Member

Modern life is well practised in the preparation of well thought-through risk assessments. In cases such as the events I am contemplating, risk assessments are intelligence-led and based, as necessary, on thorough briefings from the intelligence community and the police, who I am sure the Minister would agree do an outstanding job keeping us safe. The solution, therefore, to the problems the Bill creates, as proposed in my Amendment 22, is that it allows that the risks can be thoroughly assessed, and that those of the public protection procedures that are agreed to be unnecessary can be waived. My amendment acknowledges that this would need to be signed off by the SIA or the Secretary of State.