Viscount Colville of Culross
Former Crossbench Peer
Former Crossbench Peer
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My Lords, I have an amendment in this group that deals with the matter in the opposite way from the Government. I hope that there will be an answer to the point, to which the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay, has already adverted and which the noble and learned Lord, Lord Archer of Sandwell, and the noble Lord, Lord Thomas of Gresford, rehearsed on Report, about how the defence will work....
I had no intention of doing that; I wish to take out the law enforcement agencies and leave in the Security Service and the intelligence services.
My Lords, as my Amendment 22 is grouped with this, perhaps I may be allowed to speak at this stage. Rather like my noble and learned friend Lord Woolf, I thought that by this time there would not be much more to say but, like him, I find that there is a little to say. I do not understand the position of the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart. The security services and the intelligence services still...
Former Crossbench Peer
Entered the House of Lords in 1945
Left the House of Lords on 8 April 2010 — Died
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