Violent Crime Reduction Bill. Report stage. New clauses considered. Third reading debate. Agreed to on question and Bill passed.
Violent Crime Reduction Bill 2005-06
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Violent Crime Reduction Bill. As amended in Standing Committee B.
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
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Tuesday, 25 October 2005
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Proceeding contributions
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c768 (Link to this contribution)
All Members want to tackle alcohol-related disorder on the streets of our cities, and I give credit ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 439 c772 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move amendment No. 108, in page 29, line 30, leave out subsection (2).
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David Lepper | 439 c768 (Link to this contribution)
On alcohol disorder zones being a last resort, does the Minister agree that in an area in which a pr...
Hazel Blears | 439 c768 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend has concluded the debate on a very positive note. We want to encourage people to ente...
Jonathan Djanogly | 439 c772-4 (Link to this contribution)
With little time on the clock, I declare my interest as the holder of a shot gun licence, the owner ...
Speaker | 439 c772 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Gentleman is right. We are proceeding in the way in which the House has already agree...
Greg Knight | 439 c772 (Link to this contribution)
On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Will you confirm that if, as now appears likely, there is n...
Speaker | 439 c772 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Amendment No. 109, in page 29, line 40 [C...
Jonathan Djanogly | 439 c775 (Link to this contribution)
I have no idea why the Conservative group voted for such a scheme. The policy of this Conservative g...
Stewart Hosie | 439 c774 (Link to this contribution)
I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman, as I did in Committee. He is very much opposed to a ...
Philip Hollobone | 439 c775 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising the sport of airsoft. I have been contacted by Mr. Chris...
Jonathan Djanogly | 439 c775-6 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes a valid intervention, not least because, as a result of timetabling, unfortunat...
Jim Sheridan | 439 c776 (Link to this contribution)
So far the hon. Gentleman has concentrated on sports clubs and rural communities. Has he anything to...
Jonathan Djanogly | 439 c776 (Link to this contribution)
If the hon. Gentleman thinks that restricting airgun sales to those aged 17 or 18 will have any mate...
David Heath | 439 c776 (Link to this contribution)
May I ask a question that is relevant to what was said by the hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshi...
David TC Davies | 439 c777 (Link to this contribution)
Will my hon. Friend confirm that when we last tried to restrict the sale of handguns for sporting us...
Jonathan Djanogly | 439 c776-7 (Link to this contribution)
That is a fair point. The truth is that the measures that we are discussing now will not have the ef...
James Paice | 439 c777-8 (Link to this contribution)
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Djanogly) on the way in which he has pr...
Jonathan Djanogly | 439 c777 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes an important point, which I would have brought up myself if we had enough time,...
Hazel Blears | 439 c778-9 (Link to this contribution)
I have not seen such passion in the House for some time. It is clear that Conservative Members are v...
Hazel Blears | 439 c785 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes a good point. When he put it to the Liberal Democrats earlier that perhaps they...
Celia Barlow | 439 c785 (Link to this contribution)
Does my right hon. Friend agree that airguns, which are sometimes called BB guns, can be used recrea...
Lord Beamish | 439 c785 (Link to this contribution)
: Does my right hon. Friend agree not only that the Liberal Democrats say one thing in the House and...
David TC Davies | 439 c779 (Link to this contribution)
Will the Minister give way?
Fraser Kemp | 439 c786 (Link to this contribution)
Does my right hon. Friend agree that the restrictions on airguns in the Bill are good news for one o...
Hazel Blears | 439 c786 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend has a great deal of personal experience of these really devastating problems in her c...
Dawn Butler | 439 c786 (Link to this contribution)
I, too, was extremely disappointed with the Opposition’s attempts to remove the mandatory five-year ...
Hazel Blears | 439 c785-6 (Link to this contribution)
It is excellent to see that Labour Members are interested in practical legislation that can work. I ...
Hazel Blears | 439 c787 (Link to this contribution)
I give way to the hon. Gentleman with the striking tie.
Philip Hollobone | 439 c787 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the right hon. Lady for her compliment. I raise a genuine constituent’s concern. Mr. Cockayn...
