"My Lords, I am speaking here in a personal capacity. My condolences go out to Henry Nowak’s family, because what happened to him should never have happened, and the police should be at fault for what happened on that night. When my son was murdered, nobody stood up and asked …..." Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon - View Speech
"My Lords, I want to ask the Minister about data collection, because so many people are passing away before their claims are even looked at. Does he have any data to show how many people have passed away before being able to have their claims addressed?..." Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon - View Speech
"My Lords, my speech today is on education, and to ask His Majesty’s Government a variety of questions surrounding this important subject, which I am passionate about. This morning, in my capacity as chair of the Race Equality Engagement Group, I attended a round-table discussion with DfE teams that covered …..." Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon - View Speech
"My Lords, I did not intend to speak. I spoke in Committee, and I listened to what the Minister put forward and what the noble Lord on the opposite Bench said about the recording of non-crime hate. It depends on how you see non-crime hate and on who is at …..." Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon - View Speech
"But you would not know until it gets to that point: to violence. If you do not start off with where it starts from, you will never get to the end, whether that is from trivial chat or whatever you want to call it, or playground. Later on, if that …..." Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon - View Speech
"My Lords, I declare my interest as an anti-racism adviser to the Labour leadership. I added my name to Amendment 62 tabled by my noble friend Lady Chakrabarti. I hope noble Lords understand why I have done this, given my years of campaigning for race equality, in the criminal justice …..." Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon - View Speech
"My Lords, the policing Bill stands as an important framework for how we, as a society, respond to acts that cause harm and undermine our shared values. Among its many provisions, one issue demands our urgent attention: the failure to treat racist comments and abuse as crimes when they go …..." Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon - View Speech
"My Lords, what we saw on our TV some weeks ago just goes to show that, since the Macpherson report came out, talking about institutional racism, nothing much has changed. We have talked about it over the past 30 years, but we are still talking about the same thing now. …..." Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon - View Speech
"My Lords, my understanding is that the transatlantic slave trade is always talked about as historical, but if slave owners were receiving money until 2015 then it is not historical. This Government and the previous Government seem to have missed the fact that countries’ resources were reaped and taken, and …..." Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon - View Speech
"My Lords, I, too, went to Rwanda with the noble Lord and, yes, the constitution talks about LGBT rights—but the difference is that those individuals cannot protest, march or make themselves known out in public. That was what they said to us. I spoke to people individually, and that was …..." Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon - View Speech