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Racial and Religious Hatred Bill 2005-06

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Parliamentary proceeding

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442 c189-244 

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2005-06

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Home Office

Legislative stage

Lords amendments

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House of Commons chamber

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Racial and Religious Hatred Bill . Lords amendments (vote)
Tuesday, 24 January 2006
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Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 442 c189 (Link to this contribution) I draw the attention of the House to the fact that all four Lords amendments are to be debated toget...

Tony Wright | 442 c194 (Link to this contribution) A number of hon. Members have provided the Minister with example statements and asked him whether th...

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Paul Goggins | 442 c194 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point and shall provide him with an example that I ...

Paul Goggins | 442 c193-4 (Link to this contribution) I am not giving way. The provision would apply if someone understood that their behaviour could sti...

Denis MacShane | 442 c193 (Link to this contribution) Wearing three hats as a former president of the National Union of Journalists, as someone who has at...

Paul Goggins | 442 c193 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. A number of hon. Members on both sides of the House were shou...

Speaker | 442 c193 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of the proceedings to which the hon. Gentleman referred, but I trust that they can be...

Paul Goggins | 442 c193 (Link to this contribution) I was just about to indicate, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that I shall give way to my right hon. Friend the ...

Bob Spink | 442 c193 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. In the precincts of Parliament, the police have been deploy...

Paul Goggins | 442 c192 (Link to this contribution) There are differences because incitement to racial hatred will still have a likely limb, whereas inc...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c192 (Link to this contribution) I accept that genuine efforts have been made to try to reach consensus, although they have plainly f...

Paul Goggins | 442 c192 (Link to this contribution) What I said was that we were not seeking absolute parity, because I wanted to make a point about com...

Paul Goggins | 442 c193 (Link to this contribution) I shall accept two further interventions before pressing on.

Claire Curtis-Thomas | 442 c191 (Link to this contribution) Further to the comments made by the hon. Member for Strangford (Mrs. Robinson), can my hon. Friend c...

Paul Goggins | 442 c191 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm that to my hon. Friend. I hope that hon. Members throughout the House will take this a...

Paul Goggins | 442 c191-2 (Link to this contribution) It has been pointed out by Opposition Members that we have three hours for the debate, so I would no...

Alistair Carmichael | 442 c192 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that separation is meaningful only if there is a difference? As I read the ...

Lord Bannside | 442 c191 (Link to this contribution) This is an important issue because there was a recent case involving a minister of religion. He was ...

Paul Goggins | 442 c191 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point and I accept that there is sometimes a lack of cla...

Paul Goggins | 442 c189-90 (Link to this contribution) This promises to be yet another interesting and wide-ranging debate on an important issue. In moving...

Speaker | 442 c189 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendment No. 2 and Government motion to disagree. Lords amendment N...

Paul Goggins | 442 c190 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we adopt a measured and constructive tone in the debate. That is certainly what...

Lord Redwood | 442 c190 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister explain why Labour Ministers are so down on the civil liberties of freedom of speec...

Evan Harris | 442 c190 (Link to this contribution) The Minister gives the impression that he has made concessions, but this is his message in the Labou...

Paul Goggins | 442 c191 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady asks a serious question about a serious subject and my answer to her is absolutely not...

Iris Robinson | 442 c190 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister explain whether if at a Christian open-air meeting reference were made to there bei...

Paul Goggins | 442 c191 (Link to this contribution) There will be plenty of time for hon. Members to intervene, so please let me finish my reply to the ...

Speaker | 442 c189 (Link to this contribution) I draw the attention of the House to the fact that all four Lords amendments are to be debated toget...

Paul Goggins | 442 c195 (Link to this contribution) I have made one substantive point and I have three more to make. As I have said, I am relaxed about ...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c195 (Link to this contribution) It will come as no surprise to the Minister to learn that if the choice is between a subjective reck...

Paul Goggins | 442 c195-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will make his own mind up on this issue. I merely point out that the addition of ...

Jim Cunningham | 442 c196 (Link to this contribution) Who will apply the test—the Director of Public Prosecutions or the Attorney-General?

Dominic Grieve | 442 c194 (Link to this contribution) On the Minister’s example, is it not the case that such a poster would be caught by the existing pro...

Paul Goggins | 442 c194 (Link to this contribution) I provided that example because the poster incites hatred rather than a criminal act. The offence is...

David Winnick | 442 c194-5 (Link to this contribution) Those of us who support the measure simply want to give Muslims the same protection in law, for whic...

