Criminal Defence Service Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 2)

Indeed, my hon. Friend is correct. He, of course, is one of the experts to whom I referred earlier, and I look forward to his contribution, although it will necessarily be brief because of the overly restrictive programme motion. New clause 1, which stands in the name of several of my hon. Friends—all of whom are here present, I am happy to note—says:"““Notwithstanding powers conferred on the Legal Services Commission by section 1, the Court shall retain the power to grant a representation order upon oral application””." Those are momentous matters, yet we now know, having arrived here on this day in these circumstances—the shape taken by today’s business, such as business questions and the important statement, which rightly was allowed to run for some time a short while ago—that we have been left with this insultingly brief period in which to consider them.