Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow and support my noble friend Lord Moylan. If this speech is ...

My Lords, I have added my name to these amendments. It is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lo...

My Lords, I strongly support the proposed new clause and I will give it all the support I can. Th...

My Lords, I enthusiastically endorse these amendments and thank the noble Lords, Lord Moylan, Lor...

My Lords, I was not going to speak on this, because there are much bigger issues coming up later,...

My Lords, I was not going to speak to this amendment, but like the noble Baroness who spoke befor...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Moylan’s amendments in this group. Somehow, we have ende...

Having listened with great interest to what the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, read out as to the curr...

My Lords, I did not participate in Second Reading on the Bill, but I did get some correspondence ...

My Lords, I think I am probably quite woke, and proud to be so; none the less, I support the broa...

My Lords, the issue is very simple. We surely have to decide whether hate crime and non-hate crim...

My Lords, like the noble and learned Lord, I shall attempt to be very brief indeed. My understand...

My Lords, I want to make a point about something that is not directly related, but which I found ...

My Lords, on behalf of these Benches, I too support these amendments, for all the reasons given b...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Marks, said, it is unusual to have such unanimity across the Ho...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, which has been very constructiv...

My Lords, I am not a lawyer, but can the Minister explain why she thinks that this is a matter fo...

I am simply pointing out that the Home Secretary has been in touch with the College of Policing t...

My Lords, my noble friend invited the House to wait and see. Can she give us some idea of how lon...

I can certainly promise my noble friend and noble Lords who have been involved in the debate this...

My Lords, when I tabled these amendments, I had no idea that they would find universal approbatio...

Oh!

Did I make a mistake there? Sorry. I am very grateful to everyone who has spoken.

I particu...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

108: Schedule 3, page 202, line 6, at end inse...

Moved by

The Lord Bishop of Gloucester

110: After Clause 43, insert the following new...

My Lords, I am pleased to move this amendment, which has the support of the noble and learned Lor...

My Lords, it is a pleasure and a privilege to follow the right reverend Prelate. My name comes af...

My Lords, the amendments in this group are about ensuring the best interests and welfare of the c...

My Lords, I have a brief point to make. I find a great deal of attraction in the thinking behind ...

My Lords, I rise very briefly to support the principle of these amendments. I warmly welcome what...

I entirely accept what the noble and learned Lord is saying, but I am not sure I see the distinct...

If I might attempt to answer the noble Viscount’s question, paramount importance is given to the ...

My Lords, I agree entirely with my noble and learned friend who has just spoken that there is a p...

I apologise for interrupting. The right reverend Prelate’s Amendment 215 says:

“A court mus...

I do not object to that burden on the courts, but I am surprised that it has to be placed upon th...

My Lords, I rise to make a short contribution to fully and strongly support the amendments. I dec...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my fellow trustee of the Prison Reform Trust, the nobl...

My Lords, for two minutes, I want to throw a pebble into what seems like calm water. I totally su...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the right reverend Prelate for not just these amendments but...

My Lords, perhaps I should first begin by apologising to the noble Lord, Lord Marks of Henley-on-...

The first report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights in 2021 details in section 2 the concern ...

Work still has to be done, of course, but I hope that the noble and learned Lord will accept that...

This is a separate point. Amendment 215 would require the court to

“make inquiries to estab...

I hope I made that clear earlier; let me go back to my notes. I do not want to mislead the noble ...

I am not disputing what the Minister says, but I read him as saying that that position is not ref...

I was going to come to the detail of pre-sentence reports a little later. Let me come to that and...

I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate this afternoon; it is now ge...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

110ZA: Schedule 4, page 205, line 42, at end insert—

“(1C...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 110ZA in my name I will speak to my Amendments 110ZB, 110ZC and 110...

My Lords, my Amendment 110A is grouped with my noble friend’s amendments, as we have just heard, ...

My Lords, the two noble Lords who have spoken have fully introduced their amendments. Amendment 1...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contributions. These amendments bring us to the issue of ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Harris of Richmond for her support and for so clearly and ...

Tabled by

Baroness Harris of Richmond

110A: Schedule 4, page 213, line 39, at end ins...

My Lords, I am immensely grateful to my noble friend Lord Paddick, who has absolutely perfectly p...

Moved by

Lord Beith

111: Clause 45, page 37, line 39, after “sport” insert “, dance, ...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 111 I will speak to the related Amendment 112. Here, we are being a...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Beith is right to lay his Amendments 111 and 112 to the Bill, aski...

My Lords, this is slightly more complex than one might have thought. I thank the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, my task in this debate is easy: all I have to do is to support the noble Lord, Lord Bei...

My Lords, we strongly support my noble friend Lord Beith. He has clearly explained his amendment:...

My Lords, we too support these amendments, and I too found the introduction from the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, I am grateful to have the opportunity to respond to this short but focused debate. I am...

My Lords, before my noble friend responds, I feel very uncomfortable at the proposition that we s...

I will reply very briefly to that point. When I say “new evidence”, I am not saying that there mu...

My Lords, may I pursue that? What evidence are we talking about, then? We are all giving examples...

The art lesson may be a good example. With respect, there is a huge gulf between the relationship...

I am grateful to the Minister for explaining the Government’s position but I do not understand th...

With great respect, the point put to me by the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, shows that if we draw th...

My Lords, I start by answering one of the Minister’s questions: what would constitute evidence? T...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

113: Clause 46, page 38, leave out lines 33 to 39.

Member...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 113 in my name I shall speak also to the other amendments in this g...

My Lords, I rise to support these amendments. We are now getting into the stuff that I will fight...

I apologise for not standing up promptly—I was expecting the noble Baroness to say more. I will d...

My Lords, this group of amendments focuses on criminal damage and the need for Clause 46 to stand...

It is very helpful of the Minister to tell us what the law is—accurately, I am sure. I do not thi...

It seems pretty obvious that if you get hauled before the courts for damaging life-saving equipme...

We seem to be reaching a measure of agreement. I still say, with respect, that because we have th...

My Lords, as usual, my noble friend has been very helpful, but what he has not convinced me about...

I am sorry, is my noble friend now back on the memorials point?

Yes.

The short answer to that is that I did not make my argument on the basis of deterrence. Sentencin...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for taking part in this short debate, particularly the noble Ba...