Clause 18 - Applications for registration.
Vehicles (Crime) Bill
5:15 pm
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham, Conservative)
In that case, I ought to come in now, if the Minister will forgive me. He has just said—I think that the verbatim report will confirm what I say—that there will be no surplus from the fee. The hon. Gentleman is intellectually formidable, so I am sure that he can anticipate what I am about to say. If that is so, and the intention is only to recover the administrative costs, why are the Government not prepared to insert that catch-all, all-encompassing, protective, what might be described as a legislative condom—the word ``only''. [Laughter.]