In Parliament

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. This Bill may look familiar to some hon. Members, particularly the hon.

My hon. Friend raises an important concern.

My hon. Friend is correct.

That very point is considered in the Bill, which gives local authorities a time limit for the entering of such information on the database.

My hon. Friend raises an important point about passenger safety applying throughout all four nations.

My hon. Friend is correct that the devolved nations would be able to access the database.

I would be delighted to take my first intervention from the hon. Gentleman.

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention.

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention.

We have a situation where 276 licensing authorities have individual discretion to apply the standards they wish to see locally.