The UK’s Justice and Home Affairs Opt-outs

My hon. Friend causes me to progress to another part of my speech. I want to make the situation a...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Sorry, I am still responding to my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh). I ...

I am very grateful to the Home Secretary. I apologise if I interrupted her.

I am sure that ...

My right hon. Friend makes an extremely valid point. It is the point that I had hoped to illustra...

Will the Home Secretary give way?

I will, if my hon. Friend will wait a moment.

There have, of course, been a number of conce...

The Government, in their July 2013 Command Paper, said that

“it may be possible to negotiat...

There are two issues in relation to that. First, people often say, “That’s what Denmark has; it i...

The Home Secretary is right that the European arrest warrant is needed and right in principle, bu...

That is one of the issues we are addressing. One problem that has been raised—particularly in rel...

I am grateful for that information. Further to what the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward ...

I am well aware of the views that the Committee put forward in its report, and as I indicated in ...

My right hon. Friend said that we have legislated in a way that protects us from the issuance of ...

My hon. Friend should look to other member states in the European Union that are already subject ...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

If I may I would like to get to the end of this list of measures so that right hon. and hon. Memb...

Does the Home Secretary understand that either this House is sovereign in criminal justice or the...

The point I have made to my right hon. Friend, and others in the past, is that of course there is...

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I am being generous and will continue to be generous to my right hon. and hon. Friends, all of wh...

As my right hon. Friend knows—she has said this already—there are concerns that our laws are bein...

As I indicated earlier, the House will introduce its own legislation to ensure that we are able t...

I am extremely grateful to the Home Secretary and sorry to trouble her a second time. This argume...

I find my hon. Friend’s argument strange. He says that, simply because a small number of serious ...

Will my right hon. Friend explain to the House why it is so important to have those cross-border ...

Our police forces of course co-operate with other police forces throughout the world in bringing ...

I support everything the Home Secretary has said in respect of these policing issues. However, wh...

We discussed the measure the right hon. Gentleman refers to in front of his Committee and other C...

I notice that the title of the debate actually refers to opt-outs. Apart from Prüm, can the Home ...

It is not that we are opting back into Prüm. We did not join Prüm in the first place, so that is ...

For 30 of the past 35 minutes, the Home Secretary had me on board. It was only in the last five m...

Will my Opposition Front Bench colleagues support a separate vote on the European arrest warrant?...

I am relaxed on that, but I do want the European arrest warrant put in place. We have had some sa...

How will the right hon. Gentleman feel on 15 June next year, when some of us will commemorate Mag...

The right hon. Gentleman will know that, as a Welsh Member of Parliament, I take a great interest...

My right hon. Friend has not dealt with the terrible accusation, which the right hon. Member for ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for pointing out that nuance in the intervention by the right hon...

I don’t.

I appreciate that others take a different view, but that is my view.

I welcome today’s deba...

In this very interesting exchange between those on the Front Benches, who seem to be largely in a...

As I think the Home Secretary also indicated in our little tête-à-tête of agreement, there is a w...

We appear to be reaching an extraordinary position, in that the right hon. Gentleman seems to be ...

Again, I think the hon. Gentleman perhaps has more in common with other parties than his own on t...

Can the right hon. Gentleman say, therefore, what exactly the organisation called Interpol does, ...

As the former Minister for policing and counter-terrorism in the last Government, I could spend t...

May I make the same point to the right hon. Gentleman that I made to the Home Secretary? The figu...

The hon. Gentleman is talking about a small level of crimes, but they include crimes that could d...

My hon. Friend the Member for North East Somerset (Jacob Rees-Mogg) is a great guy, but I do not ...

May I just say happy birthday to the right hon. Gentleman? I am an avid reader of The Guardian in...

The figure given to the European Scrutiny Committee was 507 whom the UK asked for between 2009 an...

The hon. Gentleman should reflect on what he has just said. The removal from the United Kingdom o...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I am trying to make some progress, but of course I will give way.

We entirely agree that it is often in the UK’s interest to do that, and that is exactly why we wo...

I want to focus on some key issues that, again, the Home Secretary mentioned. Which rational hon....

It would be better if we conducted this debate on the basis that we were all in favour of those t...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution, but what those effective means are is a fair deb...

One.

I happen to think—it is a matter of debate and it will develop during the afternoon—that this is ...

Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree with me that the Home Secretary and the Home Office have ...

They have indeed spent many hours, days and months, and I have spent many hours, days and months ...

We did.

The Justice Secretary says that they did, but he needs to reflect more on the record. The Home Se...

I think that my right hon. Friend is being kind to the Opposition and, probably correctly, to the...

My hon. Friend raises important issues, but my chief point to the Home Secretary is that she coul...