Hazel Blears | 439 c787 (Link to this contribution)
Yes. The Bill now provides an exemption for deactivated weapons, so they will not fall under the cat...
Hazel Blears | 439 c786 (Link to this contribution)
I entirely agree with my hon. Friend that the restrictions will help to ensure that air weapons are ...
Gordon Banks | 439 c786-7 (Link to this contribution)
I commend the Bill because in the smallest county in Scotland, of which my constituency is part, in ...
Hazel Blears | 439 c787 (Link to this contribution)
Yes. I know about my hon. Friend’s personal commitment to the issue because I was delighted that he ...
Hazel Blears | 439 c787-8 (Link to this contribution)
No, I am afraid that I do not have to hand the figures on 17 to 18-year-olds. However, a strong case...
Adam Afriyie | 439 c787 (Link to this contribution)
I echo a question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice). How ...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c788-91 (Link to this contribution)
I should like to begin in the same way as the Minister by telling the House that all the members of ...
Stewart Hosie | 439 c793 (Link to this contribution)
It is not very liberal.
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c792-3 (Link to this contribution)
I should like to put on record my thanks to the hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Benton) and the right ho...
Jim Sheridan | 439 c793-4 (Link to this contribution)
I shall be brief. I am conscious that other hon. Members have served in Committee and been present a...
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c793 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman should ask my children—I am not very liberal with them, either.
Weapons are a sc...
Lord Beamish | 439 c791-2 (Link to this contribution)
I add my congratulations to the Minister on steering the Bill through. It is an excellent Bill that ...
Hazel Blears | 439 c795 (Link to this contribution)
With the leave of the House, Mr. Speaker, I do not think that I have anything to add except to t...
Stewart Hosie | 439 c794-5 (Link to this contribution)
: There is a great deal in the Bill to be commended, not least the provisions regarding real firearm...
Bob Spink | 439 c699 (Link to this contribution)
Does my hon. Friend accept that amendment No. 22 is reasonable because a teacher would use the power...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c697-8 (Link to this contribution)
We begin our deliberations with a discussion on the vexed but important issue of being able to searc...
Michael Connarty | 439 c698 (Link to this contribution)
I was a teacher, and often taught in circumstances that were somewhat stressed. Removing ““reasonabl...
Speaker | 439 c695-6 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
New clause 8—Power of members of staff to...
Hazel Blears | 439 c696-7 (Link to this contribution)
I support Government new clause 9 and resist Opposition new clause 8. I shall also convey my positio...
Hazel Blears | 439 c695 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c703 (Link to this contribution)
I totally agree that there should be some prosecutions. The Government are often guilty of not enfor...
Sammy Wilson | 439 c703 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Lady accept that it might take only some token prosecutions before those carrying kniv...
Speaker | 439 c704 (Link to this contribution)
Order. The hon. Lady is a new Member. It is not for me to make a judgment on these matters, but for ...
Hazel Blears | 439 c704 (Link to this contribution)
Clearly we are trying to ensure that searches can be carried out so that we can confiscate both kniv...
Hazel Blears | 439 c703-4 (Link to this contribution)
May I respond briefly to the points raised by the hon. Members for Woking (Mr. Malins) and for Horns...
Anne Main | 439 c704 (Link to this contribution)
Are you confident about the question of weapons? A pair of scissors was recently used as a weapon in...
Tobias Ellwood | 439 c705 (Link to this contribution)
To pursue that point, my hon. Friend the Member for Woking (Mr. Malins) talked about the culture of ...
Jim Sheridan | 439 c704 (Link to this contribution)
Before my right hon. Friend leaves the matter of ceremonial dress, will she include the sgian dubh, ...
Hazel Blears | 439 c704-5 (Link to this contribution)
As I said, there has never been a problem with ceremonial weapons, and I would not want any hon. Mem...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c699 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right. There are burdens on teachers to ensure that they do the right thing. As he...
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c703 (Link to this contribution)
I rise to speak to new clause 8, tabled by the Liberal Democrats, which hon. Members may notice is n...
