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Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage - Thu 05 Feb 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) for fairness and the rule of law. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) press and the press headlines that they are not prepared to change the law. - Speech Link
3: None I do not understand how anybody can look at the spy cops inquiry and not seek to change the law. - Speech Link
4: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) We look to our government to change the law to work to bring the people responsible for such war crimes - Speech Link
5: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) , and it now needs a change in the law. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Rural Crime - Thu 27 Feb 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kevin McKenna (Lab - Sittingbourne and Sheppey) loads of unprocessed waste, which is dug into the ground and left for the birds to eat and spread around - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) and Courts Act 2022, which increased the maximum sentence for hare coursing from a fine to six months - Speech Link
3: Alex Brewer (LD - North East Hampshire) It is time for the Government to step up to ensure the safety and dignity of our farmers and to put an - Speech Link
4: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) of sentencing powers, including new ancillary orders, to deal with hare coursing offences.”Hare coursing - Speech Link
5: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham) reforming policing to make it fit for the future and to give it the structures and capabilities it needs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Violence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justice - Wed 15 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) But why are the Government not listening to them? Labour is, and we will change the law. - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) To increase public confidence in policing, the Bill provides for a duty of candour for policing, and - Speech Link
3: Jack Lopresti (Con - Filton and Bradley Stoke) how the Bill empowers our policemen and women to enforce the law better and to stand up for the victims - Speech Link
4: Neil Hudson (Con - Penrith and The Border) The Sentencing Bill will introduce steps to ensure tougher sentences for criminals and increase the confidence - Speech Link
5: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) to double the sentence for supplying a knife to an under-18 and to double the sentence for possessing - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 10 Jan 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) Again, I thank him and pay tribute to him for the work he did. - Speech Link
2: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) through the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 by introducing new hare coursing offences - Speech Link
3: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) There has been a step change and an increase in sentences for burglary, as well as the measures we are - Speech Link
4: Alison McGovern (LAB - Wirral South) My constituents and I are waiting for the Government to introduce a Hillsborough law that will change - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Equipment Theft (Prevention) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 02 Dec 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Ben Everitt (CON - Milton Keynes North) It is easy to say that the best security advice for farmers and ATV owners is to take the key out, but - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (CON - Buckingham) nightmare for police and law enforcement to track it and return it to its rightful owner. - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (CON - Buckingham) officers have the training to understand all forms of rural crime, including hare coursing, and particular - Speech Link
4: Jane Hunt (CON - Loughborough) and the academic community to tackle the markets for stolen goods. - Speech Link
5: Tom Randall (CON - Gedling) people in the industry to keep their eyes open and their ear to the ground for any information, and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Mon 28 Feb 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) for a change in the law in this area. - Speech Link
2: Ellie Reeves (LAB - Lewisham West and Penge) of the Bill to increase protections for children, and supported Tony’s law in Committee. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) Member and to Tony’s family and others who have campaigned for the change in the law. - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) I am also grateful to Members for their strong support for the hare coursing changes that the Government - Speech Link
5: Olivia Blake (LAB - Sheffield, Hallam) to the streets time and again to fight for the right to vote. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Hare Coursing Bill - Fri 21 Jan 2022
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Richard Fuller (CON - North East Bedfordshire) include a new offence of going equipped for hare coursing, introduce a power for the police to seize - Speech Link
2: Mike Wood (CON - Dudley South) Hare coursing is wrong, illegal, cruel to the hares, often cruel to the dogs and, as my hon. - Speech Link
3: Paul Howell (CON - Sedgefield) The act of hare coursing is cruel and barbaric and has seen the brown hare population drop to less than - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Report stage - Mon 17 Jan 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sandhurst (CON - Excepted Hereditary) freedom expression and to the need for those in authority to understand and reflect that the right to - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) the circumstances in which the police can investigate and bring charges for activity related to hare - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) Now is the time for all of us to show some leadership, to close the gap in our law and to state clearly - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Lords Hansard - part one - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None powers available to the police and the courts for dealing with illegal hare coursers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops) need the backing of the law to properly deal with illegal hare coursing and I ask the Minister to provide - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) Now is the time to change the way hare coursing is prosecuted to ensure that successful prosecutions - Speech Link
4: None Those involved in poaching and hare coursing need to understand that the Government are serious in dealing - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)
Committee stage: 20th sitting - Thu 24 Jun 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None to put into law the advice at para 6.3 of the Sentencing Guideline on sentencing children and young - Speech Link
2: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) The hare coursing season, for want of a better word, runs from August to March, between the harvest being - Speech Link
3: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) The distress to the affected families will only continue to rise without a change in the law. - Speech Link