Compensation Bill [HL]

My Lords, we have sought to define as far as we can within legislation the group that we are seeking to address. The difficulty that we have is that we all know what we mean, as with the noble Lord’s amendment. The trouble is that there are other implications, as the noble Baroness knows well, when one tries to translate that into how it appears in statute. The ““ripple effect””, as I have learnt to call it, is something that I have to be conscious of, and that is the basis on which we have to operate at the moment.