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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 1 November 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Clarke of Nottingham.
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. Report stage second day. New clauses considered and added to the Bill. Debate adjourned. Bill to be further considered tomorrow.
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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
534 c783-894 
Session
2010-12
Department
Ministry of Justice
Legislative stage
Report stage
Procedure
New clauses
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. As amended in Public Bill Committee.
Thursday, 13 October 2011
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Deposited Paper DEP2011-1870
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
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Deposited Paper DEP2011-1869
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Deposited papers
House of Commons
The Government's proposed reform of legal aid. Government reponse to the Justice Select Committee's third report of session 2010-11. (HC 681).
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
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Proceeding contributions
Jack Straw | 534 c836 (Link to this contribution) Surely, the firm would get paid for the costs it had incurred. Indeed, it would not pass on the file...
Bob Blackman | 534 c836 (Link to this contribution) The other problem is that if solicitors did not believe that they would get paid for the work, they ...

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Louise Ellman | 534 c835 (Link to this contribution) I welcome tonight's discussion about action on referral fees. In March, the Transport Committee prod...
Kate Green | 534 c837 (Link to this contribution) I, too, am keen to ask the Minister some questions, similar to those put by the hon. Member for Harr...
Bob Blackman | 534 c837 (Link to this contribution) As I said, I hope to get clarity at the conclusion of the debate, because this is clearly a problem....
Lord Beith | 534 c840 (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Member for North Durham (Mr Jones), I had coal mines in my constituency. There were th...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c840-2 (Link to this contribution) We have had a good, far-ranging debate this afternoon. Given that another important debate needs to ...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c851 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Crispin Blunt | 534 c851-2 (Link to this contribution) The new clauses are designed to remove the upper limits on the fines that can currently be imposed i...
Lord Beith | 534 c853-4 (Link to this contribution) How nice it is to hear the hon. Member for Hammersmith (Mr Slaughter) in conciliatory mood. The Mini...
Gareth Johnson | 534 c854 (Link to this contribution) Although I support the Government's proposals, it would make sense to remove the upper limit on fina...
Jack Straw | 534 c842 (Link to this contribution) When I made my point about the banning of referral fees being backed by the criminal law, the Lord C...
Jack Straw | 534 c829-31 (Link to this contribution) As a preliminary, I wish to draw the House's attention to the fact that against my name on the amend...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c826-7 (Link to this contribution) Following what my right hon. Friend the shadow Secretary of State for Justice said earlier this afte...
Jack Straw | 534 c833-4 (Link to this contribution) Christopher Graham, the distinguished Information Commissioner, made the point that one reason why t...
Speaker | 534 c864-5 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Crispin Blunt | 534 c864 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Crispin Blunt | 534 c866 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her intervention and for bringing her constituent to see me. I a...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c864 (Link to this contribution) The home owner will have much greater reassurance about exercising their rights. [Interruption.] It ...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c863-4 (Link to this contribution) I will turn to the remarks of the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Mr Llwyd) towards the en...
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c858 (Link to this contribution) May I suggest to the Minister that legislating is not all about giving out signals and that it is ab...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c856 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Geoffrey Cox | 534 c862 (Link to this contribution) Of course I agree with almost every word that the right hon. Gentleman is saying, but does he not ag...
Geoffrey Cox | 534 c860 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman did not do this and neither did his Government. In seeking to codify the co...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c860 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the hon. and learned Gentleman welcomed the Labour Government's section 76, but it is...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c858-9 (Link to this contribution) First, may I say, for the avoidance of doubt, that Labour Members do not intend to oppose new clause...
Geoffrey Cox | 534 c859 (Link to this contribution) I understand the import and effect of the right hon. Gentleman's criticisms, but what was done by se...
John McDonnell | 534 c874-5 (Link to this contribution) I want to follow on from the previous debate and the discussion of the method of making legislation....
Jeremy Corbyn | 534 c869-70 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is old enough to recall the lengthy consultation that took place before the 1977 Act ...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c870-2 (Link to this contribution) I think I was doing my politics A-level at the time, so I might have studied the Act as part of that...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c868 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely support the measures being brought forward by my colleagues at the Department for Commu...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c868-9 (Link to this contribution) It is pleasure to have the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, the hon. Member for Reigate (Mr Blu...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c867-8 (Link to this contribution) That is not strictly within the terms of what is proposed here. The effect would be to criminalise t...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c888-9 (Link to this contribution) It is pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bradford East (Mr Ward), with the undoubted candour tha...
