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Serious Crime Bill [HL]

Debate on bills on Monday, 26 March 2007, in the House of Lords.

Serious Crime Bill (HL). Lords Committe stage fourth day. Clauses 61 to 65 agreed to. Schedule 6 under consideration.

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Reference

690 c1509-47

Session

2006-07

Department

Home Office
Committee of the Whole House (HL)

Legislative stage

Committee stage

Procedure

New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

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

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 690 c1518-20 (Link to this contribution) We regret that the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, was not in a position to move the amendment himself, but ...

Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 690 c1516-8 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 109: 109: After Clause 64 , insert the following new Clause— ““Register of inf...

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Earl of Northesk | 690 c1521-3 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 110: 110: After Clause 64 , insert the following new Clause— ““Functions of th...

Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 690 c1520 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend Lord Lucas will of course read carefully the explanation given by the Minister. Howe...

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 690 c1513-5 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord will know that the Audit Commission can identify areas which can then be offered to b...

Lord Burnett | 690 c1513 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. She has referred twice to the private sector joining i...

Earl of Northesk | 690 c1516 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move—

Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 690 c1515-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for the care she has taken in setting out the framework of this part o...

Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 690 c1523-4 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support my noble friend’s amendment. As he said, it follows on very properly from the deb...

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 690 c1509-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that the House do now again resolve itself into Committee on this Bill. Mov...

Lord Burnett | 690 c1511-2 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to repeat too much of what has already been said very compellingly by the noble Barone...

Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 690 c1510-1 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 105: 105: Clause 61 , page 33, line 18, after ““order”” insert ““to be approve...

Lord Hylton | 690 c1535 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Henley, mentioned welfare fraud, while the noble Lord, Lord Burnett, mentioned ...

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 690 c1535-6 (Link to this contribution) I hope to be able to reassure Members of the Committee that these are not well grounded fears, and I...

Lord Burnett | 690 c1537 (Link to this contribution) Let us suppose that there is a compelling profile and an individual is identified. Is that likely to...

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 690 c1537-9 (Link to this contribution) It is likely that a trend in nature of behaviour is identified. Once it is identified, that informat...

Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 690 c1526-7 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 110A: 110A: After Clause 65, insert the following new Clause— ““Sharing of inf...

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 690 c1527-8 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness is right that under Section 22 of the Data Protection Act the Secretary of State ...

Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 690 c1528-9 (Link to this contribution) The difficulty is that, although the Minister says that we do not need this because the power is the...

Earl of Northesk | 690 c1526 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for her reply; not surprisingly, I am even more grateful to my noble f...

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 690 c1524-6 (Link to this contribution) I say to the noble Earl, Lord Northesk, that he is by no means tiresome in this regard. He and I bot...

Lord Dear | 690 c1543 (Link to this contribution) I, too, support the amendment. It is a price well worth paying, given the intense interest, sensitiv...

Lord Henley | 690 c1542-3 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 113: 113: Schedule 6, page 68, line 5, at end insert— ““( ) The code of practi...

Lord Burnett | 690 c1543 (Link to this contribution) I speak to Amendment No. 114A which stands in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Dholakia. We ...

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 690 c1542 (Link to this contribution) I am very conscious of the time. I tried to cover all the issues in general. I am very happy to writ...

Lord Henley | 690 c1542 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness is the very model of assiduity in responding to all questions put to her. I am su...

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 690 c1540-1 (Link to this contribution) First, I do not know whether the noble Lord, Lord Hylton, had the advantage of being with us through...

Lord Henley | 690 c1541-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for a pretty full reply. I am not sure whether it was quite full enough but we ...

Lord Hylton | 690 c1540 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness, as always, was clearly trying to be helpful. However, am I right in deducing fro...

Lord Burnett | 690 c1539-40 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister can respond to the following example. Tax evasion is fraud; it is as clear ...

Lord Bassam of Brighton | 690 c1546 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful that the noble Lord, Lord Henley, was able to finish speaking to the amendment; we wer...

Lord Henley | 690 c1546 (Link to this contribution) I am again very grateful for the noble Lord’s concern for my health and his explanation that the ame...

Lord Bassam of Brighton | 690 c1547 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move that the House do now resume. Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to.

Lord Henley | 690 c1544-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord, Lord Dear, for offering his support, particularly at this late hour. I also ...

Lord Bassam of Brighton | 690 c1543-4 (Link to this contribution) The amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Anelay, and the noble Lord, Lord Henley, sugge...

Lord Burnett | 690 c1546 (Link to this contribution) We support the amendment. It tightens up the provisions on data matching by ensuring that it can tak...

Lord Henley | 690 c1545-6 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 114: 114: Schedule 6, page 68, line 5, at end insert— ““( ) No data matching s...

Lord Henley | 690 c1530-3 (Link to this contribution) Schedule 6 [Data matching]: moved Amendment No. 110B: Schedule 6, page 64, line 22, leave out ““(i...

Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 690 c1512-3 (Link to this contribution) I can see the great interest in this issue. I am very conscious that we will look at the framework u...

Lord Burnett | 690 c1533-5 (Link to this contribution) We on these Benches very much agree with this group of amendments, as is obvious from the fact that ...

Lord Lucas | 690 c1539 (Link to this contribution) I wish to pick the noble Baroness up on a couple of points that I did not hear answers to. It is cle...

Subjects

Children

Disclosure of information

Data protection

Codes of practice

Crime prevention

Crime

Audit Commission

Fraud

ICT

Personal records

Registration

Information Commissioner's Office

Information sharing

Legislation

Serious Crime Bill (HL) 2006-07

Link

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