Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill

My Lords, as with the Opposition, we have also seen all the amendments and have been working thro...

I am sorry. I understand the need to make progress. The Minister will know from the amendments we...

Again, I say to the noble Baroness that anyone who has been in the previous days of this Committe...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

21D: Clause 12, page 7, line 5, at end insert “, and

(...

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendment 21G. The first of these amendments takes us to Clause 12...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Hamwee for these amendments, which give me an opportunity ...

Perhaps I may briefly take the Minister back to Amendment 21D. He made a number of points to expl...

We have already committed to looking at the draft guidance in the light of our debates. More to t...

My Lords, we, too, will look at the guidance in the light of the debates. I say that as a promise...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

21E: Clause 13, page 7, line 16, at end insert “or with any othe...

My Lords, we have tabled amendments 21E and 21F to seek to clarify the effect of changes made to ...

My Lords, I totally understand the noble Lord’s concern that anti-social behaviour powers in this...

I am still not entirely clear what the position is in the light of what the noble Lord has said. ...

I repeat that as far as the first clause is concerned, the intention is to be tenure-neutral. As ...

With great respect to the Minister, I do not think that he has explained why Clause 13 is necessa...

I can only repeat what I have already said: Clause 13 makes special provision for tenancy injunct...

Why is it not equally important that the provision about,

“inciting or encouraging any othe...

My Lords, either I am failing to comprehend totally what the noble Lord is saying, or vice versa....

Obviously, I accept that the Minister will, without any commitment, have another look at this and...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

21H: Clause 14, page 8, line 8, at end insert—

“( ) Within...

We acknowledge that there was broad support for the requirement that the youth offending team be ...

My Lords, I have Amendment 21J in this group. Consultation can mean a lot of things and sometimes...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord and my noble friend for their amendments. This group again relat...

My Lords, is my noble friend aware of whether the Local Government Association has been consulted...

In direct response to that, I can say that representatives from the LGA and other organisations h...

I certainly will withdraw my amendment but can the Minister respond to two of the questions I ask...

The youth offending team cannot actually veto an application. If it objects to a particular appli...

I accept that the team cannot veto it, but my question was: if it does not agree with it, can it ...

This is a specific issue. As I said, I would expect that the court would consider all consultatio...

I thank the Minister for his response to the question and I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.<...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

21K: Clause 17, page 9, line 28, at end insert “against a re...

My Lords, my amendment is grouped with the debate on Clause 17 stand part and Amendment 22DA in t...

I add just a short point to what the noble Baroness has said. When one looks at the draft guidanc...

My Lords, I speak from personal experience of dealing with the previous regime under ASBOs. There...

My Lords, I endorse that and remind the House that when ASBOs were first considered under previou...

My Lords, this has been a useful debate. I hope that the Minister can respond positively to it, b...

I thank noble Lords for speaking in this short debate on an important issue, and my noble friend ...

Those are wise words indeed, but will the Minister confirm that my noble friend Lord Bassam was s...

The noble Baroness will know that an IPNA can be applied also in cases where there may have been ...

This clause would apply to those who have committed a breach of an IPNA by causing nuisance and a...

The noble Baroness is quite right, but what we are seeking to do is to enable the IPNA-based proc...

I hope that my noble friend will stick hard to this, because one of the issues that most affected...

I thank my noble friend for those encouraging words. I feel that we are right on this issue and I...

I come back briefly to the point about discretion. Of course it is right that the court will have...

My attention is drawn by my noble and learned friend Lord Walker to paragraph 123 of the Explanat...

I am most grateful to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood. I am sorry i...

My Lords, I, too, was a little confused when the Minister referred earlier to Section 39, which t...

Moved by

Lord Marlesford

22: After Clause 20, insert the following new Clause—

...

My Lords, in proposing the new clause in Amendment 22 to provide a new civil penalty for litterin...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Marlesford’s amendment, which largely reflects a Private...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Marlesford on his amendment, but I wish also to make a s...

My Lords, one step at a time. I am going to let my noble friend’s suggested change to the amendme...

My Lords, this is the first time that I have intervened on the Bill. I should declare an interest...

My Lords, I find myself in complete agreement with the noble Lord, Lord Marlesford, and the noble...

I could not agree more with the noble Baroness about the importance of behaviour regarding the en...

I am grateful to my noble friend. He is giving one lot of statistics but does he have any statist...

