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HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillMy Lords, the limitation longstops provide service personnel with a greater level of certainty that they will not be called on to give evidence in court many years after an event.…11 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillThese amendments relate to the date of knowledge provisions in Part 2 of the Bill. Before I address the substance of the amendments, I wish to issue a clarification regarding a…11 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillMy Lords, I have listened with care to the remarks advanced by noble Lords in relation to this proposed amendment. At the outset, may I note and associate myself with remarks made…11 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillMy Lords, I am again grateful to those noble Lords who have contributed to this short debate. The Bill introduces three factors that the courts must consider and pay particular…09 Mar 2021HANSARDOverseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) BillMy Lords, I begin by addressing Amendment 29, which seeks to carve out claims from service personnel and veterans from the limitation longstops in the Bill. I have to be clear…09 Mar 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, I am grateful to both noble Lords for their contributions to this very short debate. The noble Lord, Lord Paddick, asked about the number of prisoners affected by this…03 Mar 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, in order to ensure that terrorist offenders in Scotland serve the appropriate custodial period of sentences for terrorism offences when they are imposed consecutively to…03 Mar 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill03 Mar 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, I assure the noble Baroness that that suggestion has lodged in my skull and will have been noted by others, and we will come back to it in due course. On her specific…03 Mar 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill03 Mar 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, the amendments in this group would all require the Secretary of State to commission independent reviews into various aspects of the operation of the Bill and to lay the…03 Mar 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, I will undertake to provide that explanation on what are, as all the speakers who have kindly commented on the provisions have remarked, matters of a technical nature.09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillIn moving the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Wolfson of Tredegar, I shall speak also to Amendments 67 and 70, also in his name. These amendments are intended to…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, Amendment 16 would introduce a new clause requiring the Secretary of State to arrange for an independent review of the impact of Clauses 1 to 31 in the first year of the…09 Feb 2021HANSARDBribery Act 2010: Post-legislative Scrutiny (Select Committee Report)My Lords, I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Saville of Newdigate, for calling the debate today in his capacity as former chairman of the committee for post-legislative…03 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill26 Jan 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, this amendment would require the Government to report on whether the removal of Parole Board consideration of certain prisoners’ release impacts their behaviour in…26 Jan 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, I am grateful to both noble Lords for their amendments, which bring us to a very important set of issues. I discern that the Committee is united in believing that data…26 Jan 2021