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Public Bill Committees
Public Order Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Thu 09 Jun 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) That is what the Bill does: it criminalises peaceful protest in a way that has not been done before. - Speech Link
2: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) By peaceful, I mean non-violent. Locking on to something is not a violent protest. - Speech Link
3: Natalie Elphicke (CON - Dover) I do not know how you would do the same kind of thing with protest. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Order Bill (Second sitting) - Thu 09 Jun 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) That is what the Bill does: it criminalises peaceful protest in a way that has not been done before. - Speech Link
2: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) By peaceful, I mean non-violent. Locking on to something is not a violent protest. - Speech Link
3: Natalie Elphicke (CON - Dover) I do not know how you would do the same kind of thing with protest. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Order Bill
2nd reading - Mon 23 May 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) to restrict that particular form of protest, but not others? - Speech Link
2: Clive Lewis (LAB - Norwich South) pollute our rivers and restrict our freedom to swim or fish. - Speech Link
3: Beth Winter (LAB - Cynon Valley) restrict individuals’ willingness to protest. - Speech Link
4: Mick Whitley (LAB - Birkenhead) defend this latest assault on our basic rights of peaceful protest and public assembly.The Home Secretary - Speech Link
5: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) Our approach, rather than seeking to restrict people’s rights beyond the point of reasonableness, is - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Fairness at Work and Power in Communities - Thu 12 May 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Angela Rayner (LAB - Ashton-under-Lyne) our economy.The fact is that, right now, people do not have the money to spend in our shops, businesses - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) It will allow them the absolute power to do what they like with our workers’ rights and to ensure that - Speech Link
3: Tom Randall (CON - Gedling) Freeholders’ rights are limited in this regard, and indeed they do not have rights equivalent to those - Speech Link
4: Andy McDonald (LAB - Middlesbrough) outright assault on peaceful protest, and tries to push through a matter that has already been voted - Speech Link
5: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) I do not think so.Lastly, I join others in supporting the principle of freedom of peaceful assembly. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Thu 12 May 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) They want to clamp down on peaceful, non-violent protest that people use to get attention. - Speech Link
2: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) of UK citizens to protest, and other rights enshrined in the Human Rights Act, seeking to replace the - Speech Link
3: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) The Government fully support people’s right to engage in peaceful protest, and we recognise that that - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) peaceful protest; and further regrets Her Majesty’s Government’s failure to provide safe and legal routes - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Preventing Crime and Delivering Justice - Wed 11 May 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) far as disruptive protest is concerned, I am not averse to protest—I have involved myself in many protests - Speech Link
2: Christine Jardine (LDEM - Edinburgh West) they should be using the powers they have, rather than adding others, which will restrict the rights - Speech Link
3: Mark Hendrick (LAB - Preston) However, it is not about tackling injustice; it is about restricting further rights to protest in a legitimate - Speech Link
4: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) restrict some of our most precious and long-held fundamental rights. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Mon 25 Apr 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) I do not understand why those residents’ rights are so lightly set aside by the Opposition. - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) I do not mind how noisy the Minister is; I do not want to curtail his right to be as noisy as he likes.We - Speech Link
3: Nadia Whittome (LAB - Nottingham East) our fundamental rights. - Speech Link
4: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) our fundamental rights. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
British and Overseas Judges: Hong Kong - Wed 30 Mar 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) ensure that, whatever we do from the peaceful area that we live in, it does not allow other totalitarian - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) I do not understand how it is viable any longer for those at the Bar to argue that they are not somehow - Speech Link
3: Iain Duncan Smith (CON - Chingford and Woodford Green) They do not exist by right; they exist only by human endeavour.Underpinning those freedoms is our concept - Speech Link
4: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) It has since been used to systematically restrict rights and freedoms—especially freedom of expression.In - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill - Mon 28 Mar 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) It would simply mean that Members do not want to vote through measures that restrict peaceful protest - Speech Link
2: Robert Buckland (CON - South Swindon) That is why our lordships rightly have asked us to think again.I do not share my right hon. - Speech Link
3: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) The Public Order Act has always sought to balance the right to peaceful protest with the rights of others - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments: Part 2 - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) the rights of individuals to engage in peaceful protest.As we are talking about the Houses of Parliament - Speech Link
2: None I say again that I do not believe that the Government are against protest; I do not believe that they - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) People do not approve of crackdowns on protest because there are times when they themselves want to protest - Speech Link