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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillFirst, I want to thank the Minister and do not want her to think any of this is meant to be aggressive or to interfere with what she is doing. Secondly, these hypotheticals are…17 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillBut it was on their person.17 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI have a quick question, because I want to be clear about this point in relation to something the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, said earlier. If a Sikh, who is carrying just their…17 Nov 2021HANSARDStop and Search PowersI am incredibly grateful to the Minister for that. She, like others, will have read newspaper reports just last week conveying suspicions that the data had been suppressed because…17 Nov 2021HANSARDStop and Search PowersTo ask Her Majesty’s Government when the Home Office will publish data on the use of stop and search powers for the year up to April 2021.17 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I am sorry, I was looking around the Chamber to see who was poised and trying to be too polite. It is an absolute pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Carlile of…17 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, it is very good to see the Committee refreshed and to have the opportunity to meet earlier in the day, so I thank the powers-that-be for making this possible.17 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill—I apologise. Clearly one of the reasons this is so sensitive is that, beyond this Committee and this Chamber, there is not yet even a settled courtesy about some of these…15 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove, her noble friend Lord Polak, my noble friend Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede and the noble Lord, Lord Russell of Liverpool. I…15 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, it is a privilege to follow the right reverend Prelate and precede, I think, the noble Lord over there. I just want to say, it all may have been said, but not by me.…15 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I am afraid it is not just the Government who are split on this. With two notable exceptions, rarely have so many noble Barons spoken with such passion and at such…15 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI hear the noble Baroness, and I do not call her a late-flowering human rights spokesperson or feminist. I know that when she spoke on another Bill about parental alienation, she…15 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI thank the noble Baroness for that intervention. If I offended her in any way by my remarks—15 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI am grateful for that. Forgive me, again, if I have called anybody names. That has not been my intention. This is difficult terrain. The path of human rights does not run smooth…15 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillBut I did not make it.15 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I am sure that the fabulous quintet of noble Lords led by the noble Earl, Lord Attlee, the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, and so on, will be delighted by…15 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy noble friend is intervening on me.15 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI am so sorry to elongate this, but it is important. The Minister, sitting in a Government with a massive majority, gets to rewrite the statute book, but he does not get to change…10 Nov 2021HANSARDUK–EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Foreign WorkersMy Lords, I am conscious that this Question follows one that attracted remarks about the sanctity of a deal done in 1999, but touches on a deal done rather more recently. I ask…10 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillDoes the Minister not agree that good law is about a combination of rules and discretion? I quite understand that he is here to advocate his new scheme and approach, which the…10 Nov 2021