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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

Not quite in the same terms. As I understood it, the noble Lord and some others in Committee opposed it on the basis that it did not go far enough, not that it was unnecessary. I recall very well the noble Lord saying: "““I entirely agree. I think that the Government are making a mistake in welfare law and that cutting legal advice and assistance for people at the bottom end of society will cause more problems than it solves; it will not achieve the savings that the Government think it will””.—[Official Report, 20/12/11; col. 1708.]" I should be interested to see whether the noble Lord repeats those comments when we come to a later stage. All that I can say is that it is my feeling—