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HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)I entirely agree, and I wanted to say that on the record. Professor Biggar made that point, too, as the hon. Gentleman will remember. The problem is how we define someone’s field…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)rose —15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)The hon. Lady now really is opening a hornet’s nest with the issue of money, how universities are motivated, and how far that is skewed. I have struggled against the narrow…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is of course right about the changing balance of power within universities. Many senates no longer play the role they once did routinely. If anything,…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. Like him, I certainly never compromised on what I believe. On the point that was made—I invite the hon. Gentleman to acknowledge…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)I am pretty certain that the hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown is going to make a similar point, but I will let him do so when I give way to him. Of course, the hon. Member for…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Fifth sitting)I very much welcome the tone that the hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington has adopted this morning, following the advice of his senior colleague—he is senior in so many…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)rose—15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 80, in clause 1, page 2, leave out lines 9 to 14 and insert— “(6) In this Part, ‘academic freedom’, in relation to academic staff at a registered higher…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)My amendment would have been pertinent in any case, but it has been made more so by the debate we have just had and the progress of the Committee so far, which has drawn our…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 71, in clause 1, page 2, line 2, at end insert— “(3A) Any conduct that would otherwise constitute conduct having the effect of harassment in accordance…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)I have heard what the Minister has said. I am not entirely satisfied, although I appreciate her point about taking this issue away and looking at it again. There is a debate to be…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)I draw the attention of the Committee and others to my entry in the Register of Members’ Interests, which cites my professional connection to the University of Bolton, where I am…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her introductory remarks about our mutual regard. The amendment does not do what she is saying. Clearly, universities have a responsibility…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Fifth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is taking us towards some sort of Hegelian synthesis of my intention, which is to ensure that, as Professor Biggar said, universities do not over-interpret…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Fifth sitting)I am sympathetic to the hon. Gentleman’s view, and I entirely endorse the view articulated by the right hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington about how legislation is improved…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Fifth sitting)Of course the hon. Gentleman is right that, where organisations are proscribed or by law prohibited from operating or existing, they should not come. Furthermore, it may be that…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Fifth sitting)The Minister may persuade me to withdraw the amendment, in the spirit that has pervaded the Committee so far, if she addresses the issue raised by Professor Biggar and other…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Fifth sitting)With that hearty recognition of my point, I will happily withdraw the amendment. I take the points that have been made on both sides of the Committee about how vital it is to…15 Sept 2021HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill (Sixth sitting)Or just because he is wrong.15 Sept 2021