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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

It is good to hear the Minister talking about possible future concessions in this area. To be fair to him, he has always said that the Government's aim is to protect the most vulnerable. How does he square that with the fact that he has orchestrated the talking out of the main group of amendments today, which affects many of the lowest-income and most vulnerable people in this country? Why are we not getting on to talking about other areas of social welfare law? Is it to protect the hon. Member for South Swindon (Mr Buckland), whose law centre is losing all its funding? Is it to protect the Minister's coalition allies from withdrawing—