This issue is not at all about shaking off Eurosceptics; it is about deciding what is sensible fo...

Does my hon. Friend remember that when we had Conservative Governments, we always understood that...

That is absolutely right. I have followed these matters with what could be described as a mild de...

My hon. Friend makes a crucial point. We understood from the Home Secretary that there would be a...

That is exactly what I have said, and that is exactly what we need to have an answer to. What we ...

It is a pleasure to follow the Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee, the hon. Member for S...

There are some other issues around the European arrest warrant and trying to reform it. While we ...

I defer to the knowledge of the hon. Gentleman with all his vast experience of European affairs. ...

We could debate all 35, with a full day’s debate for each one—we are not exactly overwhelmed with...

That is a good point, but luckily, I do not have control of the parliamentary day. These are repr...

In this context, does the right hon. Gentleman regard Albania’s candidacy for the European Union ...

I apologise, but I could not hear the hon. Gentleman because the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhi...

I just wanted to know whether, in the context of the issues of justice and home affairs and all t...

Anyone can apply to join the club; we do not mind people wanting to apply to join. The problem is...

First, Madam Deputy Speaker, may I apologise for missing the start of the Home Secretary’s speech...

As could be imagined, tailgating the hon. Member for Stone (Sir William Cash) on these issues in ...

I have been in this House for seven Parliaments. Each has seemed to have a different character, b...

I am concerned about the nationalist tone of the hon. Gentleman’s contribution. Under his logic, ...

I will not trade remarks on this matter. I was also born in Scotland, and I am deprived of a vote...

It is always a pleasure to follow a brother knight. I take this opportunity to echo the comments ...

When did this House decide to abdicate to ACPO on matters of civil liberty or constitutional impo...

I should have thought that, on a matter of law and order, even my hon. Friend would think it migh...

I am listening intently to what my right hon. Friend is saying. We should listen to ACPO, but I d...

I am quoting verbatim from ACPO’s evidence given to the House of Lords. I will share it with my h...

I am grateful to have the opportunity to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Sir ...

I agree with everything my hon. Friend is saying. In the United Kingdom, as compared with all the...

I agree with the Prime Minister and with my hon. Friend on that point.

The Prime Minister r...

I think it is terribly important that we explain to the public what the quad is about, because it...

I am not suggesting for a moment that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary is not sincere in h...

I normally agree with everything that my hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Sir Gerald Howarth...

It has been made clear throughout the civil service that there can be no policy except Government...

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Order. Bearing in mind the speech that we have just heard, I think I need to clarify that, althou...

I am delighted to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex (Mr Jenkin) and, i...

Does my hon. Friend agree that there is a sort of whiff of appeasement going on here? Basically, ...

My hon. Friend is right, and I set out earlier what I felt the dilemma to be. Undoubtedly, the Ho...

It is a great pleasure, as always, to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Sir Gerald ...

It is a particular pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Bury North (Mr Nuttall), alth...

It seems from the stance adopted by the Government that we are being invited to believe that the ...

That is exactly the point I was making. It bodes ill for any proposal for renegotiation if that i...

It is always a pleasure—nay, an honour—to follow my hon. Friend the Member for North East Somerse...

I admire my hon. Friend’s intellectual honesty in admitting that in respect of the European arres...

My hon. Friend asks the fundamental question we should always ask, about not just European legisl...

If a wayward British court makes a judgment that is clearly not intended by Parliament but has ar...

We have mechanisms within the European structure to do that, via the Council of Ministers, renego...

There is the flaw in your argument.

I disagree, and I am more than willing to talk briefly about how we renegotiate these things. Tal...

I am very grateful for my hon. Friend’s generosity in giving way. I have served in this House for...

But remembering that the competence of the ECJ deals with the application of EU law in the UK, we...

We have.

I disagree. It is up to us in this House and elsewhere to show leadership and to explain to peopl...

It is a great pleasure, as always, to follow my hon. Friend the Member for South Swindon (Mr Buck...

We are talking about not just one judge but several judges who are making similar remarks. They a...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right that this is a growing problem, and I think that that is recog...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Very briefly, as I need to allow time for the winding-up speeches.

Does the hon. Gentleman envisage bilateral extradition treaties with each individual member state...

I shall address that point squarely in a moment. I need to move on fairly swiftly.

In the m...

This has been a good debate. By the time we finish, it will have lasted for more than four hours....

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I have only a short time in which to speak, but I will give way later if I can.

We owe it t...

This has been an important debate and I have listened very carefully to the strong opinions expre...

I understand very well where my right hon. Friend is coming from and I think I know where he woul...

The Prime Minister set out some of the areas for renegotiation in his article earlier this spring...