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Police Reform Bill [HL] (5 Feb 2002)

Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: My Lords, it is extremely difficult to win support for change, not least in the public services. Your Lordships' House and another place demonstrate that close to home. But change there needs to be, as the Bill proposes, if the police service is to be enabled and encouraged consistently to deliver what the communities it serves expect of it. The job we ask our police officers to do is...

Freedom of Information (5 Dec 2001)

Lord Corbett of Castle Vale: ...the Act could have been brought in sooner and its various provisions made operative in a different order. But I do not believe that those complaints should be allowed to mask the important culture change which the passing of this Act involves. It is a huge and very significant step forward in the governance of this country. In my view it is more important in an age of what I call XBig...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Cyprus (12 Feb 1997)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...House a commitment that he will do all that he can to encourage contacts between politicians, teachers, doctors, lawyers, trade unionists, business people and others from both communities to try to change the climate in favour of a settlement of the Cyprus problem?

Domestic and Satellite Broadcasting (19 May 1989)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...the so-called potential for subscription television, which would mean loss of access for all for the payment of a licence fee, they say little or nothing about the future financing of radio in this climate. That is left open, which raises a suspicion that the Government simply are not concerned with the maintenance of the BBC in its present form, which enables it to provide such an...

New Clause 14: Misuse of Drugs Act 1971: Altera Tion of Penalties and Other Amendments (13 Jul 1977)

Mr Robin Corbett: ...drugs without formal arrest. I stress again that there is nothing in what is proposed that would legalise cannabis taking. Since the passage of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 there has been a much-changed climate of medical, public and international opinion over cannabis, and it is right that the matter should be debated in this House. Just as it is being argued that cannabis should more...