Clause 10 - Available amount
Proceeds of Crime Bill
4:30 pm
Mr George Foulkes (Minister of State, Scottish Office; Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Labour/Co-operative)
We have not seen any yet. Issues can be probed just as well by proposing to make matters harder for criminals as they can by proposing to make matters easier for them. Yet again and again, time after time, amendment after amendment, all we get from the Tories, who profess to be hard on criminals and to want to confiscate the proceeds of crime, is, ``Oh, no. Let's make it a bit easier. Let's find exceptions. Let's find ways round it. Let's give them loopholes.''