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Policing and Crime Bill

My Lords, of course I was not intending to press the amendment, not least because I knew that there had been a hiccup, as one might describe it, in the consultation process. I received a letter with attachments from the British Beer and Pub Association, which gave some results of voting in the various areas where consultation was undertaken, and I am sure that there will also be written representations which need analysing. It is interesting that between 60 and 75 per cent of the votes taken at the time disagreed or strongly disagreed with the current proposals. I think that that is across the board. I have not done the maths entirely—perhaps I should have done. I am very glad that consultation means that the Minister and his colleagues will be going back to the drawing board. On that basis, I shall await what happens. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 115 withdrawn..