Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

I hope that the Leader will allow me to point out to him that that was not the question that the noble Lady, Lady Saltoun, put to him. The question was, ““Why should the referendum date be the date that it is?””—not ““Why has it taken so long to get to this point?””, but ““Why is the date the date?””. That seems to me to be a question that he has not yet addressed.