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Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 16 — Review of civil partnership (20 May 2013)

Peter Bottomley: We greatly appreciate how the Minister is allowing the debate to evolve. One consideration that would need to be taken into account in respect of civil partnerships—whether it be in five years’ time or straight away—is some of the tax implications. We should think of the elderly orphan who gives up their own home and work to care for an elderly parent, lives in the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (20 May 2013)

Peter Bottomley: May I add to what the Second Church Estates Commissioner said? Obviously, the Churches and faith groups have things to say and things to think about, and decisions that they may have to make, assuming the Bill makes progress. I had intended, if this had been a livelier programme motion debate, to reflect briefly on some of the other significant changes to people’s lives that have passed...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill (Programme) (No. 2) (20 May 2013)

Peter Bottomley: I was going to try to finish my sentence, if I might. If we are going to extend the opportunity and the right to those who qualify and who choose to do so to get married, and recognise the difference between a civil partnership, now accepted, and an equal civil marriage where they are allowed to say “I do” and “I declare”, that is not the biggest thing the House has...

Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

Peter Bottomley: I enjoyed the start of this debate and I recognise that I have not been here for all of the speeches in between, so I am grateful for the chance to say a few words. I want to follow on from the speech by the hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) and the speech made yesterday by my hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Dr Wollaston), who talked about the importance of...

Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

Peter Bottomley: On a point of order, Mr Speaker. An hon. Member has just called across the House, saying, “Stop making that stupid face.” Is that parliamentary language?

Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

Peter Bottomley: I invite my right hon. Friend to join me in congratulating the police on making savings and on working far more effectively in reducing crime. On the issue of antisocial behaviour, will she review whether unauthorised campers and Travellers returning to the same place, doing damage and causing costs can be dealt with more effectively? This sort of antisocial behaviour is not acceptable and it...

Business of the House: Rehabilitation of Offenders (9 May 2013)

Peter Bottomley: The target must be to have fewer crimes committed by fewer people and for criminals to continue committing crimes for a shorter period. Will my right hon. Friend see whether figures can be published every six months on the number of people who have committed a serious criminal offence for the first time, the proxy for which will be those who have been convicted? I believe that the figure is...

Planning Permission (Financial Penalties): Clause 1 — Serious harm (24 April 2013)

Peter Bottomley: I apologise for not being present at the start of the debate, and I am grateful to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Harborough (Sir Edward Garnier) for introducing my interest. I should declare that I have been successful in three major defamation actions, and I hope I shall not have to take another. I want to tell the story of Richard Doll, who drank too much college beer when...

Planning Permission (Financial Penalties): Clause 1 — Serious harm (24 April 2013)

Peter Bottomley: Indeed—that is why my hon. and learned Friend’s career will not be interrupted by the passage of the Bill. Plenty of people will seek his advice. The condition in the proposed new clause in lieu states: “(2) The permission of the court must be obtained in order to bring an action…(3) The court must strike out an application under subsection (2) unless” it can...

Planning Permission (Financial Penalties): Clause 1 — Serious harm (24 April 2013)

Peter Bottomley: I am aware of that—my hon. and learned Friend is guiding me into making my speech longer than I had intended. When I was appointed to the Joint Committee on the draft Defamation Bill, I had hoped that the Government and their Law Officers would introduce positive proposals that went further than the Bill and that gave more power to people to speculate in public, defend their arguments...

Planning Permission (Financial Penalties): Clause 1 — Serious harm (24 April 2013)

Peter Bottomley: Will my hon. and learned Friend give way?

Planning Permission (Financial Penalties): Clause 1 — Serious harm (24 April 2013)

Peter Bottomley: My hon. and learned Friend is absolutely right, but as soon as I saw that he was on his feet, I came as fast as I could, dropping everything else. Last week I voted the way I intend to vote this week.

Planning Permission (Financial Penalties): Clause 1 — Serious harm (24 April 2013)

Peter Bottomley: And I still think I am right. Can my hon. and learned Friend give some examples of where corporations have taken defamation or libel cases that were necessary and could not have been dealt with in another way? As he says, the problem with illustrative cases is that they do not always make good law, but the cases involving Dr Peter Wilmshurst and Simon Singh were examples of how the law did...

Planning Permission (Financial Penalties): Clause 1 — Serious harm (24 April 2013)

Peter Bottomley: That’s age.

Planning Permission (Financial Penalties): Clause 1 — Serious harm (24 April 2013)

Peter Bottomley: It is true.

Planning Permission (Financial Penalties): Clause 1 — Serious harm (24 April 2013)

Peter Bottomley: It is privileged, too.

Sergei Magnitsky Case: Visa Restrictions (16 April 2013)

Peter Bottomley: Would it be possible and diplomatically appropriate for this debate to be passed, with respect, to His Excellency the Russian ambassador in London, with an invitation to have a meeting, on or off the record, with Members of Parliament who are interested in hearing what he has to say, at which he could also, if he would be prepared to, hear what we have to say?

Sergei Magnitsky Case: Visa Restrictions (16 April 2013)

Peter Bottomley: Will my hon. Friend confirm that anyone who puts the words “Russia”, “untouchables” and “Sergei” into a search engine will find the full documented history of what can be proven from Russian documents themselves?

Sergei Magnitsky Case: Visa Restrictions (16 April 2013)

Peter Bottomley: Put simply, this is an issue not of party blocs, but of right and wrong. As the leader of the delegation of British MPs to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, I was pleased that we raised the issue of Sergei Magnitsky at a meeting. The leader of the Russian delegation, Mr Nikolay Kovalyov, who is a member of the Duma and a former director of...

Business without Debate: Arbitration Service for defamation and related civil claims against members of Independent Regulatory Board (16 April 2013)

Peter Bottomley: I want to make two points that were not those I intended to make originally. My third point is that I disagree with my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Harborough (Sir Edward Garnier) almost completely about this, so I will not put those arguments. Tesco Lotus in Thailand sued a journalist for £1.9 million—perhaps it was dollars or something, but it was quite a...