Clause 1 - Closure notice
Anti-social Behaviour Bill
5:15 pm
Mr Bob Ainsworth (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Coventry North East, Labour)
My hon. Friend is right. Let us get on and do it. If we need to take further measures or do something else because of an ongoing nuisance in a
particular area, let us be courageous enough to act at the appropriate time.
We may come later to the other points that my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton, South raised about landlords, reasonable steps and so on. We must get the provisions absolutely right. We have to expect good behaviour from people, but we need to cover in guidance what constitute reasonable steps on the part of landlords. We intend to do exactly that.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 1, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.