Clause 56 - Disclosure notices
Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill
10:15 am
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Shadow Minister, Economic Affairs; Sutton Coldfield, Conservative)
I am grateful to the hon. and learned Lady for clarifying the point, and I shall reflect on what she has said when I read it in Hansard. Of course, I realise that she, the Minister and the other ladies on this Committee, are far too young to remember the incidents to which I referred, but which the Government Whip and I are old enough to remember.
There is an important point of which the Committee is seized. We are dealing with substantially increased powers, and all of us wish to take care that the intrusion of the state into our lives and our rights should be carefully thought through before we allow the accretion of such powers. All of us are striving to get the balance right. As the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome made clear in his final remarks, that is what the debate is about.
As I did not move the amendment, I cannot withdraw it, but the Opposition do not seek to press it.
Amendment negatived.
Clause 56 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clauses 57 and 58 ordered to stand part of the Bill.