Budget Responsibility and National Audit Bill [HL]

Everybody agrees on the substance. The problem is that the Minister is trying to turn words that are inelegant and the wrong way round to mean what we all agree on. Without wishing to claim the fee of a parliamentary counsel, it seems to me that we could deal with this simply by redrafting subsection (3) to read: ““The office must perform that duty, taking account of any government policies that are relevant to the performance of that duty. It may not consider…””