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However, recognising the strength of feeling on this issue in your Lordships’ House, the Government have reflected on their approach. The Government previously tabled an amendment in lieu that will require the Secretary of State to have regard to any effects of e-balloting on the proportion of those entitled to vote in industrial action ballots who actually do so. The Government have since further built on this amendment by placing a statutory duty on the Secretary of State to lay a Statement before Parliament when making regulations to repeal the 50% threshold to demonstrate how the Government have met the duty to have regard to the impact of e-balloting. We hope that the amendment will assure parliamentarians that, when the 50% threshold is repealed, we will have looked at those issues in the round and aligned the repeal with the establishment of e-balloting.