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HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I am going to stand up for the security of our citizens and a responsible Government have to balance abstract, theoretical, minute probabilities with keeping our constituents…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]The hon. Gentleman offers an incredibly selective quote from the ruling in the High Court by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales that found in favour of the Government on…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I totally agree. The hon. Lady will have heard the example I had to listen to. That was a sobering and scary experience. It is an experience that our law enforcement officers hear…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]May I begin by making a slight apology to the House? As the amendments have been grouped together, my speech will be in a single block, so I ask Members to be patient. Let me…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.30 Jan 2019HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. I rise to support your comment that political discourse of course produces different points of view. Speculation in this House on live…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. Throughout the process, the Bill has been about giving our law enforcement agencies a step change in capability to access…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]rose —30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]If the hon. Gentleman was sitting where I am and he had a choice before him where the United States Administration was saying, “Look, here’s the deal—we’ve got 99% of the data and…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]A lawyer—oh. All Members have raised the importance of protecting journalistic freedom, and I think we have struck the right balance between not excluding their material…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]No. The Labour Front-Bench team are saying that if we do not get what they want, we should block the treaty. The condition from the United States or any other country could be,…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]The right hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. He also highlights how very rare this is, which goes to the point about balance. This is not just about death penalty assurances.…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I refer the right hon. Gentleman to the rulings by the High Court and the Lord Chief Justice. On five of the grounds for challenge from the plaintiff—if that is the right word in…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who has campaigned against the death penalty for very many years and who, as co-chair of the all-party group, knows a thing or two about it. I do…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]My right hon. and learned Friend, whom I have known a long time, is the straightest politician in this House and always has the best motives. He is also the lawyer that one would…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]Then the hon. Gentleman has quoted so selectively. If he has read it in full, he will know that all five points of allegation—30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]Yes, but the hon. Gentleman did not expand on them. If he had, he would have said, for example, that the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales made it very clear that “the…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I am incredibly grateful to my hon. Friend for that. I am not a journalist by background; I think he is—30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]With the leave of the House, let me say that the amendments have been well heard and well argued. Following what the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness (John Woodcock) has said,…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) BillI am today placing in the Library of the House the Department’s analysis of the application of Standing Order 83L of the Standing Orders of the House in respect of the Government…29 Jan 2019