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Protection of Freedoms Bill

Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bills on Tuesday, 6 December 2011, in the House of Lords.
Protection of Freedoms Bill. Lords committee stage second day. Clauses 64 to 84 agreed to, with clauses 66, 79, 81, 82 amended. Schedule 7 agreed to as amended. Clauses 1 to 25, 54 to 56, 64 to 84, Schedules 1, 4, 7 reported with amendments.

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Reference

733 c622-85 

Session

2010-12

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Home Office

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Committee stage

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House of Lords chamber

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Protection of Freedoms Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 99-EN also published.
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Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee - Twentieth Report on: Protection of Freedoms Bill 2010-12; Education Bill 2010-12 (Government amendments); London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill 2010-12 (Government response). (Lords Minutes).
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Constitution Select Committee (HL) twentieth report on the Protection of Freedoms Bill.
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Proceeding contributions

Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 733 c681-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, government Amendment 76 inserts a new clause into the Bill that will strengthen the curren...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 733 c683 (Link to this contribution) 77: Clause 81, page 71, line 36, after ““application”” insert ““in writing””

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Lord Addington | 733 c681 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend for that response, and I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 75...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 733 c681 (Link to this contribution) 76: After Clause 80, insert the following new Clause— ““Additional grounds for refusing an applicati...
Lord Addington | 733 c680-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will make a speech consisting merely of two questions that I did not get a chance to ask...
Lord Henley | 733 c681 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on the first point I would certainly be more than happy to consider a greater degree of fl...
Lord Addington | 733 c680 (Link to this contribution) 75: Clause 79, leave out Clause 79 and insert the following new Clause— ““Criminal conviction certif...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 733 c683 (Link to this contribution) 79: Clause 82, page 73, line 8, leave out ““or B”” and insert ““, B or C”” 80: Clause 82, page 73,...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 733 c683 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, government Amendments 77, 78, 79, 80 and 81 make two technical changes to the provisions i...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 733 c683 (Link to this contribution) 78: Clause 81, page 72, line 2, after ““apply”” insert ““in writing”” Amendment 78 agreed. Clause ...
Lord Henley | 733 c684 (Link to this contribution) 82: Clause 82, page 74, line 13, at end insert— ““(7A) If up-date information is given under subsect...
Lord Henley | 733 c684 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I spoke to this amendment with Amendment 73. I beg to move. Amendment 82 agreed. Clause ...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 733 c684 (Link to this contribution) 83: Before Clause 84, insert the following new Clause— ““Inclusion of cautions etc. in national poli...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 733 c684-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 83 will provide parity with convictions for the recording of cautions, reprimand...
Baroness Doocey | 733 c680 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for that sympathetic response and I look forward to receiving the let...
Baroness Doocey | 733 c677 (Link to this contribution) 74: Clause 79, page 70, line 38, at end insert— ““(3) In section 113B of the Police Act 1997, after ...
Baroness Doocey | 733 c677-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the purpose of this amendment is to ensure that licensing authorities have access to infor...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 733 c678 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the noble Baroness in her amendment. It seems extraordinary that taxi companies ...
Lord Harris of Haringey | 733 c678 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that the noble Baroness, Lady Doocey, has put forward an extremely helpful amendme...
Baroness Hamwee | 733 c678-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I will give the Minister thinking time, but I was going to say that rickshaw drive...
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 733 c679 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, should the noble Baroness, Lady Doocey, need additional support, I worked with the noble B...
Lord Henley | 733 c679 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, such is the benign nature of my speaking note—I am not even sure that ““Resist”” appears o...
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 733 c639 (Link to this contribution) There is a world of difference between close and constant, and occasional. There is a further concer...
Lord Henley | 733 c639-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that we are moving away from what the amendments originally were about. There now ...
Baroness Heyhoe Flint | 733 c640 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend for his response. Having lobbed the pebble in the water, it has drawn up sev...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 733 c640 (Link to this contribution) 67: Clause 66, page 54, line 3, leave out from ““nails”” to end of line 4
