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Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill [HL]

This has been a very interesting debate. I thank the Minister for his responses. Perhaps I may again divide my comments into my three pairs of amendments. On Amendments Nos. 18 and 29, I accept that automatic barring will refer only to people who have committed the most serious offences. Like the Minister, I cannot envisage that the IBB would not want to bar all people who have committed such offences. But they should have the opportunity to do it because of the human rights argument, which I do not think the Minister has dealt with. He has said that he thinks it would be a waste of time considering representations and that it would be very costly. But law and order, and human rights, cost money, which is fine—I do not mind that because they are very important. There is nothing wrong with spending a little more time or money in order for people to receive their human rights. The Minister said that some offences already lead to automatic inclusion on barred lists. But we now have the Human Rights Act, which may not have existed when the laws putting those things into place were implemented. We have here an opportunity to fully overhaul and improve the law.