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HANSARDPlaces of Worship: Protective Security FundingThe noble Lord precisely lays out some of the training being done and that will be offered over the next three years. It is not just putting CCTV on buildings. He is absolutely…07 May 2019HANSARDPlaces of Worship: Protective Security FundingI thank both noble Lords for their comments. The noble Lord, Lord Rosser, asked what elements of the funding are new or not new. The £1.6 million in the Statement is not new…07 May 2019HANSARDPlaces of Worship: Protective Security FundingMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I will repeat a Statement given by my right honourable friend the Home Secretary in the other place about security in our places of worship:…07 May 2019HANSARDIdentity CardsI disagree with the noble Lord that it would clearly help in the fight against terrorism. As we have seen in Europe, certainly over the last few years, identity cards are…30 Apr 2019HANSARDOverseas Students: TOEIC TestsI thank the noble Lord and welcome him back to his place on the Front Bench. He asked several questions, the first being “Why the delay?” This is an issue of widespread…30 Apr 2019HANSARDOverseas Students: TOEIC TestsMy Lords, the issue at the heart of this was not the questioning of people’s competence in English but the fact that a fraud was committed. I cannot say to the noble Lord how many…30 Apr 2019HANSARDIdentity CardsThe noble Earl is absolutely right, and that was at the heart of our reason, in the coalition years, for resisting the idea of ID cards. He will of course know that I do not…30 Apr 2019HANSARDOverseas Students: TOEIC TestsI thank the noble Baroness for making that point. Of course, it will be in the light of the NAO report and the additional advice of the Home Secretary that next steps will be able…30 Apr 2019HANSARDIdentity CardsMy Lords, the Government have previously stated that the introduction of identity cards would be prohibitively expensive and would represent a substantial erosion of civil…30 Apr 2019HANSARDOverseas Students: TOEIC TestsI am grateful to the noble Lord for making that point, because we need to start from where we are now. The system in place was a very old one and, as he said, the coalition…30 Apr 2019HANSARDOverseas Students: TOEIC TestsMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I will now repeat in the form of a Statement the Answer given by my right honourable friend the Immigration Minister to an Urgent Question…30 Apr 2019HANSARDIdentity CardsOf course the things the noble Lord mentioned latterly are all tools in the police’s armoury in investigating and dealing with criminals. Incorporating that into an ID card that…30 Apr 2019HANSARDOverseas Students: TOEIC TestsI know the House’s feeling on this subject. I have said many times at this Dispatch Box that there is no cap on the number of international students who can come to this country…30 Apr 2019HANSARDIdentity CardsThe noble Lord makes a very good point about the new technologies that the police and airports are using. I heard about the trial of facial imagery at Heathrow Airport. Now, every…30 Apr 2019HANSARDIdentity CardsI am not sure how my noble friend’s two points tie together. He talks about an identity number, and of course a national insurance number is a form of identity number. Certainly…30 Apr 2019HANSARDVictims of Crime: Mobile Phone DataI know the noble and learned Lord is desperate to get in, but I shall answer the question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Hogan-Howe, first. I totally take his point about demand…29 Apr 2019HANSARDVictims of Crime: Mobile Phone DataThe noble Lord strikes the balance of where we should be—in other words, encouraging women to come forward and, when they do, feeling that their case will be dealt with properly…29 Apr 2019HANSARDVictims of Crime: Mobile Phone DataI pay tribute to the noble Baroness and all that she does for victims. I concur with her that at the point victims are asked to sign a form they may be in a highly traumatised…29 Apr 2019HANSARDVictims of Crime: Mobile Phone DataMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I will repeat a response to an Urgent Question given by my right honourable friend the Minister for Policing and the Fire Service in the…29 Apr 2019HANSARDVictims of Crime: Mobile Phone DataWhere I do agree with the noble Baroness is that the victims should be at the heart of all that we do, and there should be consistency across the piece when using the forms to…29 Apr 2019