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HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, if you are waving a screwdriver about, there is a risk of physical harm, which is the point of the old wording of “serious physical harm”: to rule out such a random…06 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, I am grateful for my noble friend’s calm and consideration, as ever. He would make an excellent target shooter. I will try to persuade him to join the Lords’ team for…06 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, can my noble friend say how many offences are committed annually on further education premises, which are the subject of Clause 29? Further education premises are a…06 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillI am always very grateful to my noble friend and I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.06 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, as I have said before, it is crucial that the Government get this right. I hope that they will put some energy behind it. I say to my noble friend that the answer to a…06 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons Bill06 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillAbsolutely. We need to keep these things under consideration. However, if one took the noble Lord’s argument to its logical conclusion, we would ban cars because they have been…06 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, in moving Amendment 74 I shall at the same time speak to Amendment 78 in this group. This Bill is about where we set boundaries to protect the public from the misuse of…06 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, I share many noble Lords’ concerns about the way in which these clauses have been drafted. I hope we will get a decent opportunity to review them, and chew through them,…06 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons Bill30 Jan 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, I hope that I will have the opportunity to pursue some details of this with my noble friend afterwards. I am particularly interested in what the Government propose to do…30 Jan 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, in moving Amendment 64 I shall speak to Amendment 65. The purpose of these amendments is to explore the potential for defences for the weapons covered under Clause 22 to…30 Jan 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, I will also speak to the other amendments in this group. Most of the amendments were tabled just to give me an opportunity to listen to the Minister on why the Bill…30 Jan 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons Bill30 Jan 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillI am very grateful—whoever I may be —to receive that answer, which, in respect of Amendment 61, was all the comfort I could have asked for. Like the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, I…30 Jan 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillI am grateful to my noble friend—30 Jan 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillIn moving Amendment 61, I shall speak also to Amendment 62. Amendment 61 is intended to remove or make it clear that certain knives do not fall under the prohibition in Clause 21.…30 Jan 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons Bill30 Jan 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillThat is an Amazon Marketplace thing and not an Amazon own product.30 Jan 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillWell, my Lords, perhaps we could enter into some correspondence about that. What Amazon does in this country is the fulfilment; the selling is done from Ireland or Liechtenstein,…30 Jan 2019