Legal Services Bill [HL]

My Lords, we took advice from the Scotland Office lawyers and lawyers within the Scottish Executive. The advice I was given was very clear and direct: I need to pursue the process I have set out. I need to get the required Motion in order to make that possible. This is a good and important amendment; I have no objection to it. I am simply rather trapped in the process at present. That does not mean that I have given up on it. We will have to see if there is anything that we can do, but it will not be by way of amending other than getting a Sewel Motion in the Scottish Parliament. We wait to see what happens. This legislation has further to go; it has another House to go through. There may be time within that. I merely ask the noble Lord to withdraw the amendment at this stage because I am rather tied.