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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

Debate on bills on Wednesday, 2 November 2011, in the House of Commons.
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. Report stage third day. New clause 4, discussed with new clauses 9, 17, 43 and new schedule 3, debated and added to the Bill. New clause 9 and new schedule 3 added to the Bill. New clause 17 negatived on division. Some amendments made. Third reading debate. Agreed to on division (306 votes to 228). Bill read the third time and passed. [Relevant documents: The Third Report from the Justice Committee, on the Government's proposed reform of legal aid, HC 681, and the Government's response thereto, Cm 8111.]
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
534 c951-1056 
Session
2010-12
Department
Ministry of Justice
Legislative stage
Third reading and Report stage
Procedure
New clauses
New schedules
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. As amended in Public Bill Committee.
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Bills
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
Command papers
House of Commons
The Government's proposed reform of legal aid. Justice Select Committee third report with formal minutes, evidence and appendices. Additional written evidence is contained in volume III, available on the committee website at www.parliament.uk/justicecttee
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Tom Clarke | 534 c1045 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Speaker.
Geoffrey Cox | 534 c1045 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. and learned Friend give way?

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Amber Rudd | 534 c1043 (Link to this contribution) I know that the Secretary of State is aware of my concerns regarding the advice agencies that provid...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c1027-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will be pleased to hear that I have met the Corporate Responsibility Coalition—CORE—an...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c1026-7 (Link to this contribution) I will not—[Hon. Members: ““Go on!””] I am afraid that I do not have time to give way. It is these ...
Speaker | 534 c1025 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are not going to open Pandora's box. We are going to deal with the amendments before us.
Andy Slaughter | 534 c1025 (Link to this contribution) Let me just say that if the Government start talking about conflicts of interest on this Bill, they ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c1026 (Link to this contribution) In some cases, where the balance is against, that perhaps should be the case. In Naomi Campbell's de...
Chris Bryant | 534 c1026 (Link to this contribution) The Minister referred specifically to defamation and privacy cases. The problem is that in the vast ...
Ben Wallace | 534 c1024 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker.
Andy Slaughter | 534 c1021-2 (Link to this contribution) This is an important group of amendments to part 2 of the Bill, which deals with a complex and vital...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c1022 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman had to be bullied to give way to me, but there we are. I do not w...
Chris Bryant | 534 c1023 (Link to this contribution) Some categories of proceedings are particularly expensive to advance, yet lead to relatively minor a...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c1023-4 (Link to this contribution) That is why I will be very pleased to support amendment 163, which is in my hon. Friend's name. As I...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c1020 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 21, page 29, line 6, leave out Clause 41.
David Burrowes | 534 c1050-1 (Link to this contribution) As we look forward to Christmas and see today the Third Reading of a criminal justice Bill, I am rem...
Tom Brake | 534 c1052 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Speaker | 534 c1045 (Link to this contribution) No. It is uncharacteristic of the right hon. Gentleman to be suffering from a persecution complex, a...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c1046 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend seeks to intervene. We reached agreement on the amendments that have now been made to...
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c1048 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman referred to remand. May I take him on to bail? One of the Under-Secretaries...
Alison Seabeck | 534 c968 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman talks about the need for Government Departments to look at how they interco...
Tom Brake | 534 c968 (Link to this contribution) As I stated earlier, the simple change in new clause 12 affects a very large number of people—up to ...
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c969-70 (Link to this contribution) I have made my point, so I will move on to the substance of this important debate, because others wi...
Tom Brake | 534 c968 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady's intervention is a fair one. I have raised the knock-on impact on other Departments d...
Jeremy Corbyn | 534 c970 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is making an excellent point. Is he aware of any representations on this ma...
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c970-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct. I will say a few words in a minute about the Police and Cr...
Keith Vaz | 534 c970 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point which I support completely. However, there is anot...
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c970 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I note from my own experience that such people are hig...
Lyn Brown | 534 c966 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will know that the Law Society, the Bar Council, the Family Law Bar Associa...
Tom Brake | 534 c965 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give way. The point has been raised, it is on the record. I am sure that the Minis...
Tom Brake | 534 c965 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I am not sure whether he is saying that I should no...
Elizabeth Truss | 534 c966 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Tom Brake | 534 c967 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, which is in the tradition of his speeches—lengthy. ...
