Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

On the meaning of the significant or persistent disorder, as with crack house closures, it will be for the police, the local authority and, ultimately, the court—the court will be involved in this—to decide whether the activity that has been going on constitutes the level of anti-social behaviour that should allow this to happen. The courts, as well as the police and the local authority, are fully involved. This will be at the end of a long programme of trying lots of other measures to ensure that these people behave correctly and cease being real problems in their area. That is all I can say on that issue.