I apologise to my noble friend because I do not have such figures. I am not quoting any figures h...

My Lords, it really is not good enough to say, as my noble friend has said, “We can’t do everythi...

Moved by

Baroness Smith of Basildon

22A: After Clause 20, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, this is a probing amendment on a subject not too dissimilar from the issue raised by th...

The noble Baroness raises an interesting point. I have been wondering about other examples, and t...

My Lords, the Government are often accused of not listening. I listened with great interest to th...

Will the Minister indicate whether unincorporated bodies will be caught by the provision, or woul...

I believe that the clause as drafted could apply to an individual or an organisation. When we dis...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for his explanation. I am not sure whether it will be h...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

22B: Clause 21, page 11, line 38, after “satisfied” insert “...

My Lords, I will speak also to Amendments 22C and 22D. I hope that I can be quick with these. Ame...

My Lords, I need a little help on Amendment 22C. I heard what my noble friend said about applying...

I certainly await with interest what the Minister has to say in response to these amendments. Sub...

My Lords, these amendments move us on to Part 2 and another series of issues, with us now conside...

Indeed, I am partially satisfied and I will not repeat the argument I made about the distinction ...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

22E: Clause 23, page 13, line 18, after “must” insert “consi...

My Lords, in moving this amendment I will also speak to Amendments 22H, 22J and 22K. My noble fri...

I am responding to this debate, so I am listening with great attention, but for a moment I though...

My noble friend is absolutely right. I apologise to the Committee. There is such enthusiasm to mo...

My Lords, Amendment 22KA is a modest attempt to help the Government to get their legislation corr...

I am very interested to hear the Minister’s response on all the issues that have been raised, par...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Hamwee for her explanation of these amendments and for sha...

I am grateful for the Minister’s comments, but in order to save time on Report why does he not ju...

With all things legalistic and legislative, my noble friend will agree with me that it is importa...

My Lords, I apologise again to the Committee for getting so confused over these amendments. I say...

Moved by

The Earl of Listowel)

22KB: Clause 29, page 16, line 27, after “person” inse...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 22KB in the name of my noble friend Lord Ramsbotham, I shall speak ...

The noble Earl has raised extremely important points, and I do not want to repeat arguments that ...

My Lords, I support these amendments wholeheartedly. We are talking about punishment. Punishment ...

My Lords, the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, made some interesting and useful points. We sympathise w...

My Lords, I thank the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, for picking up the amendments of the noble Lord,...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his careful reply. I hear what he says and will take it away a...

Perhaps I might intervene to reassure the noble Earl that what we are seeking to do with the Bill...

I thank the Minister for his response. I need to look very carefully at what the Government are d...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

22L: Clause 32, page 18, line 35, after “necessary” insert “...

I shall speak also to Amendment 22N. Amendment 22L would add the term “proportionate” to the peri...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 22M in the name of my noble friend Lady Smith of Basildon,...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 22M and also comment on whether Clause 32 should stand part o...

The noble Baroness was not in the House when we dealt at some length with the question of what “l...

Having listened to the noble Lord, I am sorry that I missed that debate. However, I get his point...

My Lords, I might have preferred to be participating in the passage of the CRoW Act, although it ...

I do not want to disrupt the Minister as he answers other noble Lords’ questions, and I am gratef...

I have given the noble Baroness the information I have on our response to the Home Affairs Select...

While the Minister’s flow has been disrupted, perhaps I could disrupt it a little bit further. Ca...

That is not my practice; I try to be open with the Committee about what these proposals entail an...

That is even more disturbing because it implies that if, at 11 am, there is a concern that there ...

The noble Lord is concerned about the rank of inspector, but of course operationally, inspectors ...

I appreciate that lots of noble Lords are present for the next debate and I am sorry that this is...

Of course, I will consider all matters raised in this debate—I am happy to do so. We want to try ...

My Lords—

I think that I must respond to points made by other noble Lords—

If the Minister will forgive me, what he is saying is that all those different bodies will of cou...

My Lords, the noble Lord is forgetting that anti-social behaviour is a concern for all public aut...

My Lords—

I will reflect on what the noble Lord says, but I was about to address the points raised by the n...

I am not being mischievous. Like the Minister, I want to make sure that these powers are effectiv...

I accept the noble Lord’s explanation, but perhaps I can turn to the points raised by the noble B...

My Lords, I do not think that I should prolong this debate, and I shall keep until after today th...