Tom Brake | 534 c967 (Link to this contribution) There has not been much consensus in the Chamber, but I suspect that there is broad agreement on tha...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c967 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The Liberty briefing paper states that the"““Community...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c957 (Link to this contribution) The presenter made a mistake—I hope the Minister is not making the same one—in relation to talking a...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c953-5 (Link to this contribution) I want to try to avoid delay today, so I shall speak to Government amendments now and respond to the...
Mike Crockart | 534 c961-2 (Link to this contribution) In the interests of brevity I shall speak only to amendment 116 to which I have added my name. It ha...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c951 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c953 (Link to this contribution) We now move on to, or perhaps I should say back to, legal aid. When we discussed legal aid on our fi...
Jeremy Corbyn | 534 c971 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is making a strong point. However, the Guildford Four were actually the fir...
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c971 (Link to this contribution) I stand corrected. I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman has corrected the record for me. However, my...
Valerie Vaz | 534 c973-4 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my right hon. Friend, who has taught me more than he will ever realise. He h...
Stephen Lloyd | 534 c972 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Lady. It is good to see her taking part in the debate, because she sat on the ...
Valerie Vaz | 534 c972-3 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as—or confess that I am—a lawyer. I was a solicitor for more than 20 years, an...
David Ward | 534 c976 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I have come across some pretty scary cases involving several hundred pounds of single-sh...
David Ward | 534 c975 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. I actually deleted some of my speech because of the figures that the hon. Lady quoted ea...
Jeremy Corbyn | 534 c975-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an important point. Let us consider the parallel of immigration law. If...
David Ward | 534 c976 (Link to this contribution) Hang on. An answer that I have been given is that this is all in the coalition agreement.
Lyn Brown | 534 c981 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman could help us on the motivation of his Front-Bench team for maki...
Ben Gummer | 534 c982 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a reasonable point. However, a point of principle is involved here. I...
Karl Turner | 534 c980-1 (Link to this contribution) I have a great deal of respect for the hon. Gentleman, too. I mean that sincerely. I recall attendi...
Ben Gummer | 534 c981 (Link to this contribution) I bow to my hon. Friend's superior experience of such matters. There might be a mechanism under whic...
Karl Turner | 534 c979-80 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way, because many other Members are keen to speak in this important debate. It worr...
Karl Turner | 534 c979 (Link to this contribution) I would need more time to think about that, but I am tempted to say that I agree with the hon. Gentl...
David Ward | 534 c976 (Link to this contribution) I tell you what: I promise to do so once we have sorted out the mess you left us in. I shall come ac...
David Ward | 534 c976 (Link to this contribution) I need to bring my speech to an end. Others need to speak. One thing that the coalition agreement d...
Glenda Jackson | 534 c987 (Link to this contribution) In our constituencies we all have equivalents of the organisation Christians Against Poverty, to whi...
Simon Hughes | 534 c987 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady and I have inner-city constituencies, and we have exactly the same—not exactly the sam...
Jonathan Edwards | 534 c983-4 (Link to this contribution) I begin by declaring an interest as somebody who used to work for Citizens Advice Cymru before being...
Simon Hughes | 534 c985-6 (Link to this contribution) None of us can stand up and say that there do not have to be reductions, but of course it is not jus...
Simon Hughes | 534 c986 (Link to this contribution) I cannot, either because there was none or they were very rare. To be serious, however, I have been ...
Lord Beith | 534 c986 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree, however, that in just those cases a high proportion of the advice r...
Ben Gummer | 534 c983 (Link to this contribution) I was about to say that in none of that communication did I receive any indication that the hon. Mem...
Karl Turner | 534 c983 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Can you offer some guidance? When time is short and we are k...
Speaker | 534 c983 (Link to this contribution) I am allowing a little latitude, and I mean a little. I am sure Mr Gummer will wish to get his remar...
Ben Gummer | 534 c982-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a little previous. Had he allowed me to continue my point, as I had asked, he ...
Joan Ruddock | 534 c991 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. That is so often the case, and often only the threat of legal action can eve...
Karl Turner | 534 c991 (Link to this contribution) He thinks it's funny. It's disgusting. It's a disgrace.
Simon Reevell | 534 c992-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I will send him a copy of the case. The clause reveals a lack ...
Simon Reevell | 534 c993 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is aware from his practice that at the point of conviction the court will consider ap...
Joan Ruddock | 534 c990 (Link to this contribution) I certainly do, but of course the challenge for us now is not to be able to make things better but t...