Mark Pritchard | 439 c699-700 (Link to this contribution)
Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government also need to consider religious dress and that they sh...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c700-1 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend who raises the important issue of apparel—for want of a better descr...
Speaker | 439 c701 (Link to this contribution)
Order. I remind the hon. Gentleman that the amendments are about the powers to stop and search and h...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c701 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am anxious not to stray from the basis of the clause, which relates to sea...
Jeremy Wright | 439 c701 (Link to this contribution)
Does my hon. Friend agree that there is little point in the Government legislating to provide teache...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c701-2 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention, and also for his contribution in Committee. A...
Michael Connarty | 439 c702 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman referred to a newspaper article but drew the wrong conclusion. He did not tell us...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c702 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point, but I lay the example before the House this afternoon...
Hazel Blears | 439 c724-5 (Link to this contribution)
No. We have a taken a view on this and do not think that there should be a direct custodial penalty....
Hazel Blears | 439 c723-4 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady repeats the assertion about 24-hour drinking. I am sure that she knows that a tiny min...
Jeremy Wright | 439 c724 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister advanced the same argument in Committee. She might remember that I asked her a question...
Jim Sheridan | 439 c722 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend is right, and one of the contributory factors is the irresponsible attitude of ...
Hazel Blears | 439 c721-2 (Link to this contribution)
We have trawled over some of the ground we covered in Committee, but we now have a clearer idea of t...
Bob Spink | 439 c721 (Link to this contribution)
I have little sympathy with the Liberal amendment, No. 28. I believe in naming and shaming individua...
Jo Swinson | 439 c723 (Link to this contribution)
Does the Minister agree that, rather than introducing drinking banning orders and such measures to t...
Hazel Blears | 439 c723 (Link to this contribution)
The description ““drinking banning order”” is very graphic and pretty easily understood. One of the ...
Jeremy Wright | 439 c723 (Link to this contribution)
I understand a great deal of what the Minister is saying, but is not the logic of her remarks that t...
Hazel Blears | 439 c722-3 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right, which is why we have been working with the industry to try to ensure that w...
Speaker | 439 c732 (Link to this contribution)
Order. Will hon. Members who are not staying for the debate leave the Chamber quickly and quietly, p...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c732-3 (Link to this contribution)
Over the years, I have become increasingly used to people walking out, rather that in, when I begin ...
Hazel Blears | 439 c725-6 (Link to this contribution)
If the hon. Gentleman looks at the Bill, he will see that clause 1(2) states:"““Such an order may im...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c725 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister said that the order must include a prohibition preventing someone from entering certain...
Hazel Blears | 439 c726-8 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady knows that the courts have discretion when looking at the cases that are brought befor...
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c726 (Link to this contribution)
Does the Minister not accept that the judiciary, in its judicious interpretation of the phrase that ...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c732 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Humfrey Malins | 439 c728 (Link to this contribution)
I confess to being disappointed by the Minister’s response. The truth of the matter is that the Gove...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c732 (Link to this contribution)
During the debate, I shall refer to—[Interruption.]
Speaker | 439 c732 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 7—Offence of having article w...
Bob Spink | 439 c718 (Link to this contribution)
Is not a material factor the regularity with which the bad behaviour takes place, which is damaging ...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c718 (Link to this contribution)
If a person in the street is drunk—I cannot make it much simpler than that—and is then disorderly, t...
Jim Sheridan | 439 c718 (Link to this contribution)
What is the difference?
Humfrey Malins | 439 c717-8 (Link to this contribution)
I shall link drunk and disorder, which is an offence. I have already said that the number of prosecu...
Jim Sheridan | 439 c717 (Link to this contribution)
May I also let myself down by asking the hon. Gentleman to clarify the difference between high spiri...
Jeremy Wright | 439 c717 (Link to this contribution)
Does my hon. Friend agree that the sort of behaviour that Labour Members are describing sounds very ...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c717 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right. If the behaviour is not thought by the police to warrant prosecution in a p...
