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HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillI do not know whether my noble friend was in Committee, but when the amendment on having just a community sentence was moved, we discussed the fact that when there is the…26 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillI totally understand the noble Lord’s point. He reminds me at every opportunity and I think that I will have written on my grave the “rogue landlords database”. However, I have to…26 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillTurning to my noble friend’s question, if your home is also your registered business address, then clearly is it both. The noble Lord actually raised that point in Committee. The…26 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, for explaining the rationale of these amendments, which would change the new offence of sending a corrosive or bladed…26 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, I thank noble Lords for speaking to this amendment. I am particularly grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, for his tireless work throughout the Bill to raise…26 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillRepresentatives of USDAW are part of the steering group along with staff from large retail organisations right down to small shop owners. It is important that we have a wide range…26 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillI thank all noble Lords for their contributions. I particularly thank the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, for his point about responding carefully—I certainly shall, because this is a…26 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, as the noble Baroness explained, these amendments relate to the level of burden of proof required for retailers and delivery companies if they want to avail themselves…26 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillIn precedence for these sorts of cases, it is quite often the company that is prosecuted, with a fine—of a range—imposed on it. Obviously, if an individual is prosecuted, the full…26 Feb 2019HANSARDReturning Jihadists: Treason ActI totally agree with the noble Lord that anyone committing atrocities such as the Manchester attack—I was in Manchester at that time—should not escape justice. I commend the…21 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillThat the amendments for the Report stage be marshalled and considered in the following order: Clause 1, Schedule 1, Clauses 2 to 35, Schedule 2, Clauses 36 to 47, Title.21 Feb 2019HANSARDReturning Jihadists: Treason ActIt might be the noble Lord because it is difficult to prosecute people in Syria, where we have no consular access. People have been prosecuted when they come back to this country…21 Feb 2019HANSARDReturning Jihadists: Treason ActMy noble friend is right to raise this matter because we have to constantly keep our laws under review to keep up with the fast-moving methods by which terrorists will seek to…21 Feb 2019HANSARDReturning Jihadists: Treason ActI do not think so, my Lords.21 Feb 2019HANSARDReturning Jihadists: Treason ActMy Lords, I hope the noble Lord agrees that the recent legislation has given more powers to the courts to prosecute. I am pleased that the noble Lord supported that Bill through…21 Feb 2019HANSARDReturning Jihadists: Treason ActMy Lords, to prosecute terrorists for treason risks giving their actions a political status or glamour that they do not deserve, rather than treating them as merely criminals. The…21 Feb 2019HANSARDCitizenship StatusMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I will repeat the response by my right honourable friend the Home Secretary to an Urgent Question in another place. The Statement is as…20 Feb 2019HANSARDCitizenship StatusI agree with much of what the former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation said. However, on taking responsibility for our citizens, if our citizens decide to take…20 Feb 2019HANSARDCitizenship StatusThe noble Viscount’s assertion is absolutely correct. Under international law, someone cannot be rendered stateless unless they are a dual citizen with citizenship of another…20 Feb 2019HANSARDCitizenship StatusMy Lords, on whether it would be conducive to the public good if someone could be brought back and rehabilitated in this country, or could tell the British authorities what was…20 Feb 2019