Public Order Bill

My Lords, we now come to the totally uncontroversial matter of protecting journalists from abuse ...

I shall be brief, because I know that time is of the essence. I begin by reading a very short ext...

My Lords, it is hard to overemphasise the importance of this amendment. It is firmly rooted in Ar...

My Lords, I could not put a cigarette paper between the arguments of the two previous speakers an...

My Lords, I do not support the amendment, and I do this at some danger, because one of my roommat...

My Lords, I disagree very strongly with the noble Lord, because I think he is wrong. Once you giv...

Mistakes are made; people are arrested wrongly. The police find acute problem-solving solutions w...

I speak as the mother of a journalist, so I have a vested interest here, but journalists do not g...

My Lords, I support what the noble Lord, Lord Hogan-Howe, has said. This is really a matter of de...

They have cards.

Yes, but I do not think the noble Baroness has focused on the point that a lot of demonstrators w...

I thank the noble Viscount for giving way. The word “journalist” is not in the amendment—just “a ...

I appreciate that. I did not realise that the noble and learned Lord was intervening—I apologise ...

My Lords, if anything illustrates why this amendment is needed, it is the last few exchanges. A n...

May I respond to the noble Baroness, because I think she misrepresented what I said? I think I sa...

I wonder if I could help the noble Lord, Lord Hogan-Howe, because he has not, with respect, read ...

And how is an officer to know?

My Lords, I remind noble Lords that this is Report stage and they have one opportunity to speak.<...

My Lords, I am glad that my noble friend has just said that, because it was the point I was going...

I would like to follow what my noble friend just said, or at least the beginning of his remarks f...

My Lords, I may be labouring under a misapprehension, but surely there is a critical difference b...

My Lords, there cannot be any legitimate objection to journalists, legal observers, academics or ...

My Lords, there is something to be said for semaphore in the wider sense. That is, one of the pro...

My Lords, we support the amendment moved by my noble friend Lady Chakrabarti and if she divides t...

My Lords, I apologise for my slightly tardy arrival.

Amendment 54, tabled by the noble Baro...

My Lords, PACE is nearly 40 years old. Is not the training completed?

My noble and learned friend makes a very fair point, but the College of Policing and the National...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this short but vital debate. Once m...

I have.

This amendment is not about preventing the arrest of anybody, journalist or otherwise, who is rea...

Moved by

Lord Anderson of Ipswich

56: Clause 19, page 22, line 20, leave out sub-para...

My Lords, I rise to propose a number of amendments to Part 2 of the Bill, which provides for seri...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, said, I support all but one of his amendments. The on...

My Lords, I will make three brief comments about these amendments. First, regarding the trigger p...

My Lords, as we have heard, most of the amendments in this group seek to restrict the proposed pr...

My Lords, to be clear at the outset, we will support Amendment 56 in the name of the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this shortish debate. This group contai...

I interpreted that subsection to mean that the statement could be in writing if the person did no...

I will need to clarify that but, given the other things that I have said, it would imply—I stress...

The Minister will recall that I described my Amendments 57 and 61 as clarificatory. It seemed to ...

I can clarify that that is the Government’s understanding.

I am grateful to the Minister for that and for his engagement throughout this process. I am also ...

Moved by

Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede

63: Leave out Clause 20

I wish to test the opinion of the House.

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

65: Clause 21, page 26, line 12, leave out paragraph (c...

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

66: Clause 22, page 27, line 17, leave out subsection (...

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

67: Leave out Clause 23

Member’s explanatory stat...

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

68: Clause 25, page 30, line 17, leave out subsections ...

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

69: Clause 28, page 32, line 32, at end insert—

“...

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

70: Clause 28, page 32, line 33, leave out subsection (...

I cannot call Amendment 71 due to pre-emption.

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

73: Leave out Clause 32

Member’s explanatory stat...

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

74: Clause 33, page 35, leave out lines line 22 to 24