Victims and Prisoners Bill

I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend. That is exactly the point. If victims are to be not s...

On that point, will the Secretary of State give way?

Can I just make a bit of progress?

Before I return to the key elements I mentioned a few mo...

rose—

I will come to the hon. Lady in one moment.

The revised victims code, published in 2020, co...

I am very grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way. My constituent Johnny Wood feels he ...

I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for raising that important case on behalf of her constituent....

The right hon. and learned Gentleman talks about what was enshrined in the code, which he said ha...

The hon. Lady should not have found out in a newspaper. She should have been kept updated and inf...

Let me make a little progress.

As I indicated, the Bill will make sure that everyone knows ...

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way. The family of Declan Curran, who tragical...

It is incredibly important that child victims receive the support that they need, and that should...

Can the Lord Chancellor provide the House with slightly more detail on the commissioning function...

I begin by thanking my right hon. Friend for her stalwart commitment to the rights of victims. I ...

Many of us welcomed this Bill and hoped it would transform and revolutionise the response, but it...

I welcome the hon. Lady’s overall enthusiasm for the Bill. On that specific point, one of the thi...

I thank the Secretary of State for the measures he has brought through on third party disclosures...

The hon. Lady does an important public service in raising that point and I thank her for doing so...

Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?

I will just develop the point and then of course I will let the right hon. Lady come in.

Fr...

I welcome the right hon. and learned Gentleman to his new role. I wonder whether he will be open ...

In preparation for today’s debate, I read the right hon. Lady’s Bill and have considered it with ...

Yes, fine.

Thank you.

I welcome my right hon. and learned Friend to his role as Lord Chancellor. I have been listening ...

There is real and clear merit in what my right hon. Friend says. Plainly, we cannot have a situat...

The Secretary of State is making a powerful case on the role of a public advocate, which many of ...

How could I not? I would be delighted to meet the hon. Lady on that important issue.

Let me...

I congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend on his well-deserved appointment. My constituents...

I thank my hon. Friend for raising that deeply upsetting and troubling case and for liaising with...

On parole reform, will the factor determining whether someone is in the top-tier cohort always be...

I will come to those points in a moment, but it is broadly to do with the offences.

Applications can now be made for Parole Board hearings to be held in public, but as Gwynedd resid...

There is now a power for hearings to be held in public, but it depends on the facts of the indivi...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

I will make a bit of progress and then I will of course come to the right hon. Gentleman.

A...

I congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend on his well-deserved promotion. I have recently b...

I thank my right hon. Friend for raising that important matter on behalf of his constituents. The...

The volume and nature of the interventions on the Secretary of State show the difficulty of this ...

It is important to consider these things separately, but the right hon. Gentleman identifies some...

I am pleased to see my right hon. and learned Friend in his place. On the issue of the powers tak...

There is a very important distinction. When the Secretary of State considers those most serious c...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Oh, here we go. Yes, of course I will.

I am very grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend, whom I warmly welcome to his place, for g...

May I thank my hon. Friend, and say that I have read every word of that important evidence to the...

I could not agree with the right hon. and learned Gentleman more. What I would also ask is that p...

As the hon. Lady knows, we have discussed these issues at some length in a different context, and...

This is a really excellent piece of legislation, and I congratulate the Secretary of State and hi...

My hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point. She mentions Hope Street, and the Nelson Trus...

I call the shadow Secretary of State.

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I congratulate the Secretary of State on his appointment. I am sure all of us, in all parts of th...

On the hon. Member’s point about victims of rape who have been let down, does he consider that th...

I am grateful to the hon. Member for his intervention. He makes an important point. That is one o...

Does my hon. Friend agree that not only does the Bill let down victims of antisocial behaviour, b...

As is so frequently the case, my hon. Friend makes an important and apt point. I hope that we wil...

I am sure my hon. Friend welcomes the section 28 measures that came in recently, which allow pre-...

Once again, my hon. Friend raises an important point that needs to be taken into account fully, n...

I start by warmly welcoming my right hon. and learned Friend to his position, to which nobody in ...

In his role as Chair of the Justice Committee, the hon. Gentleman has done some remarkable work o...

The short answer is that none has come to my attention or that of the Committee. We did endeavour...

I speak as an old boy of the Justice Committee. I do not want to rehearse the debate we had only ...

The right hon. Gentleman is entirely right and I agree with him. We are in a hopeless situation a...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill), the Ch...

My hon. Friend has been an amazing campaigner on this, but does she agree that one of the commona...

My hon. Friend is correct. Where that does happen, if there is no accountability for what goes wr...

It is a real pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Garston and Halewood (Maria Eagle), and...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for her kind words. It indeed was a pleasure to work closel...

I completely agree with my right hon. and learned Friend. There is always more that we can do in ...

It is a pleasure to speak on Second Reading. I commend right hon. and hon. Members for the contri...

It is a great pleasure to speak in this debate. I warmly welcome the Bill, and in advance I thank...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Basingstoke (Dame Maria Miller). I fully bac...

I hear what the hon. Lady is saying about the availability of ISVAs in her area and about their o...

In fact, my area was the first in the west midlands to have ISVAs in a hospital, the Queen Elizab...

Order. Let us just rewind to “whatever”.

Whatever we call them this week, Madam Deputy Speaker.

The vast majority of those bodies do...

It is a pleasure to speak in the debate, and to follow the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley (J...

It is with profound sadness that I express my devastation at the recent murder of my constituent ...

That was a very sobering speech from the hon. Member for Poplar and Limehouse (Apsana Begum). It ...

I am pleased that we are finally debating the long-awaited victims Bill today. Since I was electe...

I rise to speak in support of the Bill. I welcome the Government’s commitment to improving suppor...

In 2013, I first met Claire Waxman. She is now the Victims’ Commissioner for London, but then she...

I am grateful for the opportunity to name my predecessor, Elfyn Llwyd, who was very successful in...

I am very grateful to the right hon. Lady for putting that on the record and naming the former ri...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion) and indeed to follow my...

It is a genuine pleasure to take part in the debate, which is increasingly becoming an example of...

Before I start my speech, may I take a moment to pay tribute and respect to Lord Peter Brooke of ...

Like the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Nickie Aiken), I would like to send my...

I, too, welcome the introduction of this Bill in so far as it enshrines victims’ rights in law. R...

It is a privilege to follow so many great speeches in this debate.

I personally do not love...

At the outset, I would like to say that the Liberal Democrats are of course pleased that we are d...

First of all, I pay tribute to all those who have spoken in this important debate. We have heard ...

Before I call the Minister, I want to say how important it is for those who have participated in ...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is a pleasure to deliver the closing speech in this Second Re...

Will the Minister give way?

I will, very briefly. There are a number of colleagues to whom I want to respond.

I recognise and truly respect the work that the Minister did in his last role as victims Minister...

The hon. Lady and I have worked together in the past, and I thank her for her intervention. I wil...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will make a little progress, as I want to speak for roughly the same amount of time as the shad...

Among the long list of points the Minister addressed, I did not hear the one about murderers who ...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that. My understanding is that that would probably not ...