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Violent Crime Reduction Bill

The helpful steer was with regard to the procedure being similar to that for public places orders; I am grateful to the noble Lord for making that matter clear. He is right that it is important that those who are involved in the consultation feel that they have an ownership—an interest—in how the plan will go forward. If they feel they are being unfairly treated, the new action plan could effectively not be implemented and one would end up with designation unnecessarily which could affect all licensed premises. In addition, if people in highly respectable licensed premises, who are already doing so much towards preventing alcohol disorder, feel that those initiatives are not being properly taken account of in the consultation results, they may simply say, ““Why should we spend money on all that if we are going to be clobbered with an action plan that requires us to do something different when we have been working so hard?””. It is extremely important that the interests of very hard-working licensed traders are taken into account. I accept that the noble Lord has tried to make a bit of an advance on what was previously in place—not a lot, but enough to satisfy me. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.