Paul Goggins | 442 c195 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the comments of my hon. Friend, who has taken us back over 40 years. I welcome the...

Paul Goggins | 442 c196 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend brings us back to the very important issue of the Attorney-General’s role. Of course,...

Paul Goggins | 442 c194 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows me well enough to know that I shall give way to him in a moment. It is dif...

Speaker | 442 c197 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Minister is being generous in giving way, but there is little point in hon. Members inter...

Paul Goggins | 442 c197-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I will take one further intervention from my hon. Friend the Member f...

David Heath | 442 c197 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister. He is being very generous. The difficulty that many of us have had th...

Paul Goggins | 442 c197 (Link to this contribution) I have made the commitment, and I regard it as a personal responsibility to make sure that once the ...

Paul Goggins | 442 c197 (Link to this contribution) The point of putting the freedom of expression amendment into the Bill is this: I have always argued...

Gerald Howarth | 442 c196 (Link to this contribution) When Iqbal Sacranie said on Radio 4, out of a deeply held conviction, that it was his view that homo...

Paul Goggins | 442 c196-7 (Link to this contribution) He was giving his own honest view, based on his religious belief. He would certainly not have commit...

Paul Goggins | 442 c196 (Link to this contribution) I make the point to my hon. and learned Friend that the precise context in which those words are utt...

Robert Marshall-Andrews | 442 c196 (Link to this contribution) The question of recklessness is, in truth, the most important part of this debate. It is also one re...

Lembit Opik | 442 c210 (Link to this contribution) I grew up in Northern Ireland. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the consequence of the Bill could ...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c210 (Link to this contribution) My fear is that the Bill will cause people of all faiths—and none—increasingly to be constrained in ...

Julian Lewis | 442 c211 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend consider a slightly different angle on the problems that the Bill is likely to c...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c210 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely. That is the nub of the problem.

Huw Irranca-Davies | 442 c211 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that only rarely do I allow my faith into the realm of politics. ...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c211 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. Earlier in the Bill’s passage through the House, we debated the r...

Evan Harris | 442 c212 (Link to this contribution) We have heard much concern from people of religion, but those on the left, as it were, also have a c...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c211-2 (Link to this contribution) The starting point is the quality of the legislation that we enact. Unfortunately, the Bill is of ve...

Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 442 c210 (Link to this contribution) Many people believe that the Bill will lead to the persecution of people who preach the simple gospe...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c210 (Link to this contribution) There is no doubt that people who preach Islam, the gospels or any other faith embark on a process o...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c208-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The problem is that all beliefs have their adherents, unless the belief is ...

Anne Main | 442 c208 (Link to this contribution) Can my hon. Friend give me an example of a single faith that does not have any practitioners? He sai...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c208 (Link to this contribution) I have no doubt that there will be absurd consequences. For example, I have no doubt that those who ...

James Brokenshire | 442 c208 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that there are some parallels with the compensation culture? Vagueness and...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c209-10 (Link to this contribution) May I move on as other hon. Members want to speak in the debate? I turn to the matters that have be...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c209 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is sincere. I am sure that the Government are sincere in their int...

David Winnick | 442 c209 (Link to this contribution) : I accept entirely that the hon. Gentleman has a genuine commitment to civil liberties and that he ...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c209 (Link to this contribution) I am conscious that I must get on. I apologise to hon. Members, but I give way for the last time to ...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c208 (Link to this contribution) Many people are worried, and the Bill’s opaque nature is one of the things that worry them most. I w...

Iain Duncan Smith | 442 c210 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the use of the word ““reckless”” ignores the fact that almost every r...

Gordon Prentice | 442 c207 (Link to this contribution) : Hon. Members have mentioned Sir Iqbal Sacranie. In 1988, he said, following ““The Satanic Verses””...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c207 (Link to this contribution) One of the problems that I have discovered during my time in the House is that the moment one orthod...

Kitty Ussher | 442 c207-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman speaks of freedom of speech. Does he think that extremist organisations such as t...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c207 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that Sir Iqbal was trying to be helpful in view of the fact that some people were calling ...

Edward Leigh | 442 c206-7 (Link to this contribution) : One of the reasons why Iqbal Sacranie is so much in favour of the Bill is, no doubt, the letter th...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c206 (Link to this contribution) I think that the problem with the Bill is that it will give a weapon to every malevolent who wishes ...

Mark Pritchard | 442 c207 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that there is concern that some politically correct chief police officers ...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c207 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I fear that many were misled about the impact of the Bill. I have received ...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c208 (Link to this contribution) Not at all, and we do not require this Bill to protect those groups.