Joan Ruddock | 534 c990 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. This is key to the service that we provide as Members ...
Yvonne Fovargue | 534 c988 (Link to this contribution) The telephone helpline will also direct people who are not legally aidable towards paid-for services...
Speaker | 534 c1002 (Link to this contribution) Order. Clearly, that was not a point of order, and the Minister has now dealt with the point raised....
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c1002-6 (Link to this contribution) I shall now turn to amendments 69, 70 and 71, tabled by the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston (K...
Karl Turner | 534 c1006 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Dewsbury (Simon Reevell) referred in his...
Stephen Lloyd | 534 c995 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that what is proposed by those of us in Parliament who work closely wi...
Kate Green | 534 c998-9 (Link to this contribution) I want to ask the Minister two questions about social welfare law. I also feel obliged, even at this...
David Ward | 534 c997-8 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady not think it quite telling that although we had intervention after intervention f...
Yasmin Qureshi | 534 c998 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that observation, and I agree with him. I shall conclude my remarks,...
Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 534 c999-1000 (Link to this contribution) I speak in support of amendment 116, which would delete clause 12 from the Bill. It is with regret t...
Tom Brake | 534 c966 (Link to this contribution) In a situation where funding is going to be withdrawn from organisations, it is not surprising that ...
Tom Brake | 534 c966 (Link to this contribution) I will give way one last time and then move on to new clause 17.
Lord Beith | 534 c958 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's argument, but is he proposing cuts in other areas of legal aid in ...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c1002 (Link to this contribution) I would dearly have loved to have reached the provisions relating to bail, and I think the right hon...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c1044-5 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the right hon. Gentleman, but I must press on. Other Members wish to speak and I do n...
Tom Clarke | 534 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I recall the right hon. and learned Gentleman's reference to the junior Minister, the Under-Secretar...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c1046 (Link to this contribution) That is entirely true, and I congratulate my hon. Friend on his advocacy, but we should both point o...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c958-61 (Link to this contribution) I was going to deal with that at the end of my remarks, but let me do so now. I am grateful to the r...
Keith Vaz | 534 c973 (Link to this contribution) One of the problems with the reduction in legal aid is that a whole generation of lawyers with exper...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c982 (Link to this contribution) I hope that we can make some progress in this debate now. This is not helping—[Interruption.] The Un...
Simon Reevell | 534 c992 (Link to this contribution) I too should declare an interest, in that I have practised at the criminal Bar since 1990. I congra...
Speaker | 534 c977 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is using the word ““you””, but as he knows, that refers to me. Could he pl...
Karl Turner | 534 c976 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He is making a powerful speech on behalf of his ...
Karl Turner | 534 c992 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that what the hon. Gentleman has just said is accurate. The Lord Chancellor has confi...
Speaker | 534 c999 (Link to this contribution) Exceptionally, to deal with new clauses and amendments not dealt with by Mr Slaughter earlier, I cal...
Ian Mearns | 534 c1001 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on her speech so far. Does she agree that the Government are being pen...
Speaker | 534 c1045 (Link to this contribution) Point of order, if the Secretary of State will just hold on. Point of order, Mr Tom Clarke.
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I will in just a second. The offence also confirms that the court, at the same time, will have to h...
Tom Clarke | 534 c1044 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c1044 (Link to this contribution) We are tackling the collection of fines vigorously, but I am afraid that the idea that the Labour pa...
Helen Goodman | 534 c1044 (Link to this contribution) Evidently, some of the amendments we tabled were not reported to the Secretary of State, because we ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c1043-4 (Link to this contribution) Those who can remember Second Reading will know that the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, my ho...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c1042-3 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. At the conclusion of many hours of copious...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c1027 (Link to this contribution) We understand that these amendments seek to protect the rights of individuals—[Hon. Members: ““Go on...
Lisa Nandy | 534 c1027 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for finally recognising just how strongly so many of us on both sides of the Ho...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c1027 (Link to this contribution) I shall take each amendment in turn. Amendment 21 would remove clause 41, the effect of which is to ...
Jack Straw | 534 c1027 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for those undertakings.
Andy Slaughter | 534 c1025 (Link to this contribution) I was not talking about the Minister; I was talking about the Bill. I am not surprised that the Mini...
Speaker | 534 c1025 (Link to this contribution) Order. That is not a point of order and the matter was dealt with earlier in the week. Let us have n...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c1025-6 (Link to this contribution) Amendments 21, 22, 72, 163, 164 and 165 all seek to undermine a fundamental element of the package o...
