Criminal Law

The House is getting a chance today to debate the European arrest warrant. The House has been cle...

Is the Home Secretary telling the House that she disagrees with the ruling made by the Speaker—ye...

No. I can tell the right hon. Lady that I would certainly not stand at the Dispatch Box and disag...

But the Speaker has said in terms that we are not voting on the European arrest warrant. Is the H...

I have been very clear that the formal vote before the House is on the regulations. I have also b...

Why did the Home Secretary not just include the European arrest warrant in tonight’s motion?

I have explained that the statutory instrument transposes those measures that require legislation...

Will the Home Secretary give way?

I will make some progress, because the time for the debate is now more limited and I know that ma...

Will the Home Secretary confirm that in the event the House votes down these 11 measures, she wil...

We have been very clear that we have brought before the House tonight those measures that are req...

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I am going to make some progress.

The package is the product of careful deliberation in thi...

I am pleased that we will, I hope, opt in to a range of these measures. As the Home Secretary say...

There is considerable benefit, and I point my hon. Friend towards the measures on minimum standar...

My right hon. Friend mentioned the scrutiny process, but, as she well knows, all three Select Com...

I am aware of the views expressed to this House by my hon. Friend and by the Chairmen of the Just...

Given that the Home Secretary wrote yesterday in The Sunday Times that the European arrest warran...

It has been made clear that it is possible to discuss the other measures in our debate today, and...

The Home Secretary keeps talking about a package of measures, but, of course, this is not a packa...

I described them as a package because that was what was open to us under the terms of the Lisbon ...

The Home Secretary made but a fleeting reference to consultation with the devolved institutions, ...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising that point. The Justice Minister in Northern Ireland s...

The Home Secretary may recall that she and I stood on the same Conservative manifesto, which said...

I will refer later to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice and what that means in re...

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I will make a little progress before I take more interventions.

The assistance of Eurojust ...

I ought to declare an interest because my wife is a judge who deals with European arrest warrants...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his comments. I assure him that I will refer to a numbe...

Will my right hon. Friend give way? It is important.

I hope that my hon. Friend will forgive me for just one moment. He will know that I am usually ve...

In the light of what has happened so far and the fact that we do not have the opportunity to vote...

I have set out quite clearly the Government’s view on the motion before the House and the debate ...

Will the Home Secretary give way?

I will give way once more and then I will make progress.

Following on from what the hon. Member for Stone (Sir William Cash) said, when the Prime Minister...

We are having a vote on the regulations tonight and it has been made very clear that people are a...

Will the Home Secretary give way?

I will make a little more progress and will then give way to my hon. Friend.

For the reason...

My right hon. Friend is being very generous in giving way.

I mean this question completely ...

If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I will come on to explain how we have changed the European arr...

The Home Secretary is being generous in giving way. She has made a strong argument for cross-bord...

We were clear about the package of measures that we wished to opt into—the 35 that we identified....

I am grateful to the Home Secretary for taking a second intervention from me.

The Home Secr...

I recognise the case that the hon. Lady raises and her concern about it. I do not think it would ...

May I commend my right hon. Friend and ask her to stick to her guns on this matter? She is deline...

My hon. Friend makes a good point, and as an assiduous member of the Home Affairs Committee he ha...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. In your ruling, you made it clear that reference to the European...

I said in my statement that I intended to offer latitude, so that the matters of which the House ...

Our reforms have also clarified the rules on dual criminality to ensure that an arrest warrant mu...

I am grateful to the Home Secretary for her personal interest in the case of my constituent Andre...

In our changes to the legislation we are clear that this is about the decision to charge and to t...

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I note the importance of the case of my hon. Friend’s constituent, so I will give way to him agai...

I am grateful for the Home Secretary’s attempt to explain that point, but perhaps I can ask her a...

I note my hon. Friend’s point, but I believe that the changes we have made are sufficient to ensu...

I did not have to ask this time, and I am grateful to the Home Secretary. I fully agree with what...

And the hon. Gentleman started off so nicely—such a disappointment. As I have said, the National ...

These post-July changes are extremely welcome, but one point that has not yet been made is that 9...

My right hon. Friend makes an important point. He is prescient because it was a point to which I ...

The concept of proportionality is hard to define and therefore hard to understand. The Home Secre...

I do not have a list of all the European arrest warrants that have been refused, but there are tw...

I am glad that my right hon. Friend has come to the issue of the United Kingdom causing the extra...

My right hon. and learned Friend makes an important point, and there are many people, particularl...

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I say to right hon. and hon. Members that I am conscious of the time I have been speaking for. I ...

I am very grateful for my right hon. Friend’s elucidations. What I am seeking to understand is wh...