Lord Redwood | 442 c208 (Link to this contribution) : My hon. Friend is making an excellent defence of our right to free speech. Is he, like me, receivi...

Nick Palmer | 442 c205-6 (Link to this contribution) : The hon. Gentleman has attempted to make a distinction between incitement to hatred on racial grou...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c205 (Link to this contribution) The Bill has had a long passage through Parliament and, in its later stages, after the Lords substan...

Paul Goggins | 442 c204-5 (Link to this contribution) No, not at the moment. We are also seeking to amend the likely limb of the racial hatred offence al...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 442 c204 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Paul Goggins | 442 c204 (Link to this contribution) The legislation that we are discussing does not apply to Scotland, and several amendments have had t...

Stewart Hosie | 442 c204 (Link to this contribution) Can I bring the Minister back to the issue of recklessness and the Danish cartoons? Should the carto...

Bob Spink | 442 c206 (Link to this contribution) : Does my hon. Friend accept the general proposition that the Bill creates problems that it should b...

Paul Goggins | 442 c203 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way the hon. Member for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine (Sir Robert Smith) and then t...

Robert Smith | 442 c203 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way again. He keeps referring to the guidance as a reassurance to th...

Paul Goggins | 442 c203 (Link to this contribution) I return to a comment made by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary when he introduced the Bill on...

Paul Goggins | 442 c203 (Link to this contribution) It is impossible to take interventions from all those who want to intervene. I give way to the hon. ...

David Simpson | 442 c203 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way. When the BBC broadcast the scandalous and disgusting ““Jerry Sp...

Paul Goggins | 442 c203 (Link to this contribution) No, this offence would not be relevant to the particular instance that the hon. Gentleman cites. The...

Paul Goggins | 442 c204 (Link to this contribution) The assessment from both the Jewish community and the Sikh community is that the incitement to racia...

Andy Reed | 442 c203-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is being generous in giving way to Members on both sides of the...

Paul Goggins | 442 c204 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his encouragement in this regard.

John Denham | 442 c204 (Link to this contribution) While the guidance is important in terms of avoiding frivolous complaints and pointless investigatio...

Paul Goggins | 442 c201 (Link to this contribution) I agree strongly with my hon. Friend that people of all faiths and none should have equal protection...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c201 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Paul Goggins | 442 c201-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way shortly, but I want to make progress on this point. The hon. Gentleman can rest ass...

Stewart Hosie | 442 c201 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Paul Goggins | 442 c201 (Link to this contribution) Possibly in a moment. I want to make some further progress. I shall turn to the issue of ““threaten...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c202 (Link to this contribution) May I take the Minister back to the question involving ““insulting””? He says—I think it is the Gove...

Paul Goggins | 442 c202 (Link to this contribution) I promised the hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) that he could come back at least once more....

Paul Goggins | 442 c202 (Link to this contribution) The answer is that we cannot furnish the guidance until we have the legislation. That is a simple po...

John Bercow | 442 c202 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way; he has been extremely generous. He will know that I am...

Paul Goggins | 442 c202 (Link to this contribution) Again, the hon. Gentleman will have his own opinions, but the concept of ““threatening, abusive and ...

Edward Leigh | 442 c200 (Link to this contribution) No one doubts the Under-Secretary’s good intentions. However, does he realise that, notwithstanding ...

Paul Goggins | 442 c200 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that they should or would be caught. However, I accept that I have a responsibility...

Julian Lewis | 442 c200 (Link to this contribution) Will the Under-Secretary give way?

Paul Goggins | 442 c200 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman always participates in such debates and I shall therefore give way to him.

Nick Palmer | 442 c201 (Link to this contribution) The Conservatives need to decide whether the proposals would have no effect at all, or whether they ...

Paul Goggins | 442 c201 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. I shall give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Broxtowe (Dr. Palmer), then I want to...

Paul Goggins | 442 c200 (Link to this contribution) Over a period of time, we have received representations from the police and religious leaders that w...

Julian Lewis | 442 c200 (Link to this contribution) Is it not obvious, from the Under-Secretary’s difficulties on the ““Today”” programme this morning a...

John Bercow | 442 c200 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Paul Goggins | 442 c198 (Link to this contribution) I have some sympathy with my hon. Friend. Of course we would want guidance to be available as soon a...

Paul Goggins | 442 c198-9 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some further headway. It is important that I do so to give other hon. Members amp...

Mark Fisher | 442 c198 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister return to what he was saying about the word, ““guidance””? Nobody doubts his perso...

