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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 03 Jul 2025
Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025

"My Lords, I will be brief. Invoking the terrorism laws has consequences and, although I do not object to invoking them in relation to any of these three groups, we need to understand properly what those consequences are. Many people want to speak, and I will make only one point, …..."
Lord Anderson of Ipswich - View Speech

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Written Question
Migrants: Offenders
Tuesday 1st July 2025

Asked by: Lord Anderson of Ipswich (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the letter of 22 May from nine European Presidents and Prime Ministers to the Council of Europe concerning criminal foreign migrants, and (2) the Council of Europe’s response.

Answered by Baroness Chapman of Darlington - Minister of State (Development)

The UK participates in regular engagement with the Council of Europe and its member States, including on the important issues raised in this letter. We agree with the Council of Europe Secretary General that any discussion needs to take place between member States. This was confirmed by the Lord Chancellor in her speech to the Committee of Ministers on 18 June 2025.

Division Vote (Lords)
2 Jun 2025 - Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Lord Anderson of Ipswich (XB) voted Aye and in line with the House
One of 57 Crossbench Aye votes vs 4 Crossbench No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 242 Noes - 116
Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 08 May 2025
Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL]

"My Lords, as the noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate, who is not in his place but currently on the Woolsack, said on Report, the two clauses of this Bill fully reflect neither the nearly 1,000 pages of learning that the Law Commission produced on the subject of digital assets, nor the …..."
Lord Anderson of Ipswich - View Speech

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 25 Mar 2025
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

"My Lords, although I am also a lawyer, I will be brief because the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, has a point. I am rather against rules that require people to be appointed to this House by virtue of offices that they have held. As a former holder of the least …..."
Lord Anderson of Ipswich - View Speech

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 25 Mar 2025
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

"The noble and learned Lord draws a distinction between appointment to the Lords on taking office and appointment at the end of office being served, but we have heard already that the current President of the Supreme Court was appointed to this House on assuming the office—of course, on the …..."
Lord Anderson of Ipswich - View Speech

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Division Vote (Lords)
24 Mar 2025 - Local Authorities (Changes to Years of Ordinary Elections) (England) Order 2025 - View Vote Context
Lord Anderson of Ipswich (XB) voted No and in line with the House
One of 6 Crossbench No votes vs 4 Crossbench Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 139 Noes - 152
Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 10 Mar 2025
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill

"My Lords, I support the amendments that would put HOLAC into statute, for the reasons given by the Convenor of the Cross Benches, which I shall not weary your Lordships by repeating. To the noble Lord, Lord Howard, I would say that, if HOLAC’s procedures are fair and if the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 26 Feb 2025
Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I rise not to support the noble Lord, although it is a pleasure to follow him, but to address government Amendments 44 and 61 in this group, which I have signed, together with government Amendment 55, which will be for another day.

The Constitution Committee has already been …..."
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Division Vote (Lords)
26 Feb 2025 - Product Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL] - View Vote Context
Lord Anderson of Ipswich (XB) voted No and in line with the House
One of 29 Crossbench No votes vs 7 Crossbench Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 177 Noes - 228