Policing and Crime Bill

My Lords, in moving Amendment 214C, I shall speak also to Amendment 214CB, both of which relate t...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge, on tabling such a moderate amendment....

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge, for bringing this amendment. I...

My Lords, I wonder whether the Committee will permit me to speak even though I did not hear the s...

What does the noble Earl mean by “serious accidents”? People are being killed and seriously injur...

My Lords, I absolutely agree with the noble Baroness. Any alcohol whatever will to some extent ca...

My Lords, I am generally supportive of the amendments put forward by the noble Baroness, Lady Ber...

If I remember correctly from the statistics provided by the Minister at the meeting, 3% of the fa...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for that explanation. To some extent, although it does n...

I sometimes wonder about the priorities of this House and of government in considering these sort...

My Lords, Amendment 214C, moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge, and supported by the noble ...

My Lords, I know that these amendments relate to concerns around the Government’s approach to dri...

In this debate no one has said that we want to lower the penalties—just to lower the limits. We h...

My Lords, the arguments proposed by noble Lords are ones we have heard for many years. The argume...

My Lords, we are not talking about the past but about now. We have an opportunity to do something...

Yes, I am.

As my noble friend said, we are not talking about comparing ourselves with other countries, and n...

Since we are having open season during this intervention in the Minister’s speech, could we also ...

I hope the Minister will finish by saying that when we get the statistics from Scotland she will ...

My Lords, we are in Committee and we can do what we like. The noble Baroness, Lady Berridge, put ...

My Lords, I understand the argument but the difficulty is that those offences could just be cause...

My Lords, can I intervene on myself? I totally understand what noble Lords are saying. I am not t...

The Minister said that the statistics on what is happening in Scotland will be available shortly....

My Lords, the UK Government will look at them with great interest. There may be compelling eviden...

My Lords, it seems that we will have to wait a very long time for these statistics, until summer ...

My Lords, we do not really have any jurisdiction to tell Scotland what to do about getting the st...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, and the noble Lord, Lord Brooke of Alv...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

214D: Before Schedule 16, insert the following...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

214DA: Clause 140, page 154, line 17, after “citizenship” in...

My Lords, Clause 140 provides for a requirement to produce a nationality document in the case whe...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness and the other members of the Joint Committee on Hum...

My Lords, four minutes has achieved more than I might have expected. I realise that perhaps, in r...

Moved by

Lord Sharkey

214E: After Clause 142, insert the following new Clause—

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My Lords, I shall also speak to Amendment 214F. Both amendments are in my name and those of the n...

I intervene on the noble Lord to say that not only do the Government support this amendment, we s...

My Lords, it is a pleasure and, indeed, an honour to support the amendments tabled by my noble fr...

My Lords, I support the amendments from the noble Lord, Lord Lexden, extending the provisions to ...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support the general thrust of these amendments because the underlying...

My Lords, this has been an important debate and I am pleased to be able to respond on behalf of t...

My Lords, I am pleased to be able, on behalf of the Government, to warmly welcome Amendments 214E...

I have listened with great interest and have two points to make. First, a pardon does not remove ...

The noble Lord reminds me of a conversation that we had the other day. I quite happily undertake ...

My Lords, I thank all those noble Lords who have spoken in favour of Amendments 214E and 214F, an...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

214F: After Clause 142, insert the following n...

Tabled by

Lord Lexden

214H: After Clause 142, insert the following new Clause—

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My Lords, I am grateful for the support that has been expressed by—for this purpose—my noble frie...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

214Q: After Clause 142, insert the following new Clause—

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My Lords, with the leave of the House, I cannot let the opportunity go past without congratulatin...

I have one question for the Minister when she responds to the noble Lord, Lord Paddick. Does she ...

My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, has explained, Amendment 214Q seeks to confer a pardon...

Does the Minister mean that she has no data here or no data at all?

No data at all, my Lords.

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My Lords, from the Minister’s response I do not think she has quite grasped the essence of what t...

Moved by

Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen

215: After Clause 143, insert the following new ...

My Lords, Clause 143 provides for lifelong anonymity for all alleged or proven victims of forced ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 219CA. This lengthy amendment, which at the outset I accep...

My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Chisholm, told the Committee, this clause confers lifelong ...

My Lords, we on these Benches very much support the noble Baroness’s amendment. She has obviously...

I am grateful to my noble friend Baroness Berridge for explaining the purpose of her amendment. T...

I understand the point the Minister is making about consent, difficult precedents, cohabitation a...

I was not suggesting that, just that there are difficulties—other reasons why it could be more di...

What is the timescale for the review that the Minister mentioned?

That is up to the review and we do not know yet.

I am grateful for the support from noble Lords. The first point I want to make is that the dispar...