EU Justice and Home Affairs Measures

The Home Secretary—who has not given way to me until now—has just said that she is in favour of o...

I have made clear my view that our relationship with the European Court of Justice could well be ...

Does the Home Secretary accept that the comparison she is making is not a fair one, given that ma...

I understand that the political scenario has changed over the years, but the Justice Minister in ...

The Home Secretary is making an excellent case for the European arrest warrant. Why did she not p...

I apologise to the hon. Gentleman but I cannot remember whether he was in the Chamber for the deb...

Could the Home Secretary clarify one point? Has she notified the European Union that we are optin...

We have not yet notified the European Union. [Interruption.] Someone says, “Why?” It is partly be...

Will the Home Secretary give way?

May I first give a concrete example of that? Last month, Philip Gordon Knowles was jailed for eig...

I thank the Home for giving way to me a second time. She has made two cases—the reason for opting...

My hon. Friend has raised two important points. I will address both of them. He refers to the tem...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I am conscious that this speech is taking rather longer than I had intended, but I will give way....

My right hon. Friend’s speech is taking a long time because it is so interesting and important. F...

The fact is that we have been able to go into the negotiation with the European Commission and ot...

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Order. There will be a seven-minute time limit on Back-Bench speeches in today’s debate. We will ...

I thank the shadow Home Secretary, my right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton, Pontefract and ...

The Home Affairs Select Committee has done a splendid job, but will the right hon. Gentleman also...

I was just about to say that. I do not want this to sound like self-congratulation—[Hon. Members:...

The fact is that these are mostly for Poles going back to Poland—they want their own Poles back—a...

Of course if the Poles want the Poles back, they should have them back. The problem is that Polan...

It is always a privilege to follow the Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, the right hon. Mem...

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I will give way in a second. Expressed in those terms, it is impossible to imagine that anyone wo...

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Let me pick and choose. I give way to the former Solicitor-General.

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. Of course it is not a perfect agreement, bu...

I entirely agree with my hon. and learned Friend. Indeed, it is the speed of operation of the Eur...

For me, the crucial factor in deciding to support the European arrest warrant was precisely that ...

My hon. Friend is wise in his decision. We have had some facts and figures that back up both his ...

Surprise, surprise.

The hon. Gentleman says that, but the job of police officers and criminal justice agencies around...

We can all agree that looking out for our security is the job of the police and the intelligence ...

I absolutely agree. As my hon. Friend knows, I am not an uncritical admirer of everything that th...

I congratulate the shadow Home Secretary on putting before the House a simple and straightforward...

It is not as though nothing is being done about that. The group of states against corruption, of ...

That is a fair point, but anyone who had been locked up in Romania or Croatia would not be please...

Does the hon. Gentleman accept that, through the use of the European arrest warrant, British citi...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and that might be one of the arguments used to drag us in...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Blackley and Broughton (Graham Stringer) and, I mu...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does he agree that, basically, the reason the Gover...

I thank the Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee, who makes a valid point that I will come...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. When the three Front Benches agree on a law, is it no...

I take my hon. Friend’s point, but it does not matter how many people agree—or how many law enfor...

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Order. The House will be aware that a great many Members are seeking to catch my eye and that ver...

Well, Madam Deputy Speaker, that certainly was some night last week, wasn’t it? It was the great ...

May I ask the hon. Gentleman to look through the other end of the telescope? Is not his thirst an...

I want to come on to that point, and I will mention a particular case about the use of the Europe...

Can the hon. Gentleman explain why he, as someone who wants Scottish independence and to be compl...

That is a ridiculous point. We want what all other member states of the European Union have, whic...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I cannot give way to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, as I have no more time in which to do ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I have no more time to take interventions.

That is the reality for Scotland in Europe. We v...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I cannot give way to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. I have already said to him that I have...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am not going to give way to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. I do not know how I can, as I...

Order. The hon. Gentleman is not going to give way.

I cannot give way as I have no more time.

I want to address a point about one important cas...

Of course we want law and order and security—that goes without saying. The question that we are f...

I have a great deal of respect for the Chair of the European Scrutiny Committee, but surely the p...

I also respect my hon. Friend, who sits on the European Scrutiny Committee, but my point is simpl...

It is of course a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stone (Sir William Cash), on whose...

The hon. Gentleman may know that I was in a debate the other day on, I think, Radio 5 Live. One o...

My understanding is that the statistics show that extradition now takes an average of 49 days, bu...

I shall support the Government’s position on the European arrest warrant, which I believe to be d...

That is a point well made. Everybody knows that the European Union is not perfect, that mistakes ...

We need to leave it.

To leave would be to expose us to criminals, terrorists, rapists and child abusers, and that appe...

I want to make a few brief points. In July, significant reforms were introduced to procedures in ...

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Order. Such is the heat of the debate and the number and length of interventions, which have caus...

It is a pleasure to follow the pro-European views of the right hon. Member for Banbury (Sir Tony ...

I want to bring the House’s attention back to the excellent speech from the hon. Member for Black...

The motion proposes “That this House endorses” the Government’s application to opt back into the ...

We have seen Labour at its most opportunistic and cynical. The shadow Home Secretary, the right h...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

In a moment, if I may.

This is not a debate about Europe; it is a debate about law and orde...

indicated dissent.

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will.

Does my hon. Friend share the concern that this is a slippery slope to a pan-European judicial sy...

I consider myself a Eurosceptic and I do not wish to see such a slippery slope. I wish to see cri...

I am a Eurosceptic of the first order and voted no in 1975, when a lot of now UKIP members were v...

It is not a question of the sinner who repenteth. Even Homer nods.

That is an intervention that could be made only by my hon. Friend.

I value the sovereignty ...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

No, I must continue.

Action has been taken to ensure that an arrest warrant cannot be used ...

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Order. Before I call the next speaker, I do not expect to hear you, Mr Carswell, continually shou...

It is a great privilege to follow a true Eurosceptic.

In my brief contribution I do not int...

My hon. Friend is making a really powerful speech. Will not tonight’s decision also signal to the...

Quite possibly.

The EU now has well over 150 mainly framework decisions in the area of just...

I find myself utterly at one with my hon. Friend the Member for Cleethorpes (Martin Vickers) on t...

My hon. Friend says that it is very easy for people to get from one country to another and that w...

Order. We are very short of time, and I am trying to protect the hon. Lady and the hon. Member fo...

Thank you for that, Madam Deputy Speaker. All I would say is that often such people are evading o...

May I begin by thanking the shadow Home Secretary for bringing forward this debate? In a wonderfu...

My hon. Friend is making a most powerful speech; he has persuaded me tonight to vote against this...

Order. The hon. Gentleman will speak briefly so that we can get to the wind-ups. I am afraid that...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Habeas corpus is at risk. We also risk bringing in the Europe...

I appreciate the fact that we have had this debate. The Labour party, Her Majesty’s Opposition, c...

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I have only a few moments to speak so, if I may, I would like to make some progress.

Gettin...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

With respect, my hon. Friend has not been in the Chamber throughout the debate. I have only two m...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Ordinarily I would, but I have literally one minute left.

We support joint investigation te...

I am grateful to all Members who have spoken. I know that many are frustrated that they did not g...

Will the Minister give way?

I am afraid not, because I am really short of time.

I know that many hon. Members have conc...

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

Question put forthwith, That the Quest...