Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

My hon. Friend is absolutely right that the existing radio-based tagging technology has been pret...

Before my right hon. Friend moves on to part 2, will he provide an estimate of the additional cos...

The cost will build up over the next five or 10 years because, as my hon. and learned Friend know...

I am grateful to the Lord Chancellor for giving way and I am interested in where the £85 million ...

It comes from my Department’s capital budget and it will lead to a reduction in the annual runnin...

If this model is considered to be as successful as the Lord Chancellor obviously believes it will...

On co-location, there are a number of places in our current system where men and women, or indeed...

I apologise to the Lord Chancellor for missing the first part of his speech. I welcome his approa...

As the right hon. Gentleman knows, we already make intense efforts across our detention estate—fo...

The Justice Secretary is absolutely right that there are other powers. The latest figure I could ...

The collection rate of fines and other charges levelled in the courts is in excess of 80%. There ...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way; he is being very generous with his time. When fu...

We will not change the order of the collection of fines and victims’ charges. The collection of c...

Does the Secretary of State not think it a bit dangerous for such cases to be dealt with by a sin...

We have a high-quality magistracy in this country, and I am confident that, in simple cases—when ...

Is it not the case that, if one magistrate is allocated but the defendant wants there to be three...

Indeed, but in my experience, most magistrates would regard themselves as being perfectly capable...

At what level would it be decided whether there should be one magistrate or three, and what would...

Typically, these will be uncontested cases. A contested case in which the defendant wished to ple...

Does my right hon. Friend not agree that in most instances not only is the case uncontested, but ...

I would say to my hon. Friend, and indeed to the hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn),...

Will my right hon. Friend ensure that when this streamlined procedure is adopted, pre-hearing con...

That is a very good point, which we should certainly take on board.

In the context of this part of the Bill, I should place on record my interest as a life member of...

I have made it very clear that we must not lose transparency as a result of our reforms. In today...

I commend my right hon. Friend on the provisions relating to juries, and on clause 39 in particul...

I hear what my hon. and learned Friend says, but I am not sure that we could afford to raise the ...

Perhaps I have misunderstood clause 53, but it seems to suggest that interveners will have to pay...

My real concern is when pressure groups use individuals as financial human shields in cases that ...

I suppose I should declare an interest in this context as well, given that I used to run a pressu...

The hon. Lady certainly did bring cases against the previous Government, but the Secretary of Sta...

The Government have taken away the right of appeal in a number of immigration cases, and the Mini...

We assess carefully each immigration case that comes before the Border Agency and there is then t...

Will my right hon. Friend take on board the fact that, unfortunately, previous interventions have...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right about that, which is one reason why we have sought to ensure t...

Let us be frank: this Bill has come from nowhere. If the Government really wanted a new justice B...

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I give way to the Chair of the Justice Committee.

Does the right hon. Gentleman see real benefit in returning to the days of a Labour Government wh...

I am really pleased that the right hon. Gentleman asked that question. This is the third justice ...

If the right hon. Gentleman looks back, he will see that in the latter part of the past decade in...

The right hon. Gentleman confirms that he made a huge error in abolishing the indeterminate sente...

The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the Library briefing paper. He will have noticed that the high...

If the hon. Gentleman had done some more research and read the Bill as well, he would have seen n...

If the right hon. Gentleman looks at the numbers, he will see that we are planning in the next 15...

The problem is that the Justice Secretary is closing down prisons and does not explain where the ...

There is a simple answer—those figures are in the budget.

They are not in the budget, because the average cost of a prisoner is £42,000 a year. If we multi...

The right hon. Gentleman needs to spend a bit of time doing maths. I simply point, for example, t...

I am happy to have a ding-dong with the Justice Secretary. That figure applies in prisons such as...

While the right hon. Gentleman is in the mood to do mathematics, will he advise us of the extra c...

If we did a cost-benefit analysis of the number of people who were saved the misery of being the ...

As my right hon. Friend knows, there is a large number of foreign national prisoners in the priso...

My right hon. Friend will know that the number of foreign prisoners in our prisons is just a bit ...

I am glad that my right hon. Friend makes that point, because the Justice Secretary is quite wron...

Absolutely. The concerns are that as a consequence of the changes decisions made by Ministers and...

It is the case, if I am not mistaken, that HS2 can happen only if the relevant measure is passed ...

That question raises so many concerns about the Justice Secretary’s lack of knowledge that it is ...

I am slightly perturbed by what the right hon. Gentleman has said. These are not decisions that m...

I do not subscribe to the view that citizens have a role to play only once every five years. They...

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I shall make some progress, but I shall come back to the hon. Gentleman.

I hold up my hands...

I am not sure whether I have been described before as a bored, troublesome Back Bencher, but I wh...

The hon. Gentleman is right to make the point that he does about minor traffic offences, but alon...

I certainly agree with that. The Minister may wish to come back to this, but I think that that wo...

I am pleased to have an opportunity to take part in this debate, although several provisions in t...

The right hon. Gentleman, as ever, is making some interesting points, but is he really saying tha...

No, I am not saying that. In fact, I was a long-time critic of the Blair Administration, who intr...

The right hon. Gentleman refers to contracting out to private companies. It is worth putting on r...

I hear what the Secretary of State says. He also said earlier that this will basically be a colle...

Unlike the right hon. Member for Dwyfor Meirionnydd (Mr Llwyd), I welcome many of the sensible pr...

I am surprised by the right hon. Gentleman’s comments, because he is usually thorough in his rese...

The right hon. Gentleman seems to be confirming that he does not believe that there is a problem,...

My right hon. Friend is making a very good speech. To take him back to his more serious point, do...

My hon. Friend is right to bring me back to my serious point, and I wholly agree with him. That i...

I thank my right hon. Friend for making a very good point. I have listened to him carefully. Is i...

That is what I meant by the concept of having minimum and maximum sentences. There would still be...

I entirely endorse my right hon. Friend’s point that localisation is surely the key to driving up...

I strongly agree with my hon. Friend. Having been a Minister in both the Home Office and the Mini...

I agree about the use of technology, but, as the saga of G4S and Serco has demonstrated, in handi...

As ever, I do not disagree with the right hon. Gentleman. That is an issue of accountability. We ...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that this is a problem of unforeseen consequences? One reason suc...

My hon. Friend speaks from his experience as a special constable. What he says is certainly the c...

I speak as someone who battled my hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Mr Djanogly) over the cl...

My hon. Friend, who represents a very rural constituency, makes an interesting point that leads o...

It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Nick Herbert)...

Despite 20 years of advocacy and despite what I felt was a very strong case, my youthful appearan...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that long explanation. I am surprised that he lost the battle, but...

indicated dissent.

Then I admire his patience in sitting through the entire debate and I wish him well in his minist...

Is it the case that the Government have had to consider this matter because with the encouragemen...

The hon. Gentleman served on the Home Affairs Committee and therefore knows how the Home Office d...

I served on the Immigration Public Bill Committee and the overwhelming view was that, yes, the Ho...

I have no objection to that. I agree with the hon. Member for Monmouth (David T. C. Davies) that ...

With great respect, the implication of the last comment is that there is no right of appeal whate...

The right of appeal will be taken away by clause 11 of the Immigration Bill. An application can, ...

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The hon. Gentleman is going to tell us which bookshops his book is available in.

The book, “Doing Time” is actually still available. Amazingly, there are a few copies left. I has...

That is a stunning figure, one that has probably remained the same, or even increased, in the pas...

I am very pleased to follow my fellow Select Committee Chairman, whose wise and thoughtful commen...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will, although I want to raise a number of points that the hon. Gentleman may wish to follow.