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Part of Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill – in the House of Lords at 5:30 pm on 5 March 2012.

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Photo of Lord Thomas of Gresford Lord Thomas of Gresford Liberal Democrat 5:30, 5 March 2012

Does the noble and learned Baroness accept that my noble friend Lord Macdonald tabled Amendment 39? Paragraph (b) of that amendment is wider than her definition because it can include matters other than the circumstances that she has set out, which are suitable for immigration matters and can include matters that come to the Lord Chancellor's notice at a later date that could easily be inserted into these regulations, if appropriate. Does she accept, with that presumption and that wider ambit, that my amendment, which, as the Minister has said, will be the template for these regulations, is a better amendment than her own?