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Amendments 372A, 372B and 372C in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Strasburger are intended to ensure that Clause 139, which restricts protests in the vicinity of places of worship, will succeed in protecting worshippers and members of religious communities carrying out religious activities in places of worship, while avoiding the problem that, frankly, affects the clause as unamended. That problem is that the unamended clause would enable the restriction of protests in the vicinity of places of worship—protests that are unconnected with either worshippers at that place of worship or with the act of worship or other religious activities in that place.