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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

I am very much enlightened by my noble friend's formulation. The noble Lord, Lord Bach, made a very good point. It is the taxpayer's money that we are talking about here, and not just the taxpayer but the worthy creditor, the small businessman or even the large businessman who has given credit to a firm that has gone into liquidation, sometimes through fraud and sometimes through incompetence. However, the taxpayer and the businessman are going to suffer because of this provision, unless my noble friend is saying that these proceedings are never going to be brought because there is some other way of doing it. The vagueness has left us all a little in the air. However, for the moment and subject to further discussions between now and Third Reading, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 133A withdrawn. Amendments 133B and 133C not moved. Amendment 133CA Moved by