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Westminster Hall
Trespass - Mon 19 Apr 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Katherine Fletcher (CON - South Ribble) In short, it asks that we do not criminalise trespass. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
2nd reading Day 2 - Tue 16 Mar 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Long Bailey (LAB - Salford and Eccles) The proposals to criminalise “unauthorised encampments” and establish trespass as a criminal offence, - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (LAB - Tottenham) Even police forces do not support the Government’s criminalisation of trespass. - Speech Link
3: Robert Buckland (CON - South Swindon) Don’t go out alone.” Instead of questioning the victim, we have to deal with the perpetrator. - Speech Link
4: Robert Buckland (CON - South Swindon) They don’t like it when the truth is explained to them. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
2nd reading Day 1 - Mon 15 Mar 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) What consideration of their rights has been given in the Bill, which will automatically criminalise them - Speech Link
2: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) This Tory Government want to criminalise their way of life at the same time as the Scottish Government - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) The Bill threatens, not just for the act of trespass but for an intention to trespass, to seize and forfeit - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) I warmly welcome the measures to criminalise trespass when it results in unauthorised encampments, causing - Speech Link
5: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) We must do a lot more, and we men must walk in women’s shoes—if you don’t mind the pun—a few more times - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Business and Planning Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 1st sitting (Hansard) - Mon 13 Jul 2020
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Meacher (CB - Life peer) better; yes, it is dangerous, highly addictive and kills people, but never mind—and at the same time criminalise - Speech Link
2: Baroness Doocey (LDEM - Life peer) So as things stand, co-operating on meals and accommodation for two people can easily trespass into regulated - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill
Report stage - Mon 20 Jan 2020
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Warner (CB - Life peer) Does it really make a lot of sense to take the risk that, in 18 months’ time, we will criminalise another - Speech Link
2: Lord Cromwell (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Many from the3million say, “We need physical proof”; the Government simply reply, “No you don’t”, and - Speech Link
3: Lord Hain (LAB - Life peer) The core message was, “Don’t worry. Trust us and it will all be all right on the night.” - Speech Link
4: Lord Howarth of Newport (LAB - Life peer) They have dwelt upon the manner in which Ministers would trespass upon the proper responsibility of the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 04 Dec 2017
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Emma Lewell-Buck (LAB - South Shields) Worse still, this Government have encouraged local authorities to use public place protection orders to criminalise - Speech Link
2: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) representative of the National Police Chiefs Council that the police do have adequate powers, and that unlawful trespass - Speech Link
3: John Bercow (Speaker - Buckingham) If you cannot do it that way, I do not want to be unkind, but don’t bother. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Policing and Crime Bill
Report: 2nd sitting (Hansard): House of Lords - Wed 07 Dec 2016
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Viscount Hailsham (CON - Life peer) That is potentially an offence.My final point—I am sorry to trespass on your Lordships’ patience—relates - Speech Link
2: None First, the obvious question—this relates to the idea that if the system ain’t broke, don’t fix it—is - Speech Link
3: Lord Moynihan (CON - Excepted Hereditary) which is being considered in detail by many other parliaments in the world, leading to legislation to criminalise - Speech Link
4: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” clearly does not apply here. - Speech Link
5: Lord Moynihan (CON - Excepted Hereditary) over many decades the noble Lord, Lord Campbell, has not only been a pioneer but led the campaign to criminalise - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Policing and Crime Bill
Committee: 4th sitting (Hansard - part two): House of Lords - Wed 09 Nov 2016
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe (LAB - Life peer) this and continue to do so in the oral hearings that we are currently running, and I do not want to trespass - Speech Link
2: Lord James of Blackheath (CON - Life peer) I said that I was doing social studies and I was told, “You don’t do them here—get out”. - Speech Link
3: Lord Moynihan (CON - Excepted Hereditary) ministerial answers, during which time many countries have now overtaken us and introduced legislation to criminalise - Speech Link
4: None There is no intention whatever to criminalise an athlete who simply makes a mistake—for example, innocently - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Immigration Bill - Tue 13 Oct 2015
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) It has been a habit in the field of immigration to take the approach that if at first you don’t succeed - Speech Link
2: Damian Collins (CON - Folkestone and Hythe) that there are proper criminal sanctions against people who seek to use criminal damage and criminal trespass - Speech Link
3: Imran Hussain (LAB - Bradford East) The new offence will serve to criminalise workers for the smallest wrongdoings, while making it harder - Speech Link
4: Simon Hoare (CON - North Dorset) When he discovered what I did for a living, he quaked and said, “You don’t want me here, do you? - Speech Link
5: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) There should be strong measures against rogue employers, but it is a mistake to criminalise employees—that - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Deregulation Bill - Mon 23 Jun 2014
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) hundreds of years in fighting for the right of public access, sometimes illegally, including in the mass trespass - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bridgen (CON - North West Leicestershire) Scotland is 66,000, and the rate of evasion is 5%—exactly the same as it is in England, although we criminalise - Speech Link