Video Recordings Bill (Allocation of Time)

That could not have been done because the situation was caused by a failure to notify under the technical standards directive. In order for the provision to work, we had to notify it in draft under that directive. We did that three months before 15 December. The first day on which we could have had the First Reading was 15 December and we did so. Today—the second day back after the recess—is the first opportunity that we have had to deal with this on the Floor of the House. There are two very important points to make on why we are dealing with the Bill so urgently in one day. First, we are not changing the law in any way. The existing law has been debated using all the full procedures and has been in force for 25 years—it is only the enforceability that turns out not to have been enacted, and we need to address that. The second point that I want to stress is that the lack of enforceability has serious consequences. Almost any kind of serious, explicit, violent, brutal, nasty DVDs and video games can be supplied at the moment to anybody—[Interruption.] I am sorry; that was a long intervention.