Baroness Chakrabarti

Baroness Chakrabarti

The Rt Hon. the Baroness Chakrabarti CBE

Labour
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Member since 5 September 2016

Recent Debate Contributions

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“Hillsborough Law”

23/07/2025Lords

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I am grateful to my noble friend, as always, for repeating the Government’s commitment to introduce the Hillsborough law, but I am afraid that the fam...
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My Lords, I am quite convinced from listening to these exchanges that my noble friend the Minister well understands the relevant law here, but I am no...
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Afghanistan

15/07/2025Lords

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My Lords, the logic behind the basic injunction to protect these vulnerable people in the wake of a catastrophic data breach is understandable and the...
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My Lords, I pay tribute to my noble friend the Minister for his long public service as a lay magistrate, as I do to Sir Brian for his long public serv...
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I am sorry to come in on the coat-tails of the noble Lord, Lord Alton, again. My noble friend the Minister discussed the need for flexibility. Surely ...
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As a supplement to that, I add that the balance is already there in the international standards, in things such as making sure there is an appropriate...
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Given that my noble friend knows what the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, means, and given that he has parliamentary counsel at his disposal, might he co...
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I am sorry, but this is Committee, where we look at the minutiae of amendments. I plead with the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, to look at the amendments i...
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I am grateful, as always, to my noble friend. Since the groundbreaking Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, in which noble Lords opposite may take s...
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To ask His Majesty’s Government whether they plan to introduce legislation to regulate the procurement and use of facial recognition technology by the...
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Israel and Iran

18/06/2025Lords

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My Lords, does my noble friend agree that, where possible, whether in this dangerous situation or any other, without compromising
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Employment Rights Bill

17/06/2025Lords

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My apologies to the Committee. It has of course been 75 years since the European Convention on Human Rights and 50 years since equal pay legislation—f...
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My Lords, I am sure that we are all incredibly grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Casey, for this work, as in her previous independent inquiries on ...
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