Financial Services Bill

My Lords, we appear to be back to the phenomenon we experienced on our previous Committee day when the Government tried to share out; if they accepted one amendment, I had to not move another one. Here, they have accepted two, so presumably I am somehow in debt to the Government if I withdraw the one remaining in the group. I am grateful to the Minister for accepting Amendments 16 and 24. It is a pity that the Government have not accepted the possibility of setting down what commercially confidential means. I mentioned that those who had seen Freedom of Information Act requests would often be puzzled by the use of the commercially confidential reason for redaction. I remember one in particular, on Companies Act charges, where virtually everything had been redacted in circumstances where there was no commerciality involved because nobody else was in competition with Companies House and there was no confidentiality either. So the Government are not entirely to be trusted with the concept of commercial confidentiality. We shall see how that turns out in practice. Amendment 16 agreed. Amendment 17 Moved by