Caroline Lucas | 534 c886 (Link to this contribution) The legal redress is to ask them to leave. If the squatters refuse to leave, they are committing a c...
David Nuttall | 534 c884-5 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support new clause 26 and I start by paying tribute to my hon. Friends the Members for Hov...
Baroness Hoey | 534 c883-4 (Link to this contribution) I, too, wish to congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) on ...
Mike Weatherley | 534 c885 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is under a misapprehension. The person who comes back from holiday and finds their hom...
Caroline Lucas | 534 c885 (Link to this contribution) I share the concerns that have been expressed by many Opposition Members about the Government's prop...
Tom Brake | 534 c883 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Lady may, if she examines her constituency cases, find some examples where peo...
Nadine Dorries | 534 c883 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman truly saying that neighbours on either side of a property would prefer t...
Tom Brake | 534 c883 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his intervention, which provides its own explanation. The final po...
Speaker | 534 c880 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his brevity.
John McDonnell | 534 c876-7 (Link to this contribution) I wholeheartedly agree. Let me press on, because others want to speak. Clearly there are a small nu...
Andrew George | 534 c876 (Link to this contribution) Just so we are clear about the hon. Gentleman's position, does he agree that it is unacceptable for ...
John McDonnell | 534 c876 (Link to this contribution) I went through 13 years of new Labour, so commenting on short-term populism might not be the most ap...
Kelvin Hopkins | 534 c876 (Link to this contribution) Is there not a hint of short-term populism in what the Government are doing? Does my hon. Friend thi...
John McDonnell | 534 c875 (Link to this contribution) I cannot accept that when section 7 enables people to request squatters to leave. If they do not, th...
Jeremy Corbyn | 534 c876 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend inform the House exactly when new clause 26 was published and how long people ha...
John McDonnell | 534 c876 (Link to this contribution) The point made by most people in the consultation, including the police, is that if elements of sect...
John McDonnell | 534 c876 (Link to this contribution) I will, but I would like to press on, because others want to speak.
Mike Weatherley | 534 c875 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman not agree that the squatters should not be there to start with?
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c783 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Given that my financial interests have today once again ...
Speaker | 534 c783 (Link to this contribution) The short answer to the hon. Gentleman is that it is for Members to take responsibility for their ow...
Karl Turner | 534 c783 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Speaker. May I have some guidance on whether it is appropriate for the Under...
Speaker | 534 c783 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has put the position, including new evidence, very clearly on the record. However, poin...
Lord Blunkett | 534 c785 (Link to this contribution) I shall be extremely brief, given the time. It would be helpful, following the Secretary of State's ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c785 (Link to this contribution) The new clauses and schedules relate to the abolition of sentences of imprisonment for public protec...
Speaker | 534 c784 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c784 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c787 (Link to this contribution) I will now take some interventions, and then go on as quickly as I can to describe the much better, ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c786-7 (Link to this contribution) I said that I would give way when I had finished my general points, and I will do so in a few moment...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c785-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, and I will remember the need for extreme brevity. I am gr...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c786 (Link to this contribution) Normally I would give way, and if we had a full day of debate, I would have expected to give way to ...
Speaker | 534 c785 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the right hon. Gentleman that he may have finished, but he should not take so long i...
Jack Straw | 534 c789 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman explain the practical difference between an offender who i...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c788-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's last point is perfectly fair, and I am about to make some points that should reassu...
Philip Davies | 534 c788 (Link to this contribution) Is not the fact of the matter that indeterminate sentences have a very low reoffending rate, and tha...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c787-8 (Link to this contribution) I do not claim rank for Mr Godwin, but I quoted what he has said behalf of ACPO. Of course there are...
Lord Beith | 534 c789 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with what my right hon. and learned Friend is trying to do, but he is writing what...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c789 (Link to this contribution) I shall just finish explaining this point and then answer questions. The new sentence can be given ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c787 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful, and I really would be astonished if I had managed to make myself more radical th...
