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Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Bill

Debate on bills on Friday, 14 July 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Alan Williams. The answering member was Michael Gove.
Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Bill. Third reading debate. Agreed to on question. Bill passed.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
448 c1594-629 
Session
2005-06
Department
Home Office
Legislative stage
Third reading
Procedure
Private members' bills proceedings
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Bill . As amended in Standing Committee C . (Bill previously known as Emergency Workers (Protection) Bill). (vote)
Wednesday, 26 April 2006
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Clive Efford | 448 c1599 (Link to this contribution) Yes; the Bill is necessary. As I have said, it is surprising that the gap in the law still exists an...
David Kidney | 448 c1599 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that education is important in preventing the obstruction of emergency w...

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Clive Efford | 448 c1598 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention, but I will not pursue it, because I can see that Mr. Deputy Spe...
Baroness Keeley | 448 c1596 (Link to this contribution) Most of us know that excellent services are provided by volunteers. Mountain rescue crews are often ...
Alan Williams | 448 c1596 (Link to this contribution) I should have thought that that service was covered, especially as it operates within the country, r...
Dan Norris | 448 c1598 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that although the Bill is welcome and positive in many respects, other as...
Clive Efford | 448 c1597-8 (Link to this contribution) I add my congratulations to my right hon. Friend the Member for Swansea, West (Mr. Williams). He was...
Richard Younger-Ross | 448 c1597 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the right hon. Member for Swansea, West (Mr. Williams) on the progress that he has ma...
Alan Williams | 448 c1596-7 (Link to this contribution) At this stage, it is not possible to amend the Bill, but I am sure the Minister is listening to repr...
Alan Williams | 448 c1594-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Hendon explained that to me personally, too. After negotiations with ...
David Kidney | 448 c1594 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend mentions our hon. Friend the Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore); hon. Members migh...
Alan Williams | 448 c1596 (Link to this contribution) As I said, the Bill was truncated in negotiations. We have built in the option under the order-makin...
Dan Norris | 448 c1595-6 (Link to this contribution) Can my right hon. Friend elaborate on other groups of workers who, although not usually considered e...
Alan Williams | 448 c1594 (Link to this contribution) To state the obvious, I am delighted that the Bill has reached this stage, because if it completes T...
Alan Williams | 448 c1629 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I shall reply to the debate. It has gone on longer than I anticipated, ...
Richard Younger-Ross | 448 c1614 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady mentioned St. John Ambulance. A St. John Ambulance crew attended a carnival in Chudlei...
Meg Hillier | 448 c1613-4 (Link to this contribution) My apologies. He has moved places, just to confuse me. My hon. Friend talked about the Government’s...
Meg Hillier | 448 c1612 (Link to this contribution) It gives me great pleasure to follow a number of eloquent hon. Members in the debate. As a new Membe...
Meg Hillier | 448 c1614-7 (Link to this contribution) We are becoming involved in definitions now. It is a question of whether St John Ambulance, for inst...
Richard Younger-Ross | 448 c1614 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady refers to making clear what the provisions cover. I am not an hon. and learned Member,...
Meg Hillier | 448 c1614 (Link to this contribution) I am indeed aware of that distinction. I am sure that the Minister will go into this in more detail ...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1612 (Link to this contribution) I agree. There is nothing to add to the hon. Gentleman’s eloquent intervention. I sincerely hope th...
Meg Hillier | 448 c1617 (Link to this contribution) I would not want to comment on how the hon. Gentleman brings up his children. I was puzzled by what...
Helen Southworth | 448 c1623-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for highlighting that work. In my community, too, groups of young people are ...
David Anderson | 448 c1623 (Link to this contribution) The experience that my hon. Friend describes is seen in my constituency, too. The community in the o...
Tony McNulty | 448 c1626-8 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Father of the House on securing the Bill and on facilitating its smooth passage. ...
Michael Gove | 448 c1624-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Father of the House on his success in allowing the Bill to proceed so smoothly an...
Tony McNulty | 448 c1628 (Link to this contribution) That sounded terribly like one of those elephant traps that Liberal Democrats are always trying to g...
Richard Younger-Ross | 448 c1628 (Link to this contribution) The Minister used the words ““may”” and ““if”” with reference to the Sentencing Guidelines Council. ...
Michael Gove | 448 c1628 (Link to this contribution) The Minister used the conditional ““may”” or ““might””, yet the manifesto on which he fought the las...
Helen Southworth | 448 c1622-3 (Link to this contribution) Like other hon. Members, I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Swansea, West (Mr. Williams) fo...
