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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I was going to talk for hours on this, but I see that my hon. Friend wants to beat me to it. This is the short title of the Bill, and we ask that it be cited as the Police, Crime,…17 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 144, in clause 175, page 193, line 21, at end insert— “(ea) section [Proceeds of crime: account freezing orders].” This amendment provides for NC74 to…17 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixteenth sitting)Yes, I do understand that point, but there has been very careful consideration of the effects of an order to prohibit a person from travelling overseas. I am told that adding…17 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifteenth sitting)It is a pleasure, again, to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe. Before I respond to the amendments and observations of the hon. Member for Croydon Central, I wonder whether…17 Jun 2021HANSARDAntisocial Behaviour (Vehicles)The hon. Lady raises an interesting point. I have to confess that I am not an expert in the mechanics of cars and other vehicles, so I am very much feeling my way in answering…14 Jun 2021HANSARDAntisocial Behaviour (Vehicles)I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Elliot Colburn) for securing this important debate. I was sorry to hear of the adjournment of his wedding to his…14 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)And Lincolnshire!10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)Forgive me. I do please want to place on the record the enormous contribution that the suffragists made. Indeed, some would argue that while the suffragettes did powerful work in…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)Indeed. Of course, we are rightly sitting here scrutinising every single word of the Bill carefully, but a senior police officer on the ground will have had a great deal of…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)The organiser in those circumstances would, of course, be liable to having a committed an offence only if they breached the order. Indeed, this is the important point. It is for…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)I can help the hon. Gentleman on the officer point. Pre-procession—in other words, in respect of processions that are yet to happen—the conditions must be assessed, and if…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)Thank you, Holst. But a protest creating the same amount of noise over several days might meet it, given the extended duration of the protest.08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)That serves to demonstrate the dynamic nature of different forms of protest. If a decision is to be made during the course of a protest, it will be made by a senior officer of…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)Exactly right. The police will first have to satisfy themselves and the CPS that a charge should be brought, and from that all the usual safeguards and standards that we expect in…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)I would give the police some credit. First, if it is a protest of any serious size, or the organisers have contacted the police or the other way around, this can and should be…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)No, I am drawing out an apparent contradiction. I do not say that in a pejorative sense. The hon. Member and others have expressed strong reservations and complaints about the…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)If I may, Mr McCabe, I shall confine my remarks to clause 57, which deals with “Obstruction of vehicular access to Parliament”. I will take up the challenge on annoyance when it…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)That is a wonderful example to explain how that fundamental right of our democracy was introduced. I note, of course, that my right hon. Friend has great knowledge and expertise…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)The clause provides the Secretary of State with a regulation-making power to designate new “controlled areas” for the purposes of part 3 of the Police Reform and Social…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)The hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate has made his remarks on the clause, for which I am grateful. The clause enshrines in statute the long-standing common law offence of public…08 Jun 2021