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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 27 March 2012, in the House of Lords, led by Lord McNally. The answering member was Lord Beecham.
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. Lords third reading debate agreed to on question. Bill passed and returned to the Commons with amendments.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
736 c1252-379 
Session
2010-12
Department
Ministry of Justice
Legislative stage
Third reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. As amended on report.
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Bills
House of Lords
Deposited Paper DEP2012-0658
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Deposited papers
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Lord McNally | 736 c1351-2 (Link to this contribution) 33: Clause 77, page 58, line 45, at end insert— ““(9) In Schedule 9 to that Act (transfer of communi...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 736 c1353 (Link to this contribution) 36: Clause 145, page 132, line 7, at end insert ““or if the building has been empty twelve months or...

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Lord McNally | 736 c1352 (Link to this contribution) 34: Clause 78, page 59, line 24, after ““(5)(a)”” insert ““— (a) ”” 35: Clause 78, page 59, line 2...
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 736 c1352 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome these amendments. I am grateful to the Government for addressing an area that I ...
Lord McNally | 736 c1352 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendments 33, 34, 35, 42 and 43 are minor and technical consequential amendments, which p...
Baroness Hamwee | 736 c1357-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend on her persistence in dealing with this matter and provokin...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 736 c1356-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wholeheartedly agree with what has been said by all speakers on this matter. For any new...
Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 736 c1354-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I preface my remarks with the comment, ““Better late than never””. I add my tributes to th...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 736 c1353-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, during the passage of this Bill we have learnt that there is no need for this clause becau...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 736 c1359-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is unfortunate that the amendments tabled on this important subject by the noble Barone...
Lord Woolf | 736 c1343 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the noble Baroness will forgive me for also interrupting her, but I should like her assistan...
Baroness Northover | 736 c1343 (Link to this contribution) I understand what the noble and learned Baroness is saying. As we discussed in Committee and on Repo...
Lord Woolf | 736 c1344 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for the way in which she presented her case. She has said everything possible t...
Baroness Northover | 736 c1343-4 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the noble and learned Lord says, and he makes his case very cogently, as he and others h...
Baroness Linklater of Butterstone | 736 c1346-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, following our debate on Report, I return to an amendment which concerns a new clause that ...
Baroness Linklater of Butterstone | 736 c1346 (Link to this contribution) 32: After Clause 68, insert the following new Clause— ““Guidance for Probation Trusts The Lord Chanc...
Lord Beecham | 736 c1349 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness makes a persuasive case to encourage the Government to invest not money...
Baroness Linklater of Butterstone | 736 c1351 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank those who have contributed to this short debate. I am grateful to my noble friend ...
Baroness Northover | 736 c1349-51 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this amendment returns to the issue raised by my noble friend Lady Linklater throughout th...
Lord Cameron of Dillington | 736 c1339-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment. Restorative justice is an important tool to have in your kitbag w...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 736 c1339 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I very much support my noble and learned friend Lord Woolf's amendment because his amendme...
Lord Hylton | 736 c1339 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have not spoken on the whole of this Bill and I only do so now because I have seen the g...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 736 c1343 (Link to this contribution) I merely wanted to say that here is a piece of legislation into which this measure can be placed. Ho...
Baroness Northover | 736 c1343 (Link to this contribution) I think that I am being invited to comment on what might be in the Queen's Speech, as was my noble f...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 736 c1343 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for interrupting the noble Baroness but she has got to a point where I need to ask a que...
Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 736 c1340-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, briefly, I support the amendment of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf. I have been in...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 736 c1340 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I can be brief, having heard what the noble Lord, Lord Cameron, has said, setting out the ...
Lord Prescott | 736 c1332 (Link to this contribution) I certainly do not withdraw the amendment and I hope that the House will vote on it. Division on Am...
Lord McNally | 736 c1332 (Link to this contribution) That is precisely what I am saying. I have not brought this Bill this far to score such an enormous ...
Lord Woolf | 736 c1336 (Link to this contribution) 31: After Clause 66, insert the following new Clause— ““Restorative justice (1) In section 142 of th...
Lord McNally | 736 c1336 (Link to this contribution) 30: Clause 57, page 43, line 6, after ““consideration”” insert ““whether any benefit is received by ...
