"Okay; that is helpful. I thank my noble friend, and I am sure the Government will respond to that. But if part of the purpose of this is to ensure that it meets the concern my noble friend set out—that people may, to use his words, be prevented from getting …..." Lord Herbert of South Downs - View Speech
"My Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the register of interests showing that I am the chair of the College of Policing. We are broadly in agreement about the way forward. There is a large measure of agreement that the current system of non-crime hate incidents is no …..." Lord Herbert of South Downs - View Speech
"My Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the register of interests. I chair the College of Policing, but I am not speaking in that capacity, nor have I spoken to policing colleagues about this matter.
"But my argument was against the proposal that these offences in their entirety should be rejected by this House—that the Government’s proposal in its entirety should be rejected by this House. I was not engaging with my noble friend’s argument. I have some sympathy with his point, and in particular …..." Lord Herbert of South Downs - View Speech
"I am grateful for the noble Baroness’s intervention. This issue merits further and deeper discussion, which is a matter for the Government to address. Yes, of course, the whole principle of aggravated offences and hate crime is that it may involve an infringement upon free speech. The judgment that we …..." Lord Herbert of South Downs - View Speech
"My Lords, I too am puzzled why it is not possible to include this wording in the Bill. Given that the Bill makes provision for the construction of a Holocaust memorial and learning centre, why on earth can we not define what the learning centre is for? However, I accept …..." Lord Herbert of South Downs - View Speech
"My Lords, I draw attention to my declaration in the register of interests that I am chair of the College of Policing.
As I said at Second Reading, we need to remember that there were benign reasons for the introduction of this regime over three decades ago; what the noble …..." Lord Herbert of South Downs - View Speech
"My Lords, in the two minutes I have been allotted, another four people globally will die from tuberculosis. That is 1.25 million people a year. It is the world’s deadliest disease and still exacts this terrible toll, quite unnecessarily.
"My Lords, I draw attention to my interest declared in the register as chair of the College of Policing.
For our police service, founded on the principle of consent, to be effective, the trust and confidence of the communities they serve is essential. But the proportion of the public who …..." Lord Herbert of South Downs - View Speech