Policing and Crime Bill

The noble Lord, Lord Skelmersdale, is absolutely right about the complexity of these amendments. As I went through amendment after amendment, one could see that. It sounds more complex than it is because of the way that one has to put it across, but I think the noble Lord is absolutely right and noble Lords expect no less than for us to have a much clearer way of putting this across. That is only fair to all the people whom this applies to. Certainly, we will ensure that we achieve that. It is wrong to say that we do not have a clear way ahead and that we are just waiting for the inputs. The document that we produced—to which I referred earlier— about the safe, sensible and social selling of alcohol has a very clear perspective on where we are going. We wanted to get the views of everyone involved in this area so that we were not doing something silly because we had not seen an effect that we were not aware of. It is really building on that, so we have a clear vision of the way ahead. On a final point, the noble Lord raised the appeals process. He is absolutely correct; there will be an appeals process. Amendment 119A agreed.