Compensation Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 89:"Page 9, line 27, leave out ““professional””" The noble Lord said: It may be for the convenience of the Committee if, with Amendment No. 89, we also take Amendments Nos. 99 and 101. They all relate to the word ““professional””. That word is historically rather loaded. Its presence in the two contexts addressed by Amendments Nos. 89 and 99 might be construed to limit and confirm the regulator’s permitted area of inquiry. It should be possible to take all relevant conduct into account, whether it is professional, non-professional or, indeed, unprofessional. Amendment No. 101 is rather different. I understood from the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart, that he wished to explore—and, as we know, the noble Lord has to be in the Chamber for the debate on the Terrorism Bill—whether the phrase ““professional indemnity insurance”” was included for any particular reason, arising perhaps from its use in existing statutes, or whether deletion of the word ““professional”” might usefully simplify this clause. On that basis, I beg to move Amendment No. 89.