Mr. Mark Fielding:

I do not have such evidence because the minimum wage was reduced for only a short period. I shall return to the initial point I made. I am worried about the words "progressively increased" that have been stitched into the Bill. There will be times, and hopefully we will never get to it but there could become times where, in a recession, wages would have to come down. There will be bad draftsmanship in the Bill if we include that clause and it has to be changed. I do not have evidence to say what happened in the case outlined by the Deputy.