Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

As ever, I am pleased by the right hon. Gentleman's intervention because he highlights an inconsistency in the Opposition's argument. They cannot say on the one hand that the Government are not listening and that the legislative process does not work—he said earlier that the pre-legislative system was not working—but on the other, when amendments are made, that the Government are either committing a U-turn or not listening. I do not understand how the Opposition and the right hon. Gentleman can reconcile those two statements.