57. A number of respondents to the draft Bill commented that the measures it contained were improved on those included in the "Building Confidence in Electronic Commerce" paper.[163] We agree and we believe this demonstrates the importance and effectiveness of the thorough scrutiny of proposals brought forward by Government, by Parliament — through this Committee — and by those affected. Not only have the most contentious aspects of the Government's proposals — such as the "rebuttable presumption" and the statutory licensing scheme for TSPs — been dropped, but crucial minor amendments — for instance to the tipping-off offence — have been accepted. The Government published a draft Bill not because it wanted to subject its cryptography policy to further scrutiny but because of self-inflicted parliamentary time constraints. Our study shows, however, that it was fortunate that they felt obliged to do so, and that the Bill will be the better for it once presented. In broad terms we hope that this Bill, already announced in the 1998 Queen's Speech, will reach the statute book without undue delay.