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That is helpful, but the Minister should understand that my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield and I are only trying to clarify the subsection. My hon. Friend the Member for Spelthorne made a good point. We want the clause to do precisely what the Minister wants it to do. We are not trying to weaken subsection (7)—we want to make sure that it operates correctly—but we genuinely believe that it contains a trigger and a power. The trigger makes the way in which it should operate implicit, but not explicit. The power is clearly unfettered—it is in the words.