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The amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill - which is currently at the committee stage - will be debated by Parliament in "due course", the spokesperson said.

Otherwise, the mulch and other organic amendments are just diluting the soil readings, and once they decompose, the lead will still be waiting in the soil.

Dozens of Labour MPs abstained in a vote on the amendment which was put forward by crossbench peer Lord Alton when the Great British Energy Bill was in the House of Lords.

In a statement issued after the announcement on Tuesday, the three families said they had seen the draft terms of reference for the inquiry and proposed amendments to them.

Labour's Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips, who put forward the amendment during a committee hearing on the bill, said she wanted to provide "some discretion" in a limited number of situations " to avoid unintentional consequences".