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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill

Debate on bills on Thursday, 31 March 2011, in the House of Commons, led by James Brokenshire. The answering member was Diana Johnson.

Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill. Report stage second day. New clauses 1 and 2 debated and added to the Bill. New clause 3 debated and withdrawn. Some amendments made. Others negatived on division. Title amended. Concluded. Third reading debate. Agreed on division (274 votes to 161) and Bill passed.

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

526 c552-637

Session

2010-12

Department

Home Office

Legislative stage

Third reading and Report stage

Procedure

New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill. As amended in public bill committee.
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Jeremy Corbyn | 526 c593-6 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that I missed the earlier part of the speech by my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and H...

Mark Field | 526 c593 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, one has heard those words before. My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and Nor...

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John McDonnell | 526 c593 (Link to this contribution) That's what the last lot said.

Stephen Phillips | 526 c593 (Link to this contribution) One of the reasons that the previous Administration were on such a sticky wicket in regard to the le...

Mark Field | 526 c592-3 (Link to this contribution) Ad absurdum, the hon. Gentleman's argument is right. However, that is also precisely the distinction...

John McDonnell | 526 c592 (Link to this contribution) But it is a valid point, which was also addressed in Committee. We get ourselves into a ludicrous po...

Mark Field | 526 c592 (Link to this contribution) I suspect I will never get off this point.

Mark Field | 526 c591 (Link to this contribution) I understand that that will be ““in due course””, and there is of course an important event on 29 Ap...

Mark Field | 526 c592 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman might not be quite as much of a royalist and a monarchist as I am, but he will ap...

Paul Flynn | 526 c591 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman seriously saying that we have to trample on the precious freedom to demonstrat...

Jeremy Corbyn | 526 c588 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can help my hon. Friend on that point. I can recall at least two demonstrations in the squ...

John McDonnell | 526 c587-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has an exceptionally valid point, which has to be addressed reasonably. Wherever ...

Mark Field | 526 c590-1 (Link to this contribution) Unlike the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell)—and, I suspect, every other Member ...

John McDonnell | 526 c588-90 (Link to this contribution) There was a worrying consequence of one of those cases—I think Winston got eaten, as a form of capit...

Jeremy Corbyn | 526 c592 (Link to this contribution) It occurs to me that the people in Parliament square might actually be awaiting the royal wedding an...

Mark Field | 526 c592 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that it is only a matter of time before the Evening Standard discovers a secondary market ...

Diana Johnson | 526 c569 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister confirm that if a pub or venue operates just once in a year for which the late-nig...

James Brokenshire | 526 c569 (Link to this contribution) Again, I think I said in Committee that we would want to look at such issues in the detail of the re...

Diana Johnson | 526 c570 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has made it clear again that this is a discretionary power that local authorities can e...

James Brokenshire | 526 c570 (Link to this contribution) Strangely enough, this Government do not believe in central targets. The hon. Lady tempts me down th...

Justin Tomlinson | 526 c569-70 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the suggestion that there is greater flexibility in the provision, but setting the levy ac...

James Brokenshire | 526 c570 (Link to this contribution) On the venue-specific point, if there are problems, a review of licensed premises can be conducted. ...

Michael Ellis | 526 c571 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has been urged to make the Bill location-specific, but would that not confer a stigma o...

James Brokenshire | 526 c571 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes some powerful points, which bring us neatly back to the subject of alcohol diso...

Andrew Percy | 526 c570 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is generous with his time and in being willing to take some of our points into account....

James Brokenshire | 526 c570 (Link to this contribution) There might be a distinction to be drawn between seeking to calculate costs and charges as with the ...

Diana Johnson | 526 c571-2 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The Licensing Act 2003 sets out the four lice...

Julian Huppert | 526 c572 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Lady can help me, given that I am a new Member, by reminding me what the m...

Diana Johnson | 526 c572-4 (Link to this contribution) As I am sure the hon. Gentleman knows, because he pays close attention to these issues, there has be...

James Brokenshire | 526 c574-5 (Link to this contribution) That was an interesting contribution from the hon. Lady. She said that she felt public health had be...

Diana Johnson | 526 c575 (Link to this contribution) Members on both sides of the House want to ensure that we get the best possible policy on alcohol an...

James Brokenshire | 526 c575 (Link to this contribution) In some areas, NHS organisations already share anonymised A and E data with the police. Such intelli...

James Brokenshire | 526 c575 (Link to this contribution) Before I do so, I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman.

