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Organised Crime (Northern Ireland)

May I say, Ma’am, you will never be merely Mrs. Anderson to us? My third apology is necessary because I have just been told that there is a severe deficit of Parliamentary Private Secretaries in the building, and I am required to attend an Adjournment debate before too long, which means that I may have to leave before I hear everything that hon. Gentlemen from the Democratic Unionist party have to say. I shall try to live with that, and assure them that I shall study their words later. The main point of the report before the House is to provide a template for the future direction of the Government. It is intended not to dictate to the Government what they should do, but to suggest what action it would be appropriate to take. It is also the function of the Committee—and one that it has exercised with great skill, excluding my own small part in it—to delineate the scale of the problem. That it has done. If the House were inclined to indulge me I could list the responses that the Government have made to the recommendations. There are many matters—particularly cabs, charities and the licensing of doorkeepers and door security staff—on which the Government have responded quickly, with respect to legislation. The Minister will have the same list that I do.