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HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, for speaking to these amendments. We return to stalking; stalking is stalking us yet again, as I am afraid it will continue to…05 Feb 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillCan I make one additional point? The Minister just referred to allowing police and crime commissioners—and, I assume, chief constables—to decide what type of criminality should be…05 Feb 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, I shall speak to a variety of amendments. I support the amendment just moved by the noble Lord, Lord Hampton, but I will leave it to the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, to…05 Feb 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, first, I pay tribute to the Minister, who for 25 minutes has responded to this group when he quite clearly would rather be in another place; I do not mean down the…05 Feb 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, as it happens, I did read the article in the Financial Times , and pressed the little button to save it, because I thought what an interesting idea it expressed,…05 Feb 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, I will amplify what the noble Baroness just said by actually quoting from the Government’s own description of the Bill and what is in it. A paragraph headed “What…31 Jan 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, we are starting this group, but I suspect that we will stop it in about 29 minutes, so we will make what progress we can. In moving Amendment 30, I will speak also to a…31 Jan 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, I will speak briefly and cover all the amendments, as did the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove. I put on the record that I am a governor of Coram, the oldest children’s…31 Jan 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, in this amendment. I pay tribute to her and to Sarah Olney, who has been meticulous in her pursuit of clarity on this issue.…31 Jan 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill31 Jan 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, very briefly, I can only entirely agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove. If something like this does not happen, what we are all asking ourselves is: will anything…31 Jan 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, the Minister kindly came to today’s Cross-Bench meeting and talked us through the Bill from his point of view. He started by saying that we will have quite a problem…24 Jan 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, to further emphasise that, I think it would be helpful to the Committee to recognise the sheer scale of anti-social behaviour. Some freedom of information requests…24 Jan 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, for me, there were echoes of the arrival of the Online Safety Bill in your Lordships’ House earlier this year when this Bill arrived. The similarities they have are…18 Dec 2023HANSARDBBC FundingMy Lords, the time allowed for the Statement has elapsed.12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Act 2003 (Removal of Prisoners for Deportation) Order 2023My Lords, we had an interesting discussion about this on Tuesday in the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, of which I am a member. As the Minister said, once again the…26 Oct 2023HANSARDState Pensions: Canada Free Trade AgreementLast Thursday, I was in Strasbourg at the Council of Europe as part of the UK delegation. A group of Canadian parliamentarians very kindly invited a group of the UK members to…18 Oct 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillI think the right time to speak is at the next stage of the business when we move that the Bill do now pass and have valedictory comments.21 Sept 2023HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration BillMy Lords, I will speak briefly, largely in relation to Labour’s amendment. As the noble Baroness may recall, some of us spoke about the provision of early years facilities in…18 Sept 2023HANSARDAbraham AccordsMy Lords, given that we have time, and with the leave of your Lordships, I will make an executive decision and suggest that the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, and the noble Lord,…14 Sept 2023