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HANSARDImmigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2022I apologise to the noble Lord that I do not have those figures to hand. I also beg to ask the question the other way: I assume the amount that litigants are spending on legal fees…06 Jul 2022HANSARDImmigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2022My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, particularly the noble Baroness, Lady Lister of Burtersett, whose club of the terriers is growing. There is now a…06 Jul 2022HANSARDImmigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2022Yes, the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, also asked about that. I suspect it depends on the case in question.06 Jul 2022HANSARDPolice Act 1996 (Amendment and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022My Lords, it is interesting to see how many people are in the House following the previous debate; I followed it with great interest. Before I start this debate, I just want to…05 Jul 2022HANSARDPolice Act 1996 (Amendment and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022My Lords, I am pleased that my 1,000th contribution is on a totally uncontroversial issue. There will be no significant cost to the Government as a result of the instrument. The…05 Jul 2022HANSARDPolice Act 1996 (Amendment and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2022That the draft Regulations laid before the House on 9 June be approved.05 Jul 2022HANSARDExtradition Act 2003No, it has not. In fact, two reviews were presented, both from your Lordships’ House: the Baker review and the one by the noble Lord, Lord Inglewood.29 Jun 2022HANSARDExtradition Act 2003My Lords, the Government have no plans to make extradition requests from EU countries subject to the prima facie case requirement. Under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement,…29 Jun 2022HANSARDExtradition Act 2003My noble friend asks a number of questions. On his last, it is not the case that we send people abroad without prima facie evidence; the countries that we do not require prima…29 Jun 2022HANSARDExtradition Act 2003I know where the noble Lord is leading. I will not comment on that; I will get him an answer in writing to that.29 Jun 2022HANSARDExtradition Act 2003Yes.29 Jun 2022HANSARDMetropolitan Police ServiceThe noble Lord points to the very good work that the police often do, and to non-policing work that the police often do. He mentioned mental health problems, which the police very…29 Jun 2022HANSARDMetropolitan Police ServiceMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I will repeat a Statement made in the other place by my right honourable friend the Policing Minister, Kit Malthouse: “With permission, I…29 Jun 2022HANSARDMetropolitan Police ServiceMy Lords, I thank both noble Lords for the points they have made. I join them in deeply regretting the death of Zara Aleena and all the other people they mentioned—far too many…29 Jun 2022HANSARDMetropolitan Police ServiceMy Lords, on whether the Home Secretary approved it, I saw the “check against delivery” vision of it, so I cannot comment any further than that. However, when these things happen,…29 Jun 2022HANSARDExtradition Act 2003My noble friend will know that we regularly review legislation and, as I have just said to the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, there were reviews in both 2011 and 2015 into our…29 Jun 2022HANSARDMetropolitan Police ServiceMy noble friend mentions a number of things there, and training is critical to the effective functioning of the police in what they have to deal with. We have talked a lot…29 Jun 2022HANSARDExtradition Act 2003I say to the noble Baroness that we have in fact refused far more extradition cases to the US than they have to us by quite a large margin.29 Jun 2022HANSARDExtradition Act 2003The noble Lord goes quite nicely back to one of my noble friend Lord Moylan’s questions about Germany. Germany is not alone in not extraditing its own nationals, but we have…29 Jun 2022HANSARDExtradition Act 2003The noble Lord will of course know that 2021, last year, was far from business as usual, given the context of the pandemic, which impacted both the courts and international travel…29 Jun 2022