Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

Our position on Lords amendment 58 has always been that we accept the case in principle that the ...

I am listening with great care to my right hon. Friend’s remarks about reporting—a concern that, ...

As usual, my right hon. and learned Friend has made a helpful suggestion. We will certainly revie...

Obviously, Northern Ireland has a history and tradition of protesting, and it is about getting th...

There is no desire or intention to suppress religious or other freedoms. This is about giving the...

Can I take this point just a little further? This is about an interpretation not only of how loud...

The amendments have no bearing on the content of the noise, merely on the impact the noise is hav...

I must press the Minister further. We surely live in a society that allows difficult things to be...

Not at all. Difficult things will and should still be said loudly, proudly and boldly, but it may...

Only the other week, alongside RMT and Nautilus members I engaged in a very noisy protest outside...

Let me give the hon. Gentleman an example. At that protest, legitimate and right as it is, indivi...

The question of distress and alarm is an interesting one jurisprudentially. By what means does th...

If I could make some progress, I was going to come to that matter. There has been some concern ab...

I am grateful to the Minister for taking so many interventions. By taking out the word “serious” ...

As I said, those terms are well understood by the police and courts. They are interpreted, and ha...

The Minister is trying his best on this point, but he has to return to the fact that it is wholly...

I understand what the hon. Gentleman is saying, but he is looking towards, if I may say so, a Nap...

I thank the Minister for his radical reformist speech. I had not realised he was in favour of suc...

You all heckled me from a seated position, so why can I not do the same?

Order.

Indeed the Minister can heckle me from a seated position, but it does not make him right. Under t...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the measures give legitimacy to the secret police—or the open poli...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. At this significant historical moment when millions ...

Yes, it is.

No, it is not.

It is about noise. Read your own amendment.

Order. The Minister is being very noisy at the moment.

Perhaps the Minister wants to stand up and make another speech, but I will carry on. The Home Sec...

Order. I ask those wishing to catch my eye to stand. There are about five. I am going to impose a...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I will do my best within a five-minute limit. Normally, I have only...

I call the Front-Bench spokesperson for the Scottish National party, Stuart C. McDonald.

The SNP remains totally opposed to the dreadfully drafted and totally excessive