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Mental Capacity Bill: Clause 2 — People who lack capacity (5 Apr 2005)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...this kind, has been whipped. It has been a tradition of my party—I am not interested in how the other parties conduct themselves—that on issues of conscience such as capital punishment, gay rights or abortion, we are not whipped. I pleaded with the Government, both at meetings of the parliamentary Labour party and at private meetings with the Chief Whip, not to whip us on this...

Written Answers — Treasury: Financial Aid (15 Oct 2002)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...how much has been paid in (a) subsidies, (b) grants, (c) tax reliefs and (d) other financial aid to (i) the farming industry, (ii) other rural recipients, (iii) the black community and (iv) the gay community in the last 12 months for which figures are available.

New Schedule: Sexual conduct to prejudice of good order and discipline (9 May 1996)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...discharged from our armed forces, killed a woman, Louise Jensen, in Cyprus in the most brutal and appalling way. I do not gain any impression from reading press reports of that case that those were gay men who were driven to murder that woman so brutally, yet they have inflicted more discredit on our armed forces than anyone else I can remember in recent years—so much so that the...

New Schedule: Sexual conduct to prejudice of good order and discipline (9 May 1996)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: Is the hon. Lady aware that, today, I had a conversation with an Israeli reserve service man who told me that, not only is there no ban on gay or lesbian people in the Israeli army, but that a known Israeli homosexual was promoted as an officer? He has died, and the Israeli army is now considering whether it should award a pension to his male partner.

Policing (London) (28 Jun 1985)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...Home Secretary gives his priorities to the House of Commons. The cuts in VAT and Inland Revenue staff —[Interruption.] The Home Secretary had better tell us whether he regards books sold by "Gay's The Word" as a greater narcotic than the kind of drugs that we are seeking to fight, against which the Government's fight has been faltering since they came to office. The cuts in VAT and...

Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill: Sexual Offences Act 1956 (c. 69) (29 Oct 1984)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...8212;although it is now clear that the alleged offence did not take place—is to stretch hypocrisy to its limits. What is in the mind of a person such as that to dress like that and go into a gay club? As my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith) and the Minister said., a policeman dressed in a uniform will stop anything that the police want to stop. The...

Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill: Establishment of the Police Complaints Authority (29 Oct 1984)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ..., but to use the phrase in a pejorative manner is highly objectionable. My own police authority in Greater Manchester, for example, is excellent. The chairwoman of that authority, councillor Gay Cox, is an outstanding member of the local authority, deeply concerned about law and order but equally and properly concerned about the necessity for proper accountability of the police to the...

Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill: Powers of Arrest for Offences Contrary to Section 32 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 (14 May 1984)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: .... If the Under-Secretary of State has the statistics, I should like him to say how many policemen in London find themselves diverted from fighting real crime to these unsavoury duties of going into gay clubs and hanging round public lavatories, surely one of the most unattactivee duties that any policeman can be called upon to carry out. Our constituents want the bobby on the beat...

Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill: Powers of Arrest for Offences Contrary to Section 32 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 (14 May 1984)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...function in speaking up on behalf of the Police Federation. This evening he provided us with a touching picture, in its way, of a policeman who just happens, on his way home, to slip into a gay club—as so many policemen do. It turns out that he has slipped into this gay club to stop a fight that has broken out. To his horror, while he is separating the combatants, he receives an...

Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill: Powers of Arrest for Offences Contrary to Section 32 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 (14 May 1984)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: ...responsibility of being Front Bench spokesman on these matters I have received a considerable amount of correspondence from people who are extremely concerned about the raids being carried out on gay clubs or raids such as those on public houses or the "Gay's the Word" bookshop to which my hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) and others have referred. What on...

Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill: Powers of Arrest for Offences Contrary to Section 32 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 (14 May 1984)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: Can the hon. Gentleman explain to me how an officer who is off duty and going home comes upon an offence in a gay club?

Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill: Powers of Arrest for Offences Contrary to Section 32 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 (14 May 1984)

Mr Gerald Kaufman: Would my hon. Friend care to speculate upon the possibility of complaints from the "League of Soho Mothers" against entrapment in Soho gay clubs?