Lord Geddes Portrait The Deputy Speaker (Lord Geddes)
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Amendments 15 to 21 moved formally en bloc, Lord Hannay?

Baroness Anelay of St Johns Portrait Baroness Anelay of St Johns
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My Lords, it is my understanding that these amendments are not consequential on Amendment 14, on which the Government have just suffered a defeat. I understand that the Public Bill Office did not notify these amendments as being consequential. They were not put forward as being consequential by the noble Lord, Lord Hannay, in opening, and they were certainly not accepted by the Minister in winding as being consequential. I can understand that the noble Lord, Lord Hannay, might consider it desirable to insert Amendments 15 and 16 as a policy objective, but they are not consequential on the amendment that has just been decided.