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My amendment would get things moving quickly and give the Government the scope to take the extra time that it appears to need to look at the scoping that it probably should have done before it introduced the bill in the first place.
I acknowledge Mr Johnson’s point, but I know that, as part of operation moonbeam—which I will come on to—on bonfire night last week, 300 extra officers were deployed in areas where it was known that there might be antisocial behaviour.
The amendments align with our aims to increase parliamentary oversight, to improve transparency and, as Mark Ruskell mentioned, to get the extra detail that we felt was perhaps going to be lacking otherwise.
This may well result in lost business for high street premises as customers choose not to make a purchase and pay the extra. Given”— it went on—that “we are in a cost of living crisis anything that could dent consumer confidence and spend is unwelcome, further jeopardising business and jobs.”