Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

I thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention, which provides its own explanation. The final point that I wish to make is about the retrospective nature of the provision as, again, it is an area that the Government need to examine carefully. As we have not had an in-depth debate here tonight, I suspect that it may well be a point that is examined much more closely when the matter is raised in the other place.