Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill

My Lords, I start by declaring an interest. I have interests in shooting and I am a firearms and ...

My Lords, this seems to be a matter of straightforward common sense. When there is a history eith...

My Lords, I am pleased that we have had this short debate on what is a very important issue. The ...

My Lords, I would love to have been persuaded by the Minister, because the only reason we brought...

Moved by

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

56MF: After Clause 101, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, the Government remain committed to strengthening the system of firearms control where n...

My Lords, my noble friend the Minister said that an offender would be allowed a couple of days’ g...

I am sure my noble friend saw me nodding. That is quite correct.

We certainly support these amendments as they address gaps in the legislation and will enable mor...

I believe my noble friend Lord Taylor has already dealt with that issue.

My Lords, I intervene very briefly on this to thank the Government for including this clause in t...

I assume this is something the British Transport Police wants. I can hardly imagine that it is so...

The noble Lord, Lord Faulkner, indicated that considerable extra burdens have been created for th...

Moved by

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

56N: After Clause 103, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, Amendment 56N would create a new clause in the Bill. I think it is a key amendment. Sin...

My Lords, I support what the noble Lord has just said. I was moved to speak to the amendment havi...

My Lords, I support Amendment 56N. It would be particularly helpful and appropriate for workers i...

My Lords, I declare my registered interest in policing. I am sympathetic to the reason why the no...

I understand what the noble Lord is saying but will he accept that there is a specific offence of...

I hear what the noble Lord says but I do not find myself in total agreement with his arguments. H...

My Lords, I am afraid I do not take the same view as the noble Lord, Lord Condon, and support ver...

My Lords, I understand, and can picture, some of the incidents that have been described. When I u...

My Lords, the amendment we are considering, which was moved so ably by my noble friend Lord Foulk...

My Lords, I welcome this debate. It is very interesting that the speeches we have heard have all ...

My Lords, the one point on which I totally agree with the Minister is that it has been a useful d...

May I explain that particular discrepancy? We do not ask of people in their normal employment tha...

But shopkeepers and others are put in the position where they are not able to get away, as my nob...

Would the noble Lord consider an assault on the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, on a train to be les...

I am not saying that. It would probably be even more heinous if the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, ...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

56NA: After Clause 103, insert the following new Clause—

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My Lords, Amendment 56NA and the proposed new clause seek to stop the high street trade in what a...

My Lords, in speaking to Amendment 56NA, I commend the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, and the noble ...

My Lords, I well understand the concern expressed by the noble Lord, Lord Rosser. For instance, I...

My Lords, the problems of new psychoactive substances are real and perilous. My noble friend Lord...

My Lords, to explain the background to the comments that I am about to make, as most noble Lords ...

My Lords, I welcome this opportunity for debate. The quality of speeches that we have had has sho...

On that point, I noticed that the title of the new clause says “new”, but that word does not appe...

I think that the intention of the new clause is to deal with the problem of novelty, and indeed m...

Has the Minister held discussions with his counterpart Ministers in the education department? The...

I note the noble Lord’s point. I assure him that communication across government on this is very ...

The Minister said that the way forward is more enforcement. Is he aware of the view of the UK Bor...

Enforcement is, of course, part of the issue. If we decide that we need to restrict the supply, w...

I will ask the Minister to clarify one point before I make my main response. Did he say that offi...

I cannot recall any such reference in what I said.

I am sorry if I misunderstood. I thought that there had been a reference to such approaches being...

I have come across the point referred to by the noble Lord. The police have indeed been visiting ...

I have no problem at all with the police going around and doing that. I was asking: if the police...

If the drugs are illegal, clearly that is exactly the position, and that is the point they make. ...

One of the main points is whether those are illegal drugs, in which case action can be taken. Tha...

Certainly, if people were found to be in possession of illegal drugs, an offence would have been ...

If the Minister had been able to give me some assurance that he felt that action could be taken t...

I promised to keep Peers informed of the outcome of that campaign, and will do so. However, it is...

Is it not a great difficulty that neither the police nor trading standards officers have the mean...

They have access to the means to test the substances, which is a reasonable enough basis on which...

Obviously, I shall withdraw my amendment. I feel that the Minister seems rather nearer to me than...

We have identified harmful legal formulations. The noble Lord sat with me while we discussed that...

I appreciate the Government’s position, which is that if any of those substances sold contained c...

Moved by

Baroness Thornton

56NC: After Clause 103, insert the following new Clause—