Debate on bill on Tuesday, 3 November 2009, in the House of Lords.

Policing and Crime Bill

Policing and Crime Bill. Lords report stage first day.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 714 c179-96,210-46
Session: 2008-09
Department: Home Office
Legislative stage: Report stage
Procedure: New clauses
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Related items: Policing and Crime Bill. As amended in Committee.
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Bills
House of Lords; Deposited Paper DEP2009-2747
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Deposited papers
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions: Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c213 (Link to this contribution) 11: Clause 5, page 7, line 6, after "force" insert "or more than one police authority acting under j...; Lord West of Spithead | 714 c193-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, these three amendments relate to a concern about the regulation-making powers that the Bil...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c194 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister who has once again given a very full and frank response...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c194 (Link to this contribution) 8: Clause 5, page 6, leave out lines 4 to 7; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c194-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, now begins a series of amendments to Clause 5. Amendments 8 and 9 would remove the current...; Lord West of Spithead | 714 c195-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when this issue was debated in Committee, I offered to consider further whether there was ...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c196 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his response and welcome what he said about statutory guidance. I ...; Baroness Neville-Jones | 714 c211-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will be brief. Having read Hansard, it seems to me that the noble Baroness and the Minis...; Lord West of Spithead | 714 c212 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the provisions on collaboration agreements deal with the different roles that police force...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c219-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I could have anticipated what the Minister said in response to my arguments. I have asked ...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c216 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, once again, I am grateful to the Minister for his reply. I also thank the noble Baroness, ...; Baroness Neville-Jones | 714 c215 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have some sympathy with Amendment 11, which specifies that when a chief officer is acti...; Lord West of Spithead | 714 c215-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I recognise the concern behind Amendment 11. However, I do not believe that this point nee...; Baroness Neville-Jones | 714 c218 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness spoke to her amendments in some detail, and I can be brief. They raise ...; Lord West of Spithead | 714 c218-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, these amendments seek to constrain the Secretary of State’s powers to direct police forces...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c216 (Link to this contribution) 12: Clause 5, page 7, line 31, at end insert— "( ) Before issuing guidance under this section, the S...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c216-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 13 and 14, the last relating to Clause 5. They follow fro...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c213-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I spoke to a number of related amendments in Committee and supported earlier versions of b...; Baroness Henig | 714 c222-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I return to this topic having taken careful note of what the Minister said in Committee. I...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c224 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall be brief in rising to support the amendment tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Hen...; Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 714 c225 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, having listened to what has been said on this issue, while I do not remotely pretend to be...; Lord West of Spithead | 714 c221-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Clauses 11 and 12 are valuable and necessary to improve information systems in policing. T...; Baroness Neville-Jones | 714 c222 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply. I am glad to hear that the Government share the desire...; Baroness Henig | 714 c222 (Link to this contribution) 18: After Clause 12, insert the following new Clause— "Police authorities: co-operation with local a...; Baroness Neville-Jones | 714 c220-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this amendment probes Clause 11. I hope that this will be turn out to be an area in which ...; Baroness Neville-Jones | 714 c220 (Link to this contribution) 16: Schedule 3, page 83, line 8, at end insert— "Information 7A (1) Regulations may make provision f...; Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 714 c229 (Link to this contribution) 20: Clause 14, page 17, leave out lines 33 and 34 and insert— "(c) A is aware, or ought to be aware,...; Lord West of Spithead | 714 c228 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment would make it compulsory to have a member of the local police authority as a...; Baroness Henig | 714 c229 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend for that response. It will not surprise the House to learn that I do not sha...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c228 (Link to this contribution) Unsurprisingly, my Lords, I support Amendment 19. When this Government came in and started talking a...; Baroness Henig | 714 c226 (Link to this contribution) 19: Schedule 3, page 85, line 39, after "assessment" insert ", and a subsequent interview (a "drugs ...; Baroness Henig | 714 c226-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I return to the issue we discussed in Committee and which, indeed, some of us seem to have...; Baroness Henig | 714 c226 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend for that response. I listened carefully to what he said but I am not sure th...; Lord West of Spithead | 714 c225-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I understand that my noble friend’s amendment has been made with the single public confide...; Lord Skelmersdale | 714 c181 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the House will recall, my noble friend Lady Hanham had sympathy with this amendment in ...