Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

My Lords, this amendment simply calls for a review of road traffic offences. It refers back to th...

My Lords, I will speak briefly on Amendment 165 in my name and in the names of the noble Baroness...

My Lords, I think we have made the point that there is a huge inconsistency between road traffic ...

My Lords, I support both amendments, including that of the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, of which I ...

My Lords, I will be brief because I think that the arguments in favour of these two amendments ha...

I thank all noble Lords who have participated in this relatively short debate. As we have heard, ...

I thank the Minister for his response and other noble Lords for participating in this short debat...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

160: After Clause 76, insert the following new Clause—

“P...

My Lords, if the Committee will forgive me, I was not quick enough off the mark in the previous g...

My Lords, I am sorry, but I am going to speak on this if the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, is not go...

No.

I feel very strongly about this. It offends my sense of justice that people who do hit and runs n...

I think the noble Baroness may be speaking to the next group rather than this group.

I am. Sorry, ignore that. Strike that from the record. I will come back to that.

My Lords, I was interested in the explanation of this amendment by the noble Lord, Lord Paddick. ...

My Lords, if I understand the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, correctly, this amendment is aimed at imp...

I thank the noble Lord, Ponsonby of Shulbrede, for his support in principle. I think it would be ...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

161: After Clause 76, insert the following new Clause—

“F...

My Lords, Amendment 161 is in my name, supported by the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb...

My Lords, as I said before, I support this amendment very strongly because hit-and-runs are a men...

My Lords, I have added my name to this amendment. One of the most telling statistics is that ther...

My Lords, my right honourable friend Ben Bradshaw spoke to his amendment, which was along similar...

My Lords, as noble Lords have explained, Amendments 161 and 166 relate to the offence of drivers ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for contributing to this debate, including the noble Baroness, Lady...

Moved by

Lord Berkeley

169A: After Clause 76, insert the following new Clause—

...

My Lords, in moving this amendment I shall speak to Amendments 169B and169C tabled by the noble E...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

169B: After Clause 76, in subsection (1), after the word “liable...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, for moving his amendment. On its own, i...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, for his introduction and the noble Earl, Lord At...

My Lords, it is good to be back from the Armed Forces Bill to join you all again for this group o...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, and my noble friend Lord Attlee for explaining th...

My Lords, I am afraid the Minister’s response is a little disappointing. I was hoping he would sa...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed and to the Minister for his respo...

Moved by

Lord Falconer of Thoroton

169D: Clause 77, page 72, line 31, at end insert—<...

We move to Part 6 of the Bill, which is important. It creates two new types of caution: diversion...

Just for the record, and because the officials have worked extremely hard, I have a WhatsApp grou...

I am very glad to hear that. It is the first time in my experience—and I am not complaining, beca...

My Lords, I agree with the noble and learned Lord about the importance of this part of the Bill. ...

My Lords, I recognise that this group of amendments in the name of the noble and learned Lord, Lo...

I made it absolutely clear that I was not for one moment impugning the Bill team’s work ethic. I ...

It has nothing to do with the hour. On every Bill I have done, I have had the Bill team on WhatsA...

If I can adopt a previous role that I had as a police officer and come between the two parties to...

We can move on. We do not need to raise the temperature at 11.30 pm. We have other things to argu...

First, in the light of the evidence given by the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, I unreservedly withdra...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

170: Clause 77, page 72, line 34, leave out paragraphs (a) and ...

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendments 171 and 190 in my name. I will then move to Amendment 1...

My Lords, I want to say something from the Back Benches about my experience of sitting on scrutin...

I am very much obliged to my noble friend Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede for that intervention, which...

My Lords, the amendments we are talking to cover a little area and I will take them in turn if I ...

What is the method of scrutiny of that code of practice by Parliament?

I will come to that point. I will try to answer that question, but if I do not, I know the noble ...

If the noble Lord will give way, the point I was making is that there is an inconsistency in the ...

Absolutely. Let me deal with the out of court disposals themselves. I hope I have answered that p...

My Lords, it is completely unacceptable that the noble Lord has said on numerous occasions that, ...

To be clear, the only reason I made that point is because I have a very long answer—I am happy to...

In that case, I point out how completely inadequate the Minister’s answers have been. He complete...