Justice and Security Bill [HL]

I wonder if we might be told when we can expect to see this memorandum of understanding.

My Lords, we have tabled Amendment 22, which replicates the one tabled in Committee by the noble ...

My Lords, legislation is often a process of distillation and this evening the House has distilled...

First, on this preliminary document, which will not be the final document, will there be anything...

I think I can reassure the noble Lord that I am doing my best to make sure that this House is inf...

My Lords, I got the assurance that I wanted almost at the end there, in the response to the noble...

Moved by

Lord Butler of Brockwell

18: Clause 2, page 2, line 12, leave out from “as” ...

My Lords, this amendment is in my name and that of the noble Marquis, Lord Lothian. I shall coupl...

As noble Lords will see from the Marshalled List, we have added our names to Amendments 18 and 23...

When I originally read this wording in the Bill prior to the Committee stage, alarm bells immedia...

Yes.

I should have thought that that operation in Libya was a typical example of something that was fi...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Butler and Lord Campbell-Savours, and the noble ...

Would it not be better simply to remove the whole section on ongoing operations and deal with the...

No, my Lords. One of our purposes is to ensure that this is put on a statutory basis. That has no...

Have civil servants and the Minister considered the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Lester of He...

I recall having read, in the past 24 hours, a particular phrase from the contribution of the nobl...

My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s sympathetic reaction to Amendments 18 and 23. I will m...

I have not intervened in this debate because I have really just been listening with interest and ...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, who makes the point from her direct experience.

I hope that I gave reassurance that we recognise some of the issues that the noble Lord raised an...

I am very grateful to the Minister. On the basis on those assurances, I am very happy to withdraw...

Moved by

Lord Butler of Brockwell

26: Clause 3, page 2, line 32, leave out “a draft o...

My Lords, this may be the last amendment that we consider this evening. I can move it very briefl...

My Lords, since we are considering the last group of the evening, I confess to being envious of t...

My Lords, I am delighted that the noble Lord, Lord Butler of Brockwell, moved his amendment. It r...