About 45 minutes was all it took the House of Lords to debate the intended changes to the Construction Act at the latest stage of their parliamentary passage. Or, to be precise, to debate suggested amendments to the government's proposals. Labour peer, Lord Borrie, on behalf of the Specialist Engineering Contractors' Group, tabled the amendments. They replicated those withdrawn by Lord O'Neill in the wake of the "cash for amendments" kerfuffle (even though he was always upfront about being the SEC Group's president). The government resisted them all.
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