Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill

My Lords, first, I draw the noble Lord’s attention to the existence of the Prevent oversight boar...

My Lords, I have been involved in the Prevent programme since 2007. It is like the curate’s egg: ...

My Lords, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, that Muslim communities in this country are ...

Does the noble Lord agree that it would possibly be better to talk about this in the next amendme...

I will conclude what I was saying. I believe that this amendment is modest and necessary and will...

My Lords, this issue was raised by the noble Lord, Lord Stunell, in Committee and again today on ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have spoken to this amendment, particularly the noble Lord, Lor...

I thank the Minister and other noble Lords who have contributed to the debate. I am glad that nei...

Moved by

Lord Kennedy of Southwark

32: Clause 19, page 22, line 2, at end insert—

My Lords, this is an issue that we debated in Committee when an independent review of Prevent was...

My Lords, we should have pride in the achievements of the many excellent people who work locally ...

My Lords, I do not disagree with much of what has been said by my noble friend Lord Anderson. How...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow two distinguished reviewers of counterterrorism legislation,...

My Lords, we are coming at this from slightly different directions, which is very healthy in a de...

My Lords, it is interesting that eight years ago today, Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to himself in T...

My Lords, I support the amendment. We have rehearsed this issue at each stage of the Bill and I r...

My Lords, Prevent is an important part of the Government’s anti-terrorism strategy. We have heard...

My Lords, with the leave of the House—and I have spoken to both our Front Bench and the clerk—I w...

I read the noble Baroness’s book with great interest and I am glad to see that she is now taking ...

As the noble Lord is aware, I took part in the Bill’s Second Reading debate and made my views cle...

Perhaps I may say to the noble Baroness that it is not that every part of the Muslim community ha...

That is the point. When Prevent has been applied correctly and has been led by and with the commu...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. As the noble Lord, Lord West, h...

Everything the noble Baroness is saying supports the importance of Prevent, which I think all nob...

If the noble Lord will indulge me, I was about to explain how the Prevent programme is evolving a...

Is the Minister able to tell us when the preceding meeting of the oversight board was held, and w...

I am not, but I suspect the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, can.

I can. The previous meeting—and the noble Lord is making a fair point—took place 18 months previo...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, and I think that is right. If this debate has done nothing ...

I am sorry to interrupt again, but can the Minister also deal with the point made by the noble Lo...

The noble Lord is absolutely right, and that team is growing. I think my noble friend Lord Marles...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to the debate today, in particular the ...

Moved by

Lord Anderson of Ipswich

32A: After Clause 20, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, the amendments in this group have their origins in a fact admitted by the Government, p...

My Lords, I rise to support the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Anderson of Ipswic...

My Lords, the first thing to say is that organisations can apply to be de-proscribed; that should...

I did not mean to interrupt the noble Lord mid-sentence but, on a point of information, the Minis...

I am very grateful to my noble friend, who is more up to date than I am. My understanding is that...

I may have misunderstood the noble Lord and I am grateful to him for giving way. If he is objecti...

The last paragraph would remain: a record would have to be placed before Parliament. What I am co...

It does not say that.

In my view, it is implicit in the publication of each such decision that decisions have to be rea...

My Lords, it might encourage my noble friends on the Front Bench to do as the noble Lord, Lord Ca...

My Lords, this issue was also looked at in detail in Committee. The noble Lord, Lord Anderson of ...

My Lords, these amendments return to an issue raised with some force by the noble Lord, Lord Ande...

I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Paddick, Lord Carlile, and Lord Kennedy of Southwark, and ...