Clause 42 - Offering or agreeing to re-programme a mobile telephone
Violent Crime Reduction Bill
8:00 pm
Lynne Featherstone (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Hornsey and Wood Green, Liberal Democrat)
I beg to move amendment No. 160, in clause 42, page 39, line 16, leave out from ‘“(c)’ to end of line 17.
This is in line with other amendments today. As far as I can ascertain, there have been only four successful prosecutions under the Mobile Telephones (Re-programming) Act 2002. This crime is widespread. I want to be reassured that it is not simply that the first Act is a failure. What difference will this new measure make? If there were four prosecutions in the last three years, how many prosecutions are there likely to be in the next three years?