I do not think I actually said that. I think I related it to the consultation. The Government’s position is: let us have a consultation, let us try to bring industry with us. The consultation will start in January, it will finish at the end of March and it will then be evaluated, so we will probably be beyond Royal Assent before that is available. That was in my statement. I may have alluded to the fact—this may have given rise to the confusion—that we will be coming back to this issue in subsequent groups in Committee today, but the consultation will extend beyond Royal Assent.
Modern Slavery Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Bates
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 10 December 2014.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Modern Slavery Bill.
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