Yes, I will. It is perfectly obvious that the noble Lord’s party did the same thing when it was in power. There was retrospection in legislation. I can think of the videogames legislation, which has some very great similarities to this Bill. My plea to the Government is to answer the questions posed to them by the Constitution Committee in this debate so that we can have that explanation. I quoted the two paragraphs of the report. I am sure the noble Lord has that in front of him, so he can look at paragraphs 12 and 15. Those are the two questions I want answered.
Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord German
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 21 March 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill.
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