Steve McCabe | 526 c575 (Link to this contribution) Whether or not the Minister accepts the new clause, does he accept the central point made by my hon....

James Brokenshire | 526 c575-7 (Link to this contribution) I will come to that. If the late-night levy is effective in managing the night-time economy and in s...

John McDonnell | 526 c581 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 162, page 94, line 27, leave out subsection (2).

Diana Johnson | 526 c579 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Minister to clarify a few points? There will be a number of changes to the licensing p...

James Brokenshire | 526 c579 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her comments. Her point on guidance is relevant. As I have indicated, as p...

Speaker | 526 c578 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments 23 to 30.

James Brokenshire | 526 c578-9 (Link to this contribution) These are minor amendments to the late-night levy clauses in part 2 that clarify the effect of the p...

Diana Johnson | 526 c577-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his warm words about looking at public health and alcohol and I ho...

James Brokenshire | 526 c578 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 22, page 87, line 26, leave out 'authorisations' and insert

Diana Johnson | 526 c577 (Link to this contribution) The Minister announced in January his intention to legislate on minimum pricing. Can he update us on...

James Brokenshire | 526 c577 (Link to this contribution) We are considering this matter very carefully so that it is introduced in a less bureaucratic and a ...

Diana Johnson | 526 c579 (Link to this contribution) Will the guidance provided on that basis be statutory guidance, or guidance that can be ignored?

James Brokenshire | 526 c579-80 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that guidance can be ignored. It is intended to be of assistance in the implementation...

James Gray | 526 c587 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman was not prepared to accept the distinction that I proposed to him a moment ago...

John McDonnell | 526 c587 (Link to this contribution) Whether or not people agree with Brian, and I do, he provides us with an essential service in remind...

James Gray | 526 c586 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman about the right of peaceful protest and the strength of our...

John McDonnell | 526 c586 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the peace campaigners in Parliament square are vagrants or dossers; they are per...

Jeremy Corbyn | 526 c586 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that I missed the earlier part of my hon. Friend's contribution. He will be aware that a ...

John McDonnell | 526 c586-7 (Link to this contribution) It is exactly that. Before my hon. Friend arrived, I mentioned that it is a traditional form of expr...

Speaker | 526 c581-3 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

John McDonnell | 526 c583-4 (Link to this contribution) I almost feel like apologising to the House for burdening it with so many amendments, but let me jus...

Michael Ellis | 526 c584 (Link to this contribution) That says a lot about the Turner prize!

John McDonnell | 526 c584-6 (Link to this contribution) We shall have another discussion, on aesthetics, later. I am sure that all Members will be aware th...

Justin Tomlinson | 526 c557-8 (Link to this contribution) Although I was not a member of the Committee, I declare an interest as the vice-chair of the all-par...

Julian Huppert | 526 c556-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to continue this reunion event of the Public Bill Committee into a second day...

Diana Johnson | 526 c554-6 (Link to this contribution) As the Minister pointed out, we debated this issue in the Public Bill Committee on the basis of an O...

James Brokenshire | 526 c553-4 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The new clause addresses the point about the ...

Justin Tomlinson | 526 c558 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree, and I am familiar with Broad street—I have seen how it has been transformed into...

Steve McCabe | 526 c558 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with the hon. Gentleman. Does he think it is important that nothing in the proposa...

Justin Tomlinson | 526 c558 (Link to this contribution) That is a valid point, and my hon. Friend speaks with first-hand experience and authority. The layou...

Andrew Percy | 526 c558 (Link to this contribution) I come at the matter from a different viewpoint from my hon. Friend's, because I used to be the chai...

James Brokenshire | 526 c559-60 (Link to this contribution) This has been a useful debate, and I welcome the contributions from the hon. Members for Kingston up...

Justin Tomlinson | 526 c559 (Link to this contribution) To sum up on that point, my plea is for common sense to be applied to each local area. I would go on...

Diana Johnson | 526 c560 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister therefore confirm that the one in, one out principle will not apply in relation to...

Speaker | 526 c561 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendment 56.

James Brokenshire | 526 c561 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

James Brokenshire | 526 c562 (Link to this contribution) New clause 2 will repeal the previous Administration's alcohol disorder zones. This optional power f...

Nigel Mills | 526 c558 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend said that every town is different, and I am interested in his experience of running a...

Penny Mordaunt | 526 c559 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely with my hon. Friend's last point. The measure would be very effective in creating...

Justin Tomlinson | 526 c558-9 (Link to this contribution) My understanding is that that is why picking areas has been delegated to local authorities. I would ...

