Children and Young Persons Bill [HL]

I tender a sincere and heartfelt apology to the Minister. When I heard the quotation from the correspondence with the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, and the reference to status, I thought that there must be—I could not believe my ears—a reference to some loss of human status or of social status. That clearly was not intended and I hope that the Minister will accept the apology in the spirit in which it is tendered.