Lords
Debate
9 March 2026
10 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Marks, Lord Strasburger and Lord Davies of Gower, and the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for affording us this further opportunity to debate the right to protest and public order measures in the Bill. I am grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed…
In that example, I revert to what I said about the locality being designated only if the police suspect that criminality is likely to occur or has occurred on previous occasions. I put it to the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, that a largely peaceful protest outside an embassy and at an appropriate distan…
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Lords
Debate
4 March 2026
4 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for returning to this important matter. As I set out previously, although digital identity theft is not a stand-alone offence, the behaviour the noble Lord highlights is already captured by existing legislation. Indeed, the noble Lord, L…
While I understand the point the noble Baroness is making, I do not want to presage the content of the fraud strategy, which will be upon us really quite soon, or indeed what is in the legislation that will introduce national digital ID. I absolutely take the point that some people want to encourage…
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Lords
Debate
4 March 2026
7 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
The noble Lord, Lord Lucas, has been called to move his amendment. The debate will proceed from there.
My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Russell of Liverpool, so aptly put it, cycling is one of the issues that your Lordships’ House likes to debate at length. It is an important issue and I thank everyone who has taken part in this debate: the noble Lords, Lord Lucas, Lord Hogan-Howe, Lord Blencathra, …
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Lords
Debate
2 March 2026
3 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, following consideration of amendments tabled by my noble friend Lady Royall and the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, in Committee, the Government have brought forward amendments to the stalking provisions in Part 6.
Amendments 308 to 313, 314 and 315 explicitly provide for the civil standard…
I thank everyone who has taken part in this short but important debate. As my noble friend Lady Royall of Blaisdon set out, Amendment 313A would introduce a stalking protection notice, which could be imposed by an officer of at least the rank of superintendent. I am grateful to my noble friend for c…
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Lords
Debate
2 March 2026
2 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, the amendments in this group are all minor and technical in nature. Amendments 238 and 251 modify provisions in Clause 75 and Schedule 10, which provide for the new grooming aggravating factor and relate to the duty to report child sexual abuse respectively. In each case, the provisions re…
My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for the Official Opposition’s support for these amendments.
Lords
Proceedings
26 February 2026
2 contributions
Resetting the UK-EU Relationship (European Affairs Committee Report)
My Lords, I am delighted to lead this debate on the report from the European Affairs Committee, which it was my privilege to chair until last month, when I handed the baton to the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Stirrup. I am glad to see such a distinguished group of people in the Chamber to debate thi…
I am finishing—and it is an advisory speaking time.
On defence, we face huge challenges. The transatlantic alliance now hangs by a very insecure thread, in my view. We have to be much closer to our European allies and partners and we have to get closer to Europe. We need to explain why to the Briti…
Lords
Debate
25 February 2026
5 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Brady of Altrincham, will recall that he tabled an amendment in Committee which sought to deregulate devices known as sound moderators and flash suppressors. These items are subject to control by virtue of the fact that they are included in the statutory definition of …
My Lords, it is very rare to have both unanimity and common sense break out across the Chamber. I thank all noble Lords for their comments, including those among townies—I associate myself with the comments from the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, as a fellow townie. It was an education and I have l…
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Lords
Debate
25 February 2026
2 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, the Government’s amendments in this group all relate to certain of the delegated powers in the Bill. In the main, they respond to recommendations made by the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee and the Constitution Committee in their reports on the Bill. I am very grateful to …
My Lords, I am grateful, to an extent, for the comments from the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Gower. The vast majority of the Government amendments that have been laid before your Lordships’ House are either in response to issues raised through discussion in Committee, or subsequent to that discussion…
Lords
Oral Questions
12 February 2026
Environment Agency: Waste Crime
My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to address this important question on what assessment His Majesty’s Government have made of the performance of the Environment Agency in addressing waste crime. In doing so, I am pleased to thank the noble Baroness, Lady Sheehan, and all members of her com…
Lords
Debate
6 February 2026
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
I am not entirely clear whether this is an intervention or a speech. If it is an intervention, it should be clearer and briefer than that, and have an actual question. Please come to the point.
Lords
Debate
5 February 2026
7 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, it is a pleasure to kick off what I very much hope will be the last day in Committee—not to jinx it. I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for setting out the case for these amendments, which relate to the provisions in Clauses 192 to 194.
International law enforcement info…
My Lords, I apologise, but the noble Baroness has just said that she was not in her place at the start of the group. Really, she should not be speaking to the group if she was not in her place. That is the usual convention and courtesy of the House and is set out in the Companion as well.
