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Violent Crime Reduction Bill

When we talked about another provision in Committee, the Liberal Democrats said that we could not issue drinking banning orders without psychiatric reports. That was nonsense—I was going to say nutty—because, again, it would have made the provisions unworkable. Young people move around a town centre where there are a number of licensed premises, drinking as they go. It is ridiculous to ask, ““Where did you drink the particular tot that got you over the top?”” One might just as well ask where they ate their fish and chips that night and ban the fish and chip shop.