Debate on bill and Committee of the Whole House (HL) on Tuesday, 27 January 2026, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Hanson of Flint and Lord Katz. The answering member was Lord Davies of Gower.

Crime and Policing Bill

Lords committee stage thirteenth day. (Part 1 of 3).

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 852 cc721-754
Session: 2024-26
Department: Home Office
Legislative stage: Committee stage
Procedure: New clauses
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Related items: Crime and Policing Bill 2024-26. Brought from the Commons
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Bills
House of Lords; Legislative scrutiny: Crime and Policing Bill. Joint Committee on Human Rights fifth report
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
House of Lords; Crime and Policing Bill. Constitution Committee eleventh report
Wednesday, 23 July 2025
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords; Crime and Policing Bill. Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee thirty-third report
Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords; Crime and Policing Bill: Government response. Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee forty-first report
Monday, 15 December 2025
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords; Crime and Policing Bill
Tuesday, 27 January 2026
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Lords; Crime and Policing Bill
Tuesday, 27 January 2026
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions: Lord Hogan-Howe | 852 cc721-2 (Link to this contribution)
Moved by
Lord Hogan-Howe
435: After Clause 166, insert the following new Clause—
<...; Lord Hogan-Howe | 852 cc723-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I rise to support and move the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Bailey, to...; Lord Bach | 852 c725 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have put my name to Amendment 435 and, of course, I support Amendment 438A from the n...; Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington | 852 cc725-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, support this amendment, following on from what both noble Lords have said. Poli...; Lord Sentamu | 852 c726 (Link to this contribution)
I, too, support the shortest of all the amendments. My noble friend Lord Hogan-Howe’s Amendment 4...; Baroness Doocey | 852 c727 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, from these Benches there is strong support for Amendments 435 and 438A, which would fin...; Lord Davies of Gower | 852 cc727-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Bailey of Paddington and the noble Lord, Lord Hog...; Lord Hanson of Flint | 852 cc728-730 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Hogan-Howe, for highlighting the amendments that ...; Lord Hogan-Howe | 852 cc730-1 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the Minister for such a constructive response and of course I thank everyone for their su...; Lord Davies of Gower | 852 c731 (Link to this contribution)
Can I raise one point with the noble Lord? It seems to me—certainly from reflecting on my own pol...; Lord Hogan-Howe | 852 c731 (Link to this contribution)
The noble Lord, Lord Davies, makes a really good point: are we training our managers and supervis...; Baroness Neville-Rolfe | 852 c731 (Link to this contribution)
Moved by
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
436: After Clause 166, insert the following new Claus...; Baroness Neville-Rolfe | 852 cc731-3 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in moving my Amendment 436, I will also speak to my Amendment 437. I thank my noble fri...; Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 852 cc733-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is a pleasure, as ever, to support my noble friend in her Amendments 436 and 437. Sh...; Baroness Fox of Buckley | 852 cc735-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I totally support Amendment 436 on the collection of enforcement data; the noble Barone...; Baroness Doocey | 852 cc736-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, Amendment 437 calls for a review of the volume of paperwork that police officers must c...; Lord Davies of Gower | 852 cc737-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe for tabling her two amendments. I begin with...; Lord Hanson of Flint | 852 cc738-740 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, for her continued interest in improving...; Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 852 c740 (Link to this contribution)
I am old enough to remember the last time that we looked at regional police forces. That was unde...; Lord Hanson of Flint | 852 c740 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the noble Lord for that. I refer him to the first line of paragraph 281 of the p...; Baroness Neville-Rolfe | 852 cc740-1 (Link to this contribution)
I think this has been a constructive discussion with a good tone. I thank the Minister for his co...; Baroness Cash | 852 cc741-2 (Link to this contribution)
Moved by
Baroness Cash
