Health Bill [HL]

I am not arguing about that. I am arguing that the two-stage approach, which the Government originally favoured, was the proportionate one. If we are left with the McCartney amendment and nothing else, it will be a summary ban because it is an all-or-nothing position. That is my point. I maintain that, unless we ask the other place to think again, we will have on our hands a travesty of the parliamentary process. Without apology, I therefore beg to move. Division on Earl Howe’s Amendment Contents 82; Not-Contents 170. [See col. 638 for explanation of mistake in voting figures.] Earl Howe’s Amendment disagreed. Motion agreed. Amendment 12 Moved by