Violent Crime Reduction Bill

That is not the case. We think that we have to tackle town centre disorder and believe in the ““polluter pays”” principle, but we want to make the legislation more workable because there might be the unintended consequence of small businesses going broke. Does the hon. Lady think that it would have been more convincing if the Government had widened the powers of local authorities to apply saturation policies and limit the number of establishments? She is right: most trouble is caused where many places are close together.