Access to Redress Schemes

The hon. Member is exactly right to draw a thread between several of these scandals. That is part...

I am interested to develop my hon. Friend’s thought about the Financial Conduct Authority. If I a...

My right hon. Friend is exactly right. The FCA is not directly accountable to Parliament, but is ...

I am listening to the hon. Gentleman’s speech carefully, and he is making some excellent points. ...

The hon. Member is right about time-barring. I have a similar case with a constituent of mine, wh...

On the composition of the Foskett panel and the huge delays in the compensation due to those defr...

The hon. Member is right that in redress schemes, the perpetrator of the injustice is often charg...

Does the hon. Member agree that many victims are annoyed by the way that these schemes become a f...

I am grateful to the right hon. Member for his intervention. Probably nobody in this place knows ...

The hon. and gallant Member is kind in giving way. Moving back to the sodium valproate scandal, w...

The hon. Member is exactly right about how younger generations can be affected. We have recently ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Richard Foord), and I am gra...

It is about power, is it not? As the hon. Gentleman rightly says, the individual does not have th...

That is right. These are deep-seated institutional failures. This is not a party political issue,...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope). I learnt abo...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Motherwell and Wishaw (Marion Fellows), who has do...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for North Durham (Mr Jones). I do so with a smal...

I hate to think that I have given the impression that I am down on all lawyers; some of my best f...

I do not disagree with that. I saw enough of that in my time in practice. The right hon. Gentlema...

It is your reputation—it preceded you.

That could be right, but I doubt it. My reputation is as a friendly and approachable character. W...

I call the SNP spokesperson.

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I thank all hon. Members for a very thoughtful debate this afternoon. I have enjoyed all the cont...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the delay also adds extra heartache, not just because the indi...

I am delighted that the right hon. Gentleman has made that perceptive point. When the other place...

Before the hon. Gentleman moves on to his last point, does he agree with me that trust in politic...

I think that is true. I get the sense that there is an anti-politics feel out there. That is not ...

Order. Before I call the shadow Minister, I just want to emphasise to those who might be wanting ...

I congratulate the hon. Members who secured this debate and the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honi...

On whether people survive to get justice, I draw attention to Baroness Cumberlege’s “First Do No ...

Indeed. My hon. Friend makes an important point.

Recently, the Government have dithered and...

My heart drops at the idea of another commissioner. The point, which my hon. Friend made earlier,...

Indeed. Without political will, things cannot be driven forward. As my right hon. Friend says, mi...

It is a pleasure to respond to a thoughtful debate in which we have heard some very good speeches...

I do not disagree with the Minister— I agree that victims should be at the centre, and that no tw...

I was going to come to that point. Although the right hon. Gentleman is right that there is curre...

I do not suppose that lessons are not being learned and that one set of civil servants is not pas...

The point I was making was very much that we have internal schemes of learning, and we ensure tha...

rose—

I will give way one more time to the right hon. Gentleman, but I am running out of time.

That is not my experience. When we were setting up the advisory board for the Horizon compensatio...

The right hon. Gentleman is right: the Government require a means of retaining corporate knowledg...

I am very grateful to all Members who have participated in today’s debate, often prompted by conv...