Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

My Lords, it is a great privilege to start the discussion of this very important Bill in Committe...

My Lords, it is a very great pleasure to welcome the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, to this policing de...

My Lords, I was unable to speak at Second Reading on this topic of the police covenant. As the no...

My Lords, I draw your Lordships’ attention to my interests in the world of policing as set out in...

My Lords, I no longer have to declare an interest but some Members here may know that I was until...

My Lords, I start also by paying tribute to my noble friend Lady Harris of Richmond for her tirel...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in an incredibly thoughtful debate this afterno...

I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in a very thoughtful and helpful discussion on this f...

I cannot call Amendment 6, as it is an amendment to Amendment 5.

Moved by

Lord Paddick

8: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—

“Scru...

My Lords, there has been much criticism of the police complaints and misconduct process from the ...

My Lords, it has been fascinating and very moving to listen to the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, but ...

My Lords, I support this amendment. The basic problem around IOPC investigations is one of timeli...

My Lords, I strongly support these amendments. I too have little confidence in the IOPC and the r...

My Lords, I am very grateful for the opportunity to speak to Amendment 8, tabled by the noble Lor...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, set out, this amendment seeks to further improve the t...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this important debate, particularly the...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

9: Clause 2, page 3, line 46, at end insert—

“(3) After se...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 9 standing in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 11, in the name of my right reverend friend the Bishop of Glo...

My Lords, I have Amendment 10 in this group. According to the Times newspaper, in an article date...

My Lords, I think the noble Lord and I are in agreement that the problem is that we are not prose...

My Lords, of course we want to change attitudes and that is what we must try to do, however long ...

My Lords, I entirely accept that this is a real problem, but real problems require real solutions...

My Lords, I am a bit too squeamish to discuss Amendment 9 but I wanted to reflect on Amendments 1...

My Lords, I will open by discussing first some of noble Lords’ contributions on their amendments....

My Lords, I begin by placing on the record my apologies for not being in my place at Second Readi...

I have a pertinent question. I am troubled by the rather lame excuse that the noble Lord offers f...

I am afraid that the noble Lord appears to have missed the point of principle that I made before ...

I am sorry—I thought very carefully about whether I should intervene. I was genuinely so taken ab...

I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to do that. As I am sure everybody recognises, that w...

I seek one matter of clarification, although I should not need to. Is there no way, apart from ra...

As the noble and learned Lord knows far better than I do, one has to distinguish between aggravat...

I just want to take the Minister back to the comments made by the right reverend Prelate the Bish...

I think I made it clear earlier that I was making two points in response to this amendment. The p...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate. On Amendment 11 fr...