Ben Wallace | 534 c1025 (Link to this contribution) PPSs are allowed to make points of order. Throughout the proceedings on the Bill Opposition Front Be...
Chris Bryant | 534 c1025 (Link to this contribution) You are the Parliamentary Private Secretary.
Speaker | 534 c1020-1 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Andy Slaughter | 534 c1022 (Link to this contribution) I would love to give way to the Secretary of State, but I have very little time—[Interruption.] If I...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c1022-3 (Link to this contribution) I began my speech by informing the house how contingency fee agreements came about. Because the Secr...
Speaker | 534 c1007 (Link to this contribution) That is not a point of order, but the hon. Gentleman has certainly got it on the record.
David Burrowes | 534 c1051-2 (Link to this contribution) I was talking about knife crime, but I also pay tribute to the work done by the hon. Member for King...
Chris Bryant | 534 c1052 (Link to this contribution) One of the most important things that the House can ever afford to the citizens of this country is e...
Chris Bryant | 534 c1052 (Link to this contribution) I will not, if the right hon. Gentleman does not mind. I shall not go into the issue of legal aid, ...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c1045 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman remember what he wished to intervene on?
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c1045 (Link to this contribution) I was about to give way to my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Torridge and West Devon (Mr Cox...
Tom Clarke | 534 c1045 (Link to this contribution) CBE, Sir. Unfortunately, Mr Speaker, you could not be here earlier, when again, again and again I a...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c1045-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Minister referred to the Trafigura case a moment ago, but we do not believe that ...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c1048 (Link to this contribution) When the Justice Secretary has been in government for 13 years in a row and has had crime going down...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c1048 (Link to this contribution) I have been in correspondence with the Justice Secretary and, to be fair, he responded to my letter....
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c1048 (Link to this contribution) I was not here during the incident to which the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Mr Llwyd) ...
Nick de Bois | 534 c1046 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for allowing this intervention. Does he agree that the impor...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 534 c1046-8 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry but I shall not give way because other people want to speak. Let me conclude by going ba...
Karen Buck | 534 c1049 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend share my touch of cynicism about the impact of the legal aid cuts on socia...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c1049 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Justice Secretary for his clarification. I hope that the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Me...
Sadiq Khan | 534 c1049-50 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a very good point, which is about inequality of arms. These are some of the mo...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c969 (Link to this contribution) I have three headlines from The Guardian, which are like a tableau. From September, we have ““Libera...
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c968-9 (Link to this contribution) I have never been a tribal politician, and I understand the dynamics of the House, but I am very dis...
Karl Turner | 534 c965 (Link to this contribution) I think I am right in saying that the right hon. Gentleman is speaking to an amendment that would ef...
Yvonne Fovargue | 534 c962-5 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak to new clause 17, tabled in my name. It is well known that many problems in social w...
Tom Brake | 534 c965 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak principally about new clause 17, which was tabled by the hon. Member for Makerfield ...
Elizabeth Truss | 534 c966 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that some of those organisations have an interest in pushing up the ...
Tom Brake | 534 c968 (Link to this contribution) We have rightly highlighted issues such as criminal negligence in earlier debates, and this afternoo...
Tom Brake | 534 c966-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a point that is worth considering. Clearly, certain organisations are financial ...
Lord Beith | 534 c967 (Link to this contribution) Is it not absurd that the Government should be scrabbling around for money to meet the costs of bad ...
Andy Slaughter | 534 c957-8 (Link to this contribution) I know the Minister does not want to hear this, but in relation to the director the point is that th...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c957 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but we are talking about legal aid.
Andy Slaughter | 534 c955-6 (Link to this contribution) If the Minister was sincere when he said in his opening remarks that we will make good progress and ...
Speaker | 534 c953 (Link to this contribution) Order. Let us not start where we left off the other day. Let us see if we can make progress. We do n...
Speaker | 534 c951-3 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Stephen Lloyd | 534 c971-2 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak on new clause 17. I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Makerfield (Yvonne Fovargue),...
David Ward | 534 c974-5 (Link to this contribution) We have heard some naughty stuff from the Opposition. I remember serving on a Public Bill Committee ...
Yvonne Fovargue | 534 c975 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is worth reminding the House of the costs of taking a case und...
