Clause 51 - Financial penalties
Water Bill [Lords]
11:00 am
Mr Bill Wiggin (Leominster, Conservative)
I am grateful to the Minister for that reply, but it did not address the problem of that being implicit in the Bill. We have had to put up with that attitude all morning, and for once he should have been more willing to give ground. I know that it is very difficult to get a Minister to give an inch, particularly the Minister in these circumstances, but I do not feel that this is a make or break part of the Bill, nor is it a wrecking amendment. It would have improved the wording under some interpretations. It is not a die-in-the-ditch amendment at all; it is satisfying for me to tell the Minister that something should have been
implicit, but it is not. On that basis, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.