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All the examples given by the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Sentamu, and my noble friend Lady Kennedy were sharing offences, which are already imprisonable offences. The offence we are talking about is the creation of an image, not sharing or threatening to share. We agree that that should be an offence, but the maximum sentence will be an unlimited fine—potentially, an unlimited fine for each image. We think that that is appropriate, rather than having an imprisonable offence, so we disagree with the noble Baroness on Amendments 5 and 6.