Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill

My Lords, I will be brief. In earlier consideration of the Bill, the House has been concerned wit...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Gower, who has great experience of these issues, spoke a...

My Lords, Amendment 50 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Gower, seeks to amend the Bi...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Davies has called for the Bill to enable an authorising officer re...

My Lords, I am very grateful to those who have contributed to this short debate and am very grate...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 57. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

57: Clause 1, page 3, leave out lines 10 to 1...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 57, I will also speak to Amendment 74.

These two probing amen...

My Lords, I am very glad that the noble Lord decided to probe these two provisions. I have seen t...

First, I wish the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, well in his campaign against skelet...

My Lords, these amendments have been tabled to discuss the extent to which the operation of crimi...

I am grateful to all who have participated in this short debate and to my noble and learned frien...

I beg the Committee’s pardon for that. I had intended to reply to my noble friend on that point.<...

I am grateful for that. We have vigilance, not legislation, as regards forum shopping, and that w...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 63. I remind noble Lords that anyone wishing to...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

63: Clause 2, page 4, leave out lines 10 to 23

Member’s e...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 63, 65 and 80, in my name and that of my noble friend Lady ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, has spoken with great clarity and authority on the amendm...

My Lords, I support Amendment 63. I very much agree with the comments made by the noble Lord, Lor...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, referred to this as a potential abuse of power and, although...

My Lords, I am delighted to follow my noble friend, and I associate myself with the comments made...

My Lords, it is my great honour and pleasure to join the debate. I wish to speak to Amendment 70,...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow all those who have spoken in this group. The size of the gro...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Chakrabarti. I echo her thanks to...

My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, although I am afraid I do not...

My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord King, whose experience I respect and whom it is a pleasure to...

My Lords, Amendment 63, moved by the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, and other amendments in this group...

I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate. To echo the words of my noble friend ...

My Lords, I have received no requests to speak after the Minister, so I call the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her words and I thank all noble Lords who contributed to this ...

My Lords, we come to the group beginning with Amendment 75A. I remind noble Lords that anyone wis...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

75A: Clause 4, page 5, line 10, at end insert—...

My Lords, I am afraid I am going to disappoint a lot of noble Lords for whom I have huge respect,...

My Lords, once more, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, wh...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, for drawing attention to the poi...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord King of Bridgwater, with whom I complet...

Two amendments in this group stipulate the action that the Investigatory Powers Commissioner must...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I know that the noble Lord, Lor...

The noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, used an interesting phrase, “necessary evil”. I wonder how ...

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 75C. I remind noble Lords that anybody wishing t...

Moved by

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

75C: Clause 4, page 5, line 16, after “author...

My Lords, with this last group, the horse is heading for the stable. If I talk for too long, I sh...

The noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Baroness, Lady Chakra...

My Lords, not for the first time in consideration of this Bill in Committee, the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, the horse will be out of the stable again in January: refreshed, I hope. I am sure that...

The purpose of the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, is describe...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for the points they have made. To take the penultimate point ra...

My Lords, I thank all those who have taken part in this short debate and, in particular, I thank ...