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Without getting into in my remarks the detailed effects of my noble friend’s amendment, I think she has done a great service to the House in highlighting a significant and serious issue, as has my noble friend Lord Jackson on masked cycle thieves and people being intimidating on high-powered, sometimes illegal e-bikes without much fear of being caught. That is at the very centre of the mobile phone theft industry—and it is an industry. Equally, I accept some of the more cautionary remarks from others about the difficulties involved here. I was reassured by the description from the noble Lord, Lord Hogan-Howe, of the powers that the police have, but I felt that my noble friend had again put his finger on a very serious issue.