Kate Green | 534 c972 (Link to this contribution) I support a great deal of what the hon. Gentleman is saying. Does he agree that it is inappropriate ...
Lyn Brown | 534 c976 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way; he is being very generous. Community Links, an amazing vo...
David Ward | 534 c976 (Link to this contribution) Hang on. Occasionally I try to abide by the coalition agreement, but this is not in there. There is...
David Ward | 534 c976 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. We have talked about the evidence, but it is almost so overwhelming that we must begin t...
Ben Gummer | 534 c982 (Link to this contribution) The motivation of my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Front Bench is unimpeachable, as I have foun...
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c982 (Link to this contribution) First, I agree with the hon. Gentleman about that form of legislation and he makes a valid point. A ...
Ben Gummer | 534 c981 (Link to this contribution) At the risk of this turning into a mutual affection session, let me say that I understand the hon. G...
David Burrowes | 534 c981 (Link to this contribution) All Members want there to be proper access to justice for all, and informed legal advice that can ad...
Ben Gummer | 534 c980 (Link to this contribution) It is always a considerable pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull East (Karl Tur...
Karl Turner | 534 c977-9 (Link to this contribution) I of course support new clause 17, standing in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ...
David Burrowes | 534 c979 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who has much experience in this area. I declare an interest as ...
David Ward | 534 c977 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Mr Deputy Speaker. Someone once told me that the world is divided into two groups of p...
Simon Hughes | 534 c984-5 (Link to this contribution) I am conscious that we have had two hours of debate already and I am keen, as are other Members, to ...
Stephen Lloyd | 534 c985 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend mentioned the good work that many lawyers do in this area—not the commercial fa...
Tom Brake | 534 c986 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has been a Member for many years. Can he recall on how many occasions when the ...
Simon Hughes | 534 c986-7 (Link to this contribution) For example, there is an organisation based in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Bra...
Ben Gummer | 534 c982 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the shadow Minister.
Ben Gummer | 534 c982 (Link to this contribution) May I just finish my point? At the beginning—
Ben Gummer | 534 c983 (Link to this contribution) This is not filibustering. I will explain why. [Interruption.] I got the impression that a promethea...
Robert Buckland | 534 c993 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an absolutely proper set of points, but given the realities of life in the poli...
Jeremy Corbyn | 534 c993-5 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be able to contribute briefly to this debate. I am one of a minority of hon. Members...
Joan Ruddock | 534 c991-2 (Link to this contribution) There are real differences, I should tell the Minister. If he does not understand indices of depriva...
Glenda Jackson | 534 c991 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that in my right hon. Friend's constituency, as in mine, there is also the increasing prob...
Jim Shannon | 534 c990 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Lady aware of any incidents of people coming in with multiple issues, some of whic...
Simon Hughes | 534 c990 (Link to this contribution) I want to endorse one point, and to amplify it. I gave an example of someone from abroad, but in my ...
Simon Hughes | 534 c989 (Link to this contribution) That would be inappropriate, and I hope that it would not happen. There should be safeguards. I wan...
Joan Ruddock | 534 c989-90 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Mr Deputy Speaker, for the fact that I will have to leave the Chamber soon after I have...
Simon Hughes | 534 c987-8 (Link to this contribution) Hampstead and Kilburn, as it now is, sounds more balanced and mixed, but of course the hon. Lady kno...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c1001-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Member for Darlington (Mrs Chapman) on the occasion of her first outing at the Di...
Jonathan Djanogly | 534 c1002 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I do not have time to take interventions.
Elfyn Llwyd | 534 c1002 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I want to ask the Minister whether progress has been made on...
Jeremy Corbyn | 534 c995-6 (Link to this contribution) Citizens advice bureaux do a fantastic job and they do their best to be as productive as possible. I...
Yasmin Qureshi | 534 c996-7 (Link to this contribution) I support everything that my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmith (Mr Slaughter) said from the Fro...
Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 534 c1001 (Link to this contribution) I could not have put it better myself. It is essential for people who are detained in police custod...
Subjects
Disclosure of information
Conditions of employment
Data protection
Criminal proceedings
Debt collection
Advisory services
Finance
Fees and charges
Education
Legal aid scheme
Eligibility
Legal representation
Legal Services Commission
Legal opinion
Northern Ireland
Workplace pensions
Property transfer
Social security benefits
Reform
Telephone services
Conditional fee agreements
Police stations
Lord Chancellor
Civil law
Legislation
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill 2010-12
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