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Terrorism Bill

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for what has been a remarkably brilliant defence of a wholly and utterly indefensible position. The Government must think again. If the Minister quoted something from John Simpson’s article—which suggests that she has read it—then I cannot quite refrain from saying something, which is unfair, because it is the Government’s fault rather than hers. He says:"““I have a lot of admiration for Baroness Scotland, but she clearly doesn’t understand the first thing about the kind of journalism that she and her fellow ministers have now chosen to put in danger””." I think that the Government must rethink their position on this. To help the Government to do so, let me make it absolutely clear that we will bring this back on Third Reading. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause 15 [Maximum penalty for contravening notice relating to encrypted information]: