Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 5:00 pm on 14 January 2014.
I note what the Minister has said about the situation in Scotland. I do not know whether that means he has had further information since we discussed it in Committee, but the Government said then:
“The Scottish Government, who we have talked to about this issue, say they do not currently hold any information about the numbers of convictions or, as yet, any evaluation of the effectiveness of the new offences”.—[Hansard, 4/12/13; col. 279.]
It appears from what the Minister has just said that, since