Policing and Crime Bill

This is a surprisingly interesting group of amendments, although not obviously so at first sight....

First of all, I make the House aware of my job as a leader of Wiltshire Council, which is on the ...

My Lords, I declare an interest as the police and crime commissioner for Leicester, Leicestershir...

My Lords, Clause 2 concerns collaboration, and I see that in terms of further collaboration betwe...

We have an amendment in this group to which I will speak. Like other noble Lords who have spoken,...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken so constructively to this group of amendments. ...

My Lords, is the noble Baroness leaving that point? It looks as though she is. I understand if sh...

As I said, a collaboration agreement could vastly improve the quality of a service, which is a go...

I have just one point. Could it be more effective and less efficient or vice versa?

It could be.

I am sorry to do this to the noble Baroness, because she is trying to be helpful. However, her an...

In that case, I will stick to the answer that I gave the noble Lord and perhaps disagree with the...

Now that the Minister has made those kind remarks, I hope that if she has time she will visit to ...

The noble Lord gave me that invitation this morning. I was happy to take it up then and I am happ...

I thank the Minister very much for her response to Amendment 6 and for what she just said about w...

I can certainly follow up on that question and give the noble Lord an answer before Report, but i...

Would the Government also look at it if two PCCs decided they wanted to merge their police areas?...

If two PCC areas came to the Government with a proposal for change, the Government would consider...

My Lords, I am grateful for the care that the noble Baroness took in the detail of her response. ...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

4: Clause 2, page 3, line 4, leave out “and” a...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

5: Clause 2, page 3, line 14, at end insert—

“( ) For the ...

My Lords, I appreciate that later clauses will enable us to have a much fuller debate on mental h...

My Lords, I am reluctant to say anything that could be interpreted in any way as negative about t...

I support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Rosser. I have some experience of the polic...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, for explaining the rationale for this ame...

The noble Baroness keeps talking about the strength of the concordat, and I do not think any of u...

No, that is not the reason. As I was saying, the strength of the concordat, which is making real ...

The noble Baroness seems to miss the point. If the concordat is working so well, why has the poli...

I cannot answer that. We have to give these agreements time to work; a lot of them are quite newl...

I understand the point that the Minister is making but I wonder whether she might comment on this...

I am not suggesting that where there is no concordat, people are not receiving good help. The who...

In her earlier remarks, the Minister specifically referred to Greater Manchester. There, the numb...

I am sure the noble Lord is correct that the use of Section 136 has gone up in the 2015-16 data, ...

I thank the Minister for her response, and I thank noble Lords who have contributed to this debat...

Yes, I apologise to the noble Lord for not getting back to him on that; I will have to write to h...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

8: Clause 4, page 4, line 38, leave out “a subsequent collab...

My Lords, Amendments 8 and 9 are short amendments relating to Clause 4(8), which provides:

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My Lords, I suggest that the Government might like to look favourably on Amendment 8, in particul...

I thank noble Lords for taking part in this debate. I understand from the noble Baroness, Lady Ha...

I think it may have become not a probing amendment.

With great respect to the Minister, she did not address my point. One has a choice: either one va...

Certainly. I feel I must bow before the noble and learned Lord’s incredible intelligence in these...

My Lords, that is very helpful. The noble and learned Lord makes the argument far better than I d...

The clauses and schedule to which I will speak enable police and crime commissioners take over th...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, has mentioned Wiltshire and Dorset fire authority, I sh...

My Lords, I rise to support, to some extent, the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Rosser. Police a...

My Lords, I agree very much with what my noble friend Lord Rosser said on Clause 6. However, I al...

My Lords, the speech from my noble friend Lord Bach underlines the perils the Government are goin...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Harris, about the elected ...

My Lords, I endorse the approach that my noble friend Lord Harris has advanced. Equally, I was ve...

I thank noble Lords who spoke so articulately to this group of amendments, particularly the noble...

I hesitate to intervene so early in the Minister’s response, but she referred to the Conservative...

My Lords, the quote,

“enable fire and police services to work more closely together”,