National Security Bill

My Lords, my name is on Amendment 113, and I commend the intentions of the amendments put down by...

My Lords, I will speak primarily to my Amendment 120A but I thank the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, fo...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords very much for contributing to this relatively short debate. Let me ...

My Lords, I apologise for interrupting. I am sure the Minister recognises the damage which was do...

My Lords, with the greatest respect, this is a different Government and we have moved on. The ISC...

I understand that the Minister is saying that the Prime Minister will review it, but does he agre...

The noble Lord makes a very fair point. I will certainly make sure that that message is conveyed....

My Lords, I apologise if I have gone—as the Minister is advising me—a little far. The point I am ...

This Bill does exactly that. We have been talking about FIRS over the last couple of days—the for...

My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s thorough reply, notwithstanding some of his responses,...

There’s nothing new there. I am joking.

The noble Lord is a very cheerful person for someone who is disappointed. One of the telling fact...

Moved by

Lord Purvis of Tweed

114: After Clause 89, insert the following Clause—

My Lords, this is an amendment which I really did not think it should be necessary to debate, on ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for speaking to Amendment 114, which seeks to require the Cabine...

I am grateful to the Minister, and I am not entirely surprised by his response. I think the Gover...

Moved by

Lord Coaker

119: After Clause 89, insert the following new Clause—

“As...

I will not keep noble Lords too long on this amendment. There are a couple of points I wish to ma...

My Lords, I again find myself the only Back-Bencher of my party in the Chamber. This time I canno...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, for his supportive words on the key aspects of my ...

They are not here this evening; they were here earlier.

Yes, they were here earlier.

My preference would be to create an overarching office of the ...

My Lords, I wish to stress the importance of how the Bill, when it becomes an Act, will relate to...

My Lords, I must confess to being rather puzzled by some of the detail in Amendment 120 in the na...

Perhaps I can help the noble Lord. Amendments must be written to be in scope; it is sometimes qui...

I thank the noble Baroness very much for that clarification; in that case, the amendment certainl...

My Lords, I thank Members of the Committee for all their speeches. Amendment 119 seeks an assessm...

I am grateful to the Minister. He is aware of the point I raised earlier in Committee, which, as ...

Indeed, the Law Commission made a recommendation about a potential reform to the 1989 Act. As I h...

My Lords, I will be brief, but will start by thanking the Minister for his response and all noble...

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

121: Clause 92, page 63, line 11, after “63” insert “sp...

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

124: Clause 95, page 64, line 13, at end insert—

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My Lords, Amendment 124 creates the power to extend any provision in the Bill with or without mod...

My Lords, I have very little to say with regard to the government amendment. I recognise the Gove...