Lord Woolf | 736 c1336-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment is supported by the noble Lords, Lord Ramsbotham and Lord Beecham, and the r...
Lord McNally | 736 c1335 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I committed on Report to bring back at Third Reading amendments to address issues raised b...
Lord McNally | 736 c1335 (Link to this contribution) 29: Clause 57, page 42, line 29, after ““death,”” insert— ““( ) the legal services relate to any oth...
Lord Beecham | 736 c1336 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is with some relief that I return to the question of referral fees for positively the l...
Lord Hunt of Wirral | 736 c1335 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister and declare my interest as a partner in the international commercial ...
Lord Bach | 736 c1376 (Link to this contribution) 39: Clause 152, page 137, line 15, leave out ““(2) and (3)”” and insert ““, (1A), (2) and (3). (1A) ...
Lord Henley | 736 c1375-6 (Link to this contribution) I did deal with that—I said that the exemption goes back to that Act and there is proper regulation ...
Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 736 c1376 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to apologise for bringing the subject back at Third Reading, because we have learnt a...
Lord Henley | 736 c1375 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the noble Lord could just calm down a bit. It is late at night and we are trying to answer t...
Lord Henley | 736 c1375 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord will have seen many questions over the years coming back to him with the reply that t...
Lord Henley | 736 c1374 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not giving way to the noble Lord. It is entirely a matter for me to decide whether I give w...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 736 c1374-5 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord talks about the ““very small number”” of itinerant collectors, which was at the heart...
Lord Henley | 736 c1371-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it might be useful if I intervene now because there are a number of misconceptions about w...
Lord Bach | 736 c1378 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to hear what the Minister has said. I hope that he can write with a fuller answer. I beg l...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 736 c1378 (Link to this contribution) 41: Clause 152, page 137, line 22, at end insert— ““(3A) Section 145 shall not come into force until...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 736 c1378 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I move this amendment because of the reasons expressed from all sides of the House, and be...
Lord McNally | 736 c1379 (Link to this contribution) 42: Clause 153, page 137, line 38, at end insert— ““(3A) Section 78 extends to England and Wales, Sc...
Lord McNally | 736 c1377-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as I indicated on Report, we have reached agreement across government in respect of insolv...
Lord Bach | 736 c1378 (Link to this contribution) Of course I am going to withdraw my amendment this evening, and I understand that the Minister could...
Lord McNally | 736 c1378 (Link to this contribution) To clarify, my Lords, we will engage as well with insolvency practitioners.
Baroness Northover | 736 c1363-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at Report, I explained the role of the new squatting offence in giving greater protection ...
Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 736 c1364 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister answer my question? Will the transition fund be ring-fenced?
Lord Strasburger | 736 c1362-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should start by declaring an interest, or at least a former interest. In a previous life...
Lord Bach | 736 c1363 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the House will be delighted to hear that I intend to be brief. It owes a huge debt of than...
Lord Avebury | 736 c1360-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall add only a few sentences to what the noble Lord, Lord Elystan-Morgan, said about t...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 736 c1361 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I commend the noble Baroness, Lady Miller, on her persistence in pursuing this issue. Over...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 736 c1362 (Link to this contribution) I will be corrected if I am wrong but I believe that that matter is adequately dealt with by Section...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 736 c1362 (Link to this contribution) That is the noble Lord's judgment, but perhaps I may finish my contribution. Perhaps the Government ...
Bishop of Ripon and Leeds | 736 c1361-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Miller, for her determination to chal...
Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 736 c1367-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 38 is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Berkeley. The Minister will re...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 736 c1368-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall add a word or two to what the noble Lord, Lord Faulkner, said. When the Minister a...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 736 c1370-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister's case last week was predicated almost exclusively on the basis that the grou...
Baroness Northover | 736 c1364 (Link to this contribution) Most of the money that goes to local authorities is not ring-fenced. The emphasis is on devolving to...
Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 736 c1365 (Link to this contribution) If this money is not ring-fenced, how can the Minister know that it will be spent on single homeless...
Baroness Northover | 736 c1365 (Link to this contribution) There is an ongoing debate about what you ring-fence and what you leave as the responsibility of loc...
Lord Strasburger | 736 c1365 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way. Did I hear her argue earlier that one motivation for this claus...