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Lords
Oral Questions
5 February 2026
9 contributions
Jobs Market
I make no apology for holding the Government to account on the issue of employment. Having been brought up in Liverpool and been a Merseyside MP for 21 years, I have seen the damage that can be done by depriving people of the dignity of work. Now we have unemployment rising towards 2 million. In my …
Can the noble Lord elaborate on what assessment has been made of the number and the type of jobs most impacted by AI-driven automation?
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Lords
Committee Stage
3 February 2026
Pension Schemes Bill
My Lords, before the noble Baroness, Lady Noakes, introduces the next amendment, I remind the Committee that, although we have made fantastic progress today, we have a hard stop. We can probably stretch to about 8 pm. I do not want to constrain the debate but it would be preferable to finish this la…
Lords
Debate
2 February 2026
9 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
Order—that was an intervention.
My Lords, it is Committee. Everyone can have a turn, as long as they stick to the speaking limits, so perhaps we could just take it around the Committee.
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Lords
Proceedings
29 January 2026
5 contributions
UK-EU Customs Union
I finish with an appeal to the other side to open their minds and maybe open their hearts a little bit, recognise the situation we are now in, not the situation we were in, and take the country forward on that basis.
I am just finishing—is now pleading for exclusion from any steps towards alignment. The Liberals claim a customs union would boost government revenues. They have suddenly become followers of Donald Trump, believing that “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the English language, but a customs union…
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Lords
Debate
27 January 2026
2 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
Apologies, I did not mean to put the noble Baroness off, I was just trying to recall whether she was here for the start of the group.
Apologies: please continue.
Lords
Debate
27 January 2026
3 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Cash, for her amendment, which seeks to mandate the collection of ethnicity data in respect of the perpetrators of crime. I also thank all those who contributed to this debate: my noble friend Lady Chakrabarti and the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, an…
My Lords, I wholeheartedly agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Doocey, that we owe our emergency service workers a massive debt of thanks for the work they do to keep us safe and for always answering the call when we need help. When dedicated public servants suffer serious injuries in the course of …
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Lords
Debate
27 January 2026
3 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
The noble Lord has the right to speak in Committee, of course. Conventionally, we tend not to hear from Back-Benchers after the Front Benches have started winding, but of course he has the right.
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Cash, for her Amendment 438B and the subsequent Amendment 438EF, which seek to mandate the collection of sex data on perpetrators of crime. I thank everybody who spoke with some force and passion on a debate that certainly was not dry and simply about data.…
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Lords
Oral Questions
26 January 2026
8 contributions
ILO Convention 190
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his Answer. However, if one in five workers reports feeling at risk of violence at work, on what basis are His Majesty’s Government confident that existing legislation is sufficient to result in prevention, rather than simply to respond to the harm once it has occu…
My Lords, does the Minister agree that the rise in the number of reported harassment cases—certainly of women—means either that we have got a great rise in the number of incidents or that people are more prepared to report it? If so, can we make sure that there is an easier way of getting resolution…
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Lords
Committee Stage
26 January 2026
3 contributions
Pension Schemes Bill
If this is an intervention, it is quite a long one. I ask that interventions be kept brief; they should just be questions, really.
The noble Baroness has spoken for five and a half minutes now. Whether she is pressing or withdrawing her amendment, this should be brief.
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Lords
Debate
23 January 2026
4 contributions
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
My Lords, I thank noble Lords for the insightful debate today. As they know, the Government remain neutral on the principle of assisted dying and on the passage of this Bill. Whether and how the law in this area should change is, of course, a matter for Parliament. The Government have no major worka…
To repeat—and I hope this helps—the Government do not see any major workability concerns. Our concern is specifically with the drafting, in that it uses different language from language that already exists in the Bill. We feel there is a risk of duplicating existing requirements in Clause 12 for the…
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Lords
Debate
22 January 2026
7 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
The noble Lord was not here for the start of the group, so I am afraid that he cannot contribute.
My Lords, Amendment 431 deals with the use of algorithmic tools in policing. While the Government agree on the importance of transparency in the use of algorithmic tools by police forces, we do not believe that the amendment would be the optimal means of delivering either meaningful improvements in …
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Lords
Committee Stage
21 January 2026
3 contributions
United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (Exclusions from Market Access Principles: Glue Traps) Regulations 2025
My Lords, the regulations the Committee is being asked to consider were laid before the House on 1 December 2025. The instrument makes an exclusion to the market access principles of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020—also known as the UKIM Act, for convenience—for legislation prohibiting t…
My Lords, I will speak briefly. First, I commiserate and congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Katz, because, for the past two months, he has sat diligently on the Government Front Bench and listened to about 30 speeches I have made on amendments to the crime Bill; admittedly, he rejected every single o…
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Lords
Debate
20 January 2026
3 contributions
Crime and Policing Bill
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