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Finally, let me address amendment 3 in the name of the shadow Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle (Dr Mullan), and other right hon. and hon. Friends. As my hon. Friend the shadow Minister knows, I also have concerns about the breadth of the language in that amendment. I recognise that some people would like to abolish or radically reform the Sentencing Council, but the Bill does neither of those things, meaning that its scope does not allow for a wider debate about the council’s wider purpose and value—of course, you would not allow that debate either, Madam Chairman.