Serious Crime Bill [HL]

Debate on bills on Wednesday, 7 February 2007, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Scotland of Asthal. The answering member was Baroness Anelay of St Johns.

Serious Crime Bill (HL). Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

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2006-07

Serious Crime Bill (HL). Explanatory Notes HL Bill 27-EN also published.
Tuesday, 16 January 2007
Bills
House of Lords

Viscount Bledisloe | 689 c750-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I speak as a member of your Lordships’ Constitution Committee. Unfortunately, our chairman...

Lord Goodhart | 689 c748-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the Minister back to her place on the Front Bench after what I understand was he...

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Lord Lucas | 689 c746-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall concentrate on Part 3 of the Bill, the information-sharing provisions, and try to ...

Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen | 689 c744-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is no doubt that serious and organised crime has a devastating effect on many of our...

Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 689 c734-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Government clearly have a duty to protect the British public from those who do their u...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 689 c738-41 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, back in 1760, Sir Francis Bernard, the governor of Massachusetts—then a British colony—ado...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 689 c729 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the Minister give us an undertaking that that will appear in the Bill?

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 689 c729-34 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord knows as well as I do that the reason it will not have to appear in the Bil...

Lord Marlesford | 689 c752-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the speeches that we have heard this afternoon illustrate a justification for the existenc...

Lord Dear | 689 c755-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I share many of the reservations expressed in your Lordships’ House this evening, but the ...

Lord Burnett | 689 c754-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest: I am a lawyer, but I have never practised in criminal law and I hop...

Lord Dholakia | 689 c758-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I endorse the sentiments expressed by my noble friend Lord Goodhart. Perhaps I may say how...

Lord Henley | 689 c760-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I follow other noble Lords in welcoming the Minister back to the Dispatch Box to introduce...

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 689 c763-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their participation in the debate. I thank most warmly the nob...

Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 689 c764 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thought that in the McCann case the House of Lords said that the correct test was whethe...

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 689 c764-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the reason that the civil test is the appropriate one is that there may be different facto...

Lord Lloyd of Berwick | 689 c741-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if I may, I shall confine my remarks to Part 1 and not try to cover the other parts. I wan...

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 689 c727-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before I do anything else, I must offer my abject apology. I was listening to my noble and...