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Protection of Freedoms Bill

I shall speak simply on the matter of the code of conduct. The noble and learned Lord, Lord Scott of Foscote, pointed out that my amendment had certain faults in it because it should have said ““either/or”” and not all at once. What one had done before in discussion was to determine which factors should go into the code of conduct. My noble friend the Minister has rightly said that he will produce a very reasonable one. However, a difficulty is that each of the different pieces of primary and secondary legislation requires different consideration. For example, in the first 12 Bills listed on the Home Office website, there are 36 powers of entry relating to animals. They need a different method of handling when you enter a property. I want just to point out that I am on the same side as the Minister with regard to codes of practice or codes of conduct, but the noble and learned Lord pointed out that I should have put in ““either/or”” instead of the whole lot. That was my own typographical error.