Budget Responsibility and National Audit Bill [HL]

The noble Lord misses my point, which is to ask whether this is how he is going to treat all the amendments. He knows how he is going to treat them because the documentation is sitting behind him at this very minute. If that is what is going to happen, except on trivial amendments, I repeat my question: why are we here? We expect the Government to say, as a minimum, on some of the substantive amendments, ““The arguments have been good and we must go away and think about them””. If we are not going to get that on anything substantive, I repeat: why are we here?