Work and Families Bill

: I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman detects in the decent manner of the Minister that perhaps there is the scintilla of an opportunity in this instance. The need for the 20 December date is set only by a programme motion. If we are to have proper scrutiny, to which the Minister referred, does the hon. Gentleman agree that there could be merit in a small slippage in the timing of consideration in Committee to allow the statutory order to be before Members so that they might give it due consideration?