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HANSARDPolice: RecordsIs this not complicated by the fact that we have 43 separate police forces in this country? Do the Government feel that is the right number?11 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I associate myself with the remarks we have heard from around the Chamber, including from my noble friend Lord Bailey of Paddington and the noble Lord, Lord Pannick,…10 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI support my noble friends Lord Davies and Lord Blencathra. Litter is important, and while it may sound like a low-level issue, I endorse the sentiments expressed by my noble…10 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for responding to my question about projections of the effect of these measures. The purpose of me asking him these questions, just as…10 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, the Minister mentioned in his remarks on the first group that there are over a million instances of anti-social behaviour in the United Kingdom, and he is seeking broad…10 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I support my noble friend’s Amendment 35. We really need the data to understand the problem and how efficacious our measures to control it are. My noble friend asked a…05 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I also commend the Government on bringing forward this suite of amendments. My remarks will follow and parallel quite closely those of my noble friend Lord Harper. This…28 Oct 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I support my noble friend in his Amendment 3 and the amendments that the Government have brought forward to try to make Clause 13 more effective and appropriate. I have…28 Oct 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, the Minister, the noble Baroness, Lady Levitt, should be congratulated for her extraordinary achievement in summarising more than 400 densely packed pages of legislation…16 Oct 2025HANSARDUndocumented MigrantsMy Lords, does one of the principal answers to this question lie in the statistics the Minister was kind enough to give me last week: of the 160,000 small-boat arrivals since…16 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, all noble Lords who have spoken on the amendment have got a deep understanding of a very complex system—the legal aid system—which I certainly do not, so I will leave…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillWe are very rarely on exactly the same side as the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti— I will certainly accept her correction. I think the noble Lord, Lord Empey, described the…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillBefore the noble Lord sits down, may I ask him a question of fact? There are so many different statistics flying around that I think it would assist the House. Could he advise the…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness that this feels a little like a Second Reading debate today, but there are two good reasons for that. First, quite a bit of time has…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I support the amendments in the name of my noble friend Lord Cameron, which seek to flesh out what the role of this organisation is to be and to put more detail on…26 Jun 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the Minister. Before he moves on from the points that I made, can he answer the question about what the commander will be able to do under the provisions of the…26 Jun 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I support the thrust of my noble friend’s amendments in this first group. Chapter 1 puts the commander role and organisation on a statutory footing but, as we heard, we…26 Jun 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, my Amendment 11 in this group is an amendment to my noble friend’s Amendment 10. Before I get into the detail of it, I must support what my noble friend and the noble…26 Jun 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillIt is very generous of the Minister to interrupt his afternoon and his peroration to let me do so. I asked the Minister just to give the Committee a bit more detail. He talked…26 Jun 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I have two amendments in this group, and I certainly support the amendments tabled by my noble friend Lord Cameron. The first of my amendments, Amendment 22, is very…26 Jun 2025