Clause 12 - Power to impose charges on
Violent Crime Reduction Bill
7:00 pm
Lynne Featherstone (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Hornsey and Wood Green, Liberal Democrat)
I have some problems with amendment No. 43. It states that no charge would be payable within the zone if there were no responsibility or contribution. However, as we have said, there is a wider responsibility for the group. Will the Minister provide an assurance in the Bill, not just in the document that she helpfully sent, that there will be no flat charge, and that the good will be rewarded and the bad punished, proportionate to their misbehaviour? The document says that there is a proposal to differentiate, but it does not say enough to allay the concerns of the people who are lobbying me.