Derek Twigg | 534 c787 (Link to this contribution) Has the Secretary of State been listening to police officers such as the one in my constituency who ...
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c787 (Link to this contribution) I actually agree with doing away with IPP sentences. It is costing about £70 million per annum to ke...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c791 (Link to this contribution) Because the judge, in full knowledge of the circumstances of the offence and the offender, has decid...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c792-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Justice Secretary."““Public safety remains our primary concern and indeterminate sentenc...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c791-2 (Link to this contribution) It is not. What I think the right hon. Gentleman is saying—I will listen to him in a moment—is that ...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c793-4 (Link to this contribution) We now know that, when this Government review policy, it means that they abolish it. This is the sam...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c793 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman seems to be using his time to complain about not having enough time. Before...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c790-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to the Parole Board before I conclude my remarks, but we are not taking away its power:...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c791 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way one last time, because I am trying to be brief so that we can have a debate.
Jack Straw | 534 c791 (Link to this contribution) Some 40% of discretionary and mandatory lifers are post-tariff. They have to prove that it is safe t...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c795 (Link to this contribution) There is no qualification for a life sentence. People can be sent down for a life sentence for their...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c794 (Link to this contribution) They will not. The right hon. and learned Gentleman's proposals require there to have been a first o...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c795 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman clearly did not understand my question. He gave some dreadful descriptions ...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c795 (Link to this contribution) I could not have demolished the arguments better than the right hon. and learned Gentleman just has....
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c794 (Link to this contribution) Can the right hon. Gentleman think of any good reason why, given the remarks he has provided about t...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c798 (Link to this contribution) It is being done to save money.
Sadiq Khan | 534 c795-6 (Link to this contribution) I realise that the Justice Secretary has not practised law recently, but if a judge could deliver a ...
Graham Stuart | 534 c796 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has cited cases, and appalling cases at that, in which he feels that an ind...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c796-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to the challenges posed by IPP sentencing. I accept that criticisms could be made about...
Philip Davies | 534 c797-8 (Link to this contribution) Unlike the Front Benchers, I will try to keep my speech brief so as to allow other Members to contri...
Philip Davies | 534 c799 (Link to this contribution) I have a lot of sympathy with what the shadow Secretary of State says. The point is that, at the mom...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c799 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman realise that the new proposals mean that it is possible for somebody to rece...
Philip Davies | 534 c798-9 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Secretary of State has hit the nail on the head. The Secretary of State started off in hi...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c800 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to intervene but, for the benefit of the debate on the other subject, may I assure the ho...
Kate Green | 534 c799-800 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right and he has raised this issue in the House and with the Lord C...
Paul Maynard | 534 c799 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to support this new clause. Does the hon. Lady agree that although this might seem li...
Kate Green | 534 c799 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for diverting the House to a rather different part of the debate, but my new clause 3, w...
Jack Straw | 534 c801 (Link to this contribution) I endorse the remarks of my right hon. Friend the Member for Tooting (Sadiq Khan) and the hon. Membe...
Lord Beith | 534 c800-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston (Kate Green) must be delighted that so brief and concise a...
Kate Green | 534 c800 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the Lord Chancellor, as will be the many disabled people and their famili...
Lord Beith | 534 c825 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend has indicated, I strongly support the action he is taking, but is it not the case ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c824-5 (Link to this contribution) New clauses 18 to 22 seek to prohibit the payment and receipt of referral fees in personal injury ca...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c826 (Link to this contribution) Alternative business structures will be set up by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, probably befo...
Kate Green | 534 c826 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister not concerned that that might introduce an element of uncertainty? Although I note w...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c825-6 (Link to this contribution) The reason is that criminalisation would be too blunt an instrument. If we take the example of the s...
Jack Straw | 534 c825 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for the generous compliment he paid me, for which I am most grateful. There are...
Jack Straw | 534 c802 (Link to this contribution) It would have been helpful to have the impact statement before the House today rather than tomorrow....
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c802 (Link to this contribution) May I correct the right hon. Gentleman? The impact statement will show the Bill as amended. Other th...
Jack Straw | 534 c802 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. and learned Gentleman will excuse me, I will not. The Lord Chancellor has been anxious ...
