Schedule 1
Serious Crime Bill [Lords]
5:00 pm
Vernon Coaker (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Gedling, Labour)
I hope that I can help the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs and his colleagues with the amendment. I do not intend to delay the Committee for long, because hon. Members might wish to make other points later in our discussion. We have discussed the reasons behind our definition of serious crime in schedule 1, as well as those for giving the court discretion in respect of that definition. In dealing with this group of amendments, we will consider the contents of the schedule.
Some concern has been expressed about why we have included some offences and left out others that it might have seemed appropriate to include. To the right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and—