I am grateful to the Minister, but that was completely unconvincing. I castigated the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare (Brian Cotter) for

attempting to introduce an innovative change to the Bill without consultation. The logic of what I was saying was that one would have to change the 1977 Act to get rid of the whole of the employee compensation provisions, which I would ideally like to do. The Bill is not the place to do that, however, so I am content not to divide the Committee on the clause.

Question put and agreed to.

Clause 10 ordered to stand part of the Bill.

Clause 11 ordered to stand part of the Bill.