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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have spoken in the debate. I simply do not understand how the amendment undermines certainty any more than does the equivalent provision in Part 1. I repeat that it would simply confer a discretionary power on the Lord Chancellor. I understand that the Government believe that the architecture in Part 2 is correct, but the Minister should accept that experience may show that in some contexts, the architecture does not work. The amendment would, importantly, ensure that if those concerns prove to be justified, the Lord Chancellor will have a power to do something about it. This is an important matter. I wish to test the opinion of the House. Division on Amendment 24 Contents 162; Not-Contents 195. Amendment 24 disagreed. Moved by