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Terrorism Bill

I am sorry to trouble the Minister on this, but Ministers often tell a Committee, ““Such an amendment is unnecessary because the matter is covered by existing legislation.”” When the Minister replied to my question, however, he seemed to say, ““We do not really need that wording, because nothing is retrospective.”” I generally accept that that is the position in British law; nothing is retrospective except in very exceptional circumstances. Yet here we have clear wording in three clauses—including clause 13, which we are now debating—that indirectly raises the issue of retrospectivity. That is why I am concerned. The Bill seems to be specifying something that would not normally need to be specified in any Act passed by the British Parliament.