Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Amendment 7, page 2, line 7, at e...

I wish to speak also to amendments 14 to 19, which were tabled in my name and the names of other ...

I might be able to help the Government along with this. It appears that the power to authorise a ...

With help like that, I am not sure that the Government necessarily need any obstruction. Yes, I a...

The right hon. Gentleman is making an important point, but the Human Rights Act is not the only p...

Indeed, and the guidance is important. It is helpful to have that published, but of course, guida...

I suspect that the right hon. Gentleman and I have slightly different opinions on the Bill. My pa...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point; it is not perhaps germane to the legislation, but it...

I do not know whether this will be helpful to the right hon. Gentleman, but I just draw his atten...

The Minister does help me and I am grateful for his assistance, because if that reasonable belief...

There are 22 Members—because a couple have withdrawn—on the call list. It would be really useful ...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) and I ve...

One distinction between amendment 13 and others is that it gives the Director of Public Prosecuti...

My right hon. Friend makes a fair point in that regard. The DPP would be entitled to do that as a...

As I expect we will not get an opportunity for Third Reading, I start by saying this: another day...

I agree with my hon. Friend that some of the things that have gone on in the past, such as the Fi...

I will have to respectfully disagree, but I will come to that point.

Let me start with our ...

As the hon. Lady knows, I and my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow South West (Chris Stephens) a...

The hon. and learned Member is absolutely right, and that is why we cannot be comforted by those ...

I will pay attention to your encouragement to be brief, Mr Evans. Although I support the intent o...

My right hon. Friend has huge experience in this area, both legislatively and professionally. He ...

I will say a couple of things on that. First, if the gangster is smart enough to read the Act, he...

On the point about rendition, the right hon. Gentleman will recall the Intelligence and Security ...

The right hon. Gentleman is right, and we should not forget that the clause that was used require...

I am glad that my right hon. Friend is making a powerful speech, referencing not only Lord Steven...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Sir Desmond did something else in his report: he quoted Lord ...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

You will kill me, Mr Chairman, but I will give way.

My right hon. Friend rightly mentions the Pat Finucane case which David Cameron, as Prime Ministe...

Well, they have changed a bit. One of the things that the Intelligence Services Act 1994 created ...

It is an honour to follow the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis), and I agre...

I will respond to the hon. Lady formally in my winding-up speech, but I would like to stress that...

I recognise what the Minister says. The challenge is that we already know of children and vulnera...

I am grateful to be called so early in this key debate, having been unable to speak on Second Rea...

On people trying to flush out covert agents by getting them to do things that are on this suppose...

My key point is that the Human Rights Act does provide those protections, but in the context of o...

I welcome the remarks of the hon. Member for Bracknell (James Sunderland) about the important wor...

I remind Members that there are a number of colleagues down to speak in the debate. There will be...

Thank you, Dame Rosie; I shall endeavour to be helpful. It is only by the good fortune, dare I sa...

It is only the number and the category; there is no detail, because that would be extremely dange...

That is absolutely right, and the whole point about the detail is that that is the job of the Inv...

I support new clause 3. I think the emphasis behind it is right, and the work that the right hon....

The hon. Gentleman, with whom I worked so closely on the Defence Committee, as always gets to the...

The reason for not giving that figure is clearly that it would give an advantage to those we are ...

Yes. What it is important to remember and, it must be said, what has not always been remembered i...

Before the right hon. Gentleman moves on to his next subject, there is also an issue of trust. Th...

I am obviously hoping that the Minister will convince us in the course of this afternoon that we ...

The proceedings on this Bill today are an absolute travesty of parliamentary accountability. That...

On a point of order, Dame Rosie. I understand that my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hu...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point of order. I understand that the right hon. Member for N...

There was a time when I used to like the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Dan Carden), when he ...

I am delighted to follow my hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr Jones)—

Right hon.

My right hon. Friend. I think that was one of the briefest speeches he has ever made in this Hous...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on the contribution that he is making, and I forgive him his earlie...

I think my right hon. Friend has far more trust in the words of the Government and the guidance t...

The reason I asked to speak later in the debate this afternoon was made clear by the speech by my...

That is such a fundamental oversight that is needed. Is the Bill really fit for purpose without i...

As I said, I support what the Labour Front Bench is doing in making that proposal to the Governme...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will not, because I know other Members want to speak. I need to say just two more things and th...

Order. I would like to try to get three more speakers in before 3.18 pm. I will just put that out...

Dame Rosie, I will engage in this part of proceedings in the spirit of co-operation and collegial...

Time is short, so I will move on rapidly. Tackling terrorism and ensuring that all our citizens a...

We have heard many excellent speeches in support of amendments that would substantially improve t...

I rise to speak to amendments 25, 23 and 22, and new clause 7 in the name of the Mother of the Ho...

On human rights, there is a very real concern about the practice of blacklisting. Obviously the c...

I do share that concern. I really do not understand—others have eloquently made this point—why or...

It is a pleasure, as always, to follow the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joan...

Whatever we think of the progress later on of the Bill, we have to agree that judicial oversight ...

I am sorry that, having been present for the whole debate, my hon. Friend did not get to make a f...

May I caution my hon. Friend? The excellence of his speech and the amendments should be an argume...

I always take seriously the advice of a senior and distinguished Member of the House. I am confid...

This has been a very informed, considered and thoughtful debate on the various amendments to the ...

Is not the plain truth of the matter that if we define the role and method of those whose mission...

My right hon. Friend makes a very powerful and important point about the issues at stake here. Th...

The Minister will know that many of us are concerned about new section 29B(5)(b) and (c) in claus...

The language that is used in what would become new subsection 5 of section 29B is reflective of e...

The point made by the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) was d...

I know that the hon. and learned Lady was unable to partake in the Second Reading debate, but I w...

I know that the Minister has a lot of faith in the security services, but some of us know too muc...

I appreciate the seriousness of the point that the hon. Gentleman has made, and he will know more...

Will the Minister be addressing the point that I put to him about operations overseas and the app...

The UK will comply with obligations under the Human Rights Act, including when they arise extrate...

I accept that assurance in good heart. In the letter, the Minister said, “Such information as is ...

I take in equally good faith the way in which my right hon. Friend and the Committee have approac...

I will give way to the hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown, just to be fair.

Is the Minister saying that criminals will not be able to read the Human Rights Act 1998 to reali...

I reiterate again that a covert human intelligence source is not able to commit any and all crimi...

Will the Minister give way?

I have two minutes left and I still have a few more amendments I would like to discuss.

On ...

The House has had a debate this afternoon that has been both good and frustrating at the same tim...