Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]

May I begin by making a slight apology to the House? As the amendments have been grouped together...

As the Security Minister well knows, we have been working constructively on this Bill and I will ...

The hon. Gentleman offers an incredibly selective quote from the ruling in the High Court by the ...

I am in favour of speeding up the data exchange. Under the mutual legal assistance treaty, since ...

I am going to stand up for the security of our citizens and a responsible Government have to bala...

Does the Minister agree that this should not be a point of political division in this House? It i...

I totally agree. The hon. Lady will have heard the example I had to listen to. That was a soberin...

The Minister is making an important case for the provisions in the Bill, and I agree that we have...

The hon. Gentleman is right. Further amendments that we have tabled provide for concessions to pr...

I hope the Minister recognises that all Members on both sides of the House want to find ways of s...

I have personally asked them to look at carve-outs in that area, and I know that officials are st...

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I will press on, because I want to give the House an example. An operation commenced in August 20...

I repeat that the case the Minister is making is supported on both sides of the House. I very muc...

I understand what the right hon. Gentleman is saying, and I do not question his heartfelt desire ...

Are we not in danger of believing that there is a false choice between upholding the UK’s interna...

Yes, and in answer to the amendment that was tabled but not selected, Ministers are obliged to ac...

First, I want to confirm what my right hon. Friend has said. This treaty being negotiated with Un...

My right hon. and learned Friend, whom I have known a long time, is the straightest politician in...

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I will come to the right hon. Gentleman. All the amendments are grouped, so we have plenty of tim...

I regret the Minister’s tone in places, because it is clear that we have worked together on this ...

No. The Labour Front-Bench team are saying that if we do not get what they want, we should block ...

The Minister is being generous in giving way. I repeat that, as he knows, both sides of the House...

I refer the right hon. Gentleman to the rulings by the High Court and the Lord Chief Justice. On ...

I thank the Minister for listening to those representations. As he says, I declare an interest as...

I am incredibly grateful to my hon. Friend for that. I am not a journalist by background; I think...

I’m a lawyer.

A lawyer—oh.

All Members have raised the importance of protecting journalistic freedom, and...

I should point out that unlike the Opposition amendment—I think the shadow Front-Bench team large...

Yes, my hon. Friend makes a true point. We have put in a carve-out for some very urgent situation...

Order. Before we continue with the debate, the House has the exciting prospect of the results of ...

The first thing I should point out is that everyone in the House wants to see a way in which the ...

I apologise if I have got this wrong, but my understanding is that the hon. Gentleman’s amendment...

All I will say is that I had discussions about that amendment and others with the Minister, and t...

I absolutely accept that. The hon. Gentleman will know that he and I worked closely throughout th...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for acknowledging that.

Let me turn to the issue of dea...

Just to be clear on the procedure, my hon. Friend’s direction to Labour MPs will be to vote again...

I accept that there is always a danger that when we vote on a number of new clauses and amendment...

As a children’s doctor, I have looked after a number of children who have been sexually abused, a...

I just do not accept that conception of how this works or, indeed, how the MLAT treaty would work...

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I will give once more, but then I need to make some progress.

Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that, in this situation, which is not perfect, what he is havi...

I do not accept that at all. The hon. Lady talks about theoretical possibilities, but these will ...

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I will give way once more.

I am grateful to the shadow Minister for giving way. Despite the fact that this is about not extr...

Yes, it is significantly higher, and the cases will be extraordinarily rare. That is what everybo...

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This is genuinely the last time that I give way.

I am very grateful. The hon. Gentleman is being more than generous. On the issue of assurances, d...

I honestly cannot imagine a situation where a country that gave those assurances did not stand by...

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Let me finish this point and then I will give way.

The Foreign Office officials were correc...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I wonder whether he will quote at length my r...

I am not disputing the outcome of the case; that is very clear. This goes back to the earlier poi...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will make some progress; I did give way to the hon. Gentleman about three times earlier.

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Throughout the passage of this Bill and other Bills where we have engaged with the Security Minis...

The shadow Minister, rightly, gave a litany of examples where the Government have set out to abol...

Words are great but it is deeds that are important, and we think that this should be in this Bill...

To help the House and to help me—I need all the help I can get—could the hon. Gentleman perhaps g...

That is not the point—it is about the principles. We have spoken at length about this and listed ...

If the hon. Gentleman was sitting where I am and he had a choice before him where the United Stat...

That is almost a false choice. The Minister is painting it as a black-and-white issue. At the end...

This is a very good Bill overall. It is much needed, and it is not controversial, which is why we...

The right hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. He also highlights how very rare this is, which goe...

I hear what the Minister says, and I know that he knows there is not a lot between us on this, be...

Listening to this debate, I found myself nodding along with the shadow Minister, as often I do. H...

With the leave of the House, let me say that the amendments have been well heard and well argued....

May I reach out to the Opposition? As the joint chairman of the all-party group on the abolition ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who has campaigned against the death penalty for very many years...

I have.

Then the hon. Gentleman has quoted so selectively. If he has read it in full, he will know that a...

I said that.

Yes, but the hon. Gentleman did not expand on them. If he had, he would have said, for example, t...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. It came to my attention earlier on that the Secretary ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his point of order and for giving me prior notice of it. I underst...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

Throughout the process, the Bill h...

I echo the Minister in saying that 90% of the Bill has been consensual, and a number of parties, ...

I apologise for missing some of the debate on Report. Will my hon. Friend reassure us about the s...

Clearly, I do think the safeguards in the Bill have been significantly improved, which is one rea...

Every hon. Member would accept that the current wait times in the MLAT process are unsustainable....

I should inform the House that the Speaker has not selected any of the amendments.

Ordered,...