Lord Beamish | 439 c717 (Link to this contribution)
Anyone can be a clever lawyer—there are too many in this place—but the point is that this Government...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c717 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is letting himself down time and again, and I will be doing him a service if I do...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c717 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman, who was a valued member of the Committee, is not doing himself justice. If the c...
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c720-1 (Link to this contribution)
I remain convinced that informing interested parties would be more valuable than placing notices in ...
Lord Beamish | 439 c720 (Link to this contribution)
Will we see Liberal Democrat ““Focus”” leaflets published to highlight the fact that Liberal Democra...
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c721 (Link to this contribution)
No, Liberal Democrats have a well-balanced view of life and have nothing whatever to be ashamed of. ...
Jim Sheridan | 439 c721 (Link to this contribution)
Soft on crime.
Humfrey Malins | 439 c718 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman was not, I think, a member of the Committee that considered that Bill, so he is n...
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c718-20 (Link to this contribution)
: I shall speak to amendments Nos. 28 and 30 and comment on other amendments in the group. With the ...
Lord Beamish | 439 c720 (Link to this contribution)
: Is it now Liberal Democrat policy not to name and shame individuals? In Durham, some estates are p...
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c720 (Link to this contribution)
We should comply with the spirit of the UN convention on the rights of the child. Interested parties...
Lord Beamish | 439 c718 (Link to this contribution)
The Opposition were against ASBOs.
Humfrey Malins | 439 c708-9 (Link to this contribution)
We come now to one of the Bill’s main purposes, which is to tackle alcohol-related disorder. I shoul...
Speaker | 439 c706-8 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: amendment No. 1, in clause 1, page 1, line...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c706 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Hazel Blears | 439 c706 (Link to this contribution)
Apart from the fact that my maths is not up to it, I do not know the total number of schools so I ca...
Jeremy Wright | 439 c710 (Link to this contribution)
One of the difficulties that we noted when antisocial behaviour orders were first introduced was the...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c709-10 (Link to this contribution)
With respect to the hon. Gentleman, that is not right. Both of those orders must be made by a court ...
Sammy Wilson | 439 c709 (Link to this contribution)
Is not a further reason why antisocial behaviour orders may not be suitable the amount of evidence r...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c706 (Link to this contribution)
The Minister remarked on the number of police present in schools, which we all applaud. However, in ...
Bob Spink | 439 c705 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Lady is making an excellent case both for Government new clause 9 and for the presenc...
Jim Sheridan | 439 c716 (Link to this contribution)
Is that what the hon. Gentleman would tell his constituents?
Humfrey Malins | 439 c716 (Link to this contribution)
I say now exactly what I said in Committee. Let us consider the example of six 18-year-old youngster...
Lord Beamish | 439 c716-7 (Link to this contribution)
Two weeks ago, a constituent came to my surgery who is being plagued week in, week out by a group of...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c716 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, it is. I would tell them that normal high spirits are entirely to be accepted. If the hon. Gent...
Lord Beamish | 439 c717 (Link to this contribution)
My constituent is saying that week in, week out, she and her neighbours are being harassed by people...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c717 (Link to this contribution)
Oh dear—the hon. Gentleman misses the point altogether. The people keeping that person awake all nig...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c710-1 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Such situations are becoming increasingly common. As we all know...
Jim Sheridan | 439 c711 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman has just said that the most dangerous time is when people are tipped out of pubs ...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c711-6 (Link to this contribution)
The Government continually argue that the new licensing laws will lead to a continental café culture...
Jim Sheridan | 439 c716 (Link to this contribution)
If memory serves me right, in Committee, when we discussed what constitutes ““disorderly”” behaviour...
Tobias Ellwood | 439 c764-5 (Link to this contribution)
I am pleased to hear the Minister talk about behaviour change because more emphasis should be placed...
Hazel Blears | 439 c764 (Link to this contribution)
I have to tell the hon. Members for Woking (Mr. Malins) and for Hornsey and Wood Green (Lynne Feathe...
Sammy Wilson | 439 c763-4 (Link to this contribution)
That point has been made, and I accept it. However, it is not just the last landlord—others have con...
Hazel Blears | 439 c765-6 (Link to this contribution)
I sleep very peacefully in my bed, when I get to it, knowing that this Government are introducing ne...
