Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

Moved by

Baroness Chapman of Darlington

104D: After Clause 172, insert the following ...

My Lords, I rise to move the amendment tabled by my noble friend Lord Ponsonby on life-saving equ...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support the noble Baroness in moving her amendment. This might not be...

I promise that this is the last time that I will speak—this evening; there will be other times. I...

My Lords, the effect of Amendment 104D would be to increase the maximum sentence for criminal dam...

My Lords, this amendment was debated just a few weeks ago when the Government set out why we beli...

I am grateful to the Minister for what he had to say and I do understand that creating a new offe...

Moved by

Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede

104E: After Clause 172, insert the following new ...

My Lords, this group of amendments seeks to introduce new offences to make it illegal to have sex...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, for tabling Amendments 104...

My Lords, I do not share the concerns that have just been expressed. It seems to me that Amendmen...

My Lords, I have one point to add to what has been said by my noble friend Lord Pannick. The word...

My Lords, I speak briefly in support of Amendments 104E and 104F, in the name of my noble friend ...

My Lords, I shall be brief because we have a lot to get through. I should have preferred Amendmen...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, explained, these amendments relate to three matters w...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate. It has been quite quick but...

My Lords, I have no issue with what the noble Lord said, nor with what the noble Baroness said. T...

My Lords, I move on to the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, and the noble and learned Lo...

Moved by

Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede

104F: After Clause 172, insert the following new ...

Moved by

Lord Bach

104FA: After Clause 172, insert the following new Clause—

“P...

My Lords, Amendment 104FA stands in my name of those of the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, and my nobl...

My Lords, I respectfully agree with everything the noble Lord, Lord Bach, said. I will add just o...

My Lords, I too support this amendment; I did at Second Reading. Indeed, I have added my name to ...

My Lords, I have worked with the noble Lord, Lord Bach, for many years in this House —sadly, on o...

My Lords, I cannot say that I know many teenagers who, growing up, aspire to be police crime and ...

My Lords, since I have been gratuitously referred to, I ought to say some words. Archbishop Rober...

My Lords, as we said in Committee, we are in principle supportive of this amendment. However, we ...

My Lords, I will be brief. I recall that the Minister said in Committee on this amendment

“...

My Lords, first, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Bach, for giving us a further opportunity to discus...

Before the noble Lord sits down, may I ask him this question? Why is it that public confidence re...

With regard to public confidence, I go back to what I said earlier: this was originally designed ...

My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, may I have a response to my question? Bearing in mind ...

I am sorry I forgot to answer the noble Lord’s specific question. The problem is that I do not ha...

The noble Lord told the House that we agreed on a cross-party basis that these arrangements were ...

I am afraid I do not know. It predates me, sorry.

Is it the Government’s view that, by retaining the ban—as it is at the moment—for PCCs, there wou...

The noble Lord will forgive me for not venturing an opinion on that.

I forgive the Minister anything. I was in his position many years ago when I had to defend the co...

Moved by

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

104FC: After Clause 172, insert the following ne...

My Lords, men who seduced girls between the ages of 13 and 16 before 1 May 2004 are effectively i...

My Lords, I support my noble friend, who is quite right in everything she has said. Sexual abuse ...

My Lords, before I turn to this amendment, I begin with an apology. I made an incorrect statement...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his response and for the large amount of time last we...

Moved by

Baroness Coussins

104FD: After Clause 172, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, I remind the House of my interests as vice-president of the Chartered Institute of Ling...

My Lords, I pay tribute to the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, for pursuing this important matter,...

My Lords, I too pay tribute to my noble friend Lady Coussins for the determination with which she...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, as I have from the beginning, as a layman ...

My Lords, I spoke at length on this amendment in Committee and attended the meeting with the nobl...

My Lords, I too spoke in Committee, and I have been copied in on the very helpful response from t...

Clearly, we agree with everything that has been said. Rather than repeat it all, I will just comp...

My Lords, having begun my response to the previous group with an apology for getting a date wrong...

I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate. I especially offer my thanks to the ...

Moved by

Lord Coaker

104FE: After Clause 172, insert the following new Clause—

...

My Lords, I start this debate by deploring—I hope the Minister will pass this on—the anti-vaxxers...

My Lords, as has already been noted, I raised concerns about an earlier version of this amendment...

My Lords, surprisingly, my remarks will overlap substantially with the noble Baroness’s speech, a...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, talked about demonising protest—I bet she is l...

My Lords, I start by joining the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, in deploring the anti-vaxxers who stood...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her reply and for the courteous way in which she always tries ...

My Lords, I was reading my speech, but I acknowledge that the noble Lord said that in his opening...

That is a different point. I accept some of that. It was not what the Minister was saying, but I ...

Moved by

Lord Blencathra

104G: Clause 44, page 38, line 43, at end insert—

“(4)...

My Lords, this amendment is in my name and those of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, and m...

My Lords, I put my name to this amendment because it raises some important and delicate issues. I...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Blencathra. He and I have been chasing down issues with ...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Blencathra, said, in December 2011 the then Home Secretary anno...

My Lords, I have listened carefully to this short debate and the points made by the noble Lords, ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Blencathra for explaining the amendment, which in substanc...

My Lords, I think that my noble friend has inadvertently answered the question of when it will be...

Moved by

Lord Beith

106: Clause 46, page 39, line 17, after “sport” insert “, dance, ...

My Lords, in moving this amendment, I seek to bring music, drama and dance within provisions that...

My Lords, as my noble friend Lord Beith explained, the amendment would extend the position of tru...

My Lords, the noble Lords, Lord Beith and Lord Paddick, make a very strong case. Clause 46 addres...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, for giving those very good and relevant examples ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Beith, for again raising this matter for deb...

To clarify, is the noble Lord saying that when the department looked into this matter it discover...

As I say, we discussed this with a wide range of people, and it seemed to us from looking at all ...

Before the Minister sits down, can he clarify two points? First, is he saying that those people w...

I am struggling with that second point, but let me try to answer the first. On whether I am sayin...

My Lords, one thing I want to say in response to the Minister is that, as I said earlier, there a...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

107A: After Clause 46, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, in moving government Amendment 107A, I first thank sincerely all those in both Houses w...

As the Minister said, the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, is unable to be in her place tonight. She ...

My Lords, I intervene to ask my noble friend a question. I listened carefully to what he said and...

My Lords, we welcome the Government’s decision to accept the force of the amendment pursued by th...

We wholeheartedly welcome this, and we welcome how the Minister can laugh at himself and bring go...

My Lords, I am very grateful for the warm words from across the House and for the support this am...

I appreciate that and understand what the Minister is saying. Is he saying that, if it could be r...

The question which has to be asked is: was this done for the purpose of humiliating the woman bre...

Moved by

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar

107B: After Clause 46, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, this government amendment meets a commitment to bring forward proposals on Report to ad...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for what he has just said and for the actions he has taken. I than...

My Lords, we add our thanks to the Minister to those of the noble Lord, Lord Russell of Liverpool...

My Lords, I was sitting in the City of Westminster magistrates’ court yesterday with our Bench ch...

My Lords, I am very grateful for the support that the amendment has received across the House. Th...

Moved by

Lord Rooker

109A: After Clause 50, insert the following new Clause—

“A...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 109A, which proposes a new clause. I freely admit that the cont...

My Lords, I am delighted to be able to support this amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, w...

My Lords, as other noble Lords have just said, serious and organised food crime can have very ser...

As has been said, this amendment raises the issue of food-related crime and the powers and resour...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, for raising this important matter. I ackn...

I remind the House that I said that the Food Standards Agency, and therefore the unit, can use th...