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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy concern is that the Minister does not seem to have any policy that directly targets those drivers who I would describe as unregulated drinkers. His policy may have an effect on…08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I am afraid the Minister’s response is a little disappointing. I was hoping he would say a bit more about what use we could make of technology and whether Network Rail…08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, for moving his amendment. On its own, it would be unacceptable because it would unfairly penalise the driver of the…08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I rise to support the noble Baroness. My only complaint is that I do not think it is aggressive enough. I have driven for several decades. I have driven for hundreds of…08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillIf the police stopped every vehicle travelling along a certain road, how would that be unfair and disproportionately impact certain communities?08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, on a couple of occasions, my noble friend the Minister has said that the only disposal available to the courts is a fine. Surely, disqualification is available? For most…08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, the good thing is that the party opposite is being consistent, because it introduced the offence of causing death by careless driving.08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I rise briefly to support my noble friend. It is ludicrous that pedicabs are regulated in some parts of the country but not in London.08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, there is an obvious difference between an offence of careless driving and a health and safety offence: the health and safety offence is ongoing—someone is operating a…08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I support everything that noble Lords have said so far. Unless the clause is significantly amended along the lines suggested, I could not possibly support it if it were…08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, my noble friend has been very helpful, but I am slightly worried that he does not fully appreciate how difficult it is to secure conviction for dangerous driving. On the…08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I rise to oppose Amendment 157 and speak to Amendment 164 in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe. I am currently drinking only small amounts…08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, for his introduction to this group, and his outline of the problems. I also agree with much of what the noble Lord, Lord…08 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, in responding to this group of amendments, I shall make four points with varying degrees of effort. First, I commend the work of the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker. She…03 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillThe noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, made a very interesting speech. For about the first 40 years of my life, I lived in north-west London and—on this discrimination point—I have never…03 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, I rise briefly to support these amendments. The noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, told us roughly how many pets had been stolen. Can the Minister tell us how many…03 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy Lords, will my noble friend take the precaution of instructing parliamentary counsel to draft suitable legislation just in case?03 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillThe only difficulty, of course, is that it is the countryside police offer who tells the victims that it was the Travellers.03 Nov 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillWhen the noble Baroness looks at my speech in Hansard , she will see that I am arguing, as I will in relation to my Amendment 241, that we need to do something useful with people…03 Nov 2021