Julian Huppert | 526 c564 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and I think that my hon. Friend and I share the same objective. We do not want to return to...

Penny Mordaunt | 526 c564 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentions large council boundaries. Portsmouth, which I think is the most densely popu...

Julian Huppert | 526 c564 (Link to this contribution) That is obviously the case, but unless the hon. Gentleman has a fantastic suggestion for solving tha...

Mark Tami | 526 c564 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that wherever we draw the line, there will be one premises one side o...

Julian Huppert | 526 c563-4 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to support new clause 2. It would remove sections 15 to 20 of the Violent Crime Reduc...

Diana Johnson | 526 c563 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. Indeed, when it comes to licensing, one disappointing aspec...

Mark Tami | 526 c563 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend also accept that the club that people end up in will sometimes not be where they...

Diana Johnson | 526 c563 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, the new clause is a housekeeping matter for the Government in tidying up licensing legislat...

James Brokenshire | 526 c562-3 (Link to this contribution) It would be fair to say that it probably was not the biggest selling point of the policy to have tha...

Michael Ellis | 526 c562 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that one of the unattractive features of the disorder zone plan was that it ...

Justin Tomlinson | 526 c567 (Link to this contribution) There would be obvious challenges. For example, if a local authority decided to charge any venue ope...

Nigel Mills | 526 c569 (Link to this contribution) It would help us and the industry if we understood how we are going to deal with the problem of even...

James Brokenshire | 526 c568-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Steve McCabe) for his contribution. He t...

Andrew Percy | 526 c565-6 (Link to this contribution) I had not intended to speak in this debate, but it is about an issue in which I am quite interested,...

Julian Huppert | 526 c564-5 (Link to this contribution) It is hard to argue that alcohol disorder zones were effective, given that nobody used them, so I ho...

Diana Johnson | 526 c567 (Link to this contribution) It has been interesting to listen to the practical experiences of the hon. Members for Brigg and Goo...

Justin Tomlinson | 526 c566 (Link to this contribution) Obviously I have already covered some of this issue with my earlier comments on the late-night levy,...

Steve McCabe | 526 c564 (Link to this contribution) If we accept that alcohol disorder zones were not a success—perhaps it is right to repeal them at th...

John McDonnell | 526 c598 (Link to this contribution) It is important to put on record the fact that this debate is not about having no constraints, becau...

Julian Huppert | 526 c598-9 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good point. A range of legislation applies, and in Committee we discussed some aspect...

Mark Field | 526 c599 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman will have gathered from my contribution, I have considerable sympathy with wha...

Julian Huppert | 526 c599 (Link to this contribution) There would be no requirement to bring the police in if one did not want to use ““reasonable force””...

Jeremy Corbyn | 526 c596 (Link to this contribution) I was not trying to put words into the hon. Member's mouth. The agreement of the police to the anti-...

John McDonnell | 526 c596 (Link to this contribution) The problem with the Bill is that it addresses the issue of protesters sleeping in the square overni...

Jeremy Corbyn | 526 c596-7 (Link to this contribution) That is a fair point. It does no harm for Members who come into and go out of the building every day...

Julian Huppert | 526 c597-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Members who have spoken on this topic so far. I absolutely respe...

Mark Field | 526 c596 (Link to this contribution) May I clarify what I said? I did not say that there should be no protests, but the permanence of the...

Mark Field | 526 c599 (Link to this contribution) But does the hon. Gentleman not accept that the use of the words ““reasonable force”” in the legisla...

Jeremy Corbyn | 526 c603 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an interesting point. During one of the Tamil demonstrations that I att...

Simon Hart | 526 c603 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. The point I am trying to make is that in such circumstances t...

Paul Flynn | 526 c602 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman's tolerance for protest extend to defending those who invaded this Chamber i...

Simon Hart | 526 c602-3 (Link to this contribution) I shall say only that I am surprised that it took so long for that point to be made. I prefaced my c...

Paul Flynn | 526 c601 (Link to this contribution) In the first world war there were pages in newspapers listing the fallen and those missing in action...

Simon Hart | 526 c601-2 (Link to this contribution) I join the diverse coalition of interests championing the right to protest in Parliament square, but...

Denis MacShane | 526 c601 (Link to this contribution) The practice of the Prime Minister's reading out the names of those who have fallen in Iraq or Afgha...

Speaker | 526 c601 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are going wide of the amendment.

