Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill

Moved by

Lord Rosser

85: After Clause 97, insert the following new Clause—

“Pro...

My Lords, this amendment was also moved by my noble friend Baroness Thornton in Committee, so I d...

My Lords, my name is added to this amendment, which I feel is very important. We know that when y...

My Lords, I intervene only briefly. This is the first occasion on which I have spoken on an amend...

My Lords, it seems that in Scotland the provisions which are in force have not been as effective ...

My Lords, when we debated this issue on 4 December, we agreed that, because smoking is largely an...

My Lords, if the evidence is supplied, how will the Government deal with it? If we do not agree t...

I think that I can answer that best by saying that if the evidence were provided and the Governme...

I would be grateful if the Minister would first clarify what he has just said. One interpretation...

Perhaps I may respond to that point. The Government are determined to try to stamp out smoking as...

My Lords, I want to make a point about the evidence. It may be my fault, but I am not entirely cl...

I have always been cautious about taking the latter point that the noble and learned Lord, Lord H...

My Lords, if I may make one small point—

I remind the House that we are on Report and that, after the Minister has spoken, unless it is a ...

I note what the Minister has said about the situation in Scotland. I do not know whether that mea...

I do not want to give that impression. I am not prejudging this and I simply gave an evaluation. ...

That is slightly different from what was said in Committee, when the noble Lord, Lord Ahmad of Wi...

Moved by

Baroness Gale

86A: Before Clause 98, insert the following new Clause—

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My Lords, Amendment 86A has been tabled in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Donaghy, who ...

My Lords, I feel a little torn, having read the amendment, because I would heartily support it. I...

Not from me.

Of course not; the noble Baroness is quite right, we did not clash on that occasion. I believe th...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 86B and 86C, which propose to extend and strengthen the pro...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Gale and the noble Lord, Lord Trees, for bringing...

My Lords, this has been a useful debate. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Gale, for bringing it b...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this short debate and the Minister for h...

If I could just explain, there will be a review of all this legislation; we are committed to post...

I thank the Minister for his reply. I am sure that we will have a debate on this matter. He said ...

Moved by

Baroness Smith of Basildon

86D: Before Clause 100, insert the following new ...

My Lords, in moving this amendment I say first that we welcome the measures that the Government h...

I do not envy my noble friend the Minister having to deal with this issue. The points that the no...

My Lords, I have an interest to declare as the holder of a firearms licence. I understand very we...

My Lords, although the amendment is entirely good hearted—I quite understand the reason for it, a...

My Lords, the worrying thing about the remarks made by my noble friend Lady Smith is the idea tha...

My Lords, when my childhood friend murdered her husband, she did so with a kitchen knife. It has ...

My Lords, we have heard one story about a knife, but I have a good friend in America and his wife...

But if one weapon were not to hand, do people not tend to use whatever is to hand? I suspect that...

My Lords, we are in danger of having a slightly false debate on this subject. Let us start from t...

My Lords, no one bows more than I do to the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, as I had the pleasure of ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lord Marland for that speech. This has been a use...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for the attention to detail he has given and for responding so ful...

The noble Baroness has not mentioned me among those who said that but I should like her to includ...

I am very happy to include the noble Lord in the list, unless he tells me otherwise. However, the...

My Lords, I am not quite clear about whether the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, is not trying to tac...

Perhaps I am trying to do too much in one amendment. I have included the fees issue in the amendm...

Moved by

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

87: After Clause 104, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, having dealt with important amendments regarding dangerous dogs and even more dangerous...

My Lords, I spent 28 years representing people in the retail sector and I support this amendment....

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Foulkes, was kind enough to mention me, and perhaps I may add a fo...

My Lords, I thought that at the previous stage the noble Lord, Lord Condon, had it right when he ...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Foulkes of Cumnock very eloquently made the case in support of thi...

My Lords, much has been made of the change of Minister, but let me assure the noble Lord—perhaps ...

Oh!

A Freudian slip there perhaps. Maybe I was honest in my first assessment. Nevertheless, I listene...

The Minister sought to argue when I said that staff working with the public and facing assault we...

The noble Lord is being somewhat disingenuous with the comments I made. The parallel I was drawin...

My Lords, I am genuinely grateful to the Minister for his eloquent and comprehensive reply. It wa...

My Lords, it might be helpful if I remind noble Lords that there are a number of speakers in this...