Baroness Northover | 736 c1365-7 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I would say so. I do not think it is right that people should live unprotected. For example, th...
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer | 736 c1367 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am tremendously grateful to all Members of the House who spoke in this debate—which fina...
Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 736 c1367 (Link to this contribution) 38: Clause 147, page 133, leave out lines 34 to 39
Lord McNally | 736 c1252-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Government have tabled government Amendments 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14 and 18 following the c...
Baroness D'Souza | 736 c1254 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I remind your Lordships that if this amendment is agreed to I cannot call Amendment 2 for ...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c1254 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for the amendment. He knows that we on these Benches rais...
Lord Bach | 736 c1254-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for the concession that the Government have made today. The clause as it stands...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 736 c1255-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as a Cross-Bencher, I add to what the noble Lord, Lord Bach, has just said about the death...
Lord McNally | 736 c1256 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, of course I associate myself with the expressions of sympathy on the untimely death of Lor...
Baroness Grey-Thompson | 736 c1256-7 (Link to this contribution) 3: Schedule 1, page 140, line 5, at end insert— ““Children under 18 1 (1) Civil legal services in re...
Lord Cormack | 736 c1265 (Link to this contribution) I am well aware of that but the point that I was seeking to make in a very brief speech was that tho...
Lord Avebury | 736 c1265 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that that proposition is right. I do not think that my noble friend had borne in mind ...
Baroness Eaton | 736 c1262-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I speak in support of the children's amendments moved and spoken to by the noble Baroness,...
Lord Avebury | 736 c1264 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would have been inclined to support the amendment if I had not been here to listen to th...
Baroness Massey of Darwen | 736 c1265 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have put my name to an amendment in this group—that in the names of the noble Baroness, ...
Bishop of Ripon and Leeds | 736 c1265-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the first speaker from these Benches in this debate, I add my gratitude for all the wor...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 736 c1260-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, should like to add to the laments that we all feel at the death of Lord Newton. On...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c1262 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when I first looked at the Bill, I was pleased to see how much vulnerable adults and child...
Baroness Grey-Thompson | 736 c1257-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I speak to the amendment in my name and in those of the noble Baronesses, Lady Eaton and L...
Lord Cormack | 736 c1258-60 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will speak briefly to the amendment which stands in my name and that of my noble friend ...
Lord Sentamu | 736 c1273 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has not yet answered the question which I think the noble Lord, Lord Thomas, raised—and...
Lord McNally | 736 c1272-3 (Link to this contribution) Citizens advice bureaux operate in a country that is 10 per cent poorer than the last Government gav...
Lord Bach | 736 c1274 (Link to this contribution) That is right, the Government have lost it. However, I hope that the noble Lord will go on to say th...
Lord McNally | 736 c1273-4 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to see the most reverend Primate the Archbishop of York in his place. I shal...
Baroness Grey-Thompson | 736 c1275 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for his comments and consideration. The House appreciates that he has...
Lord McNally | 736 c1274-5 (Link to this contribution) The most reverend Primate the Archbishop of York may be disappointed to know that he may have been a...
Lord Cormack | 736 c1279 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the House has just approved an amendment which I felt included my own. I am reluctant to a...
Lord Cormack | 736 c1278 (Link to this contribution) 4: Schedule 1, page 140, line 5, at end insert— ““Children and clinical negligence (1) Civil legal s...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 736 c1283 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, wish to test the opinion of the House. We are talking about a small group who, as ...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 736 c1282-3 (Link to this contribution) 5: Schedule 1, page 140, line 32, at end insert— ““Vulnerable young people (1) Civil legal services ...
Lord Wigley | 736 c1266-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise to support the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, and apolo...
Lord Faulks | 736 c1269 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I speak as a practitioner in clinical negligence. Doctors who work in the NHS might be sli...
Lord Crisp | 736 c1268-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have added my name to the amendment proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, and I woul...
Earl of Listowel | 736 c1268 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, bearing in mind the wish of the House, I imagine, to move to a speedy conclusion in this d...
Lord Phillips of Sudbury | 736 c1267-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was the constituent of Lord Newton of Braintree—Tony Newton—for nearly 20 years, and he ...
Lord McNally | 736 c1271-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in debates like this, I am always a little worried that noble Lords not in the Chamber whe...
