Member

The noble Lord, Lord Davies of Gower, has Amendments 373 to 378, which are all amendments to Amendment 372. The intention of these amendments is to enable the police to take into account not the cumulative impact of protests in the same geographical area but rather the cumulative impact of protests about the same subject matter. While I acknowledge the sentiment behind the noble Lord’s proposals, the suggested amendment would fundamentally change the nature of the cumulative disruption provision from protecting a community in a geographical area to considering only the subject matter of the protest when considering cumulative impact. This would result in conditions being placed on repeated protests on the same subject matter, regardless of the location of the protest.