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Terrorism Bill

I am very grateful to the noble Lord. Will he address one of the greatest difficulties that the Committee faces, which my noble friends are attempting to meet? That is that we are discussing legislation which, among other things, encompasses substantial penalties on our fellow citizens, before we have a definition of terrorism. My noble friend Lord Carlile, whose intellectual capacities I do not doubt for a moment, may well come up in a year with a brilliant definition of terrorism. However, as, with respect, the Government have not come up with any definition of terrorism, we are in the ludicrous position of imposing penalties on people for a crime that has not been properly defined, except in terms of itself. It is not that a real problem?