Clause 24 - Conciliation
Employment Bill
5:45 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
I am grateful for that intervention and I look forward to serving with the hon. Gentleman on many Committees. I can see that he and I have a great deal in common and I shall go away and ponder on his point.
To be serious, I ask myself whether I have missed something about paragraph (b). It appears to do nothing at all and therefore offends the principle of economy in legislation. If the paragraph does do something, I have not noticed what that is, and I should be grateful if the Minister would explain it to me.