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HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillThe noble Lord will agree that not all their sales would be of prohibited items.04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillAs I understand it, we cannot. We have had the example of pornography. The system I am referring to relates to online sales. Am I right in thinking that the system referred to by…04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, in an ideal world, we would have the same systems for overseas and domestic sales. We cannot exercise ETJ—04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Lucas for returning us to this difficult issue about what we do in relation to overseas sellers of knives. Noble Lords will recall…04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, we are not missing the point: we are trying to get a balance between people selling products which can be used for perfectly legitimate purposes and those seeking to…04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillI do not think that John Lewis currently delivers table knives or any type of bladed products to residential premises. As it stands, John Lewis does not deliver knives; people…04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillI stick by the point that people will use the list in the Bill to try to get around the law, and therefore guidance is helpful. It is helpful both to the retailers who will be…04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillIf I understand the noble Lord’s question, he is asking whether guidance is less likely to make people abide by the law and why we do not just put it in the Bill. I am struggling…04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend Lord Lucas and the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for these amendments. My noble friend has been clever about weaving back into last…04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillIt comes back to the noble Baroness’s point about consultation. In developing the guidance, we must and will engage with business and organisations such as the BRC. The intention…04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillI do not think there will be any disputes with the clerks.04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, for these amendments. I am particularly grateful to him and the Sheffield knife manufacturers for coming to meet me…04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, for his amendment. It deals with an issue which we discussed at length in Committee and which was the subject of a very…04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, I cannot commit to bringing it back at Third Reading, but I know the noble Lord will bring it back at Third Reading. By then, I hope that I will have further information…04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillSuch a scheme would impose an additional burden. The noble Lord talks about other burdens; I am not denying that there will be burdens on various people from the introduction of…04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, that would require a global trawl of every company in the world selling knives, prohibited or otherwise.04 Mar 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons Bill04 Mar 2019HANSARDCivil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) BillI thank all noble Lords who spoke in the debate, particularly the noble Lords, Lord Faulkner of Worcester and Lord Collins of Highbury, who outlined the various challenges here.…01 Mar 2019HANSARDAnonymity (Arrested Persons) Bill [HL]My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, on introducing the Bill, which is on an important topic. I thank him for congratulating me on this being my third Bill this…01 Mar 2019HANSARDAnonymity (Arrested Persons) Bill [HL]I completely acknowledge that point. I am just trying to give the context of everything that has been discussed in the debate. The rationale for naming an arrested person before…01 Mar 2019