Compensation Bill [Lords]

Does my hon. Friend accept that, as with solicitors and voluntary organisations, trade unions provide a vital service to their members and members’ families and that, where those trade unions operate properly on a not-for-profit basis, there is a strong case for exemption, as long as there is a form of internal regulation? Will she say how the Government intend to move forwards on the concept of the exemption of trade unions where they are not operating as claims farmers, as the Union of Democratic Mineworkers perhaps has done in Nottingham?