Member

This Bill has been through the mangle of a wide-ranging element of consensus. When the current Government came in, we consulted again. We have listened to the Home Affairs Select Committee and the consultations that have taken place, and we have settled on a figure of 200. That does not satisfy certain Members of this House, nor the last Government, which had a figure of 100 and of which the noble Lord, Lord Murray of Blidworth, was a member in the Home Office team at the time of the genesis of the Bill. But we have had to settle on a figure, and it is one that I hope allows premises to be brought into scope to undertake the good practice present in Clause 5.