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Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Bill

On a point not directly to do with this Bill, we have all at different times complained about the groupings. I remind myself and everybody else that we have perfect access to the groupings in advance, and we have a right to change them. If the groupings are not to our satisfaction it is our fault. I can tell the noble Lord, Lord Lester, that I felt the same way on Monday, but it was my fault for not having checked them. It would have helped had they been checked and grouped rather better. I have one question before deciding on the merits of the noble Lord’s amendment. Why have the Government decided that a closed and finite list is necessary? I understand that the word ““means”” in this subsection, as opposed to the word ““includes””, means that it is a closed list, and that it is not relevant to anything anywhere else. I should be interested to know whether that is the case.