Employment Bill [HL]

Before the Minister concludes, I have been listening with great interest. He has not really dealt with the substance of the point raised in the amendment, but the procedure through which it might be dealt. Can he go back to the substance? I know he is advising us that this is not the place, but he referred to the code as already having provisions dealing with surveillance and monitoring. It might be of great assistance to the Committee if he could indicate his own judgment on that bit of the code that already exists, and whether it could be built on without all the bureaucratic and administrative problems that he outlined in his deregulatory approach. Is the code currently sufficient? Could it be improved in some way? If he told us, we could deal with this matter now rather than leaving it for another day.