Employment Bill [HL]

It is me who should apologise; I did not know that I should have quickly got to my feet again. The noble Lord, Lord Campbell of Alloway, raises an excellent point. With respect, however, I suggest that it is probably not for this amendment. I also assure the noble Lord, Lord Henley, that UK Trade and Investment—the department I have the privilege of leading—is partly in the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and also partly in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. I also have a link into the Ministry of Defence. I make it my business to ensure that our work goes through every single part of government, usually face to face or on the telephone—not often by letter. The whole of brand Britain goes into every single aspect of what the Government do. I assure the noble Lord that these views will find their way to where he requires. I close with an observation. If this is about 1984 and the wider, deeper values that we hold so dear in this nation, and of which I am so proud when I go to other countries, going to the core of human rights—human rights and dignity are currently covered in the Information Commissioner’s code—then I suggest that it is for another debate. It is for something other than one amendment to what is essentially an administrative workplace issue. I do not for one minute diminish where Members of the Committee are trying to take this, but this is not the place to do it.