Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
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House of Lords
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
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Moved by
Lord Phillips of Sudbury
14B: Clause 28, page 18, line 39, at end insert—
My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 14B, and my learned—not my learned—
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My brilliant friend—
My—admirable and brilliant—noble friend Lady Williams is a co-signatory to that amendment and is ...
My Lords, I had an opportunity earlier this afternoon to read the letter from the noble Lord, Lor...
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for moving this amendment and giving the opportunity to put one...
I apologise to the Minister but I was not aware that he was going to respond to the amendment now...
My Lords, perhaps I may briefly follow my noble friend Lady Williams. I declare an interest as a ...
My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this brief debate. There have been ...
The Minister has given those figures, but it also says clearly in the impact assessment that ther...
That is a fair observation. We are in unknown territory, but in order to have an impact assessmen...
The concern we have is that an assessment of their costs has not been made. As I said in moving t...
I am conscious that we are rehearsing arguments from the previous debate. Our argument, in fairne...
I am a little worried because the argument is moving towards the costs of bureaucratic reviews an...
Of course there is nothing in the Bill to say, stipulate or prescribe that, but there is nothing ...
I thank the Minister. I have to be honest with him and say that he has not addressed at all the n...
My noble friend rightly chides us to say that we do not want to be overly bureaucratic or impose ...
I have to disagree with the Minister. It seems to me extraordinary to argue that we cannot afford...
I want to clarify a remark that I made earlier. The impact assessment, referring to the higher ed...
I am grateful for that, but I want to say a word on the second amendment. Most of the debate has ...
I am not sure that I can add a great deal more to what I have already said on this point, but I a...
That is a very fair way of wrapping this up, but just to make this clear, the Minister did not re...
Moved by
Baroness Williams of Crosby
14D: Clause 28, page 19, line 6, at end insert—<...
I have a very simple and totally inexpensive proposal, which is that in issuing the guidance the ...
My Lords, I am happy to put this point on the record without further reflection. I believe that b...
In the light of that helpful response, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.
Moved by
Lord Bates
14E: Clause 28, page 19, line 7, at end insert—
“(4A) Guida...
My Lords, I shall speak to government Amendments 14E, 14G and 15E. This group also includes Amend...
My Lords, on behalf of the Joint Committee on Human Rights I would like to say how much I welcome...
My Lords, my name is on Amendment 14F and I also want to thank the Minister for his Amendment 14E...
My Lords, this is a very welcome amendment that the Minister has moved, and I would like to thank...
My Lords, several groupings of amendments today and previously have called for quite a tour de fo...
My Lords, I have one more technical question to ask the Minister; I have given him notice of it. ...
My Lords, I will be brief. We thank the Minister for the meetings we have had with him on the Pre...
My Lords, I am grateful for the wide welcome which the amendments have received from your Lordshi...
Moved by
Lord Bates
14G: Clause 28, page 19, line 10, leave out “and (3)” and insert ...
Moved by
Baroness Lister of Burtersett
15A: Clause 28, page 19, line 15, at end inser...
My Lords, in moving Amendment 15A, I shall speak also to Amendment 15C in my name and that of oth...
My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, on Amendments 15A and 15C, to which I have a...
My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 15B in my name and that of my noble friends Lady Brinton, ...
My Lords, if the Minister is not prepared to accept Amendment 15B, can he assure the House that a...
My Lords, I have one short point, which has not been raised before, to add to this part of the de...
My Lords, it has been an interesting debate. I particularly want to look at Amendments 15A and 15...
If a university has a group of people who want to hold a meeting, or if an academic wants to brin...
It is quite a leap to say that a challenge to the Government automatically becomes something extr...
My Lords, I will just deal with a few points from this debate. This group of amendments deals wit...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who spoke in support of Amendments 15A and 15C, in particular t...
Moved by
Lord Bates
15D: After Clause 29, insert the following new Clause—
“Fre...
Moved by
Lord Bates
15E: Clause 33, page 21, line 18, leave out “Assembly”
Moved by
Baroness Hamwee
15F: Clause 34, page 21, line 30, leave out “in place” and i...
My Lords, I will also speak to Amendments 15G, 15H and 15J. I referred at the start of this after...
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friends for tabling these amendments and allowing us to retur...
Before my noble friend sits down, I should say that he referred to Clause 39, where the reference...
Of course we will look again at any suggestions, particular one coming from the borough of Sutton...
On that basis, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.
Moved by
Baroness Hamwee
15K: After Clause 39, insert the following new Clause—
My Lords, I have referred previously to the cost of the statutory duties—in relation not just to ...
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Hamwee, and I thank the Minister for guiding the Bill so a...
I have a very brief comment. I listened with great interest to the noble Lord’s comments. I think...
My Lords, in considering these amendments, I defer to the extensive and detailed local government...
The impact assessment states that extra work will happen because of the statutory duty, so the Go...
I am happy to look at that. We are consulting on this. A little bit like the discussion we had on...
My Lords, I, too, am bemused about whether this is a new burden or whether the cost will be nil. ...
Moved by
Lord Ashton of Hyde
16: Before Clause 42, insert the following new Clause—
My Lords, I am pleased to have the opportunity to return to Part 7 of the Bill today, and particu...
Moved by
Baroness Hamwee
16A: Before Clause 42, line 12, at end insert—
“(e) Pa...
I welcome the government amendments. In my clumsy way, I tried to deal with the issues raised by ...
My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee. This amendment derives from the work of the ...
My Lords, I will not follow my noble friend Lady Hamwee and the noble Baroness, Lady O’Loan, on A...
My Lords, I too am grateful for the consideration that the Government have given to this matter a...
My Lords, very briefly, given the hour, I think we can all agree that the independent reviewer is...
My Lords, as we glide through the final hour of the day, it is appropriate that we also glide thr...
The way the noble Baroness talked about the relationship between the independent reviewer and the...
I think that there is probably an element of face-saving in calling it a board. The amendment mak...
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken. They were broadly in support—although I fear t...
How can there be duplication if the Government were to include Part 2 of the Act and appoint the ...
The review that the noble Baroness referred to was what Parliament laid down in the Act. That was...
My Lords, it is late, but it has been a worthwhile discussion and I am glad to have had support, ...
Moved by
Lord Ashton of Hyde
17: Before Clause 42, insert the following new Clause—
Moved by
Lord Ashton of Hyde
18: Clause 42, page 27, line 31, leave out paragraph (b)...
Moved by
Lord Ashton of Hyde
20: Clause 45, page 29, line 22, at end insert—
“(...
Moved by
Lord Ashton of Hyde
21: Clause 48, page 30, line 13, leave out “section” and...