Groceries Code Adjudicator

It is great to speak under your chairmanship, Mr Gale. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire (Gavin Williamson) on securing a debate on this very important subject. It gives me a chance both to answer hon. Members' questions and to back up what we have already said about it. Let me come immediately to the timing of the groceries code adjudicator Bill, as almost every hon. Member who spoke is keen to hear about that. I am not quite sure about my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Philip Davies), but nevertheless I shall deal with it. I can assure hon. Members that we are not taking a long-grass approach. We said in the Queen's Speech for the first Session that we would introduce a draft Bill in this Session, and that is what we will do. I confirmed in questions last week that we were not able to publish the draft Bill before Easter, as I had originally hoped, but that we would publish the draft Bill soon after Easter to allow time for pre-legislative scrutiny in the current Session.