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Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

I will rewind the clock, my Lords. This has been a brilliant debate and I do urge the noble Lord, Lord Whitty, to consider my offer of going next door and withdrawing the amendments. The offer is still open. The noble Lord, Lord Brooke, mentioned pay grades. I know exactly whose pay grade this is in. Certainly it is not in mine, because I am in the unpaid grade—voluntarily, I hasten to add, although most people would think that it was by necessity rather than by volunteering. This is in the pay grade of the Prime Minister. He will look at all this. There is a lot of aerial warfare going on at the moment—discussion which appropriately should be

fully aired and debated. We have, obviously, notified DCMS of the noble Lord’s considerations of this recommendation, and it is considering them. It will consider them in the round in view of the overall Leveson position, and then that will rise like cream to the top to the Prime Minister for him to decide. As the noble Lord rightly says, we will doubtless revisit this. Indeed, more importantly, we should revisit it. On that basis, I hope that the noble Lord will withdraw his amendment.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
741 c482GC 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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