New Clause 19 - The electronic communications code

Part of Infrastructure Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:45 pm on 15 January 2015.

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Photo of Richard Burden Richard Burden Shadow Minister (Transport) 12:45, 15 January 2015

The hon. Gentleman is making a thoughtful speech and I follow what he is saying. May I put it to him that we face some pretty big logistical problems here? I also welcome the Minister’s offer to meet again to try to run through things, but if Report is going to be for one day on 26 January, all amendments will have to be tabled by next Wednesday. Let us say that next Friday we work out that a big change needs to be made to the code. We will be going headlong into Report and nobody will be able to do anything about it. Is it not better to take a step back and do it properly?