me what I was looking for on the question of safety, and that is an unambiguous assurance, as I understood it from the Dispatch Box, that the Office of Rail and Road remains the sole safety standard setter. That is what I was hoping to hear him say; that is what I think he did say. Given the confusion generated by the wording in Clause 3, the Bill would be improved if it spelled out what standards he was referring to to ensure they could not be taken as being safety standards. His comments here today in Committee, though deathless in one sense because they are in Hansard, may be forgotten by others because of the squalid circumstances in which this meeting is being held. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.