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HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillThe noble Lord asked about the lead-up to 2025 and the ETA. It is a new immigration system—there will be a pragmatic approach to people coming in and out of this country, because…07 Sept 2020HANSARDDigital EvidenceThe question of legality is good and pertinent. The ICO found that there is a complex legislative interplay in this area. Officers should be extracting data from victims and…07 Sept 2020HANSARDDigital EvidenceI share my noble friend’s sentiment. While rape and sexual assault are devastating and serious crimes, we expect all investigations to be conducted thoroughly and fairly to ensure…07 Sept 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe, supported by the noble Lord, Lord Green of Deddington, for her thoughtful amendment. I understand noble Lords’ concern about…07 Sept 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy Lords, I think I get the committee’s views on the delegated powers in this Bill, and they are not pretty. However, I thank the committee for making them. I first thank the…07 Sept 2020HANSARDDigital EvidenceThe noble Lord is absolutely right: there has to be consistency and training has to be sufficient across the piece. The CPS, the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice are…07 Sept 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy Lords, we did vote to leave the EU, and I do not think anyone can be in any doubt about some of the reasons. People voted for a variety of reasons, but the noble Baroness will…07 Sept 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillI totally understand the point that the noble Lord makes about certainty. In addressing this, I should like to meet him, because I totally get what he is saying. He is not being…07 Sept 2020HANSARDDigital EvidenceI am sure that it will take such things into account, perhaps particularly the anxiety that women might feel when handing over something that is so much more about our lives in…07 Sept 2020HANSARDDigital EvidenceMy noble friend is right that this could indeed help to clinch a case one way or another. At the heart of this is that police and prosecutors have a duty to pursue all reasonable…07 Sept 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillI thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. The noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, says that we are a contradictory lot and I do not disagree with that, but what we are all…07 Sept 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for speaking to this group of amendments, which concern the scope of the delegated regulation-making power under Clause 4 and,…07 Sept 2020HANSARDDigital EvidenceI cannot stand at the Dispatch Box and say that there is clear evidence. I am saying here that the Government are doing a number of things across a number of areas to make it…07 Sept 2020HANSARDDigital EvidenceThe noble Baroness obviously has firm views about all three areas, but the rape review will consider all the reasons behind recent drops in referrals—they are low anyway—and…07 Sept 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillI thank all noble Lords who have spoken to these amendments. As the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, says, I often speak as first-generation Irish and he speaks as second-generation…07 Sept 2020HANSARDDigital EvidenceMy Lords, cross-government work continues to ensure that complainants and witnesses are asked only to provide what is necessary and proportionate to investigate crime. Policing…07 Sept 2020HANSARDDigital EvidenceThe public consultations on the Attorney-General’s Office’s updated disclosure guidance and the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act code of practice ended recently, and the…07 Sept 2020HANSARDChannel Crossings in Small BoatsMy noble friend outlines some of the complexities of this. It is not in our purview to go and destroy boats that are not on our soil. They quite often come from France, as my…03 Sept 2020HANSARDChannel Crossings in Small BoatsMy noble friend points to the real necessity of ensuring that some of those data flows in terms of law enforcement are maintained and are rigorous as we exit the EU and that we do…03 Sept 2020HANSARDChannel Crossings in Small BoatsMy Lords, I would never wish to finish someone else’s sentence, but what I can say about the clandestine channel threat commander, Dan O’Mahoney, is that he has been appointed, as…03 Sept 2020