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c181 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Miller of Chilthorne Domer. At the outset I declare an inte...; Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 714 c182 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the Minister clarify one issue before I decide on the fate of this amendment? Will he...; Lord West of Spithead | 714 c181-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the purpose of the amendment is to make the Association of Chief Police Officers subject t...; Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 714 c180-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am glad that we are returning to the Bill on Report because there are still many extreme...; Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 714 c179 (Link to this contribution) 1: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause— "Transparency in policing As soon as possible, t...; Lord West of Spithead | 714 c182 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this Bill does not make ACPO a statutory body, but it is referred to in statute, as it has...; Baroness Henig | 714 c184 (Link to this contribution) 2: Clause 31, page 36, line 33, after "paragraph" insert "5A or"; Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 714 c183 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, given that, and given the tremendous progress that the Government have made, which is hear...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c191 (Link to this contribution) 7: Clause 35, page 41, line 32, leave out subsections (6) and (7) and insert— "(6) The first draft o...; Baroness Henig | 714 c190-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Harris and Lady Neville-Jones, for their ...; Baroness Neville-Jones | 714 c188 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as in Committee, we have some sympathy with this amendment. The noble Baroness, Lady Henig...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c187-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Henig, because the amendments are designed to improve t...; Baroness Henig | 714 c184-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in speaking to this series of amendments about the senior appointments panel, I must first...; Baroness Neville-Jones | 714 c193 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on these Benches we think that Amendment 7 is sensible. Neither the Government nor the Bil...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c191-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in moving Amendment 7, I shall also speak to Amendments 99 and 100, which are grouped with...; Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 714 c242-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall be brief. I have listened with great attention. The desires of everybody who has s...; Lord Skelmersdale | 714 c243-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a temptation for someone who, I suspect, is speaking last before the Minister in a d...; Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 714 c244-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as you will see, I rise to reply to the amendments on behalf of the Government. I say to a...; Lord Thomas of Gresford | 714 c245 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that if the person is in the category of being coerced, even if the customer...; Baroness Stern | 714 c241-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Miller. In a perfect world perha...; Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 714 c245 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord uses the issue of whether someone is sure. The noble Lord knows as well as I do that ...; Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 714 c246 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if there was one justification for tabling these amendments, it has been the quality of th...; Lord Pannick | 714 c232-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendments proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Miller. Without the amendmen...; Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 714 c229-31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with this amendment, we move to Part 2 of the Bill, on sex offences and sex establishments...; Baroness O'Cathain | 714 c240-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the issue that we are debating this evening is profoundly humanitarian. Prostitution is al...; Baroness Howarth of Breckland | 714 c238-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall be brief because many of the points that I would have made have already been made....; Lord Sentamu | 714 c237-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Clause 14 is entitled: ""Paying for sexual services of a prostitute subjected to force"." ...; Lord Morrow | 714 c235-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish to express opposition to Amendments 20 to 25, particularly to Amendments 23, 24 and...; Lord Thomas of Gresford | 714 c233-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I disagree with the noble Lord that the law is replete with examples of the extension of s...; Baroness Harris of Richmond | 714 c212-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister. I think that we are probably seeking the same ends but...; Lord McColl of Dulwich | 714 c231-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the retention of Clause 14 because it begins to put the responsibility for prost...; Baroness Neville-Jones | 714 c224-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I can be equally brief. This is a sensible amendment. As the noble Baroness opposite said,...; Lord West of Spithead | 714 c188-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendments 2 to 6, proposed by my noble friend Lady Henig, would make changes to the statu...
Subjects: Crime prevention Crime Cooperation Association of Chief Police Officers Freedom of information Human trafficking Equipment Local government Police Public appointments Procurement Police authorities Prostitution Standards Association of Police Authorities Police Senior Appointments Panel
Legislation: Policing and Crime Bill 2008-09
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