Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

As I just said, we have never taken away judicial discretion. We have left in place the clause on...

Although it is some two and a half years since I last spoke on a series of Lords defeats of Minis...

My hon. Friend mentioned Lord Woolf. Will he remind the House which judicial position was held by...

We do indeed stand on the shoulders of giants in conducting this debate. The names that graced th...

Since the hon. Gentleman has indicated his intention to support all the Lords amendments, will he...

I will not speak for long because we have limited time, but I will come on to those matters in a ...

The hon. Gentleman is missing the point. Why should those who row in to back a judicial review th...

Order. May I remind both Front-Bench speakers, one who has already spoken and the other who has b...

I give up with the Secretary of State. We are talking about interveners, who are there to assist ...

I regret the tone of the hon. Member for Hammersmith (Mr Slaughter), which fell beneath the stand...

The “exceptional circumstances” provisions would allow a judge to say, “This is a flagrant case a...

I hear the Secretary of State, but the Bill does not refer to “minor technicalities”; as the Bill...

Lords amendments 97 to 102 were carried in the other place to ensure that courts maintained their...

I commend to this House the words of the former Lord Chancellor, the noble Lord Mackay of Clashfe...

I beg to move, That the House disagrees with Lords amendment 74.

With this it will be convenient to take Lords amendments 127 to 131.

As it has been some months since we last debated the Government’s plans for secure colleges, let ...

I understand the aspiration to try to provide something that is educationally rather than penally...

The intention is not to introduce girls and children under 15 at the start. We have engaged throu...

The lack of any improvement over 40 years by any Government in reducing recidivism condemns us as...

As the hon. Gentleman has rightly pointed out, we have lamentably failed to reduce reoffending ov...

I agree with the Minister that we should put education at the heart of the rehabilitation agenda ...

As the hon. Lady may know, we are going to run a competition, which I will describe shortly, to f...

The Minister has more or less taken my speech away from me, because to a large extent my concerns...

Obviously, how long children spend in these institutions is not up to us but up to the courts. Wh...

Does the Minister envisage the girls and younger boys being educated completely separately from t...

What we have committed to is separate living accommodation. When I visited a secure training cent...

The Minister may be aware that when the Bill was in Committee, we heard from a number of experts,...

I hope that I can reassure the hon. Lady on that point. I understand the concerns that she raises...

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I will just finish this point and then I will let the hon. Lady in, not least because her mother ...

I share the concerns of my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin Qureshi). Nobody ...

As I think the hon. Lady knows, we will be running a competition, and we will be looking for inno...

I thank the Minister for giving way a second time; he is being very generous. We all hope that ev...

I am not sure whether the contract would specifically relate to the number and type of young peop...

I rise to speak against the Government’s motion to disagree with the other place, and in favour o...

Does my hon. Friend agree that one aspect of rehabilitation is being able to keep in contact with...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. All the evidence explains that small units that are closer to...

Effectively, the secure colleges are the old-style Borstals, and everybody knew that they did not...

Indeed. One of the fundamental problems is that there is no credible evidence to support the prop...

The Minister is aware that I am strongly against the creation of his secure college. Of all the w...

The notion of a secure college is flawed. Nobody except Ministers thinks it is a good idea—no edu...

I thank hon. Members for their contributions. The Government are committed to improving outcomes ...

I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 1.

With this it will be convenient to discuss Lords amendments 2 to 73, 75 to 96, 108 to 126 and 132...

We have heard today passionate arguments from all parts of the House on parts 2 and 4 of the Bill...

As the Minister says, this is a very important issue, and I raised it when the Bill was here befo...

I pay tribute to the part that the hon. Gentleman played in earlier debates on this issue. He is ...

Even by the Government’s standards, making 140 amendments in the other place, ranging from new of...

Lords amendments 70 to 72, 116, 118, 126 and 142 will make posting revenge porn a criminal offenc...

I, too, would like to speak to amendment 70. I will not detain the House for too long, as some of...

For clarification, I was clearly pointing out that once an image had been identified as illegal, ...

The right hon. Lady is absolutely right about there being scope for data-matching images, and the...

I thank all Members who have contributed to this wide-ranging and considered debate; the number o...

Will my hon. Friend join me in urging the industry to take action and put in place a code of prac...

Yet again, my right hon. Friend speaks very wisely. I agree with the challenge she has put to the...