Baroness Ashton, junior minister at the DfES, ruled out creating new offences, but added: "We are prepared to give careful consideration to any amendment brought forward on that issue.
"Depending on their effect, we shall consider a free vote"
During the Lords debate, the Liberal Democrats' Baroness Walmsley said a cross-party alliance of peers planned to introduce an amendment during the committee stage towards the end of the month.
Labour backbencher David Hinchliffe told Children Now he intended to wait until the report stage of the Bill - expected in June - in the Commons before laying his amendment: "We want a vote of the full House, not just in committee," he said.
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