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Part of Bills Presented — Business Rate Supplements Bill – in the House of Commons at 1:28 pm on 4 December 2008.

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Photo of Jack Straw Jack Straw The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice 1:28, 4 December 2008

The hon. Gentleman is either making a trivial debating point or a serious point. The point that he makes all the time is that there are 3,600 new offences. I may question him on a number of those, but he says that he has culled his information from various parliamentary answers. The only conclusion to be drawn from his making that point repeatedly is that he does not think that these 3,600 offences should be on the statute book. He has mentioned about five of the offences. As it is his point, he should be responsible for providing us with a full list of the offences that he thinks should be repealed.