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HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords—16 Apr 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThe risk we draw attention to is that information has been recorded against people’s names that the police would not today record under the new regime because they regard it as…16 Apr 2026HANSARDMedia Freedom CoalitionMy Lords, I declare my interest as a director at the Free Speech Union. In January, I pulled together a letter signed by about two dozen Peers, including two former national…25 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I oppose government Amendment 429B in this group. I declare my interest as the director of the Free Speech Union. Like my noble friends, I will try to be brief. As…18 Mar 2026HANSARDSocial Cohesion Action PlanMy Lords, I declare my interest as the director of the Free Speech Union. It is not particularly helpful to accuse those who have expressed concern that this definition will…16 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Hogan-Howe and Lord Strasburger, for co-sponsoring this amendment. I was disappointed to learn that the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, has…11 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I declare my interest as director of the Free Speech Union. I too share the reservations of the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, about the Government’s decision today to…09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I support Amendment 387B. I declare my interest as a director of the Free Speech Union. I am grateful to the Minister for summarising the final report of the College of…09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillPerhaps I could briefly add something to what the noble Baroness has just said. Just to clarify, I think that the kinds of remarks that she is talking about that were made about…09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillJust to be clear, one of the differences between the amendment as originally drafted and this new version is that the new version no longer asks the police to go through all their…09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThe disagreement is not about whether incidents should be recorded because they could form part of a course of conduct which ends in a serious crime. The argument is about where…09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI thank the Minister for giving way. I am struggling to understand what the rationale would be for disclosing in an enhanced DBS check an NCHI which, under the new recording…09 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill04 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I declare my interest as the director of the Free Speech Union. Between them, my three amendments address a single, straightforward question: should misgendering a trans…04 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThe court can already take all the aggravating factors into account, save for hostility to sex. If a crime is aggravated by one of three of the four aggravators that the Bill…04 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI thank the Minister for his response and, on the basis that I have understood him correctly that none of these amendments or the Government’s intention of commencing the new…04 Mar 2026HANSARDSecurity UpdateMy Lords, I declare an interest as a director of the Free Speech Union. The noble Lord, Lord Wallace, said that, because our universities are so financially dependent on China,…04 Mar 2026HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThat is the second or third time that the 2021 report of the Law Commission of England and Wales has been referred to in this debate. To clarify, that report clearly and strongly…04 Mar 2026HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill: ExclusionMy Lords, I declare my interest as the director of the Free Speech Union, which may well end up defending people as a result of the Public Office (Accountability) Bill, given that…26 Feb 2026