Company Law Reform Bill [HL]

We have hacked the matter pretty much to death but, in l’esprit d’escalier, I have one further question for the Minister in relation to the Question of whether Clause 137 shall stand part of the Bill. We have heard a lot about facilitating and market forces but we have not heard much about timetables. When does the Minister think that we would move to the powers under Clause 137? When would he be inclined to press the button because things had not moved quite as he thought? When would he feel that market forces had not worked sufficiently well to move to the desirable state that the noble Lord, Lord Sharman, and I are seeking? His answer would be a helpful hint to us all. It would perhaps enable us to reflect in a different way if we knew that the Minister had an ““itchy trigger finger””, which is perhaps the phrase that I am hoping to hear from him.