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HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)I do not think that an SPDO has much more safety around it. The conditions under which someone can get an order—which I have just read out—include that they have caused, or…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)I will come in a moment to similar orders that I think the police are struggling with in terms of how they are implemented. I hope to make a point about some of the problems with…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)I will start, as I did with clause 12, by noting that I and the shadow Home Secretary, my right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, have put our names…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)My hon. Friend makes a really good point, and we have seen exactly that with the pilots of the knife crime prevention orders. In the first six weeks only two police officers made…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)My hon. Friend is exactly right. In the HMICFRS report on protests, many interviewees expressed intense frustration with the system, and the many reasons they gave for protest…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)My hon. Friend makes a good point. I have not yet quoted from the evidence we had from the coalition of about 20 very reputable women’s organisations that have come together to…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 17 covers the general issue that we have debated already in considering earlier clauses, and although we object to it, I do not have anything further to add.16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)On that point, will the Minister give way?16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)I think I have made my criticisms about SDPOs clear. We disagree with clause 14 and the premise of serious disruption prevention orders. There is a non-exhaustive list, which…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)The shadow Home Secretary—my right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford—and I have put our names to amendment 15 tabled by the hon. Member for Glasgow…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)As we have for other amendments, the shadow Home Secretary and I have put our names to amendment 16, which was tabled by the hon. Member for Glasgow North East and would leave out…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)Our issues with this clause are similar to those we have with all the others. We support the amendment to pull the clause from the Bill in its entirety, as it supports the general…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)My comments are similar to those I have made about previous clauses. Question put and agreed to. Clause 19 accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clause 20 Offences…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)First, I should respond to the comment that Labour Members are in some way sympathetic to extreme protesters who are breaking the law. We absolutely are not. I want to be very…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)As we do not support this entire section of the Bill, I will not talk at length about the hon. Lady’s comments. We support the amendments, and I thank her for her tabling them.16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)I do not have a significant contribution to make on this clause, given that we have already debated the principle. I will just ask this. The Minister has twice said that there…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)The many and various ways in which someone can appeal to the courts depend on the court system working. As we know, it does not at the moment. The delays are many, and tens of…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)Given that the SDPOs have no pilots, unlike serious violence prevention orders and knife crime prevention orders before them, will the Minister consider producing some of the…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)I would add only that if the Government, in this clause, are keen to ensure that the Houses of Parliament, both the Commons and the Lords, have as much information and as much…16 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Sixth sitting)We have talked about the intrusive nature of electronic monitoring and the fact that new types of monitoring mean that it does not just register whether someone has gone beyond a…16 Jun 2022