Employment Bill [HL]

I make it clear that of course I was not suggesting that because the Prime Minister is discussing the matter today that it is outside our ambit to discuss this at all. I was suggesting that no one knows what will happen in the negotiations between the Prime Minister and the trade union movement. We do not yet know whether the point the noble Lord, Lord Wedderburn, made, as reflected in the amendment, will be agreed by the Government. We are asking the Minister to make a comment on the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Wedderburn, before he knows the result of the negotiations between the Prime Minister and the trade union movement. Therefore, in order to expedite the passage of this Bill, would it not be better to postpone the debate until Report, when we will know better what has occurred at Downing Street today? That is all I was suggesting.