Clause 3
5:30 pm
John Hayes (Shadow Minister, Innovation, Universities and Skills; South Holland and The Deepings, Conservative)
I do not want to do this matter to death. The Minister has been clear and I take him at his word. Our amendments, including one to delete this whole part of the Bill—it was not selected—were stimulated by worries about charging per se. However, the Minister has made it sufficiently clear that that is not the intention. On the face of it, the Bill could be used to trigger such a regime, but I am confident that he has no intention of bringing it into being. As Ministers, we certainly would not do so. On that basis, I am happy to say no more.