Employment Bill [HL]

Good. I am still somewhat worried because we will not get a chance to see the final version before the Bill leaves this House for somewhere else. The code is not part of the Bill, but the noble Lord, Lord Wedderburn, put it elegantly at Second Reading when he said that it was something of a pig in a poke if we do not have a copy of the ACAS report before we debate the Bill. Therefore, it is important that we have a greater attempt by the Government to give us the final version of the code before the Bill leaves this House, so that all parties have a proper chance to debate it. My noble friend Lord Campbell of Alloway earlier expressed some concern that the code ought to be on the face of the Bill or a statutory instrument. I am not sure whether that is appropriate because this is just a code coming from ACAS, but we want to see the final version.