Temporary and Agency Workers (Equal Treatment) Bill [Money]

The conflict lay in the hon. Gentleman's criticising the Government for facilitating a money resolution while also accepting that it was a convention of the House to do so. The hon. Gentleman also asked about the assessment of costs. This relates particularly to clause 4 of the Bill, which provides for the establishment of a new body in the regulatory field. We can look at the examples of other bodies in this field, such as the agency standards inspectorate, which is part of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, and has annual costs of about £1.3 million; and the Low Pay Commission, which makes recommendations on the minimum wage and has annual costs of about £900,000. Any costs relating to a new body must, of course, be an estimate at the moment, but we would expect them to be in the same region, or perhaps a little higher in the early years of its work, were such a body to be established in the same region as those other bodies operating in this field. The hon. Member for Solihull (Lorely Burt) asked me—