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Coroners and Justice Bill

I, too, thank and congratulate the Government for the statement made this afternoon, and the signatories of the amendment for provoking it. The date of 1 January 1991 is eminently sensible and defensible, for all the reasons that the noble Lord, Lord Hannay, gave to your Lordships. I suspect that, when the Minister sits down, the outstanding issue will be the grey area between "residence" and "presence". That is, indeed, the one part of the amendment that needs enriching. The Opposition have not yet concluded where our position will lie in the spectrum between presence and residence. We would be extremely grateful tonight, as other noble Lords have said, for any help that the Minister can give us. It may be that the Government’s thinking has not yet crystallised—but to the extent that it has, it would help us when we come to later stages of the Bill.