Clause 15
Legal Services Bill [Lords]
10:30 am
Stephen Hesford (PPS (Rt Hon Baroness Amos, President of the Council), Privy Council Office; Wirral West, Labour)
The hon. Gentleman has been listening to the Tories on the Front Bench, who recognise U-turns as well as anybody; their leader has made three in as many weeks. Leaving that aside, if there are millions of reasons why the Government have tabled these amendments, it is because there are about eight million people in trade unions, and this is important legislation to secure their rights and to improve the representation on their behalf. However, the Hospital Saturday Fund that the hon. Gentleman talked about could have made a representation to the Minister on any day of the week, in the same way that the trade unions did. That may be why there has not been a different consideration.