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HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I just do not accept that conception of how this works or, indeed, how the MLAT treaty would work. I am afraid it would not work in the way the hon. Lady suggests. The point I am…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I will give once more, but then I need to make some progress.30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]As the Security Minister well knows, we have been working constructively on this Bill and I will not be opposing it on Third Reading irrespective of the outcome of various votes,…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]Clearly, I do think the safeguards in the Bill have been significantly improved, which is one reason why I am content to support it. Obviously that is not to say there might not…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I echo the Minister in saying that 90% of the Bill has been consensual, and a number of parties, including the SNP, the Liberal Democrats, Labour and others, have sought to…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I have.30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I will make some progress; I did give way to the hon. Gentleman about three times earlier. What I am simply saying is that we should not move away from that norm and send any kind…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I said that.30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I am not disputing the outcome of the case; that is very clear. This goes back to the earlier point that I was making about new clause 1. It is clearly not currently set out in…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]Let me finish this point and then I will give way. The Foreign Office officials were correct, and I wish that the Ministers had listened in the summer. As the Security Minister…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I honestly cannot imagine a situation where a country that gave those assurances did not stand by them. That would undermine the whole system if that were the case. I do need to…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]This is genuinely the last time that I give way.30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]Yes, it is significantly higher, and the cases will be extraordinarily rare. That is what everybody who has looked at this says.30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I do not accept that at all. The hon. Lady talks about theoretical possibilities, but these will be actual cases—actual cases, not theoretical cases.30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I am in favour of speeding up the data exchange. Under the mutual legal assistance treaty, since 1994 the seeking and securing of assurances has been commonplace. I take this from…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I regret the Minister’s tone in places, because it is clear that we have worked together on this Bill and that the Opposition are in favour of it. Let me be clear about the…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I accept that there is always a danger that when we vote on a number of new clauses and amendments in a row, the order matters and what happens on them matters, as we have seen in…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]I will give way once more.30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]The first thing I should point out is that everyone in the House wants to see a way in which the mutual legal assistance treaty system is speeded. I do not think there is any…30 Jan 2019HANSARDCrime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill [Lords]All I will say is that I had discussions about that amendment and others with the Minister, and they were things on which we were able to compromise. I am trying to assure the…30 Jan 2019