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HANSARDCrime and Policing BillWhat would the noble Baroness use instead?17 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThe noble Baroness, Lady Fox, is repeating, to some extent, some of the perfectly sensible points that she made in the debate earlier in the year. I just point out that, in…17 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillWhat I said was that a person fortunate enough to be employed spends on average 52% of one year in and around the workplace.17 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI understand that point of not wanting it to go into primary legislation, but given the way in which it is possible to use the online world to find all sorts of ways that…15 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI thought the noble Viscount was going to say “red light”.15 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I was very happy to add my name to the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Royall. I arrived slightly later to the party than the noble Baronesses, Lady…15 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I rise with a degree of trepidation after the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe. I declare an interest in that I am a regular cyclist on both a normal road bike and an…15 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI will give the Minister a little bit of context, because she has not been in this House very long, for which she is probably very grateful. Many of us speaking today were very…09 Dec 2025HANSARDRetirement of a Member: Lord Stone of BlackheathMy Lords, I should like to notify the House of the retirement, with effect from today, of the noble Lord, Lord Stone of Blackheath, pursuant to Section 1 of the House of Lords…05 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, I am glad to see that we are picking up the pace slightly. The last group was a fairly brisk 13 or 14 minutes, so let us hope we can keep this up and get the Minister to…03 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing Bill03 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillI thank the Minister for his response, which was pretty much what I think probably all of us expected. There is a case to be made for looking at this more carefully. The…03 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillI thank the Minister. On that basis, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.03 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 118 and the related Amendments 114 and 115 in my name. I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady May of Maidenhead and Lady Jones, and the noble Lord,…03 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillYes.03 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing BillMy Lords, can I ask for a bit of advice on the procedure, because we got slightly out of order in this group? Mistakenly, the first four amendments in the group were not moved but…03 Dec 2025HANSARDSentencing Bill03 Dec 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillIf it is beyond the remit of the National Crime Agency and Ofcom to do anything about this, perhaps the Minister will tell us who is going to take responsibility and actually…27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I shall speak very briefly. Earlier—I suppose it was this morning—we talked about child criminal exploitation at some length, thanks particularly to the work of the…27 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillWhile statutory guidance is welcome, this particular case has similarities to other areas of the criminal law where the motivations and behaviours are complex, such as stalking…27 Nov 2025