Paul Goggins | 442 c200 (Link to this contribution) I shall not give way until I have given my hon. Friend the Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice) as full ...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c200 (Link to this contribution) Will the Under-Secretary give way?

Paul Goggins | 442 c199 (Link to this contribution) The straightforward answer is that, if there was an intention to stir up hatred—[Hon. Members: ““Oh....

Gordon Prentice | 442 c199 (Link to this contribution) My Friend is reintroducing the concept of insulting and abusive behaviour. I refer him to press stor...

Paul Goggins | 442 c199 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the hon. Gentleman feels strongly about those matters—he has expressed those opini...

Julian Brazier | 442 c199 (Link to this contribution) The Under-Secretary has been generous in giving way. I want to ask specifically about conversion to ...

Paul Goggins | 442 c199 (Link to this contribution) If I can just finish this point, I will gladly take further interventions. It also makes it crystal...

Alistair Carmichael | 442 c219-20 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely true, and it certainly applies as much to religion as to the example of the theat...

Angus Brendan MacNeil | 442 c220 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the that case not only will publishing and broadcasting in Scotland be censored, but broad...

Alistair Carmichael | 442 c220 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I do not want to over-emphasise the point, but it shows the Bill’s lack of cross-border workabi...

Tobias Ellwood | 442 c220 (Link to this contribution) : Would not life be a lot simpler if we could consider some form of draft guidance? We could then at...

Alistair Carmichael | 442 c217 (Link to this contribution) : I shall attempt to emulate the brevity of the right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Frank...

Evan Harris | 442 c218 (Link to this contribution) I could not.

Alistair Carmichael | 442 c218 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is something of a purist in these matters, but as a matter of pragmatism, I think tha...

David Burrowes | 442 c218-9 (Link to this contribution) Let us consider the chilling effect on the streets in, for example, the Green Lanes area of my const...

Frank Dobson | 442 c216-7 (Link to this contribution) No. I do not believe that anyone’s conscience, whatever their religious belief, requires them to at...

Tobias Ellwood | 442 c216 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Speaker | 442 c221 (Link to this contribution) Order. It is clear that many hon. Members would like to contribute to the debate. Time is limited, s...

Evan Harris | 442 c221 (Link to this contribution) That is Slough for you.

Alistair Carmichael | 442 c221 (Link to this contribution) I know not of Slough, other than the references to it in Betjeman’s poems. The choice is clear. We ...

Edward Leigh | 442 c221 (Link to this contribution) I respect the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris) greatly, but he was somewhat un...

Alistair Carmichael | 442 c221 (Link to this contribution) That sounds like an interesting example, but given recent events, it is not one that I intend to exp...

Julian Lewis | 442 c221 (Link to this contribution) Is not the reason why the Minister cannot give examples the fact that there are few, if any, example...

Alistair Carmichael | 442 c221 (Link to this contribution) There is perhaps some merit in the hon. Gentleman’s suggestion, although I would hesitate to use the...

Alistair Carmichael | 442 c221 (Link to this contribution) I think that the Minister has been asked substantially more than three times, if we consider the Bil...

Evan Harris | 442 c220-1 (Link to this contribution) Regardless of the guidance, is not the basic problem that the Government have failed to give a singl...

Alistair Carmichael | 442 c220 (Link to this contribution) Such guidance would assist us by giving us a practical idea of what we would be subjecting the citiz...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c214 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, there is a tendency towards a new orthodoxy abroad, but the example the hon. Lady...

Kitty Ussher | 442 c214 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way to me again. What is the attitude of the hon. Ge...

Sadiq Khan | 442 c213 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman suggests that ““Beshti”” is a classic example of the sort of play that would be c...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c213 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with the hon. Gentleman’s analysis. The racial hatred laws do not exist to protect the be...

Philip Davies | 442 c213 (Link to this contribution) The Government intend that the Bill will not restrict free speech and will deter extremists. However...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c213 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that a far better weapon for those of us who wish to see moderation in d...

Mark Pritchard | 442 c213-4 (Link to this contribution) Does not the Bill create a new danger that people of a certain religious faith will sit in judgment ...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c214 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with my hon. Friend on that point. I hope that the legal system is sufficiently robus...

Iris Robinson | 442 c214 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that Christianity has become a target even before this legislation is ...

Frank Dobson | 442 c216 (Link to this contribution) No, I want to continue so that other Members can speak. I was brought up always to respect the reli...

Robert Marshall-Andrews | 442 c215 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman leaves the question of recklessness, will he consider this point? Reckless...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c215 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the hon. and learned Gentleman. I add only that it is precisely because we did...

