Compensation Bill [Lords]

I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, and for his earlier back-handed tribute. The two points to which he has referred are, of course, inextricably linked. The case for having ““may”” rather than ““shall”” is that the Bill contains the enormously wide and rather vague term ““desirable activities””. Had we had a narrower term—as I think the hon. Gentleman would have wanted, and as we certainly did—there would have been a case for ““shall””.