{"longTitle":"A Bill to introduce a licensing scheme for scrap metal dealers; to enable magistrates’ courts to add restrictions to licences to deal in scrap metal; to require that financial transactions in trade in scrap metals be restricted to cashless payments; to give police officers powers to search properties owned by scrap metal dealerships; to provide that scrap metal proven to have been obtained through theft may be classified as criminal assets; to introduce criminal charges for theft of scrap metal which take into account aspects of the crime other than the value of the scrap metal stolen; and for connected purposes","summary":null,"sponsors":[{"member":{"memberId":3999,"name":"Graham Jones","party":"Labour","partyColour":"d50000","house":"Commons","memberPhoto":"https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/3999/Thumbnail","memberPage":"https://members.parliament.uk/member/3999/contact","memberFrom":"Hyndburn"},"organisation":null,"sortOrder":1}],"promoters":[],"petitioningPeriod":null,"petitionInformation":null,"agent":null,"billId":909,"shortTitle":"Metal Theft (Prevention) Bill","formerShortTitle":null,"currentHouse":"Commons","originatingHouse":"Commons","lastUpdate":"2012-05-01T15:58:18","billWithdrawn":null,"isDefeated":false,"billTypeId":5,"introducedSessionId":24,"includedSessionIds":[24],"isAct":false,"currentStage":{"id":13728,"stageId":7,"sessionId":24,"description":"2nd reading","abbreviation":"2R","house":"Commons","stageSittings":[],"sortOrder":2}}