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HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI am inordinately grateful to the Minister for giving away, but he will know, because he was a diligent and assiduous constituency MP, that many of the people who go into clinical…17 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI thank the Whip. I was merely elucidating for the benefit of the Committee the context of the noble Baroness’s rather strange intervention on my remarks. I do not quite have the…17 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI recollect that we have always had a robust exchange of views. I did not in any sense seek to alarm the noble Baroness, but, from memory, she arrived late for a group of…17 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to have the opportunity to contribute to Committee proceedings. My Amendment 352 is quite straightforward. It would omit the word “alarm” from the…17 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill17 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMuch as I would love to be intervened on by the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, who I believe will be supporting my amendment later on, I am intervening on the Minister, and we…17 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, for the avoidance of doubt, I think we need to put it on record that everyone deprecates racially aggravated abuse of hard-working, decent emergency workers—that is…17 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, I will speak to the amendments in my name. I will also briefly comment on the excellent remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Verdirame. I too have great sympathy with his…03 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillVery briefly, my Lords, I want to thank the Minister for his very helpful, illuminating and quite reassuring answer, which those of us who spoke to Amendment 146 are grateful for.03 Dec 2025HANSARDNHS Industrial ActionMy Lords, obviously, it goes without saying that the industrial action just before Christmas is completely unacceptable, but I would be remiss not to observe that at the time that…02 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendments 61, 66, 102 and 104, standing in my name. I find myself in the unusual position of broadly agreeing with the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, on…01 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillI seem to recollect that the noble Lord’s party supported, for instance, the Lammy Review, which looked at sentencing and led, by a circuitous route, to the decision of the…01 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillI beg the indulgence of the Committee to specifically answer the reasonable point made by the noble Lord, Lord Bach. There is and has been for many years significant concern about…01 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillI assume that the Minister is indicating that I should withdraw my amendment. This has been a fascinating, fluent and well-argued debate. Obviously, I have been beset by a surfeit…01 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, I will speak to the amendments in my name in this group. The Committee will be delighted to know that I do not intend to go into detail on Amendment 86 as I think it is…01 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillWith all due respect to the Minister, that is not a great example, because the example he gives is that Lucy has volunteered the information that she is in breach of her licence…01 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing Bill01 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, I will also oppose Clauses 18 and 19 standing part of the Bill, and I oppose Amendments 81, 82 and 83 in the names of the noble and learned Lords, Lord Burnett of Maldon…01 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, I very briefly beg the indulgence of the Committee just to respond to my noble friend Lord Hailsham. It seems that he wishes to will the ends but not the means as…01 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, I shall speak to my Amendments 7 to 11. I support the amendments in the names of my noble friend Lord Sandhurst and my noble and learned friend Lord Keen, particularly…26 Nov 2025