Schedule 15
Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
4:15 pm
Maria Eagle (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Justice; Liverpool, Garston, Labour)
If the hon. Gentleman will give me a moment to finish my sentence, I shall happily give way to him.
I am not commenting on the range and ambit of the entire policy; I am simply saying that the clause and schedule 15 are about implementing the offences that we must implement to ratify the amended convention. That is simply what the Bill does, and in that sense I do not seek to go further. In the broader policy sense, the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome is perfectly right to say that, if one wished to apply offences to a wider range of activities or places, Parliament could do that—Parliament is sovereign—but that is not what we are seeking to do in the Bill. There is not much more I can say about that.