Criminal Justice (European Investigation Order) Regulations 2017

My Lords, I welcome this short debate. The European investigation order is a valuable instrument....

“Trial-ready” is the word.

I do not think that that is in the EAW framework decision, but it was much discussed in the Julia...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, for allowing us to have this debate ...

The Minister referred a moment ago to “personal oversight by Ministers”. Can we have it quite cle...

Absolutely. As somebody who has been a Minister on and off for nearly 20 years, I am a fully-paid...

How long would it take to go through this procedure?

7.15 pm

I do not have the answer at my fingertips. Clearly, it would have to go through the judicial proc...

As I understood it—and the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, referred to this—one of the weaknesses o...

It goes back to what the EIO aims to do. Basically, it is a judicial co-operation mechanism for p...

Perhaps I might invite the Minister to agree that one thing that would help in the situation of b...

I think I will respond to those remarks rather than accept them. The noble Baroness prefaced her ...

I raised one question at the end of my remarks which I do not think the Minister has responded to...

I have in front of me the response given by the Minister to the committee—it was right at the end...

The Minister accepts it on behalf of the Government as well as on behalf of the Home Office, I ta...

I accept it in the context that I have just repeated it.

I am not quite sure what answer I have had. I would have thought it fairly clear that if I asked ...

At the risk of bringing my ministerial career to a premature end, I can say yes. Of course the Go...

I thank the Minister for his responses. I am sure that he would not say that he found himself in ...