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HANSARDViolent DisorderMy noble friend makes extremely valid points about the examination of the causes. As I have said to this noble House, the Home Office, via the Deputy Prime Minister and her…03 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderThere is freedom of speech, and I made it very clear in the wake of the riots that people are entitled to criticise the UK Government’s asylum policy, immigration policy or any…03 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderAgain, I am grateful to my noble friend for his contribution. He knows as much as anybody in this House, given his previous role as Home Secretary, about the difficult challenges…03 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderI am grateful to the right reverend Prelate for his response and the questions he has brought forward today. I am particularly pleased, as I mentioned, with the support that was…03 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderIt is nice to see the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, again. We have seen each other in a number of guises over the years, and I am as surprised as he is to find myself here today…03 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderI thank noble Lords for their contributions. Like the noble Lord on the Opposition Front Bench, I start my response where he started his: with the families of the victims in…03 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderI am grateful for the noble Lord’s welcome to me coming to this position. The Member for Clacton, if that was the Member he was referring to, is responsible for his own comments,…03 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderAgain, I am grateful to the noble Lord for bringing his significant expertise in this area to the Statement and to the long-term debate on this issue. First and foremost, I join…03 Sept 2024HANSARDInternational Law Enforcement Alerts PlatformI am grateful for the point made by the noble Lord. My right honourable friend the Home Secretary has already met with Commissioner Johansson, the EU’s justice and home affairs…02 Sept 2024HANSARDInternational Law Enforcement Alerts PlatformI am grateful to the honourable gentleman—or rather, with my apologies, the noble Lord; I am getting used to the House—for his comments and for the work that he undertook on these…02 Sept 2024HANSARDInternational Law Enforcement Alerts PlatformI can give the noble Baroness the assurance that the Government are committed to undertaking that action. Phase 1 included 46 forces, in Scotland, Northern Ireland and England. We…02 Sept 2024HANSARDInternational Law Enforcement Alerts PlatformMy noble friend misinterprets me: I mean the years 2019 and 2020, when our exit from the European Union was completed—I was right in the first place. In doing that, a gap was…02 Sept 2024HANSARDInternational Law Enforcement Alerts PlatformI am grateful to my noble friend. The House will understand that we are where we are. SIS II finished in 19-20 and—02 Sept 2024HANSARDInternational Law Enforcement Alerts PlatformThe Government are committed to resetting the UK’s relationship with the EU, as set out in the Government’s manifesto. This includes seeking a new security agreement with the EU…02 Sept 2024HANSARDInternational Law Enforcement Alerts PlatformThe noble Lord is absolutely right that the loss of SIS II was very disconcerting, both for our European partners and for us. Many of us, including me, warned about that aspect…02 Sept 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechI am grateful to noble Lords for the debate that has taken place today. I have been struck by the expertise in this Chamber, from the Lord Chief Justice and senior police officers…24 Jul 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechHow about that? Tuesday. Rewind, delete Hansard , replace with, “We will introduce this Bill on Tuesday of next week”. It is a good thing and we thank the noble and learned Lord…24 Jul 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechNoble Lords will correct me if I am wrong. My father was a coalminer, later a fork-lift truck driver; my mum a packer in a biscuit factory, later a records clerk. They taught me…24 Jul 2024HANSARDRetail Crime PreventionMy hon. Friend makes a valuable point. I am starting with the financial cost of crime, but I will come in a moment to the key issue, of which the Minister will be aware, of the…05 Nov 2019HANSARDRetail Crime PreventionThat is another knock-on consequence of retail crime and emphasises the point I want to make to the Minister. This is not an inconsequential or victim-free crime. The victims of…05 Nov 2019