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Coroners and Justice Bill

As I understand it, it will not come out of taxpayers’ pockets. It is just the extra cost of setting up a central structure. I will try and get more details and if I cannot, I will write to the noble Lord. I was going to end by saying that the cost of the creation of a completely centralised service is disproportionate to the benefits and that not all nationalised organisations have always been successful. In the Queen’s Speech debate, the right honourable Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, who is a close colleague of the noble Lord, Lord Thomas, and the honourable Member for North West Norfolk, who is a close colleague of the noble Lord, Lord Henley, agreed that a system of central management with local delivery would be the correct course. That is what we believe, too. In spite of the two opposition Front Benches here agreeing on this issue, I think that we are right and I ask the noble Lord to withdraw his amendment.