Police and Justice Bill

I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker; I am perhaps getting carried away with my theme. But having one, two, five or 13 primary care trusts does not demonstrate the fitness of a Government to tackle the real problems in the health service, and the same point applies to the police service. What about regional government? My hon. Friend the Member for Rochford and Southend, East (James Duddridge) made a very apposite point. It is all very well for the Liberal Democrats to talk about localism and their local credentials, but they support the principle of regional government, or at least they did when—