Clause 17 — Extension of existing disclosure powers
Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill
9:45 pm
Mr David Blunkett (Home Secretary; Sheffield, Brightside, Labour)
I have learned a number of lessons over the past few weeks, which I hope that I will carry with me. However, one lesson that I have learned from interventions from Scottish National Party Members over the past week or two has been how different the two Parliaments are. I do not mean in terms of their processes, but in terms of the volume of legislation and the enormity of pressure that exists in them. Obviously, the modernisation process proposed by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House will assist us, but in this Parliament we have the most enormous backlog and jam of legislation. Everyone, from every side, wants their preferred Bill to come forward.
I give way to my hon. Friend Mrs. Fitzsimons.