Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill

My Lords, I strongly support the Bill, and welcome its extension to Northern Ireland. It is absol...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Marks, set out his amendments clearly, and concentrated on the fac...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who spoke in this short debate. The amendment would re...

My Lords, I heard what the noble Lord, Lord McCrea, said, and he seemed to accept that the aggrav...

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 2. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a D...

Moved by

Lord Carlile of Berriew

2: Clause 27, leave out Clause 27 and insert the fol...

My Lords, I should like at the outset to acknowledge the assistance that I have received from the...

My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, particularly...

My Lords, Amendment 2 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, sets out an alternative possib...

My Lords, I understand that the intent of this amendment, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Carlile ...

My Lords, I am grateful to all who have spoken in this debate, to the noble Lords, Lord Marks and...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 3. Anyone wishing to press this or any other am...

Moved by

Lord Stewart of Dirleton

3: Clause 29, page 25, line 6, leave out from “is” ...

My Lords, in order to ensure that terrorist offenders in Scotland serve the appropriate custodial...

My Lords, as the noble and learned Lord has explained, most of these amendments are technical in ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Stewart of Dirleton, for explaining t...

My Lords, I am grateful to both noble Lords for their contributions to this very short debate. Th...

Moved by

Lord Stewart of Dirleton

4: Clause 29, page 25, line 10, after “Part” insert...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 12. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a...

Moved by

Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames

12: After Clause 31, insert the following new...

My Lords, Amendment 12 echoes the amendment calling for a review which we proposed in Committee. ...

My Lords, I fully agree that the different treatment is justified because of the consequences of ...

My Lords, I will speak to the whole group but I have co-signed Amendments 24 and 25 in the names ...

My Lords, Amendments 24 and 25 struck me as setting out a number of concerns that we would like t...

My Lords, I have one amendment in this group, Amendment 25, and my noble and learned friend Lord ...

My Lords, the amendments in this group would all require the Secretary of State to commission ind...

I have received a request from the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, to ask a short question of the Mi...

My Lords, on that last point, I take it that the post-legislative scrutiny referred to is separat...

My Lords, I assure the noble Baroness that that suggestion has lodged in my skull and will have b...

My Lords, this has been a helpful debate as it has moved forward the process of keeping these new...

My Lords, we now come to the group beginning with Amendment 14. Anyone wishing to press this or a...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

14: Clause 34, page 29, line 21, leave out “ha...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 14, I will speak also to Amendment 22; both stand in the name of my...

My Lords, Part 3 of the Bill raises for these Benches some considerable points of principle regar...

My Lords, nostalgia is the theme of the Government’s amendments in this group, because each of th...

My Lords, I feel much more educated than I did half an hour ago. Today, I found myself not only s...

I speak in support of Amendments 15, 17 and 18, which would remove Clauses 34, 35 and 37 from the...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for the time he has given to speak about this Bill and for governm...

My Lords, this group deals with changes to TPIMs. The current Independent Reviewer of Terrorism L...

This is an incredibly important debate, because it goes very much to the heart of the views we ta...

My Lords, before I turn to the amendments to which I have not yet spoken, I will address a questi...

I have received a request from the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, to ask a short question.

The Minister just referred to the number of hours in the day for which the restriction may apply....

My Lords, the simple answer for not including that in the Bill is that we do not think that it is...

Moved by

Lord Anderson of Ipswich

16: Clause 35, page 29, line 28, leave out “one or ...

I beg to move.

Moved by

Lord Paddick

18: Clause 37, leave out Clause 37

Member’s explanatory s...

I beg to move.

My Lords, we come now to the group beginning with Amendment 19. Anyone wishing to press this or a...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

19: Clause 38, page 32, line 15, at end insert—

“(2A) ...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 19, I will speak also to Amendments 20 and 21. Clause 38 raises a r...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, appears to be right that the legislation in its curren...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Hamwee has explained Amendments 19 and 20 to the House, and it wou...

My Lords, the effect of the Bill at the moment is that a condition of a TPIM can be that the subj...

My Lords, the three amendments in this group stand in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, is not available, so I call the noble Baroness, Lady Hamw...

Our views are very close, but we have not actually changed personalities yet. The noble and learn...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

21: Clause 38, leave out Clause 38

Member’s explanatory s...

I beg to move Amendment 21, which has already been debated, and I wish to test the opinion of the...

Moved by

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay

22: After Clause 40, insert the following new ...

We come to the group consisting of Amendment 23. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a Divi...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

23: Clause 44, page 35, line 26, leave out subsection (1) and i...

My Lords, I move Amendment 23 in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Hamwee. This House vote...

My Lords, there seems to be a recurring issue with the timeliness of independent reviews in the f...

My Lords, this has been an extremely brief debate and quite a blunt one. The noble Lord, Lord Pad...

My Lords, this amendment, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, and the noble Baroness, La...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Anderson of Ipswich and Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, for t...

We now come to Amendment 26. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a Division must make that ...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

26: Clause 48, page 37, line 13, at end insert—

My Lords, I apologise for the short break in proceedings while I came back to my place. I am afra...

My Lords, Clause 48 deals with the extent of the Bill. It provides that

“A provision of thi...

I endorse the question so clearly put by the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford. Despite the cle...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Fa...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

27: Schedule 13, page 121, line 4, leave out from “...