David Kidney | 448 c1617-22 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier)...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1609 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend. The Bill puts in statute a respect for emergency services and emergency serv...
Baroness Keeley | 448 c1609 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the panel that advises on sentencing is consulting on sentencing for assaults and ...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1609 (Link to this contribution) I suffer from the malady of not being a ““learned”” Member and find myself wishing that I had done a...
Richard Younger-Ross | 448 c1609 (Link to this contribution) Does not that example support the view of Opposition Members that we should have kept the original w...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1608-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a shame that I will not be able to respond to my hon. Friend by saying how grateful I am for h...
Speaker | 448 c1608 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are now straying a little wide of the mark.
Speaker | 448 c1609 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman’s point. Clearly, the matter is very serious, but I have received no...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1609 (Link to this contribution) Let me finish the sentence before I forget.
Lord Soames of Fletching | 448 c1609 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I apologise to the hon. Lady for interrupting. Now that Isr...
Richard Younger-Ross | 448 c1610 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is generous in giving way. I am not a learned Member either—my background is in archit...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1610 (Link to this contribution) Again, I am not a learned Member, but I understand that there is a difference between Scots law and ...
Betty Williams | 448 c1611 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has been most generous in giving way. Like other hon. Members, she has highlighted th...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1611 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but I can only give the same answer: I understand ...
Meg Hillier | 448 c1610 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way, and for her eloquent speech. Does she agree that it is possib...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1610 (Link to this contribution) I believe that I was about to give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditc...
Michael Gove | 448 c1610 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady may not know it, but I had the great privilege of being brought up in Aberdeen, not fa...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1610 (Link to this contribution) That is my understanding of the position. As I said earlier, we need to create and enforce respect f...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1611 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. There is gross under-reporting of incidents. I stress to Opposition Members...
Andrew Selous | 448 c1611 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has been generous in giving way and I am most grateful to her. She mentioned the need ...
Lynda Waltho | 448 c1601-2 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Swansea, West (Mr. Williams) on his Bill, which i...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1604-5 (Link to this contribution) I join my hon. Friends in congratulating the Father of the House on this Bill. If it is enacted, it ...
Lynda Waltho | 448 c1602-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for those comments. I had hoped to get on to that point, although I was not g...
Baroness Keeley | 448 c1605 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a valuable point that was discussed substantially on Second Reading. I mention...
Baroness Keeley | 448 c1599-600 (Link to this contribution) I spoke in the debate in March, and I am delighted by the Bill’s progress. I congratulate my right h...
Brian Iddon | 448 c1600 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether my hon. Friend is aware, as a parliamentary neighbour of mine, of the excellent wor...
Baroness Keeley | 448 c1600 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I think that he is absolutely right. I was a councillo...
Michael Gove | 448 c1600 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady rightly draws attention to a horrific incident. I have every sympathy with the firefig...
Baroness Keeley | 448 c1601 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. We are trying in this debate to highlight various issues. A plethora of things can be done a...
Mike Gapes | 448 c1608 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my long-standing hon. Friend for giving way again. I believe that her council shoul...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1608 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to say that we cannot view one Bill as a panacea for all ills. We need to lo...
Mike Gapes | 448 c1607-8 (Link to this contribution) My father was a postman, but he did not often have the experiences that I understand certain people ...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1607 (Link to this contribution) Personally, I think it has something to do with the high adrenaline and excitement associated with a...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1605-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her timely intervention and agree with her. I understand that the arrange...
David Anderson | 448 c1606 (Link to this contribution) The serious problem that my hon. Friend describes is a long way away from young people acting out of...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1606-7 (Link to this contribution) I am looking forward to taking part in the scheme. In fact, I have the papers on my desk as I speak....
Anne Milton | 448 c1607 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that we have reached a truly appalling state of affairs when these attacks ...
Lyn Brown | 448 c1606 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend gives me the opportunity to say that I have taken a leaf out of the book of the exper...
Brian Iddon | 448 c1606 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friends the Members for West Ham (Lyn Brown) and for Stourbridge (Lynda Waltho) sound like p...
Baroness Keeley | 448 c1602 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is being characteristically modest in that she is not revealing what a number of us k...
Betty Williams | 448 c1596 (Link to this contribution) On similar lines, one important service that has not been covered, unless I have missed something, i...
Tony McNulty | 448 c1628-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman, whom I respect very much, for conceding the last election. That is terri...
Subjects
Crimes of violence
Ambulance services
Emergency services
Fire and rescue services
Staff
Scotland
Sentencing
Rescue services
St John Ambulance
Legislation
Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Bill 2005-06
Link
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