Julian Lewis | 442 c215 (Link to this contribution) Nick Griffin is being prosecuted in any case.

Frank Dobson | 442 c216 (Link to this contribution) I speak as a declared and unashamed unbeliever. I have argued in this place for the repeal of the ri...

David TC Davies | 442 c216 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Edward Leigh | 442 c215 (Link to this contribution) Could not it be said that the Prophet Mohammed and Jesus Christ were so reckless in the way that the...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c214-5 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Lady will accept the fact that I do not intend to comment on a matter that is u...

Ann Widdecombe | 442 c227-8 (Link to this contribution) This is one of those Bills whose face is liberalism, but whose heart is oppression. The society in w...

Tony Wright | 442 c228-9 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend the Minister knows, I have genuinely worked hard in trying to support the Bill, ev...

Mark Fisher | 442 c226-7 (Link to this contribution) We are into the last half hour of several months of debate on the Bill, and several problems and dif...

John Hayes | 442 c226 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a distinguished lawyer and an even more distinguished human being, so I am guided ...

Edward Leigh | 442 c226 (Link to this contribution) In the past, recklessness has always been used to deal with a mischief that has already taken place,...

John Hayes | 442 c224-6 (Link to this contribution) With the alacrity and perspicacity for which my hon. Friend is renowned, he has anticipated my next ...

Gerald Howarth | 442 c224 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will remain completely invulnerable to the Bill, but our constituents, who will live ...

John Hayes | 442 c224 (Link to this contribution) Much of the time in the House, Members are obliged to resist the temptation to indulge in overstatem...

David Winnick | 442 c223 (Link to this contribution) I fully endorse that. Some Opposition Members—I except Opposition spokesmen, who do not deny that th...

Evan Harris | 442 c223 (Link to this contribution) People who aspire to the hon. Gentleman’s track record on anti-racism oppose the measure because the...

David Winnick | 442 c222-3 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly be brief. On Report on 11 July 2005, I said that I supported what the Government in...

Jim McGovern | 442 c223 (Link to this contribution) On examples, in a previous debate in the House on the subject, my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting...

Charles Clarke | 442 c244 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. In the light of the House’s decisions this evening, I think...

John Grogan | 442 c234-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak briefly from the perspective of three passionately held beliefs. First, I believe in t...

Stewart Hosie | 442 c232-4 (Link to this contribution) : In common with many Members, I think that if the Bill was about threatening behaviour, actions or ...

Speaker | 442 c235 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the Aye Lobby.

Lord Bannside | 442 c235 (Link to this contribution) I should like to say a few words with reference to what has been said by the right hon. Member for M...

Lord Gove | 442 c229-31 (Link to this contribution) It is a great privilege to be called to speak after my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidstone an...

Robert Marshall-Andrews | 442 c231-2 (Link to this contribution) I have my name on a bewilderingly large number of amendments that would have the effect of putting t...

Speaker | 442 c244 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Home Secretary is trying to address the House and the Chair on a point of order, which I ...

Speaker | 442 c244 (Link to this contribution) I must tell the Home Secretary that that developed into rather more than a point of order, but it is...

Paul Goggins | 442 c200 (Link to this contribution) I shall take one further intervention—

Dominic Grieve | 442 c215 (Link to this contribution) He is indeed and we shall have to wait for the outcome.

Dominic Grieve | 442 c215-6 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. When our Lord drove the moneychangers from the temple he would probably have been arrested u...

David Winnick | 442 c223-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not question, any more than he does mine, the hon. Gentleman’s total commitment to anti-racism....

Paul Goggins | 442 c189 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.

Paul Goggins | 442 c190 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not accept that position. Our proposals will give us a Bill that deals with not only incite...

Angela Watkinson | 442 c197 (Link to this contribution) The Christian Institute has written that a senior Home Office official in a telephone call to the in...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c206 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that there are people in this country who feel obliged to change their religion becau...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c206 (Link to this contribution) The law of blasphemy is entirely obsolete. I voted for its removal when the opportunity presented it...

Dominic Grieve | 442 c212-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. I hope that I made it clear earlier that this is not just about protect...

Mark Fisher | 442 c206 (Link to this contribution) While the hon. Gentleman is advising the Government on various approaches that might have resolved s...

Subjects

Devolved matters Incitement Freedom of expression Racially aggravated offences Race relations Performing arts Scotland Religion Religious hatred Religious freedom Religiously aggravated offences

Legislation

Racial and Religious Hatred Bill (HL) 2005-06

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