The point that I was making to my hon. Friend the Member for North Wiltshire is not that the Bill imposes burdens that may have some cost, but that it is not certain. The scope of those extra burdens is not at all clear. As I said, on one reading the territorial extent of legislation is already there, so the Bill does not add anything. If that is not what it does, then it adds a  lot of unclear complexity; it is uncertain how much extra burden it imposes. It is not clear that any benefits will result.

Having considered the Bill in detail, I am not at all sure that at the end of the process—if it were to pass through Parliament and become law—any extra information would be available to Members of Parliament or constituents that would make any clearer the extent to which legislation passing through the House might affect them. I am no clearer having debated the matter.