The Bill contains many complex issues and we have asked many complicated questions and legal questions that the Government have failed to answer. That is exactly the kind of point that we need to get to the bottom of in Committee. I hope that my hon. Friend will feel under no pressure or obligation to fall in with an artificial timetable imposed by the Government. My right hon.
Friend makes a powerful point.
No doubt the Government will tiptoe up to us towards the end of March to ask for help in getting the Bill on to the statute book before the election, which, as my right hon. Friend said, is about to be called 12 months before necessary. I must put down a marker for the Minister. Unless the Bill is amended in Committee to place at centre stage our strong belief that we must get behind developing countries on good governance, which must be the main focus of our assistance, and a crackdown on corruption, we shall not support fast-tracking of the Bill. Unless we are satisfied in Committee that the Government have thought matters through and have dealt with the inevitable conflict between EU aid provision of 30 per cent.