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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

My Lords, I have supported the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, throughout the process of this Bill. I do so again and I will not take up time to enlarge on anything that has been said thus far in support of the amendment. I simply risk causing the Minister convulsions by drawing his attention to the clock and indicating that we are well on our way to doubling the amount of time that the Commons took to dispatch four of your Lordships' amendments. It also had the temerity to adopt a programme Motion that caused Sir Gerald Kaufman to stop in mid-track when he was saying: "““It is out of order in this House of Commons to accuse anyone of hypocrisy, so I—””.—[Official Report, Commons, 17/4/12; col. 208.]" We shall never know what he was about to say, but it shows how well we attend to amendments in this House and how poorly they do so in the Commons.