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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 13 January 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

I wonder whether we might look back through Hansard at the debates on a Bill we dealt with a few years ago. We were looking at protests near abortion clinics. After a rather difficult Committee debate, a group of us got together from across the House and produced an amendment for Report, which won the House over quite substantially. It was looking at how much of a protest can be directed at a particular thing close to the site where it is taking place, when people are lawfully seeking to access, in those cases, a legitimate medical facility. It may help if, before Report, the Minister has a look back through Hansard to see how we solved that tricky issue and whether that might be applied to this clause.

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