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Criminal Law (Amendment) (Protection of Property) Bill

I will not give way again if the hon. Gentleman does not mind. The Bill makes a huge amount of sense. I believe that it has the support of criminals, police officers and, most important, the public. I hope that Labour Members will not view this as a party political issue but will try to view it as something that we are going to do for the good of all our constituents. I commend the actions of my hon. Friend the Member for Vale of York and the articulate and extremely convincing way in which she presented the Bill today, and I commend those Labour Members who speak from the heart, and who feel the rights and wrongs of this case as passionately as I do. I hope today that we can agree in the House that the Bill should become legislation and that, if it does so, it will be for the good of all concerned.