438B: After Clause 166, insert the following new Clause—; Baroness Cash | 852 cc742-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 438B, the wording of which is intended to be replaced by Amend...; Baroness Fox of Buckley | 852 cc744-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have enthusiastically added my name to Amendment 438B, now replaced by Amendment 438E...; Baroness Chakrabarti | 852 cc746-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I just looked about my person at my identification documents and found my House of Lord...; Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 852 c747 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. All of us who care about the safety, security...; Baroness Chakrabarti | 852 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to the noble Lord for his intervention, but that is a separate issue—it is about wh...; Baroness Cash | 852 cc722-748 (Link to this contribution)
I have never spoken in this Chamber on digital ID; I want to make that clear for the record, beca...; Baroness Chakrabarti | 852 c748 (Link to this contribution)
As a woman, I have often been called emotional in debate, but that is the nature of the patriarch...; Baroness Fox of Buckley | 852 cc727-9 (Link to this contribution)
Can the noble Baroness clarify a couple of things? First, does she recognise any problems at all ...; Baroness Chakrabarti | 852 c730 (Link to this contribution)
To be clear, a perpetrator is someone who is convicted, not anyone who is arrested. As I tried to...; Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 852 cc731-750 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have attached my name to this amendment. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buck...; Baroness Donaghy | 852 cc750-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am not a great legal mind, I am afraid; I am not even a legal mind. Many people would...; Lord Strasburger | 852 c751 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I will not detain the Committee—; Baroness Chakrabarti | 852 c736 (Link to this contribution)
The noble Lord was not here at the start of the debate.; Baroness Donaghy | 852 cc738-740 (Link to this contribution)
The noble Lord was not here at the start of the debate.
1.15 pm; Baroness Brinton | 852 cc740-752 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful for all the contributions to this, as usual, heated debate about recordin...; Lord Moynihan of Chelsea | 852 c752 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I rise very briefly to speak.; Baroness Brinton | 852 c753 (Link to this contribution)
It is Front-Bench speeches.; Baroness Chakrabarti | 852 c742 (Link to this contribution)
It is Front-Bench speeches.; Lord Katz | 852 c744 (Link to this contribution)
The noble Lord has the right to speak in Committee, of course. Conventionally, we tend not to hea...; Lord Moynihan of Chelsea | 852 cc746-7 (Link to this contribution)
I thank the noble Lord, Lord Katz. I will make three very brief points. The first is that the Sup...; Lord Davies of Gower | 852 cc754-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have spoken, and I am grateful to my noble friend Lady...; Lord Katz | 852 cc755-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Cash, for her Amendment 438B and the subsequent Amendm...; Baroness Fox of Buckley | 852 c756 (Link to this contribution)
May I just clarify one question? Could the noble Lord explain the Government’s attitude to the Su...; Lord Katz | 852 c756 (Link to this contribution)
As the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, said, there was certainly a lot of work done. I believe that it ...; Baroness Cash | 852 cc750-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am sincerely grateful to everyone who has spoken and to the winding speakers today. I...; Baroness Brinton | 852 c757 (Link to this contribution)
I am very grateful for that last point. The point I raised was that the data is so small that if ...; Baroness Cash | 852 c757 (Link to this contribution)
That has not concerned His Majesty’s inspectorate, the Ministry of Justice or, indeed, Professor ...; Lord Wilson of Sedgefield | 852 c757 (Link to this contribution)
Is the noble Baroness prepared to push this to a vote or withdraw? We have had the debate. There ...; Baroness Cash | 852 c752 (Link to this contribution)
With enormous apologies, I was responding to the question from the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton. ...; Baroness Cash | 852 cc753-8 (Link to this contribution)
Moved by
Baroness Cash
438C: After Clause 166, insert the following new Clause—; Baroness Cash | 852 cc758-760 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am sorry—it is me again.
I very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Katz, for the ...
Notes: Northern Ireland legislative consent granted, Scottish and Welsh legislative consent sought.
Subjects: Disclosure of information Accountability Criminal investigation Bureaucracy Ethnic groups Offenders Police Prosecutions Standards Sex Suicide Artificial intelligence
Legislation: Crime and Policing Bill 2024-26
Link: View this Parliamentary proceeding on hansard.parliament.uk

Crime and Policing Bill

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