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Coroners and Justice Bill

My Lords, as the Minister will not reply to the specific point, I ask: is he saying that he accepts that the reference to serious crimes covers only grave or heinous crimes? On Report, I asked whether the intention was, ""to deter people by depriving them of the profits from publishing material considered by the Government to be undesirable and of no value"." The noble Lord replied: ""There is a sense of chilling in what we are doing, for the most heinous crimes and within the context of the Act".—[Official Report, 29/10/09; col. 1293.]" Is he saying today that he accepts that the reference to serious crimes in the Bill should be interpreted by the court and by the Attorney-General as concerned only with the gravest of indictable-only offices, the most heinous, or not?