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HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillThe noble Lord, Lord Young, is very persuasive, and he is right. My noble friends Lord Paddick and Lady Doocey and I have Amendment 52 in this group, and I have also put my name…03 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, we have both Amendments 34 and 36 in this group, the latter being the substantive amendment. I apologise that the explanatory statements as published refer to conduct…03 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill03 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, if the noble and learned Lord was referring at the beginning of his contribution to the term “economic well-being”, I hope that the references made during the earlier…03 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, I am grateful to those noble Lords who have contributed to this debate. My noble friend Lord Beith posed a number of new scenarios and he is right to prompt us to be…03 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, we have covered a good deal of the ground of Amendment 27 in the previous debate. I will try not to repeat too much of that. The basis for a criminal conduct…03 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, it is clear that there is a lot of unease—I choose a mild term—around the House about the threshold for granting criminal conduct authorisations, although there seems to…03 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill03 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, my noble friend Lord Paddick and I have Amendments 16, 18, 20, 32 and 33 in this group, which is concerned with the test—the standard or threshold, if noble Lords…01 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill01 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, I am afraid that we have a number of amendments in this group. I have quite a lot of sympathy with Amendment 19A, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, but it seems…01 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy noble friend Lord Paddick has been using his experience of the past—experience is, by definition, the past—to inform and improve the future. That was rather what my noble…01 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill24 Nov 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, Amendment 7 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, and our amendment, are directed to the same issue; I can only think that I may have drafted ours before I…24 Nov 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, I start by apologising to the noble Lord, Lord Cormack: I do not like the term CHIS either—and I find it even more difficult when I try to render it in the plural, which…24 Nov 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, the House has been privileged to hear from the noble Baroness, Lady Manningham-Buller, on this subject. My noble friend Lord Paddick and I have tabled Amendment 47 as an…24 Nov 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, this may look like a very long group, but it almost entirely concerns a couple of points, so I hope it need not detain your Lordships too long. Amendments 1, 2, 4, 10,…24 Nov 2020HANSARDWindrush Compensation SchemeMy Lords, is it appropriate that, as reported, many officials working on the compensation scheme have immigration enforcement backgrounds, where the default response for so long…23 Nov 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, I join others in welcoming the noble and learned Lord, Lord Stewart, and I say to him that every follower of Lancashire knows the joys of the damp cricket match. I also…11 Nov 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy Lords, as other noble Lords have said, safe routes are needed now. We know that people will not and cannot wait. And who can blame them? I want to question the Minister about…09 Nov 2020