Julian Huppert | 526 c599-600 (Link to this contribution) I think that that was indeed the intention, but ““reasonable force”” is not a beautifully defined ph...

Paul Flynn | 526 c600-1 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister, in one of his more messianic moods, recently told the House that he defended the...

Yvette Cooper | 526 c630 (Link to this contribution) I will give way if the right hon. Gentleman will tell us what he would do to safeguard the jobs of t...

Yvette Cooper | 526 c630 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, none of those reassurances has been enough to convince the most senior chief constabl...

Yvette Cooper | 526 c629-30 (Link to this contribution) That is what the right hon. Lady says, but where is the protocol? Time and again we have been told t...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c630 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is continuing to use the term ““policing powers”” in relation to the responsibil...

Yvette Cooper | 526 c628 (Link to this contribution) After 50 hours of debate and evidence, the Commons stage of the Police Reform and Social Responsibil...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c628-9 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to interrupt what started as a comic turn by the right hon. Lady, but she knows full well...

John McDonnell | 526 c627 (Link to this contribution) No.

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c627-8 (Link to this contribution) No, the whole House does not agree, and I should have pointed out that the hon. Gentleman made his v...

Speaker | 526 c626-7 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am listening carefully to the Home Secretary, who has given way generously, which is apprec...

Steve Baker | 526 c632 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my hon. Friend's remarks, and associate myself with them. I also welcome the way that he s...

Lord Blunkett | 526 c632-3 (Link to this contribution) Who would ever have believed that it would be a Conservative Home Secretary who took the Home Office...

Julian Huppert | 526 c633-4 (Link to this contribution) I will try to be very brief. I thank Ministers for the helpful discussions that they have had with u...

Lord Herbert of South Downs | 526 c630 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady challenged us on cost. Can she tell us how much her proposal for directly electe...

Yvette Cooper | 526 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) My proposal is to ditch all of it, and that would save £100 million. [Interruption.] I am afraid tha...

Speaker | 526 c631 (Link to this contribution) Order. A number of Members still wish to contribute and time is extremely limited. I appeal to the n...

Mark Reckless | 526 c631-2 (Link to this contribution) As the only Member of this House who is a member of a police authority, I congratulate Ministers on ...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c624 (Link to this contribution) I have to say to the right hon. Lady that her intervention and that of the hon. Member for Rhondda b...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c623 (Link to this contribution) I have been generous in giving way once already, but I can never resist giving way to the hon. Gentl...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c623 (Link to this contribution) I see that the piece of paper has been passed to the right hon. Lady, so I will give way to her.

Yvette Cooper | 526 c624 (Link to this contribution) I want to follow up that point with the Home Secretary. She is right, I have the full quote to which...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c623 (Link to this contribution) Many chief constables have made the point that what is happening will not mean that there will be no...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c626 (Link to this contribution) That is not correct. It is precisely because we respect the Assembly's decision that we are removing...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c626 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman may wish to intervene after I have completed my point about the vote that t...

Elfyn Llwyd | 526 c626 (Link to this contribution) The reason they did not endorse it is quite simply because they do not believe in the idea of a dire...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c624 (Link to this contribution) I might be able to help the right hon. Gentleman and the hon. Gentleman in a few minutes, as I am go...

Penny Mordaunt | 526 c624 (Link to this contribution) I have been through police numbers with my chief constable in Hampshire, and there is not going to b...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c624-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. That is a good example, and there are other examples of forces such...

Geraint Davies | 526 c625 (Link to this contribution) On democratic accountability, does the Home Secretary accept that voter turnout is likely to be much...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c625 (Link to this contribution) I completely reject what the hon. Gentleman says, particularly the idea that people who live in high...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c626 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I am conscious of time and wish to make a little more progres...

Elfyn Llwyd | 526 c626 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary give way?

Mark Field | 526 c609 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman not accept the fear that many of us in this Chamber feel, that once we...

Julian Huppert | 526 c609 (Link to this contribution) I am having trouble following the logic of the right hon. Gentleman's argument. He is right to say t...

Denis MacShane | 526 c608 (Link to this contribution) I will give way briefly to the hon. Members for Cambridge (Dr Huppert) and for Cities of London and ...

Michael Ellis | 526 c610 (Link to this contribution) I respect the views of the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell). I do not agree wit...

Denis MacShane | 526 c609-10 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to accept the sincerity of the hon. Gentleman's point of view. Arguments have been held f...

Denis MacShane | 526 c609 (Link to this contribution) I am so sorry. I was just trying to put the interventions together to save time—your time, Mr Deputy...

