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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

My Lords, I am of course most grateful to all your Lordships who have participated in this debate and the Minister for his reply. I think that this is the first time that I have tabled an amendment during the course of this Bill that has been received with such universal obloquy. I very much respect the quality of the arguments that have been advanced against my case. Nevertheless, the Opposition take this matter extremely seriously and we continue to think—I say this despite the perspicacious observations made by the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss—that judges conduct an entirely separate assessment between the sentencing assessment and the assessment of danger. For those reasons, we believe that the Government's approach in this case is wrong-headed. On that basis, I wish to test the opinion of the House. On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 52) shall be agreed to? Their Lordships divided: Contents, 41; Not-Contents, 121.