EU: Police and Criminal Justice Measures

My Lords, that is a hypothetical and we could spend the rest of the night on it. I have made a ve...

Moved by

Lord Hannay of Chiswick

My Lords, before I address the procedural issues covered by the amendment to the Government’s Mot...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Hannay of Chiswick, with whom I, as the then...

My Lords, I will deal with a small point to start off with. As I understand it, no impact assessm...

My Lords, today’s version of the Government’s Motion asks your Lordships to approve the block opt...

My Lords, I declare an interest which is in the register. Because of the advisory time limit I in...

My Lords, I am a recently appointed member of Sub-Committee E. It has been an interesting baptism...

My Lords, over recent months, so many things have been said on so many occasions about opt-outs t...

My Lords, I, too, would have voted for the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Hannay, if the...

My Lords, as a member of the Joint Committee I was surprised that neither in the Statement to Par...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, with whom I so often find mys...

My Lords, I must declare an interest, as a member of EU Sub-Committee E, one of the two sub-commi...

My Lords, since the noble Lord quoted me, I thank him for giving way. He says that the purpose of...

If the noble Lord reads the Motion before the House, he will see exactly what it is. It gives Mem...

My Lords, earlier in the noble Lord’s speech, he congratulated me on the wisdom of not putting my...

That is true, but it would have been unwise to have proceeded with a black-and-white decision alo...

My Lords, my old friend the Minister was right on one thing, anyway—the European Union Select Com...

My Lords, it is a pure joy to follow the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, and also to be able to say tha...

My Lords, the change in wording of the government Motion poses me with a dilemma. Although I whol...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. If the report started with that, it is odd t...

The noble Lord might like to note that the phrase is in the summary at the front. I will explain ...

Would the noble Lord not agree that a measure such as the European arrest warrant is not a transf...

No, my Lords, I would not agree, because it comes under the jurisdiction of the European Union. A...

What is the point of having parliamentary sovereignty if you cannot use it to catch criminals who...

There is no reason why the UK cannot co-operate with other countries to do exactly that. It does ...

Well, my Lords, that was the authentic voice of dogmatic anti-Europeanism and Euroscepticism. Cle...

Perhaps it may be of some help to say that the Minister who is set to reply from the Front Bench ...

I am sure that the Minister is very grateful for the defence which the noble Viscount has just gi...

My Lords, I was also a member of the Select Committee on the opt-out decision, under the wise and...

My Lords, I have known the noble Lord, Lord Stoneham, for a number of years and we have become go...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, whom I have known for many years, but he is making a totally fal...

Similarly, I respect the noble Lord who has just intervened, but I ask him to read the reports to...

My Lords, I speak as a member of the sub-committee of the European Union Committee and as one who...

Five minutes.

If noble Lords will just bear with me, I am nearly done. Of all surrenders to the United Kingdom,...

My Lords, I hesitate to prolong this debate at this late hour, particularly as I am very much a n...

My Lords, I hope that noble Lords will indulge me if I repeat a quotation that I used some time a...

My Lords, this has been a fascinating debate. Although in some ways the opt-out/opt-in issue is c...

My Lords, I am sorry about the noble Baroness’s unwillingness to support