Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

I accept my hon. Friend's point that cost is not everything, but that is not what we have heard from both sides of the House in recent times. Does he agree that there is also an opportunity cost, because the returning officer and his or her staff will lose time on additional bureaucracy in the important run-up period to an election when they should be engaging properly with the electorate if the Government, with their ongoing lack of common sense, fail to accept amendment (b)?