Serious Crime Bill [HL]

My Lords, I once again support the amendment of the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley. Indeed, since ...

My Lords, when I was chair of education in Cambridgeshire some 20 years ago, it was brought home ...

My Lords, I have put my name to the amendment and support it strongly. Current child protection s...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Walmsley on highlighting and pursuing this issue. I...

My Lords, I fear that I may be a lone voice in that I take a slightly different view from my coll...

My Lords, I gather from what has already been said by the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, that an ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Walmsley for again bringing this important matter to the H...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for what he has just said. I know that it...

Moved by

Baroness Smith of Basildon

44: After Clause 65, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 44, I shall also speak to Amendment 44A. I thank those who have co-...

My Lords, I rise only because of my experience in piloting through the Forced Marriage (Civil Pro...

I would like to ask the noble Lord’s advice on this, because he referred, as I did, to the forced...

That is a very good question, but I cannot really answer it. My reading of government Amendment 4...

I shall pick up that point. It is perfectly obvious to me as a former president of the Family Div...

My Lords, I very much agree with the noble and learned Baroness. In doing so, I ask the Minister ...

My Lords, I hesitate slightly, as a male religious leader, to speak in your Lordships’ debate on ...

My Lords, I do not need to reiterate the feelings of abhorrence at the practice of FGM and the en...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have spoken in this debate—in particular to the noble ...

Everything that the Minister has said is music to my ears, and I congratulate her and the Governm...

I thank my noble friend for bringing up that point. In actual fact, Scotland has very strong prov...

Sorry, I said not only Scotland but any other country. Scotland sounds as though it is fine. But ...

I apologise to my noble friend. I am sure that if other countries or jurisdictions want to take o...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness. She need not apologise for having been on her feet...

I thank the noble Baroness, and I think there is a further conversation to be had, perhaps outsid...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for that, because we just want to get it right. On the basis ...

Certainly.

I am extremely grateful. On both those issues, therefore, we would be happy not to press our amen...

Moved by

Baroness Meacher

45A: After Clause 66, insert the following new Clause—

Following legal advice, I amended Amendment 45, and it has now become Amendment 45A. The aim of t...

I have gone into this in great detail since 2003, when the all-party group that I chair held hear...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her intervention. I completely agree: this is not exclusi...

My Lords, I intended to put my name to this amendment, which I support. It seems to me that it is...

My Lords, towards the end of her speech, the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, referred to what was t...

My Lords, I am filled with some trepidation and hope the House will indulge me. I have not involv...

My Lords, I do not mean for a moment to embarrass the noble Lord, but I wonder whether he is spea...

The new clause in Amendment 45A is headed:

“Offence of encouraging or assisting with the pr...

My Lords, I had gone straight to the text of it. Those words were in the text of the previous ame...

I think the original wording is still there and therefore has some relevance.

On the previo...

My Lords, the NSPCC asked me to speak to this amendment because it believes that it will be benef...

My Lords, first I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, on bringing this forward. We deb...

I thank the noble Baroness so much for making that point. The encouragement frequently comes from...

Just to clarify, the Companion states that further interventions should be for clarification purp...

It could be argued that that was a considerable clarification. I am grateful to the noble Barones...

Again, this has been a further excellent debate on the role of the criminal law in helping to put...

I thank the Minister for her constructive response and all noble Lords who have spoken very const...

Moved by

Lord Harris of Haringey

46: After Clause 66, insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, the purpose of this amendment is to create an offence where an adult engages in a sexua...

My Lords, I support Amendment 46, which relates to the protection of children from sexual communi...

My Lords, it always seems churlish to take up points in the text of an amendment when one support...

My Lords, as we have already heard, the NSPCC supports the amendment and, as it always hold child...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Harris and the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, have undertaken a servic...

I am tempted by the Baroness’s offer to put my file aside, but I will stick with it a little beca...

I shall try not to intervene too often, given that we are on Report, but I would be grateful for ...

I accept that—and this may not endear me to the noble Lord, but I am only halfway through my spee...

My Lords, I am grateful for the support that this amendment has had from the noble Baronesses, La...

Moved by

Lord Bates

46A: Clause 67, page 50, line 18, at end insert—

“( ) after...

Moved by

Lord Bates

46B: Clause 67, page 50, line 21, at end insert—

“(1A) Inse...

Moved by

Lord Bates

46E: After Clause 67, insert the following new Clause—

“Off...

Moved by

Lord Bates

46G: After Clause 67, insert the following new Clause—

“Fem...

Moved by

Lord Harris of Haringey

47: After Clause 67, insert the following new Clause...

I am grateful to the Lord Chairman for allowing me to collect my thoughts on this amendment while...

My Lords, I rise briefly to speak in support of Amendment 47 of the noble Lord, Lord Harris. Some...

My Lords, I hate to disappoint the noble Lord, Lord Harris, but I fear that I am going to, as I s...

My Lords, I rise to speak briefly on this issue. During the Recess we had a meeting with Microsof...

My Lords, the noble Baroness is absolutely right again, in the sense that technology is the probl...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, and my noble friend Lady Smith for the ...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

48: Before Clause 68, insert the following new...

My Lords, the violent use of knives and offensive weapons in prison poses a real threat to the sa...

Moved by

Lord Wigley

49: After Clause 69, insert the following new Clause—

“Dom...

My Lords, I have tabled the amendment in order to enable this House to have a debate concerning b...

My Lords, I am pleased to support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Wigley. In my remarks, I ...

My Lords, the purpose of our amendment, apart from giving an opportunity to debate the law relati...

My Lords, I am in no doubt that there needs to be more effort, more prosecutions, more resources,...

I have listened carefully to the noble Baroness. Does she accept that the potential crime of coer...

Indeed, and no doubt that is why the Government have consulted on it. I, too, am looking forward ...

My Lords, I, like my noble friend Lord Dobbs, have not been involved in the conversations during ...

My Lords, first, I will make a brief response to my noble friend Lady Stedman-Scott. One of the t...

My Lords, I am very grateful to those who have participated in this debate—the noble Baronesses, ...

Moved by

Lord Strasburger

49B: After Clause 69, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, Amendment 49B seeks to repair a serious flaw in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers ...

My Lords, I declare an interest in this subject as executive director of the Telegraph Media Grou...

My Lords, I also rise to support the amendment. The noble Lord, Lord Strasburger, spoke about the...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Cohen of Pimlico, and to make the s...

My Lords, I can be fairly brief in this debate because I think the Minister will have heard the v...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for explaining the purpose of this amendment. I do not...

My Lords, it has been an interesting debate. The House seems to have one view and the Minister se...

Moved by

Lord Bates

49D: Schedule 4, page 76, line 25, at end insert—

“Visiting...

Moved by

Lord Bates

55: Clause 71, page 52, line 9, at end insert—

“( ) An orde...

Moved by

Lord Bates

57A: Clause 71, page 53, line 1, leave out subsection (10) and in...

Moved by

Lord Bates

58: Clause 72, page 53, line 10, at end insert—

“( ) sectio...

Moved by

Lord Bates

60: Clause 73, page 53, line 34, at end insert—

“( ) paragr...

Moved by

Lord Bates

65: In the Title, line 7, after “children;” insert “to make it an...