Member

I want to try and be helpful in the passage of this Bill and offer some crumb of comfort to the noble Lord: I reassure him that the Government will be undertaking a new burdens assessment of the impact on local authorities and others. As part of this, we will consider the findings in due course and opine on them at a moment downstream during discussions with the Security Industry Authority. We are not going to say the theatres or swimming pools in Flintshire County Council, in my area, are not going to have additional burdens; that might well be undertaken as part of a new burdens assessment for local authorities in England and the devolved Administrations. That will be examined as well. But I assure the House that we will look at those findings downstream and see whether the concerns the noble Lord has put to the Committee today are in fact realistic.