Lord Rosser | 733 c641 (Link to this contribution) 68: Clause 67, leave out Clause 67 and insert the following new Clause— ““Alteration of test for bar...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 733 c640 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, these government amendments are to remedy an anomaly in the definition of regulated activi...
Bishop of Newcastle | 733 c643-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would be grateful if I could ask the Minister for clarification. As I understand it, the...
Lord Rosser | 733 c641-3 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak to the two amendments in this group. Amendment 68 would reverse provisions to restrict...
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 733 c646 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that the Minister will take away and think about the fact that the degree of superv...
Lord Henley | 733 c644-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thought that the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, had managed to silence the entire House, but t...
Lord Henley | 733 c635-7 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, is a lawyer and she has expressed exactly how it should be. Obvious...
Baroness Hamwee | 733 c637 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister move away from the wording of this amendment—I take the point he makes about it pe...
Baroness Hamwee | 733 c635 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I should see whether I can make myself absolutely clear. My concern was that primary legisla...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 733 c638 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is absolutely right that the noble Lord has offered to have further discussions with th...
Lord Henley | 733 c638 (Link to this contribution) It may or may not be an indication that my noble friend is right, but I think that further discussio...
Baroness Walmsley | 733 c638 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps my noble friend the Minister will allow me to clarify my thoughts on this matter. The main p...
Lord Henley | 733 c639 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord seems to be suggesting that we get rid of the idea or the concept of supervision in i...
Lord Bichard | 733 c638-9 (Link to this contribution) My problem, which is not yet being addressed, is this: we have checks to ensure that inappropriate p...
Lord Henley | 733 c638 (Link to this contribution) We can have a meeting if the noble Baroness wishes; my door is always open. I just think that ““clos...
Baroness Walmsley | 733 c628-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have two amendments in this group, Amendments 63 and 66. Amendment 63 would provide a le...
Lord Addington | 733 c635 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may come in here to clarify the matter. I was using sport as an example of where you get a...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 733 c635 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that response from the Minister but I surmised from what the noble Lord, Lord Addi...
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 733 c635 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister give the assurance which I understood his noble friend Lady Hamwee was seeking? He ...
Lord Henley | 733 c635 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, obviously at this stage I cannot define ““recreational”” as used by my noble friends in th...
Baroness Randerson | 733 c631-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise to speak specifically to Amendment 63, which was introduced by my noble friend Lady...
Baroness Grey-Thompson | 733 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment, which was very comprehensively moved by the noble Baroness, Lady ...
Lord Henley | 733 c632-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Hamwee for, in effect, finishing off this debate. Sh...
Baroness Hamwee | 733 c632 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may make some more general points following the comments in particular of the no...
Lord Bichard | 733 c626-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as chairman of the Soham inquiry there are perhaps some who think that I was the instigato...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 733 c624-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 59, 63A—which is on the Marshalled List but was not included o...
Baroness Heyhoe Flint | 733 c622-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am glad to have the opportunity to build on the comments I made during Second Reading, w...
Baroness Heyhoe Flint | 733 c622 (Link to this contribution) 58: Clause 64, page 50, line 43, after ““(2B)”” insert ““or (2C)””
Bishop of Newcastle | 733 c627 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have anxieties about this concept of supervision because the Bill does not actually defi...
Baroness Heyhoe Flint | 733 c671-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will speak to the Government’s Amendment 73 and in support of what my noble friend Lord ...
Lord Addington | 733 c670-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment tabled in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Heyhoe Flint addresses a ...
Lord Rosser | 733 c673-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we also have an amendment in this group, Amendment 75A, the thrust of which is very much i...
Bishop of Newcastle | 733 c672-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, wish to register some anxieties about the proposals, and support some of the comme...
Lord Henley | 733 c675-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the first point I had better make clear—as I sensed a degree of doubt in my noble friend L...
Lord Rosser | 733 c676 (Link to this contribution) The Minister knows that I was not there with any sporting organisations, but I have an amendment dow...
Lord Henley | 733 c676 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord has taken offence because I accidently used the words ““noble friends”” and did not i...
Lord Addington | 733 c676 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord would of course add to any gathering that we had, and I hope that he comes at least a...
