Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

My Lords, Amendments 292K and 292L in my name seek to create a criminal offence of desecration of...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Brinton for introducing these amendments, which we support...

My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, for the clarity with which she has p...

My Lords, I will address the two amendments in reverse order, starting with Amendment 292L. This ...

I thank all speakers for their thoughtful and moving responses to the difficult issues covered by...

Moved by

Lord Russell of Liverpool

292N: After Clause 170, insert the following new C...

My Lords, I rise to propose this amendment, because the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove, is sufferin...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Russell of Liverpool, has very ably set out the reasons why this a...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, has eloquently and bravely described on a number of o...

My Lords, I believe the case for this amendment has already overwhelmingly been made from all sid...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Russell of Liverpool, for moving Amendment 292N on behalf ...

I will be very brief as the case for this amendment has been so eloquently put by the noble Lord,...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Russell of Liverpool, for setting out this amendment calli...

My Lords, I thank the Minister, as usual, for her comprehensive reply and praise the fact that, u...

Moved by

Lord Thomas of Gresford

292P: After Clause 170, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, I move this amendment in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Marks of Henley-on-Th...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, for moving this amendment. I had not re...

May I add a more hopeful note? It has been wonderful to see this Government bring forward Profess...

My Lords, I support the amendment. My support goes back to the time when I served as chairman of ...

My Lords, I fear that I am going to venture still further on to the shores of Utopia. Having list...

My Lords, I support Amendment 292P, so ably introduced by the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford...

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate, and it is so interesting to see such support aroun...

My Lords, just at the very moment when the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, was...

Hear, hear!

The noble Lords, Lord Ramsbotham and Lord German, also referred the Committee to the lack of prog...

In answer to a question—I cannot remember whether it was asked by me or by the noble Lord, Lord R...

The noble Lord makes a useful point. I did not have the fact, to which he referred your Lordships...

My Lords, I first acknowledge my place in devolution history. For the purposes of the footnote in...

I remind my noble friend that it is worse than that. All you have to do is induce the animal to a...

All those people yearning for a cat now know where they stand with this Government.

I pay t...

Moved by

Lord Coaker

292Q: After Clause 170, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to move Amendment 292Q in my name. Before I speak to it, I will refer ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Coaker for congratulating me on my amendment before I have...

My Lords, like my noble friend Lord Coaker, I was a little surprised to find my amendment grouped...

My Lords, despite being an anti-racist—

I have not quite finished.

I do apologise.

In view of the very positive nature of the Minister’s comments at our meeting a couple of weeks a...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly in support of the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Faulkn...

My Lords, I apologise for taking the instruction to hurry up rather too literally.

Despite ...

It is Bassam, actually.

I am making too many mistakes and I am sorry. As the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, suggested, online a...

In response to that and in support of the broad thrust of my noble friend Lord Coaker’s probing a...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, who moved the amendment, which is about the need f...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for taking part in this debate. The noble Lord, Lord Coaker asked i...

Before the noble Lord moves on to the next amendment, thinking back to 2000, the football riots t...

I reiterate that the Government agree with the noble Lord. I can only repeat what I said earlier:...

My Lords, in thanking the Minister for his reply, I will make a couple of comments about the two ...

Moved by

Lord Dubs

293: Before Clause 55, insert the following new Clause—

“The...

My Lords, I am privileged to be a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, and these amendm...

My Lords, I am not a lawyer, and I have not been briefed to speak; I am only following my instinc...

My Lords, I will speak to two amendments in my name. By way of preface, I must say how much I agr...

My Lords, we have had some powerful speeches already and it is a real pleasure to hear them. This...

My Lords, I may be able to tone down some of the hyperbole. Let’s go back to first principles on ...

I rise to support Amendments 294 and 298 because I believe that Clauses 55 and 56, which introduc...

My Lords, I have a duty, first, and then, I hope, the privilege to make some comments of my own. ...

This has been quite a long speech. We do need to get through business tonight. Can noble Lords pl...

Perhaps the Government could decide not to bring huge Bills such as this, so that we are forced t...

This is the 11th day in Committee on the Bill; I think we have given it due course. I am sorry, b...

Respect goes both ways. The Government are not respecting this House.

I am happy to wrap up. I am sorry, I had to read for my noble friend Lord Hendy, who had an amend...

My Lords, if I may, I will speak succinctly on the noise amendments. I appreciated what the noble...

My Lords, I support those who oppose the clauses in Part 3 standing part of the Bill, but I will ...

My Lords, I speak particularly to Amendments 294, 299, 303 and 305 in the name of the noble Lord,...

I did make the point that I was not wholly comfortable with what was being said about noise in th...

I thank the noble Baroness for her clarification, but I have to say to her that noise is absolute...

My Lords, I broadly support what the Government are trying to do here. There will be times when y...

My Lords, my speech can be very quick because I should just like to associate myself with the rem...

Forgive me, but I did not make two speeches. I asked the Committee’s permission to read the remar...

My Lords, the noble Baroness spoke for nearly 20 minutes and I am attempting to speak for about t...

My Lords, I am not sure that I would have been elected Convenor of the Cross Benches if my collea...

Oh!

I wanted to join the general acclaim for people who had been protesting. I was 17 years old and I...

My Lords, we are now on to arguably the most controversial aspect of the Bill—the public order me...

I think the noble Lord will agree that the number of officers put into an event is usually down t...

I understand what the noble Lord is saying, and I shall develop my argument further.

I have...

I am not quite sure of the noble Lord’s point. I go back to my original point: the nature of the ...

My Lords, a peaceful protest with no anticipated violent infiltrators and an agreed route, howeve...

The amendments in this group to which my name is one of those attached would, based on recommenda...

My Lords, it has been rather a lengthy debate, but rightly so. I accept that the provisions in Pa...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for the detail with which she went through the amendments...

I must inform the Committee that if Amendment 294 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendments 296 or 2...

Moved by

Lord Beith

298: Clause 55, page 47, line 33, leave out subsection (4)

...

My Lords, this is a simple and straightforward amendment implementing the wishes of our Delegated...

My Lords, we have not had time yet for all of us to read the report from the Secondary Legislatio...

My Lords, I put my name to Amendment 308 in the name of my noble and learned friend Lord Judge an...

The noble and learned Lord is exactly right about this constitutional problem, but there is a fur...

My Lords, I can be relatively brief. Do not worry—it is a temporary blip.

Amendments 298, 3...

My Lords, I very much support the amendments tabled here and the comments by the noble Lords, Lor...

I have listened to the noble Lord loud and clear. Governments are urged to respond to Select Comm...

My Lords, much as I would welcome publication of the response, what matters is what it contains a...

The question is that Clause 58 stand part of the Bill.

That is in the other group, is it not?

No. It is a clause stand part. I paused slightly, but if nobody wishes to speak to it—

Is the Clause 58 stand part debate not in the next group?

Clause 58 stands on its own to be either agreed or not agreed. I think perhaps the noble Lord wis...

I thought they were all grouped together.

Okay, but I think I need to put Clause 58 to the Committee now. The question is—

I am sorry. On the Order Paper, it looks as though Clause 58 stand part is the lead amendment. Th...

Yes, but I must put the question first. The question is that Clause 58 stand part of the Bill.