Clause 10 - Available amount
Proceeds of Crime Bill
Public Bill Committees, 20 November 2001, 4:30 pm
Mr Nick Hawkins (Surrey Heath, Conservative)
We all understand the party political knockabout in which the Minister is now indulging. However, he has chosen to make such comments about absolutely the wrong clause. Even the hon. Member for Glasgow, Pollok (Mr. Davidson) understood that amendment No. 32, of all those that we have discussed, has the least to do with happens to the defendant. Until the Minister spoke, I thought that the Committee had accepted that the amendment was about innocent people who might be unfortunate enough to have dealings with those who are the subject of the Bill. The Minister is on the wrong track.