I recognise my hon. Friend’s point. It is one he has made to me on a number of occasions. I have ...

I, too, have looked at that case. I agree with the Home Secretary that it is an appalling example...

The right hon. Lady knows that I have answered that question previously.

The right hon. Lad...

Today we have had a completely shambolic debate. The Home Secretary has given an excellent accoun...

Does the right hon. Lady believe that our country was a safe haven for foreign criminals before t...

As the hon. Gentleman knows, there were cases before the introduction of the EAW when it took yea...

Is not the important point that in a completely multilateral system we do not stand out, whereas ...

The hon. Gentleman is right. It is suggested that we could arrange separate extradition treaties,...

My right hon. Friend started by calling the proceedings in the House “shambolic”. Does she agree ...

My hon. Friend is right. The Prime Minister was asked specifically about the EAW, not the 11 meas...

Is not this fine mess in many ways of Labour’s making, given that the right hon. Member for Kirkc...

Nice try. I will come to the issues that the Home Secretary has opted out of in a second, but the...

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Let her try and defend it now.

The right hon. Lady has said she disagrees with the opt in, opt out process. Will she remind the ...

Given the shambles the Home Secretary has presided over today, the idea that she wants to make th...

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I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, if he can tell the House whether he thinks, like us, that ...

Since the right hon. Lady has been busy disparaging the 100 things or so she signed up to, does L...

Again, nice try. The problem is that we are debating a series of measures that we and the Home Se...

Is the shadow Home Secretary effectively saying that she agrees with the treatment of the Kings: ...

I think there was dreadful decision making in that case. The police should not have continued wit...

Of course, the big difference is that in the case of the Kings, this European arrest warrant is s...

As I have made very clear, the police and the CPS should have withdrawn that arrest warrant much ...

We have heard from the hon. Member for Stone (Sir William Cash) about the Kings, but what about H...

My hon. Friend is right. A huge number of people, including more than 1,000 foreign citizens, are...

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I will give way to the hon. Gentleman if he can tell me whether the European arrest warrant is in...

I have the privilege, unlike the right hon. Lady, of being in receipt of communications from the ...

It might have been helpful if the hon. Gentleman had explained that to some of his fellow Back Be...

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On a point of order, Mr Speaker.

Before I allow the intervention of the hon. Member for North East Somerset, we have a point of or...

“Erskine May” says that if a Member prays in aid a document, they must be prepared to submit it t...

It is not as simple as that. The ruling refers to state papers, and I do not honestly think that ...

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I think state papers would normally include anything ...

I have not seen the document in question, although it may be presented at some point. At this sta...

My hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Ben Gummer) quite understandably does not read his communi...

Now that the hon. Members for Ipswich (Ben Gummer) and for North East Somerset (Jacob Rees-Mogg) ...

indicated dissent.

I have to tell the Home Secretary that this puts the House in an extremely difficult position. Sh...

Order. The question is, that the Question be not now put. As the Previous Question is an unusual ...

Aye.

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Order. Before I put the Question, I want to hear from the Home Secretary.

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I understand that your clarification meant that it was now possible for sp...

Order. Let me say, for the avoidance of doubt, that that is perfectly orderly. I did say that the...

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

The right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvet...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. The matter is, of course, debatable, but what is debatable is wh...

I think that the context is germane to the question of whether the motion be approved, or not app...

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am grateful for your ruling on what matters are relevant to the speech t...

As my right hon. Friend will know, the European Scrutiny Committee has considered all these matte...

I would have called the hon. Gentleman to speak on this proposition in due course, but I have a f...

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

As I made clear earlier, I am well aware that my hon. Friend the Mem...

I must point out, with great respect, that what my right hon. Friend is saying is, “We will go by...

I am not saying that. I suggest to my hon. Friend that I have been very clear about this matter. ...

The Home Secretary has dug herself into a hole. She will not allow the House to decide on the ver...

The House said absolutely clearly that it wanted to debate the European arrest warrant, and we ha...

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Order. May I say something for the sake of clarity? I do not dissent from what the Home Secretary...

May I take this opportunity to remind Members on both sides of the House that we in Northern Irel...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for setting that out so clearly, and she is obviously deeply conce...

Will the Home Secretary confirm that there is time tomorrow to debate this, and we would then be ...

If the right hon. Lady is concerned about the operational gap, she is perfectly able to vote for ...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that this is an example of game-playing by the Labour party on a ...

I say to my hon. Friend—

claimed to move the closure (Standing Order No. 36).

The hon. Gentleman can do so, but it is for the Chair—[Interruption.] No, no other debate is requ...