Lord Henley | 733 c676 (Link to this contribution) I was not trying to exclude the noble Lord, Lord Rosser. I just thought that he was taking offence u...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 733 c663-4 (Link to this contribution) I struggled with O-level maths, as is apparent. In that case, I hope that when we reach the Report s...
Lord Henley | 733 c663 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness knows full well that Report is unlikely to be reached in January. We still have n...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 733 c663 (Link to this contribution) I well understand that, but I will be seeking an assurance in writing from the Minister. If we are g...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 733 c666-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Goodhart for providing the context and thinking behi...
Lord Goodhart | 733 c664-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have just heard one of the most remarkable statements that has been made in your Lordsh...
Lord Goodhart | 733 c664 (Link to this contribution) 71A: Before Clause 79, insert the following new Clause— ““Restriction on information provided about ...
Lord Henley | 733 c664 (Link to this contribution) 71: Schedule 7, page 145, line 8, leave out from ““nails”” to end of line 9 Amendment 71 agreed. S...
Lord Henley | 733 c668-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in moving Amendment 73 I shall speak also to Amendment 82. Within this group we shall also...
Lord Goodhart | 733 c667 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, what the noble Baroness has said is certainly a move in the right direction and that pleas...
Lord Henley | 733 c667-8 (Link to this contribution) 73: Clause 79, page 70, line 38, at end insert— ““(3) After section 120AB of the Police Act 1997 (pr...
Lord Dear | 733 c657 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall be brief. I support the amendment as set out by the noble Baroness, Lady Royall of...
Lord Henley | 733 c659-61 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I note what my noble friend Lord Sharkey and all other noble Lords said. I think it was th...
Lord Sharkey | 733 c658-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, for tabling this amendment, whose objectives I strongly sup...
Baroness Brinton | 733 c654-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is frequently said that one of the strengths of this House is its expertise and experie...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 733 c653-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I fully support the amendment of the noble Baroness, Lady Royall of Blaisdon, which aims t...
Baroness Brinton | 733 c661 (Link to this contribution) Would my noble friend not accept that the increase in reported cases and convictions in Scotland sin...
Lord Henley | 733 c662 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend makes a very good point and this is something we should look at. It is obviously ear...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 733 c662-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords for this excellent if rather short debate on stalking. It...
Lord Henley | 733 c663 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give the total assurance that the noble Baroness would like to have from me, but obviously ...
Baroness Hamwee | 733 c647 (Link to this contribution) 69A: Clause 72, page 60, line 28, after ““consent”” insert ““(provided it has not been withdrawn)””
Lord Rosser | 733 c646 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I noticed the response that the Minister gave to the right reverend Prelate, and I think t...
Lord Henley | 733 c646 (Link to this contribution) I think that I can agree with the first point made by the noble Baroness entirely. As for the second...
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton | 733 c646 (Link to this contribution) The Minister misunderstands my position. My primary concern is the care of children, which I share w...
Lord Henley | 733 c646 (Link to this contribution) I have a sneaking feeling that the noble Baroness just does not like the idea of supervision coming ...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 733 c650-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 70 would introduce a new criminal offence of stalking in place of the existing o...
Baroness Hamwee | 733 c648 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister read my mind. I had wondered whether to draw to the attention of the House th...
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 733 c648-50 (Link to this contribution) 70: After Clause 78, insert the following new Clause— ““Protection from stalking (1) The Protection ...
Baroness Hamwee | 733 c647 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that we can dispose of this quickly. Clause 72 deals with information about barring...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 733 c647-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Hamwee for her explanation in moving her amendment. ...
Lord Henley | 733 c679-80 (Link to this contribution) Anyway, my Lords, I express my gratitude to my noble friend for moving this amendment. She is seekin...
Lord Henley | 733 c637-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I understand the concern, and I think it might be necessary for us to have further discuss...
Lord Addington | 733 c627-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support my noble friend. I believe that this is the first amendment that she has moved i...
Lord Rosser | 733 c676 (Link to this contribution) I notice that the Minister said that he would continue discussions with his noble friend and sportin...
Baroness Hamwee | 733 c657-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may raise two small points. They seem almost trivial in the context but they are...

Subjects

Children
Disclosure of information
Criminal records
Crime
Employment
Licensing
Further education
Harassment
Offenders
Personal records
Northern Ireland
Protection
Police cautions
Taxis
Rehabilitation
Registration
Vetting
Vulnerable adults
Young people
Safety
Sports
Voluntary work
Stalking
Criminal Records Bureau

Legislation

Protection of Freedoms Bill 2010-12

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