Criminal Justice and Data Protection (Protocol No. 36) Regulations 2014

My Lords, my amendment to the Motion expresses regret at the inappropriate manner in which the Go...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Bates, for introducing this Motion, albeit that h...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. He has quoted extensively from the committees in ...

The noble Lord can, I am sure, speak and answer my points. I have not yet finished my speech: I h...

My Lords, I listened with great attention, as I always do, to the criticisms made by the noble Lo...

My Lords, on behalf of these Benches, I strongly welcome the prospect of finalising renewed parti...

My Lords, before we go further with this, it is now 10 o’clock. I get the sense that the House wi...

My Lords, usually where there is no limit on time for debates such as this, it is advised that pe...

My Lords, it seems to me completely unreasonable for the Government to schedule this debate so la...

My Lords, it is not unusual to refer to the Companion on the general principles of conduct of the...

I have every sympathy with the noble Baroness’s response, but she is aware that someone from her ...

I think that it would be a good idea to get on with things. I am simply giving guidance from the ...

My Lords, I shall be brief. I chair the Home Affairs Sub-Committee, and I want to start by thanki...

My Lords, I sense the mood of the House, so I shall be very brief indeed. Who knows, maybe it wil...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Lord, Lord Lawson, and I will certainly follow his r...

Perhaps the noble Lord would take into account the fact that the police are not asking for more p...

I will accept that distinction but our joining the ECJ will in fact give them more powers—and the...

My Lords, I shall be brief, because I like to be brief. I rise to speak because I have the good f...

My Lords, I think that tonight’s debate marks the final parliamentary chapter in this tangled tal...

My Lords, when the noble Lord, Lord Hannay, accuses some of us of religious fervour, I have to sa...

My Lords, I am very pleased to support the content of the Government’s Motion. It seems a very lo...

My Lords, I, too, will ask a question of the Minister, which arises from the remarkable filibuste...

My Lords, I note that the Minister, the noble Lord, Lord Bates, has been in his place since 3 pm ...

My Lords, I shall be very brief and begin with a declaration that I always make when I speak abou...

As I rise to speak at 10.45 pm, I am reminded of my former constituent who, as I left the gym one...

No.

I will be patient—I know that he is just taking notes.

To bring clarity to this debate it w...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate. It has been remarkable for ...

I hope my noble friend will forgive me for interrupting. My question was whether there was any fu...

My noble friend is, of course, quite right to ask me to qualify that. I should say that there is ...

The Minister said that the debate became a bad one because of the behaviour of the Opposition in ...

I am certainly not in a position to criticise the Speaker; it would be entirely improper for me t...

The Minister is straying somewhat. He is here to explain the behaviour and conduct of the Governm...

It is necessary, I would suggest to the House—and I am about to move on to the European arrest wa...

My noble friend did not address the point that I raised in respect of the Government’s safeguard,...

We consider that the safeguard should be capable of answering that particular problem. The import...

Before the Minister moves on from this point, does he not agree that it is perhaps a pity that ou...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Hannay, for his intervention. I absolutely agree with ...

My Lords, can the noble Lord answer the questions that I have posed, which I have posed in all ou...

Clearly, I do not have time to go through the reasons why we have not opted into all the measures...

My Lords, at this late hour, perhaps I may briefly distil the debate into three considerations. T...