§ Sir Trevor SkeetTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation(a) to consolidate the law relating to the punishment of idle and disorderly persons and rogues and vagabonds, as set out principally in the Vagrancy Act 1824, and (b) to repeal that Act; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. John PattenWe have no present plans to do so.