Geoffrey Cox | 534 c802 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c805 (Link to this contribution) That is certainly reassuring, but had we had a decent amount of time to discuss the proposals we cou...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c805 (Link to this contribution) I shall correspond with the right hon. Gentleman and the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (S...
Guy Opperman | 534 c803 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as a former barrister and a former criminal prosecutor, who has worked on seve...
Speaker | 534 c803 (Link to this contribution) Order. May we have brevity? We want to hear as many speakers as possible.
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c804-5 (Link to this contribution) I am in favour of the Government's decision to scrap IPP sentences in this instance. Liberty, among ...
Paul Goggins | 534 c803-4 (Link to this contribution) I share the concerns expressed by hon. and right hon. Members on both sides of the House, but I am g...
Bob Blackman | 534 c836 (Link to this contribution) I, fortunately, have not been the victim of a car crash or accident at work, although, judging from ...
Speaker | 534 c857 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments 136 and 141.
Jeremy Corbyn | 534 c880-2 (Link to this contribution) Like other speakers, I shall be as brief as possible, because a good many Members clearly want to sa...
Speaker | 534 c785 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Gentleman knows that he should make a short intervention, not a speech at this...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c827-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's intervention. I am sure that some companies have been driven out ...
Tracey Crouch | 534 c875 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not consider that one of the flaws with the current legislation is section 6...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c789 (Link to this contribution) Well, there are differences in the regime, the sentence planning and so on, but not very many. I wil...
Robert Buckland | 534 c805 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief. I support the Government's amendments. We need a system that does not try to predi...
Joan Ruddock | 534 c886 (Link to this contribution) In my surgeries now for the first time I am seeing people who are not in the categories that the hon...
Simon Hughes | 534 c883 (Link to this contribution) I just want to try to disabuse the hon. Lady of a simplistic view about this. The council had determ...
Tom Brake | 534 c882-3 (Link to this contribution) Squatting clearly has a devastating impact on private owners, and it can also have a devastating imp...
Mike Freer | 534 c879-80 (Link to this contribution) I commend the Minister for listening to our concerns and introducing these proposals. I also pay tri...
John McDonnell | 534 c877-9 (Link to this contribution) I believe that it will damage a large number people's lives, some of whom are squatting at the momen...
Baroness Hoey | 534 c877 (Link to this contribution) I entirely support what my hon. Friend is saying. Does he agree that this will be particularly bad l...
Lord Beamish | 534 c837-40 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the banning of referral fees, and I congratulate the Minister and the Government on doing ...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c836 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my right hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn (Mr Straw). To put it slightly d...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c842-3 (Link to this contribution) I have just confirmed with my right hon. Friend the Lord Chancellor that, in the next sentence of th...
Speaker | 534 c851 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Government new clause 24—Power to increas...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c852-3 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I need to conclude my remarks and allow the Opposition to respond...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c853 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his clear account of the effects of these proposals, but I wonder why they ...
Lord Beith | 534 c831 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome all the effort that the right hon. Gentleman has put into this matter. I hope th...
Tom Brake | 534 c829 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief. I welcome the Government's action to address referral fees. There is no doubt that...
Lord Beamish | 534 c827 (Link to this contribution) I note what my hon. Friend is saying about the claims regulatory authority, but my experience at the...
Jack Straw | 534 c831 (Link to this contribution) I said earlier today outside the House that I believe the reason why the OFT has decided rather late...
Lord Beamish | 534 c831-2 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is correct that in 2004, referral fees were put on a legal footing. However, ma...
Jack Straw | 534 c831 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. I began this journey because of constituents' concerns about motor insurance, an...
Jonathan Evans | 534 c831 (Link to this contribution) I am anxious for the right hon. Gentleman to reflect on his point about the change in the solicitors...
Lord Beamish | 534 c832 (Link to this contribution) The fact that this has become an issue for middle England is quite ironic, but I am angry that when ...
Jack Straw | 534 c832-3 (Link to this contribution) That might be so—it is good to know that my constituency is representative of middle England. Simil...
Stephen Phillips | 534 c833 (Link to this contribution) I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. Given the right hon....
Jack Straw | 534 c833 (Link to this contribution) The hon. and learned Gentlemen may have noticed that I need to research that point, but I have in th...
