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Meanwhile, as the noble Lord, Lord Fox, mentioned, noble Lords will have received a letter from 13 business organisations, and I will read them into the record: the Federation of Small Businesses, the CBI, the Institute of Directors, Make UK, ADS Group, the British Beer & Pub Association, the British Retail Consortium, Care England, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Family Business UK, the Food & Drink Federation, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and UKHospitality. It is difficult to be precise, but we believe that they represent more than half a million businesses. Certainly, they represent the employers of many millions of workers. The arguments that they make echo those of the Resolution Foundation almost to the word.