Speaker | 526 c609 (Link to this contribution) Order. Being an apprentice Deputy Speaker, I should have reminded the right hon. Gentleman the first...

James Brokenshire | 526 c612-3 (Link to this contribution) This useful debate has given the House the opportunity to discuss an important issue. We made it cle...

Lord Coaker | 526 c611-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall be very brief and make only a couple of comments, because the Minister will need a few minut...

James Brokenshire | 526 c613-5 (Link to this contribution) The act of protest does not by default give individuals the right to erect permanent encampments in ...

Bob Stewart | 526 c613 (Link to this contribution) Is it not true that the vast majority of the public would think that any encampment outside Parliame...

Michael Ellis | 526 c610-1 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, I cannot give way, because I have been told that I have only two minutes. The reality i...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c622-3 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill now be read the Third time. I start by thanking the hon. Members who s...

John McDonnell | 526 c615-6 (Link to this contribution) I wish to press amendments 162 and 185 to a vote. The debate has been helpful in that it has reassur...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c623 (Link to this contribution) Yes; what a strange question.

Mark Tami | 526 c623 (Link to this contribution) Bearing in mind the reorganisation and costs involved, will the Home Secretary confirm that she will...

John McDonnell | 526 c604 (Link to this contribution) That is an extremely valid point. When a particular line is used to demarcate a geographical area, o...

Simon Hart | 526 c604 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. The short answer to his question is yes, notwithsta...

Julian Huppert | 526 c603-4 (Link to this contribution) It is interesting to see the coalitions developing across the Chamber on shared interests. The hon....

Denis MacShane | 526 c606 (Link to this contribution) My point is that we have now instituted such draconian security systems as a result of the invasion ...

Julian Huppert | 526 c606 (Link to this contribution) I am concerned about what the right hon. Gentleman has just said. Will he clarify whether the proble...

Denis MacShane | 526 c605-6 (Link to this contribution) I much appreciate the speech from the hon. Member for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (Simon...

Simon Hart | 526 c604-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. He might be interested to learn that a week after the demonst...

Denis MacShane | 526 c606-7 (Link to this contribution) Having enjoyed many happy meals with you in Strasbourg, Mr Deputy Speaker, I always thought we were ...

Speaker | 526 c606 (Link to this contribution) Order. I know that the right hon. Gentleman is in full flow, but he will see that we have before us ...

Denis MacShane | 526 c607 (Link to this contribution) Let me just finish my sentence, and then of course I will give way. This is a very important princi...

Denis MacShane | 526 c607-8 (Link to this contribution) I took part in Saturday's demonstration, and that showed that the political class, at least those am...

Mark Field | 526 c607 (Link to this contribution) But surely the right hon. Gentleman recognises that this flies in the face of many of the great trad...

Denis MacShane | 526 c608 (Link to this contribution) I will take the intervention from my hon. Friend the Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn).

John McDonnell | 526 c608 (Link to this contribution) It is important to put it on the record that no evidence has been presented and no representations h...

Denis MacShane | 526 c608 (Link to this contribution) Yes; if one goes to the Chinese embassy in Portland place, the Falun Gong are always there. I am not...

Jeremy Corbyn | 526 c608 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend seems to be drawing a distinction between demonstrations outside Parliament and...

John McDonnell | 526 c591 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman update us and clarify whether it is true that the local authority and the May...

Mark Reckless | 526 c632 (Link to this contribution) Of course I accept that, and I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. In the short time available, ...

Chris Bryant | 526 c623 (Link to this contribution) Those words will not do her any good I am afraid, but I am grateful to the Home Secretary for giving...

Paul Flynn | 526 c587 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that the processions of our fallen will no longer go through Wootton Basset...

James Brokenshire | 526 c560-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady actually made that point in Committee. The Government take one in, one out seriously. ...

James Brokenshire | 526 c569 (Link to this contribution) I think I made it clear in Committee that in those circumstances we would allow people to change the...

Steve McCabe | 526 c567-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the comments made by the hon. Member for North Swindon (Justin Tomlinson); his experien...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 526 c627 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker. We have also taken the opportunity in the Bill, as Members can see, to make ...

Mark Field | 526 c609 (Link to this contribution) I will be very brief. Does the right hon. Gentleman not recognise that many of us fear that this wil...

Subjects

Crime prevention

Alcoholic drinks

Finance

Fees and charges

Licensing

Licensed premises

Police

Local government finance

Parliament Square

Protest

Licensing laws