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HANSARD Contact in Care SettingsI, too, congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Dan Carden) and the hon. Member for Chatham and Aylesford (Tracey Crouch) on obtaining the debate, and I…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Contact in Care SettingsWill the Minister therefore undertake to implement a legal right for visitors to visit, as Rights For Residents has called for? We are all on tenterhooks.27 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I endorse what my right hon. Friend has just said about the complexity of the proposed scheme, which concerns me as well. I very much favour our having a scheme, and I think we…18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I have a minor point to raise with the Minister in respect of part of the supplementary provision in new schedule 2, which the hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and…18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Is it correct for this Bill to make reference to another Bill as being an Act of Parliament when it is not?18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Fourteenth sitting)As we adjourned this morning, I was expressing concern about the complexity of the two-tier scheme embodied in the new clauses. I was suggesting that it might be more effective to…18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Fourteenth sitting)New clause 14(9) includes definitions that refer to “the Online Safety Act 2022”, but that is a Bill, not an Act, and it is not on the statute book, is it?18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree that for this clause to be accurate in referring to the “Online Safety Act 2022”, that Bill, which seems to have disappeared for now, has to have Royal…18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Briefly, I welcome the provisions for an annual report to give information to Parliament. I wonder whether the Minister might consider extending the requirements, when it comes to…18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Will it?18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Sorry; it is in new schedule 1. That was my mistake, Mr Gray, and I apologise. I am not seeking to confuse proceedings any more; it is confusing enough to have to scrutinise the…18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Would it be possible to extend the sitting by 15 minutes, so that no time is lost? If we were to do that, I would have no objection.18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Thirteenth sitting)indicated assent .18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Is my understanding correct that tier 1 is about capturing arrangements and activity undertaken for the purpose of influencing a political event or decision, but that the second…18 Oct 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Eleventh sitting)It hasn’t!08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Eleventh sitting)Right first time.08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)Can the Minister tell us whether these provisions have been based on some existing case, or cases, where the Government think this has happened and needs to be stopped, or are…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)Indeed. Certainly, my experience of the courts is that judges are not daft: if they have somebody arguing a case before them and seeking damages who has been a very badly behaved…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)I endorse what my hon. Friend has just said from the Front Bench regarding the breadth of some of these provisions, but before the Minister replies I want to put another point to…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)My hon. Friend is making an important point. Does she agree that the reasoning appears to be that this is such an intrusive and important provision, affecting people’s rights in…08 Sept 2022