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HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillMy Lords, I am grateful for the amendments, and I hope that I will be able to respond to them fully. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Manningham-Buller, for her plug for the…12 Feb 2025HANSARDCitizenship ApplicationsI am grateful to my noble friend for the work he did on citizenship when he was Home Secretary some years ago. He will know that the proposals today are about illegal entry to the…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillMy Lords, the Dispatch Box can sometimes be a lonely place, but such is life. I hope I can give some comfort to noble Lords who have contributed on the points that they have…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillWould it help the noble Baroness if I ensure that I write her a letter between now and Report, which will be announced shortly, so that she has clarity on her concerns? To save…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillAs the song used to say, “It Should Have Been Me”, but there we go. The key starting point in this debate is the relationship between the SIA, its responsibilities, the Home…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillThe noble Lord makes a valuable point. But consider, for example, that the provisions were for a standard-tier building. The standard-tier building under Clause 5(3) requires…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI am grateful to my noble friend Lord Faulkner for tabling the first of this group of amendments and to the noble Lords, Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay and Lord Udny-Lister, the…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillThe purpose of this legislation is to provide guidance for the responsible person where buildings and premises are impacted at the time of a terrorist attack to ensure that the…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI am grateful to noble Lords for their amendments. Amendment 35, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Gower, looks at the timing of the payment period across regimes…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for Amendment 37. I hope I can reassure her that the Security Industry Authority already has robust safeguards and processes in…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillThe noble Lord calls it bureaucracy; I call it life-saving measures. The Bill is about putting in place life-saving measures to ensure that, in the event of a terrorist attack,…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI am grateful to noble Lords for their amendments and contributions to the Committee. I think I have said already that guidance will be produced by the Home Office and by the…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI would argue that the way to test those plans is to test them against the Home Office guidance and the security industry guidance. It is not potentially to go out and say to Mr…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillMy Lords, I start by re-emphasising the purpose of this legislation, as the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, said that she is unconvinced of the need for it. This legislation…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness for allowing me to intervene. I gave the words “reasonable” and “practical”; they are the tenors on which the legislation would be interpreted.10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, and the noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst, for their amendments. I will try to deal with both in due course. First, Clause 8(5) and (6)…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI am in danger of straying into a future set of amendments, or indeed a general Second Reading debate on the Security Industry Authority. I say to the noble Lord that the SIA…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillThe reason I would put is that a change in the threshold would involve bringing a large number of other potential businesses and outlets into the scope of the provisions of the…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTerrorism (Protection of Premises) BillI accept that, which is why this Government—and the previous Government—undertook several consultations, opened themselves up to scrutiny by the Home Affairs Committee, had…10 Feb 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Davies, and to the noble Baroness, Lady Thornhill, for their contributions. Like them, I want to start with the victims of this…06 Feb 2025