Serious Crime Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 42: 42: After Clause 36, insert the following new Clause— ““Record of serious crime prevention orders A full and detailed record shall be kept centrally of every serious crime prevention order that is made.”” The noble Lord said: My Lords, this follows a satisfactory correspondence with the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, in which he answered the questions that I raised in Committee as to how it would be possible for noble Lords to find out exactly how these orders had been used. I very much hope that the noble Lord will elaborate on what is proposed, but I seek in the amendment an undertaking that such information will be made available centrally—so that we will not be told that information is not held centrally, as I am told in Answers to some of my Written Questions—and that it will be detailed, so that when, for example, the noble Lord, Lord Thomas, wants to know to what extent the orders have been used in ways that concern him, he may hope to receive an answer. That would not involve disclosing the details of every order, but it should be possible to provide a digest, so that we would know whether or not the orders had been used in certain ways and whether to pursue such matters further if they were of concern to us. I beg to move.