Crime and Courts Bill [HL]

My Lords, will noble Lords try to leave the Chamber quietly in order that we can hear the noble B...

I am grateful to the noble Earl, Lord Attlee. The House has hushed immediately, such is his power...

My Lords, I shall support this amendment simply by reflecting on my own experience. I will be ver...

My Lords, I, too, support this amendment. Having been a member of the police authority to which t...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames and I have Amendment 3 in this group. I ...

My Lords, I declare my registered interests in policing. I find myself supporting the spirit of A...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Condon, for his speech and in particular for the goodwill ...

My Lords, when the Minister stood up, he said that he hoped not to disappoint the House with his ...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

5: Schedule 1, page 36, line 23, at end insert—

“( ) A per...

My Lords, this amendment would require pre-appointment scrutiny of the director-general by the ap...

My Lords, I have a difficulty with this amendment because it seems to seek not pre-appointment sc...

My Lords, I agree with my noble friend that this amendment seeks to make the appointment of the d...

I thank the Minister for his response. He said that he does not agree with the Select Committee h...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

9: Schedule 1, page 38, line 29, at end insert—

“( ) Parag...

My Lords, I am conscious that there are a large number of amendments in this group, but they are ...

My Lords, my heart sank when I saw the enormous number of government amendments to the Bill. It l...

My Lords, I confess that when I see a list of almost 50 government amendments that the Minister d...

The noble Baroness, Lady Smith, asked who else would compensate. I referred in my speech to a num...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

10: Schedule 1, page 38, line 39, leave out from “prevent” to “t...

Moved by

Baroness Smith of Basildon

14: Clause 2, leave out Clause 2

My Lords, this is one of the most important and significant amendments that we are putting forwar...

My Lords, I declare my registered interest in policing. Last week, during the debates on the Just...

My Lords, I support this amendment. However, I must say at the outset that I am not interested in...

My Lords, I, too, declare a registered interest from my experience in policing. I would add in th...

My Lords, my only excuse for intervening is that I was the author of the report on which the Terr...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Blair, concluded his remarks by advising the Government with the o...

My Lords, I have a job to steady the House on this issue. It is an important issue and I understa...

I am not sure I entirely understand this and it may be important. Is there to be a further review...

Absolutely: I assure the noble and learned Lord that that is exactly the process that we are talk...

Is there another example of where powers have been added to an existing body that completely dist...

A number of noble Lords will remember that in a previous role in this Government I took through t...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way a second time. Would the order-making power enable...

The effect of the order-making power would be to make new arrangements for counterterrorism polic...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for explaining some of the reasoning behind the Governmen...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

15: Clause 4, page 3, line 39, at end insert—

“(3A) In...

Clause 4, which has the heading “Operations”, tells us that the director-general must have regard...

My Lords, we have two amendments in this group. They would remove the requirement for the directo...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for explaining their amendments. Clause 4 already requires...

My Lords, the Minister assures us that the activities will be in sync. Circumstances indeed might...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

18: Schedule 2, page 40, line 33, leave out second “function...

My Lords, Amendment 18 brings us to the issue of the framework document in Schedule 2. I am afrai...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 19 and 20. I did not wish to raise this issue again—I apolo...

My Lords, I shall come to the amendments proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, but will sta...

My Lords, I think the frustration over the outline framework document has arisen from the fact th...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

21: Clause 5, page 4, line 38, at end insert—

“(c) may be ...

My Lords, the purpose of this group of amendments is to place a duty on the director-general of t...

My Lords, I have been trying to work out how this Bill was prepared and I can only assume that th...

My Lords, that was an interesting contribution from the noble Lord, Lord Harris of Haringey, on t...

I thank the Minister for his response and also thank my noble friend Lord Harris of Haringey for ...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

24: Schedule 3, page 43, line 6, leave out “any NCA ...

My Lords, I am pleased to propose this short series of government amendments. Intelligence will s...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

25: Schedule 3, page 43, line 22, at end insert—

Moved by

Baroness Smith of Basildon

27: Schedule 3, page 45, line 30, at end insert—<...

My Lords, in Committee I raised concerns, with other noble Lords, about the application of this l...

I thank the noble Baroness for raising these issues. Of course, it is important that we consider ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for talking about the wider context as well as the specif...

I have to inform the House that if Amendment 28 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendment 29 by reaso...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

28: Schedule 3, page 50, line 14, leave out from “agreement,...

My Lords, when one hears the Lord Chairman remind the House of the point of pre-emption, one feel...

My Lords, we have two amendments in this group, and I suspect that the purpose of our amendments ...

My Lords, I hope I can persuade my noble friend Lady Hamwee and the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, that...

My Lords, perhaps I can use this moment to ask if—possibly not immediately, but shortly—the Whips...

It would cause me a heart attack. Let us wait for some clarity to arrive.

I thank the Minister. Perhaps we should calm down, or even, “Calm down, dear”.

I do not sug...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

31: Schedule 3, page 51, line 20, at end insert—

Moved by

Baroness Smith of Basildon

31A: Clause 9, page 8, line 6, leave out paragrap...

My Lords, I raised this issue in Committee with the then Minister, the noble Lord, Lord Henley. T...

I shared with the noble Baroness an initial uncertainty over what this is about but it is to ensu...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord and also very grateful that he has offered to write to ...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

32: Schedule 5, page 59, line 4, at end insert “and”...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

35: Clause 11, page 10, line 30, leave out paragraph...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

36: Clause 12, page 10, line 38, after “officer” ins...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

37: Schedule 7, page 70, line 28, leave out “This Part of”