Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Beamish, for being here.
I want to go back to the origins of the House of Lords system. You've emphasized both in your note, for which I thank you, and in your remarks that it's a very short recommendation in the report. It basically said, “We recommend the system“ and it draws attention to one precedent. You weren't able to go behind that and say there were further reasons. You said they just did not give reasons beyond that.
Could I probe a little to ask are you indeed not in the position to elaborate on what the reasons were? Was it literally the fact of the example of that one byelection that triggered it?