Section 7A of the bill as amended at stage 2 requires the Government to produce a report on the operation of the new offences and to lay that before the Parliament. I had hoped, in the debate on the motion that the bill be passed, to be able to try to persuade the Parliament that we should do more than simply review the operation of those new offences and that we should set a timescale for the Government to consolidate hate crime legislation, given the frankly slightly messy situation that already exists and which we are making worse today.However, if there is not to be such an opportunity—I will still argue for it, even though my amendment has not been selected for the debate—I will make the case that the report that the Government is to lay before the Parliament can be properly informed only if the Government consults publicly on the drawing-up of that report.