Terrorism and Crime (EUC Report)

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate. I would like to express my particular pleasure in sharing a debate for the first time with my former colleague—colleague, not pupil—the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Jones. I thank the Minister for his attempt to respond. I do not say ““attempt”” condescendingly; I mean an attempt to respond to our criticisms. They are criticisms mainly of delays and failures that predate his watch—if I have the expression right. I am also grateful for his offer to write further, if, on looking at Hansard, he and his officials consider it useful to bring up other things. I merely want to take up one point that the Minister made that relates to the intervention of the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford. He said that we cannot unpick the package of the PNR agreement and the DHS letter”” Our particular criticism is that the letter does unpick the agreement. On Question, Motion Agreed to.