Financial Services Bill

No, this is Committee stage; you can talk as many times as you like. The noble Lord should not delay the proceedings. I was going to remind the noble Lord, Lord Myners, that he is indeed privileged, as are the rest of us, in that, following dissolution, he will get a registered letter in the post containing his personal writ of summons, which I hope that he will be there to receive, open and, in due course, answer. However, I am still concerned about this question of wash-up. The Minister says that he has not heard the term before, but I have been around for a very long time and I had not heard it either until this afternoon—and I was a Whip in the other place. Apparently the parties are going to make decisions that then have to be agreed by both Houses of Parliament. I am concerned that both Houses will be stampeded into agreeing matters that should be properly considered over a period of time. That really concerns me, and it ought to concern the Committee as well.