Lord Bach | 736 c1270-1 (Link to this contribution) From the opposition Front Bench I can be extremely brief, as I should be because this is Third Readi...
Baroness Masham of Ilton | 736 c1270 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in supporting these amendments I give an example concerning Amendment 4. Recently, I had a...
Baroness Benjamin | 736 c1269-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support Amendments 3 and 5. I also pay tribute to Lord Newton. In the short time I knew ...
Lord Beecham | 736 c1272 (Link to this contribution) That is on top of the £80 million of cuts to citizens advice bureaux.
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 736 c1295 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Best, in his Amendment 16. Like him, I am a refugee from th...
Lord McNally | 736 c1295-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lords, Lord Beecham and Lord Best, acknowledge that this is one more time on whi...
Lord Beecham | 736 c1295 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Hollis and, of course, the noble Lord, Lord Best, in moving...
Baroness Gale | 736 c1292 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am pleased that the Government have brought forward these amendments that give the victi...
Baroness Hamwee | 736 c1291-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, welcome these amendments and add my thanks to the officials who have dealt with th...
Lord Best | 736 c1293 (Link to this contribution) 16: Schedule 1, page 160, line 6, at end insert— ““( ) Civil legal services provided for the purpose...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c1293 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the general welcome that has been given to the amendments, and indeed for the work...
Lord McNally | 736 c1300 (Link to this contribution) 17: Schedule 1, page 169, line 15, leave out ““or 31”” and insert ““, 31 or 33A(1)”” 18: Schedule ...
Lord Best | 736 c1297 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to noble Lords who have spoken. I am also grateful to my noble and right reverend frie...
Lord Pannick | 736 c1301 (Link to this contribution) 19: Clause 10, page 7, line 5, at end insert ““, or (c) that— (i) it is necessary to make the servic...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c1289 (Link to this contribution) 10: Schedule 1, page 145, line 30, at end insert— ““( ) an order under section 34 of that Act for th...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c1288-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by associating myself with the comments made by the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, abou...
Lord Beecham | 736 c1287-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is only a few weeks since the noble Lord, Lord McNally, described Lord Newton as a nati...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 736 c1287 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should like to congratulate the Government and also express my very deep gratitude both ...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c1286-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is an important government amendment on an issue that has been the subject of conside...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c1286 (Link to this contribution) 9: Schedule 1, page 145, line 26, at end insert ““or to secure the return of a related child who has...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c1286 (Link to this contribution) 6: Schedule 1, page 141, leave out lines 31 to 33 7: Schedule 1, page 141, line 36, leave out ““, ...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 736 c1291 (Link to this contribution) As the co-chairman of the All-Party Group on the Trafficking of Women and Children, I again congratu...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c1290-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendments 15 and 17 bring into the scope of legal aid cases in which the victims of human...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c1289-90 (Link to this contribution) 15: Schedule 1, page 160, line 2, at end insert— ““Victims of trafficking in human beings 33A (1) Ci...
Lord Judd | 736 c1309-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness is to be congratulated on having persevered so well and firmly with thi...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c1310 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have huge sympathy with the claimants in the Trafigura case, who received £30 million in...
Lord Brennan | 736 c1310-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the topic under debate appears to involve general agreement that this class of case is a p...
Lord Stevenson of Balmacara | 736 c1311-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, has introduced this group of amendments with her custom...
Lord McNally | 736 c1312-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I confirm that we have been in regular discussions about these amendments, and I regret th...
Baroness Coussins | 736 c1314-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate and the Minister for his very ...
Lord Pannick | 736 c1318 (Link to this contribution) 24: Clause 46, page 33, line 18, at end insert— ““(7) To the extent specified in regulations made by...
Lord Pannick | 736 c1318-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this amendment is in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Alton of Liverpool. It seeks...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 736 c1319 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall be brief. I support the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Pannick. Jus...
Lord McNally | 736 c1320 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, has tabled his amendment along the lines he suggested on Rep...
Lord Beecham | 736 c1319-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Opposition certainly support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, in h...
Baroness Coussins | 736 c1308 (Link to this contribution) 21: Before Clause 44, insert the following new Clause— ““Exception for international human rights ca...
