Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for tabling this amendment. He slightly wandered off i...

Before the Minister sits down—I am keen to have his response to this—if, as he now confirms, the ...

If my noble friend had been listening to yesterday’s Second Reading debate, he would have underst...

My Lords, I regret to say that I find that answer completely unsatisfactory. There is every reaso...

Moved by

Lord Hope of Craighead

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 5, leave out “the requireme...

My Lords, this amendment returns to a point that I raised yesterday at Second Reading. As the nob...

My Lords, I rise to support the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, in his amendment. Before doing...

My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope. After what he said ye...

My Lords, I also support the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope of Craighead. At Second Reading, t...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, for tabling his amendment as it...

I thank the Minister for giving way. I was referring to paragraph 11 of the Constitution Committe...

I am sorry but I have to ask the noble Lord to read in Hansard what I have just said if he fails ...

My Lords, I rise in defence of the Minister because the Intelligence and Security Committee discu...

My Lords, I rise briefly because I think that perhaps my noble friend Lord Davies has been misund...

I will not argue with the noble Baroness if she wants to make that judgment of things. The Govern...

My Lords, having supported the Minister on the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Davies, may I n...

My Lords, we are talking about what the Secretary of State considers. I wonder whether the diffic...

My Lords, I rise with some temerity to disagree with the views expressed from the Benches opposit...

My Lords, I support what has just been said by my noble friend Lord Howard of Lympne. I speak not...

My Lords, the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Howard, is important, and I accept it. There is ...

I am sure the usual channels make arrangements for any such potentiality. I am very grateful to m...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the Minister for his reply and to all those who have taken p...

Moved by

Lord Hope of Craighead

3: Clause 4, page 6, line 31, after “kingdom” insert ...

My Lords, this is an amendment of a rather different character. It is really a probing amendment ...

My Lords, I too thank the Minister for the excellent letter his officials prepared overnight. I a...

I can say to my noble friend Lord Blencathra that although I have not read MLAT, I have been pres...

My Lords, I am grateful once again to the Minister for his helpful and full reply. I take absolut...

Moved by

Lord Phillips of Sudbury

4: Clause 8, page 8, line 9, leave out “2016” and i...

My Lords, the amendment is also in the names of the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy of The Shaws—who...

My Lords, I oppose the amendment. I was unable to speak yesterday. I do not propose to make a Sec...

My name is on this amendment. The noble Lord, Lord Rooker, always speaks with vigour and passion ...

My Lords, I join those who urge my noble friend not to be attracted by the arguments presented th...

I come from Scotland where Latin is still spoken by lawyers. We did not adopt the approach of the...

Not so long ago, I went to Cranston’s tea rooms in Glasgow and tried to order some lunch. Plainly...

My Lords, my name is also on this amendment. The question of public trust has been raised, and th...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Phillips, spoke to me before the debate to ask if I would be suppo...

My Lords, having supported the Minister in response to the noble Lord, Lord Davies, and having cr...

My Lords, I have not intervened earlier because I have been doing lots of other things, but I wan...

My Lords, I am sure that the noble Lord is not for a moment suggesting that corruption is involve...

I am sorry; I am not suggesting that there is any at the moment at all. There has been historical...

Treason.

Yes, treason rather than corruption. I do not mind what you want to call it—whatever. All I am sa...

My Lords, I want to say just two things. The majority view of this House yesterday at Second Read...

My Lords, I support the amendment to have the timetable brought forward because two and a half ye...

My Lords, I should confess that when some of us went up to the office yesterday evening, I asked ...

My Lords, I was not able to take part in the debate yesterday. I must say that I find the discuss...

My Lords, I came with an open mind to this debate and I am afraid I have to say to the Minister, ...

My Lords, this has been a long and interesting debate. I do not know if my noble friend has had t...

My Lords, it has been very useful to have this debate. It is our last amendment in Committee and ...

The Minister is being very persuasive, as was my noble friend in her pertinent analysis. What I a...

That is not the deadline that has been agreed by the party leaders. After all, 1 May is a deadlin...

For the past year or so, the Minister has resisted all the efforts by me and others to engage in ...

I take that chiding. I am big enough to cope with it. I do not think I have ever failed to answer...

I am really grateful to the Minister for taking my point. If we really believe what he is saying,...

What the noble Lord is talking about is political leadership. Political leadership, I am sure, wi...

My Lords, I agree with my noble friend that this has been an excellent and worthwhile debate. On ...