Crime and Courts Bill [HL]

My Lords, I hesitate to interrupt the noble and learned Lord. I have moved the question that we n...

My Lords, I hope that what I am about to suggest will find favour with the noble Lord and the res...

I support the noble and learned Lord in what he said. It seems rather curious that the Government...

My Lords, I understand my noble friend Lord Taylor’s point, but I also understand fully the point...

My Lords, I endorse what has been said by noble Lords, particularly the noble and learned Lord, L...

My Lords, I underline the importance of what has been said because we have been given an extra we...

My Lords, the business for today has been scheduled and there is a sequence for considering the d...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

My Lords, I beg to move that this House agree with Commons Amendments 1, 26 and 137.

These ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 1A, moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, for the reasons that s...

My Lords, a few minutes ago the noble and learned Lord, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, raised the questio...

My Lords, as a member of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, I confirm that the...

My Lords, I approached this issue with an open mind and attempted to ask myself what benefits mig...

My Lords, I am sorry that the House is going to hear a series of commissioners being referred to ...

What we are being asked to do this afternoon is to consider the procedure around a substantial is...

My Lords, I find today’s business difficult. Two categories of difficulty arise. This provision i...

My Lords, this has been a good and useful debate. I thank noble Lords for presenting their argume...

I am very grateful to the Minister. Indeed, he is right that there is almost nothing I disagree w...

I am certain it is the nature of these things that following the review, Parliament would have an...

My Lords, I have listened with great care to the Minister, and I think he has done his best to re...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 28, 29, 44, 47, 52 to 60 and 138.

Perhaps I may ...

My Lords, the Minister’s proposals are, as he said, a matter of deep regret with regard to Northe...

My Lords, I, too, regret that the role of the National Crime Agency in Northern Ireland has had t...

My Lords, I intervene briefly because for five years I had the privilege of chairing the Northern...

My Lords, when the Crime and Courts Bill first came to your Lordships’ House, I questioned the Mi...

My Lords, I understand the distress and disappointment, and if I may use the phrase used by the n...

Before the Minister sits down, perhaps he can address the question that I raised. In circumstance...

I imagine that the noble Lord will be able to guess my answer, which is that any Government of th...

Moved by

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

My Lords, in moving that this House do agree with Commons Amendment 3, I shall speak also to Comm...

My Lords, I will confine myself to two topics. Taken in reverse order of importance, the first is...

I thank the noble Lord for his support for much of what has been covered. He referred to self-def...

Moved by

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

Moved by

Lord McNally

I beg to move that this House do agree with Commons Amendments 5. I shall speak also to Amendment...

My Lords, Amendment 6A relates to an amendment passed in this House to provide for an ombudsman s...

My Lords, I join the noble Baroness in welcoming the Government’s moves to tighten up the arrange...

My Lords, I will re-emphasise why we are not introducing an independent regulator. The legislativ...

I move this Motion formally.

I thank the Minister for his response and say that my amendment to the Motion is not moved.

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

Moved by

Lord McNally

My Lords, I beg to move that this House agrees with Commons Amendment 11. With this I shall speak...

My Lords, I now call Amendment 11A. I have to advise the House that if Amendment 11A is agreed to...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

11A: Line 11, leave out from beginning to “, the” in line 24

In moving Amendment 11A I shall speak also to the other amendments in my name in this group and, ...

My Lords, I shall address this matter fairly briefly. I congratulate the Government on having mov...

My Lords, I would like to speak to Amendment 11B and a group of consequential and related amendme...

My Lords, I speak in favour of Amendment 11. We need it because we need the Leveson cross-party a...

My Lords, I declare an interest as Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group and Chairman o...

My Lords, I support the amendments and welcome the framework agreed by the parties. It is not per...

My Lords, I declare an interest as having been for a few years a member of the appointments commi...

My Lords, I should like to address a few remarks to my noble friend Lord McNally about the genera...

My Lords, I want to make some similar points to those just made by the noble Lord, Lord Inglewood...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords for participating in this debate, which has echoed a n...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed to what has been a very...

Before my noble friend sits down, and I congratulate him on the legislative equivalent of a marat...

I appreciate my noble friend’s intervention. At one stage during my speech I began to have sympat...

1930.

God bless you, sir. This is the great value of this House; you ask a question and you get an auth...

Before the Minister sits down, may I have his assurance that, in the cross-party talks that will ...

As one who has had the good fortune to watch the traffic of the cross-party talks, and who has a ...

Before my noble friend sits down, I have one question. He will remember vividly that the noble Lo...

Noble Lords cannot imagine the tingle in my shoulder blades when I realised that the noble and le...

Nothing in the world will delight me more than to see the Defamation Bill passed in its original ...

My noble friend has been suspended above his seat for a longer time than the Maharishi Yogi ever ...

I will look at what the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, raised, but I warn the House against the idea...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for all the time he has taken on my amendments. I wo...

Moved by

Lord McNally

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

17D: Line 13, after “could” insert “not”

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

17H: Line 27, leave out subsection (4)

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

My Lords, I beg to move that this House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 20. I shall ...

My Lords, I will make a few comments, in particular in relation to the civil recovery process. Th...

I thank the noble Baroness. She has raised an issue that I have identified already. I should reas...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for that explanation. I do not want to detain the House. Is he sa...

My Lords, I started off by saying to the noble Baroness that we have given all the help that we b...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 24 and will speak to Amendments 25, 49, 136. I could use the wo...

My Lords, perhaps I may speak to Amendment 24B, which is included in this group. Earlier today I ...

My Lords, earlier today the noble and learned Lord, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, and one or two other M...

My Lords, despite the criticism of noble Lords about the quality of debate that we might have on ...

I hope that the Minister will forgive me but this is an important matter. I know that it would be...

I do not think that it is the practice of Ministers to make legal advice available.

It is not practice, but in this instance perhaps the Minister could do so.

I am afraid that I have to follow practice in this respect because I believe that advice given by...

My Lords, a number of questions and points on the impact of the forum were asked by the noble and...

Before the noble Lord sits down, he will know that it is always my wish to make sure that the Hou...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Lloyd of Berwick

My Lords, the House will glad to hear that I do not wish to add anything to what I have already s...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

My Lords, I beg to move the privilege amendment.

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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“Small-scale bl...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

Moved by

Lord McNally

The Lord Speaker will be pleased to know that it gets a lot clearer from now on.

I beg to m...

Moved by

Lord Ramsbotham

My Lords, in her foreword to the Strategic Objectives for Female Offenders published last Friday,...

My Lords, I support Amendment 133A in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham. He suggested t...

My Lords, I must add a word of praise for the two speeches that we have just listened to and a wo...

My Lords, I rise to support the amendment moved by my noble friend Lord Ramsbotham. I believe tha...

My Lords, I would be surprised if some Members of your Lordships’ House were satisfied with a rep...

My Lords, the Commons amendment seeks to strike out Part 7 of Schedule 15 to the Bill, which prov...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their various contributions to the debate. It is very inter...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord McNally, must know that during our time in government, 39 women’s ...

I am not suggesting that nothing happened, but I am suggesting that the problems that we are faci...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply. Over the years I have come to recognise that in the...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

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Lord Taylor of Holbeach

Moved by

Baroness Smith of Basildon

Moved by

Lord Rosser

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“(1) The Secretary of State sh...

Baroness Smith of Basildon: My Lords, as we have heard from the Minister, at the Report stage of ...