Hazel Blears | 439 c765 (Link to this contribution)
I am aware that the hon. Gentleman’s constituency experiences a lot of night-time disorder and I com...
Mark Pritchard | 439 c765 (Link to this contribution)
: Does the Minister agree that local knowledge will be extremely important in relation to alcohol di...
Hazel Blears | 439 c767-8 (Link to this contribution)
I said that the local authority could commission services, so it is necessary to authorise the polic...
Hazel Blears | 439 c766-7 (Link to this contribution)
We will introduce regulations, which will be subject to debate, but today we should debate the princ...
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c767 (Link to this contribution)
In Committee, I tabled an amendment about moneys going on other services, such as cleaning, but the ...
Jeremy Wright | 439 c762 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Gentleman accept that it is possible to sell alcohol responsibly? If so, can a respons...
Sammy Wilson | 439 c762 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the concept of alcohol disorder zones and I trust that one day the legislation will be ext...
Sammy Wilson | 439 c762 (Link to this contribution)
Whether one sells alcohol responsibly or not, someone could buy one drink in one pub and another dri...
Philip Davies | 439 c763 (Link to this contribution)
: Is not the hon. Gentleman, with the nodding approval of Government Members, making a case for bann...
Sammy Wilson | 439 c763 (Link to this contribution)
No, I am not. I am arguing that where there are antisocial effects as a result of commercial activit...
Brian Binley | 439 c763 (Link to this contribution)
Before you do—
Speaker | 439 c763 (Link to this contribution)
May I remind the hon. Gentleman again about correct parliamentary language?
Sammy Wilson | 439 c763 (Link to this contribution)
It is a difficult question. We have to define the zone fairly well, but just because there are diffi...
Jo Swinson | 439 c763 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman talked about someone going to 10 pubs and having one drink in each. Does he agree...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c757-9 (Link to this contribution)
It may indeed be a difficult offence to investigate and bring charges, which is clearly why the Gove...
Jeremy Wright | 439 c761 (Link to this contribution)
: I, too, support the amendments that my hon. Friend the Member for Woking (Mr. Malins) has tabled, ...
Sally Keeble | 439 c761 (Link to this contribution)
I argued that we could not trace the final pint. However, the industry will, by its very nature, inc...
Ann Coffey | 439 c759-60 (Link to this contribution)
That is very interesting, but I defy the hon. Gentleman to identify the point at which a person drin...
John Redwood | 439 c760-1 (Link to this contribution)
: I share the passion of the hon. Member for Stockport (Ann Coffey) to see something done about drun...
Ann Coffey | 439 c759 (Link to this contribution)
Yes, but suppose that a young person who had committed an offence had had four pints in one pub, two...
Ann Coffey | 439 c759 (Link to this contribution)
I was not intending to speak in the debate, but I have been somewhat incensed by comments made by Op...
Philip Davies | 439 c759 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Lady accept that the police in Stockport and her constituents will have a fair idea ab...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c755 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady makes a sensible and accurate point about different problems in different constituenci...
Sally Keeble | 439 c755-6 (Link to this contribution)
I assume that the hon. Gentleman’s point relates to policing and crime, but does he not accept that ...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c756 (Link to this contribution)
Funnily enough, that may be true, but the problem is that none of it is set out in the Bill and we w...
Lee Scott | 439 c756 (Link to this contribution)
Constituencies such as mine do not have a primary town centre and public houses are in residential a...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c754 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend makes a good point. That is undoubtedly true of some restaurants. He hammers home the...
Sally Keeble | 439 c754 (Link to this contribution)
In some areas, the distinction may be a fine one, but does the hon. Gentleman accept that there is a...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c754-5 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Lady makes a fair point, but we must decide what the Bill says and means. Although it is un...
Ann Coffey | 439 c755 (Link to this contribution)
I am sure that the hon. Gentleman accepts that constituencies differ, as do town centres. Does not h...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c756-7 (Link to this contribution)
Again, my hon. Friend makes a good point—I cannot but agree with him—but in a sense he reinforces th...
