Civil Liability Bill [Lords]

The two cases are treated differently because there is an entirely different legal system in Scotland, and there is a devolved Government there. It is perfectly within the competence of that devolved Government to take a different view. Clearly the Government in Scotland, and the Scottish Parliament, have taken a different view, as they are entitled to do, but I, as an English MP—as a London MP—take my own view, and it is the one that I have been expressing here today.