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

Will the Home Secretary give way?

I give way to my right hon. Friend.

As I understand it, if the Government defeat the Opposition motion there will be no further debat...

I did not move this motion that the Question should not now be put. I was very happy for this deb...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will do in just one moment.

We started this debate shortly after 4.30 pm, after we had ha...

Will my right hon. Friend give way on that point?

My hon. Friends are queuing up to intervene, so I ask my hon. Friend to wait.

What we have ...

I am very concerned that these measures have a deadline, which is beyond this House’s control, of...

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On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Is it in order for the House to ask you to say how many hon. and...

The answer is that a considerable number of Members have applied to speak in this debate. If memo...

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I make the point to the shadow Home Secretary that if she says she support...

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Yes, I did say I would give way to my hon. Friend, and then I will give way to the right hon. Lad...

On the point the Home Secretary has just made on the importance of debate and the point made by m...

I hesitate to give an absolute ruling, because Mr Speaker has, of course, made it absolutely clea...

We are in quite a serious position now. This is a very important matter and it looks as if, whate...

I say to my hon. Friend, as I have been saying throughout the debates on the various motions toni...

So determined are we that the House should be able to debate and pass these regulations and the r...

The right hon. Lady doth protest too much. If she wishes to have a debate and to vote on the regu...

Is the Home Secretary saying that, if the House votes to terminate this debate today, she will re...

I have made it absolutely clear that we have had an opportunity to debate these matters today. Am...

I am mindful of the fact that my right hon. Friend has stressed the importance of the timetable—[...

My hon. Friend puts it very well. We said that we would bring this debate to the House and enable...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the motion smacks of political opportunism on the part of th...

I thank my hon. Friend for reminding us of the difficulties that the Labour party is having with ...

May I ask the shadow Home Secretary to reconsider the rather extraordinary step she has taken of ...

I disagree with my right hon. and learned Friend profoundly. I came into politics only because I ...

I have every respect for the strongly held views of quite a lot of Members, including a lot on my...

The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows that I agree with him on many issues relating to the E...

I hope my opening remarks made it quite clear that the one thing I am not going to do is get draw...

It is always a privilege to follow my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr...

indicated dissent.

Sadly not. There is a serious point for the Government to address. Given the passions that have b...

In a fit of enthusiasm earlier this evening, I voted with the right hon. Member for Normanton, Po...

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I am making only a brief speech, but I will happily give way.

Let me clarify this matter for the hon. Gentleman. We think we should vote in support not just of...

There is actually nothing to stop the Opposition using their Opposition day debate for a further ...

Whatever the outcome of the Divisions tonight, I think it would be helpful for the House to know ...

The seriousness of the case to which my hon. Friend refers in his excellent speech will be listen...

My hon. Friend is quite right, but this case gets a lot worse. This man was then held in a Madrid...

Order. These are matters of judgment and degree, and I have been listening carefully to the hon. ...

I am most grateful for your guidance, Mr Speaker. I have been at pains to avoid mentioning anythi...

claimed to move the closure (Standing Order No. 36).

What I would say to the hon. Gentleman is that it is very difficult to interpret the precise will...

I am sorry that I read some of my speech, Mr Speaker, and will leave it there so that you will no...

Order. Ignoring the instruction of the Chair does not cease to be ignoring the instruction of the...

Not quite.

But very nearly.

Therefore, I hope that we will not rush to vote on this important matter, because there are serio...

Perhaps it is entirely appropriate that I should follow a Member who has been disorderly, given t...

My right hon. Friend makes an entirely important point. The House might be interested to know tha...

My hon. Friend’s constituent is entirely right. There are many cases of British citizens, such as...

If we accept the motion proposed by the shadow Home Secretary, we will not forgo the debate; we w...

I have to say that I disagree with my hon. Friend—I very rarely do. I would have liked to have ha...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right that there is no guarantee, should the Opposition’s moti...

I am afraid that—I will explain why in a moment—I am not in the business of casting something on ...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is not only those Members who wished to speak tonight who...

I agree with my hon. Friend. He will hear some of us attempting to stay in order—desperately, Mr ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for making his comments. Would not the solution be for the Governmen...

It is, of course, within their scope, and I was very tempted at the beginning of the exercise to ...

Last time the previous Question was moved, I voted for it. On this occasion I will vote against i...

I support the previous Question. To listen to some of the right hon. and hon. Members who have sp...

As the previous Question is an unusual procedure, I think I ought to repeat to the House the effe...

indicated assent.

Previous Question put, That the Question be not now put.

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Can you confirm that the House will now move to vote on the 11 m...

I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for her point of order. As I indicated in my explanatory sta...