Sally Keeble | 439 c757 (Link to this contribution)
Police officers have told me about the difficulty of using young people’s evidence to get a convicti...
Jeremy Wright | 439 c754 (Link to this contribution)
Does my hon. Friend agree that more alcohol is consumed in some restaurants than in some pubs, so th...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c752-4 (Link to this contribution)
In contrast to the hon. Member for Northampton, North (Ms Keeble), whose contributions in Committee ...
Sally Keeble | 439 c751-2 (Link to this contribution)
No, I do not, because some areas have had voluntary charging schemes that have worked fine. However,...
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c751 (Link to this contribution)
That is not the case. We think that we have to tackle town centre disorder and believe in the ““poll...
Sally Keeble | 439 c749-51 (Link to this contribution)
I am pleased to be able to speak against the amendment. The proposals for the alcohol disorder zones...
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c748-9 (Link to this contribution)
I suppose that this chapter is probably where lies most legislative disorder. In all the amendments,...
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c751 (Link to this contribution)
Does the hon. Lady agree that if more complete and definitive guidance on charging had been availabl...
Sally Keeble | 439 c751 (Link to this contribution)
Of course businesses will claim that they will go broke, but that happens for all kinds of different...
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c751 (Link to this contribution)
In that case, why does the hon. Lady reject the idea of capping the amount that could be charged? In...
Sally Keeble | 439 c751 (Link to this contribution)
When we talked about another provision in Committee, the Liberal Democrats said that we could not is...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c739 (Link to this contribution)
I warmly thank the Minister for her constructive approach to my amendments. I think that we all want...
Hazel Blears | 439 c738-9 (Link to this contribution)
An unlawful purpose would have to be involved. That is part of the definition. I do want to consider...
Speaker | 439 c747-8 (Link to this contribution)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments:
No. 39, in page 10, line 28, a...
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c747-8 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move amendment No. 38, in page 10, line 25, after ‘retail’, insert
', provided that the p...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c733-5 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. The new clause would simply give a different maximum sente...
Greg Knight | 439 c733 (Link to this contribution)
Will my hon. Friend confirm that the wording of his new clause provides for an increase only in the ...
John Redwood | 439 c736 (Link to this contribution)
I strongly support my hon. Friend the Member for Woking (Mr. Malins) in raising this important point...
Baroness Featherstone | 439 c735-6 (Link to this contribution)
I want to speak to new clause 7, which is not totally dissimilar to new clause 2, except that our pr...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c738 (Link to this contribution)
Let us suppose that I say to a friend, ““Please transport my bladed article—which is a knife—to the ...
Hazel Blears | 439 c736-8 (Link to this contribution)
I want to thank Members for welcoming the Government’s legislation on these issues. We are all conce...
John Redwood | 439 c766 (Link to this contribution)
Can the Minister see that it is difficult for hon. Members to make a fair judgment on the proposal i...
Jeremy Wright | 439 c761-2 (Link to this contribution)
If the hon. Lady is saying that people who supply alcohol to individuals who become drunk and cause ...
Hazel Blears | 439 c783-5 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.
I am grateful to Members on both sides of ...
Hazel Blears | 439 c779-80 (Link to this contribution)
No. We have heard a lot tonight about legitimate shooting and I have no doubt that there are legitim...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c698-9 (Link to this contribution)
I understand what the hon. Gentleman is saying. The other side of the argument is that I do not want...
Hazel Blears | 439 c705 (Link to this contribution)
Having a blade on school premises is an offence, and any other material that could provide evidence ...
Humfrey Malins | 439 c718 (Link to this contribution)
My hon. Friend is right. I cannot make the point to Labour Members more clearly than I have. If ther...
Brian Binley | 439 c763 (Link to this contribution)
Thank you for your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker.
Does the hon. Gentleman recognise that, very often...
Hazel Blears | 439 c705-6 (Link to this contribution)
If there is evidence of offences that have been committed, the police would take the action that the...
James Paice | 439 c759 (Link to this contribution)
Perhaps the answer to the hon. Lady’s question lies in the fact that it is an offence to sell alcoho...
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