Committee (1st Day)

Part of Protection of Freedoms Bill – in the House of Lords at 5:00 pm on 29 November 2011.

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Photo of Lord Newton of Braintree Lord Newton of Braintree Conservative 5:00, 29 November 2011

My Lords, perhaps I may build briefly on those comments because lurking in them was the question that I was going to ask. I suppose that I had better declare an interest, in that, whatever definition is used, I am a vulnerable old person, so it probably makes no difference to me.

The question is: does the Bill change the definition in the 2006 Act? On the basis of what the Minister was just saying, it leaves one definition in that Act and puts another in this Act. I think that it is very odd that we should have two definitions of vulnerable persons, whether adult, children or any other category of person. If a definition is right for one purpose, I cannot see why it is not right for another.