Jack Straw | 534 c832 (Link to this contribution) The Government should have done, and as I have sometimes said in respect of that period, my alibi is...
Lord Beamish | 534 c832 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way again on that point?
Jack Straw | 534 c832 (Link to this contribution) Very briefly, but others wish to speak.
Lord Beith | 534 c833 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has an arguable case on the merits of a back-up criminal offence, but will ...
Damian Hinds | 534 c834-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr Straw), who put his case so...
Tracey Crouch | 534 c865 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the Minister will recall that a year ago tomorrow he met my constituent Steve Cross, a com...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c865 (Link to this contribution) The Government are very concerned about the harm that squatters can cause. Residential and non-resid...
Jeremy Corbyn | 534 c866 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will, like me, have read the documents presented by Crisis, which indicate that 40% of ...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c864 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt the Minister's flow, but I have a simple question. Once the law is on the st...
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c862-3 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. and learned Gentleman says, and I suppose that that is right, but I come back t...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c858 (Link to this contribution) I cannot comment on that individual case—[Interruption.] The shadow Justice Secretary tempts me down...
Karl Turner | 534 c858 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister not accept that the law works perfectly well as it is? Some years ago, I defended ...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c857 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman should listen out for the next passage of my remarks, as I hope it will giv...
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c857 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister advise the House how the provisions change the common law doctrine and principle o...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c857 (Link to this contribution) I shall certainly be following Mr Speaker's direction, and I hope that we will dispose of this matte...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c854 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to have this brief opportunity to respond to the points raised. Let me see if I can do...
Speaker | 534 c856 (Link to this contribution) Before we embark on the next debate, may I draw attention to Mr Speaker's request, made earlier this...
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c860-2 (Link to this contribution) No, like the right hon. Gentleman, I have the highest regard for the right hon. and learned Gentlema...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c860 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman mean the Justice Secretary or this new clause?
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c860 (Link to this contribution) It is often said in parliamentary circles that amendments, especially those moved by Opposition Memb...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c860 (Link to this contribution) With the greatest respect to the hon. and learned Gentleman, he is wrong. Far from requiring retrea...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c858 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful—[Interruption.] I am not embarrassed in the least. This measure forms part of the...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c866 (Link to this contribution) I will deal with the amendments tabled by the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell),...
Jim Shannon | 534 c866 (Link to this contribution) Will the legislation provide for co-operation or contact with services—electricity, water and so on—...
Mike Weatherley | 534 c872-4 (Link to this contribution) Today is a good day for the law-abiding citizens of this country and a bad day for those wanting som...
Caroline Lucas | 534 c868 (Link to this contribution) It feels as though we are in a different world when the Minister describes these as measures to tack...
David Ward | 534 c887-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker, for the four minutes. A lot has been said. We have heard about parallel univ...
Speaker | 534 c887 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the next speaker, I point out that I think the House would expect the Minister ...
Caroline Lucas | 534 c886-7 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly the point I was about to come on to. In my surgeries in Brighton, Pavilion we are se...
Speaker | 534 c879 (Link to this contribution) Order. As Members can see, a considerable number still wish to participate in the debate. As we want...
Crispin Blunt | 534 c876 (Link to this contribution) It is important to make it clear that section 7 does not apply to second home owners, landlords, vac...
John McDonnell | 534 c876 (Link to this contribution) I will come to that, because we need to learn lessons across the House about the appropriateness of ...
John McDonnell | 534 c875 (Link to this contribution) I shall move on to that; I understand the hon. Gentleman's point. Under section 7 of the Criminal L...
Speaker | 534 c822-3 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c822 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c825 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a good point. It is not one that is covered by the Bill, but it is someth...
Notes
Daily part printing error - Oliver Heald voted with the Ayes in Division 386, 534 c893. (Corrected on 3 Nov 2011 at 534 c1212)
Subjects
Compensation
Crimes of violence
Fees and charges
Legal aid scheme
Insurance companies
Fines
Injuries
Personal injury
Motor vehicles
Prisoners
Magistrates' courts
Prison sentences
Sentencing
Sexual offences
Regulation
Squatting
Legislation
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill 2010-12
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