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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 12 February 2025

Debate

Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill

Contribution

That covers, I hope, the financial support for businesses and community organisations. Both, I think, are answered by the fact that, even now, we assess that only 13% of the community and village halls that the noble Lord is concerned about will fall into the scope of the Bill. Raising the threshold from 100 to 200 has taken out a significant number of lower-usage village halls, et cetera. We have had to make that determination in response to consultations and Home Affairs Select Committee scrutiny, picking up the Bill that the noble Lord, Lord Murray, and others before me did a considerable amount of work on in the Home Office. We are coming to the point where simple, low-cost, cost-estimated primarily to time is where I would leave the noble Lord. The tax relief and financial grants are not really a direction of travel that the Government are going to go down.

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