Lord Woolf | 736 c1302 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in the courts, many cases have three judges involved in determining what should be the out...
Lord Bach | 736 c1302 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we support the amendment. It could not be more cautiously and moderately phrased and worde...
Lord Pannick | 736 c1301-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this amendment is in my name and in the names of the noble and learned Lords, Lord Mackay ...
Lord Hart of Chilton | 736 c1302 (Link to this contribution) I support the amendment, which is also in my name. Interested bodies such as Citizens Advice, Justic...
Lord McNally | 736 c1308 (Link to this contribution) 20: Clause 21, page 16, line 40, leave out ““13 or””
Lord Pannick | 736 c1305 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord for his consideration of this matter and to other noble ...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 736 c1309 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if the Government think it appropriate that the private disputes of Russian oligarchs shou...
Baroness Coussins | 736 c1308-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the other amendments in the group are clearly consequential, in the case of Amendments 22,...
Lord McNally | 736 c1331-2 (Link to this contribution) We are doing what they did not do. We are bringing forward a Defamation Bill that will address many ...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 736 c1332 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend the Minister accused me of asking questions to which I knew the answer, but this que...
Lord Thomas of Gresford | 736 c1330 (Link to this contribution) As a member of the committee that has just reported, I should remind the noble Lord that it advised ...
Lord McNally | 736 c1331 (Link to this contribution) We are talking about a Bill that does not come into effect until 2013. Given that defamation legisla...
Lord Bach | 736 c1327-8 (Link to this contribution) That is a first. I am delighted to hear it. The Joint Committee looking at the draft Defamation Bill...
Lord Bach | 736 c1327 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have heard two powerful speeches on this matter. I say from the Front Bench that we sup...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 736 c1327 (Link to this contribution) I am waiting for the noble Lord to finish.
Lord Prescott | 736 c1323-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 25 stands in my name and in the names of my noble friend Lord Bach and the noble...
Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve | 736 c1326-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I know that it is Third Reading and at this point I shall speak to process and not to subs...
Lord Pannick | 736 c1320-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have spoken in the debate. I simply do not understand how...
Lord McNally | 736 c1330 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord will have to wait and see. One thing is certainly true: I have made every effort to m...
Lord Bach | 736 c1330 (Link to this contribution) Will that cover privacy as well? That is a question to which I would like an answer from the Ministe...
Lord McNally | 736 c1329-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend is catching something that perhaps I should not call Pannick disease. The ...
Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 736 c1328-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I listened with great interest to the speech of noble Lord, Lord Bach. He will remember th...
Baroness Northover | 736 c1342-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 31, tabled by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf, returns to restorative jus...
Lord Beecham | 736 c1341-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, from the opposition Front Bench I strongly support the amendment moved by the noble and le...
Lord Bach | 736 c1377 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will be as brief as I can with this amendment. This is the third time that the issue has...
Lord Campbell-Savours | 736 c1362 (Link to this contribution) I wish to intervene briefly in this debate. I have come into the Chamber for the scrap metal debate ...
Lord McNally | 736 c1252 (Link to this contribution) 1: Clause 9, page 6, line 25, leave out from ““order”” to ““(whether”” in line 26 and insert ““— (a)...
Lord Best | 736 c1293-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 16 consolidates earlier amendments that I have brought before your Lordships to ...
Lord McNally | 736 c1308 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the House will recall that my noble friend Lord Macdonald was most persuasive in Committee...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 736 c1302-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the House had the opportunity to debate issues similar to those raised in the amendment du...
Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve | 736 c1330-1 (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister finishes winding, will he explain to the House why he does not think that these ...
Lord Prescott | 736 c1323 (Link to this contribution) 25: Clause 46, page 33, line 18, at end insert— ““( ) The amendments made by subsections (2) and (4)...
Lord Ramsbotham | 736 c1348-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the intent of the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Linklater. I will ...
Lord Ramsbotham | 736 c1338-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, earlier in the day in this debate, many tributes were paid to Lord Newton of Braintree. I ...
Lord Jenkin of Roding | 736 c1375 (Link to this contribution) One of the questions that I asked my noble friend was why it was felt necessary to make this exempti...
Lord Bach | 736 c1331 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I stand by those remarks. If the Minister thinks that there is something wrong—for example...
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