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HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Doocey, for her amendment. I say at the outset that she has a point: the process by which police and crime commissioners may suspend a…11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI cannot give the noble Baroness a timeline or a commentary on that discussion, but what I can say, as I have said already, is that work is under way. This Government were elected…11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am grateful to noble Lords for tabling these amendments. I will speak to each in turn. The noble Lord, Lord Jackson of Peterborough, moved Amendment 385 on behalf of the noble…11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Davies, for initiating his Amendment 391. I know that it is motivated by the desire to support police officers in the difficult role they…11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Sater, for her amendment, which is supported by my noble friend Lord Ponsonby. Perhaps I should explain why I am responding to it instead…11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI hope she can recover from that shock. I ask her to look at paragraph 134 of the White Paper, From Local t o National: A New Model f or Policing , which we published on 26…11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillWe are here again. I do not expect the noble Lord, Lord Cameron, to understand why I am not going to change my position. There is a view that, for all the reasons that have been…11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Bailey of Paddington and Lord Hogan-Howe, for tabling the amendments in this group. I am conscious of the fact that the noble Baroness, Lady…11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, this has been a useful debate. I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Doocey, for tabling the amendment, and to the noble Lord, Lord Strasburger, and the noble…09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am grateful for the discussion and, in winding up this debate, I put on record my thanks to Sir Andy Marsh of the College of Policing for the work he has done on this exercise…09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillA lot has been discussed this evening, and I will try to respond to the amendments as best I can. I welcome the fact that the noble Lord, Lord Walney, has moved his amendment. I…09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillLet me clear up something straight away. There is not going to be a meeting of minds between me and the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Gower, on the abolition of the ECHR. I will…09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, in moving Amendment 375 in my name I pay tribute to my noble friend Lady Whitaker for the discussions we had both in Committee and outside it, which resulted in the…09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillAs I have tried to indicate to the noble Lord, we have had a consultation that finished on 12 February, and we intend to respond to it by the summer. Currently, what that response…09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillDoes the noble Baroness think that a police officer, at 11 pm, on a street here in Westminster, should not access the DVLA database to check that the person is who they say they…09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThe noble Lord is asking for the deletion of historic records. That is the important point I am trying to make. If the chief officer determines that that non-conviction…09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Doocey, for tabling these amendments and to the noble Lord, Lord Davies, for supporting some of the arguments that I will make in…09 Mar 2026