Schedule 6
Serious Crime Bill [Lords]
6:45 pm
Maria Eagle (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice; Liverpool, Garston, Labour)
Ping-pong. However, I need not detain the Committee in that regard, because we believe that it makes more sense to exclude all applications of part 2—the issue that we are dealing with in respect of this Bill—to corporate manslaughter. In that sense, it does not matter how the Bill ends up. We need to ensure that any important references relate directly across the Bills, and we will remove this addition if the corporate manslaughter Bill is not passed. The key point is that if that Bill falls as a result of ping-pong, we will not need to make the cross-references. I hope that that explains the amendment.