Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill

My Lords, I have some small questions for the Minister, and I hope she has been given notice of t...

Perhaps I may add one further question to those raised by the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee. It rel...

My Lords, the kind of situation in which we can expect the urgency provisions to be used possibly...

I asked about what is “reasonably practicable”.

She did, and I have the answer here—as if by magic. Paragraph 63 of the draft Schedule 3 code of ...

I appreciate that the Government cannot stand at the Dispatch Box and announce that this will be ...

There are several answers to that. Obviously, the Terrorism Act 2000 needs updating. The Salisbur...

My Lords, it is my intention to oppose the Questions that Clause 21 and Schedule 3 stand part of ...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, in opposing the additional pow...

My Lords, we have already debated a number of points related to the new ports powers under Schedu...

I have not quite understood. If these stops by border guards are to be based on intelligence, why...

My Lords, I think we went through this other day. It is because officers may have fragmented info...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. If somebody is coming through a port of entry and t...

The noble Lord provides a very good example. It might not amount to reasonable suspicion, but the...

Will the Minister answer my question about why the wording from the Investigatory Powers Act 2016...

Police stop and search is very often intelligence based. There may be areas where there is a high...

The force I am quoting from is Dorset, if that helps the Minister.

That does help me, and of course it is where the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, lives. The noble Lor...

It may help the Committee to focus on this as a counterespionage issue. In the years that I have ...

I thank the noble Baroness for her very experienced and helpful comments. She asked: is this a pa...

Moved by

Lord Marlesford

61: After Clause 21, insert the following new Clause—

...

My Lords, in this country we allow, quite rightly, UK passport holders to be in the possession of...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Marlesford for raising this matter and I acknowle...

My Lords, I have great sympathy with my noble friend for having to read out a Home Office respons...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

62: After Clause 21, insert the following new ...

My Lords, my Amendment 62 would require consultation on the right to protest and undertake peacef...

Amendment 62 proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, seeks to add a new clause...

Can I just say to the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, that I was not trying to corner the market in pro...

I was not going to speak, and perhaps I should declare an interest, in that I have probably been ...

My concern is that this is repressive legislation, and we are already finding that peaceful prote...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for setting out the case for her propo...

I thank the Minister and beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames

63: After Clause 21, insert the following new...

My Lords, this amendment is also in the name of my noble friend Lord Paddick and the noble Lords,...

My Lords, my noble friend’s curtain-raiser has covered a great deal of the ground. I will speak t...

My Lords, I invite the Government to think rather carefully about this. This provision enables an...

My Lords, I too am concerned about the subject, and I agree with the comments that have been made...

We too are obviously concerned about the right to access a solicitor. My name, and that of my nob...

My Lords, the provisions relating to access to a lawyer, so far as they replicate those in Schedu...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their on these amendments, particularly the noble Lord, Lord Ma...

The noble Baroness has asked whether I am satisfied with the response. As the independent reviewe...

I was going to use the word “shove”, but I will give them a push instead, which is probably more ...

I am grateful to the Minister for the points that she has said she will consider. We will wait to...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

63A: Schedule 3, page 38, line 35, at end insert—

“(3A) In...

My Lords, as has been said, the Bill provides for a person to be questioned and detained under Sc...

My Lords, for every person who is subject to a Schedule 7 examination, as I often used to report,...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Anderson tempts me to say a few words on this matter. He is absolu...

My Lords, I accept what the noble Lord has just said, but in my reading of the amendment, which u...

Does the noble Lord really think that an examining officer getting on to a bus at Dover should wa...

My reading of the amendment is that it would differentiate between a Schedule 7 encounter, where ...

I thank noble Lords for their points on this amendment. I start by saying to the noble Lord, Lord...

I thank the Minister for that response and all other noble Lords who have participated in this br...

I think that the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, put it correctly. Rather than prescribe a list of ques...

I take it from that that the Minister will be coming back to let us know the outcome. On that bas...

Moved by

Lord Anderson of Ipswich

66: Schedule 3, page 38, line 41, leave out “hostil...

My Lords, this amendment goes to the purposes for which the Schedule 3 power can be used. It rais...

I support this amendment, as I have supported every one of my noble friend Lord Anderson’s amendm...

I share the concern about the breadth of the definition of “hostile act” as covering acts which t...

My Lords, I do not want to add to the comments that I made in the debate on whether Clause 21 and...

I will be very brief indeed. We will listen with interest to what the Government have to say in r...

My Lords, I echo the words of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge: the noble Lord, Lord Anders...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister and to all noble Lords who contributed to this debate, in...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

67ZA: Schedule 3, page 39, line 7, at end insert—

“( ) The...

As has been said on more than one occasion, Schedule 3 deals with border security and the power t...

My Lords, I was not clear whether the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, was using this amendment to seek m...

As the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, pointed out, Amendment 67ZA would require an examining officer to...

I thank the Minister for that response and the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for her contribution ...

Mercifully for the UK public, the number of people involved in hostile state activity is low. The...

I thank the Minister for that response. I want to reflect on what has been said. In the meantime,...

Moved by

Lord Marlesford

67A: Schedule 3, page 39, line 41, at end insert—

“( )...

My Lords, in putting down this amendment, I am not particularly concerned with what the power sho...

My Lords, I hope I can reassure my noble friend Lord Marlesford at least in part. As he has expla...

My Lords, the only difference with what I seek is that if it is thought necessary to investigate ...

The argument is that the police and the authorities believe they have all the powers that they ne...

I hoped that my noble friend would realise that what I am proposing is the use of the DNA capabil...

I am grateful to my noble friend. Possibly the answer is for me to write to him after this Commit...

I agree with the Minister on the civil liberties issue. The other problem is that taking a DNA sa...

I support the Minister and the noble Lord, Lord Paddick. It is quite rare for me to agree with th...

I have listened to what people have said. I think the Minister made the important point here: we ...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

68: Schedule 3, page 39, line 41, at end inser...

My Lords, I spoke earlier in Committee about my opposition to the whole of Schedule 3. I shall no...

We have Amendment 69A in this group. The purpose of our amendment is to provide that, where an ex...

My Lords, briefly, I agree in principle with the intention behind the amendments, at least on con...

My Lords, I hope that I can reassure noble Lords with my explanation, but I thank those who have ...

My Lords, I have listened very carefully and will reread the Minister’s arguments tomorrow. I do ...

Moved by

Earl Howe

70: Schedule 3, page 43, line 29, at end insert “, other than an a...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

72: Schedule 3, page 45, line 6, after “repres...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

82: Schedule 3, page 47, line 6, at end insert...

My Lords, I do not wish to detain the Committee for long on this clause, but I would like to put ...

Moved by

Baroness Howe of Idlicote

89: Clause 26, page 25, line 30, at beginning inse...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 89 and 91 in my name and, in doing so, I thank the Minist...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, on bringing forward Amendments 89 and 91,...

My Lords, I thank both the noble Lord, Lord Morrow, and the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, for explai...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her reply although it was obviously not the one I would have h...