Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2013

My Lords, I hope to move this regret Motion in an entirely non-partisan manner, because this matt...

Oh!

My Lords, I apologise—it is nearly the end of term. I meant 201 votes to 191. I was about to say,...

My Lords, the speech we have heard from noble Lord, Lord Bach, is very sobering, and although he ...

My Lords, this debate consists of two parts. The first is the regret Motion tabled by my noble fr...

My Lords, I thank the contributors to this debate. I have listened carefully to the points they h...

Will the Minister confirm that the Government have just announced that they are going to spend so...

That is the point that I was going to make. The noble Lord is extremely good at self-righteous de...

My criticism was of the Government, and the Minister speaks on behalf of the Government.

The noble Lord knows how Governments work, and spending reviews are carried out by individual gov...

Before my noble friend sits down, will he answer the question that I think was put by the noble L...

I think a rough estimate is that it is probably less than £1 million. It was a very small concess...

Before the noble Lord sits down, I am not sure that he quite dealt with the point made by the nob...

No, that is why I want to invite a discussion. The term “access to justice” is bandied around ver...

I am flattered that the noble Lord should find me menacing. Does he not see that there is a clear...

Access to justice may also be by other forms of advice. Not all advice is legal advice.

When a tribunal is involved, it is not a question of advice but of having to go to a tribunal to ...

Built into the system are corrections to the tribunal. The noble Lord will know that the tribunal...

I am sorry to intervene again on my noble friend, but it is not fair to say that the tribunals in...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I thank in particular the noble...

Will the noble Lord give way to allow me to make one point? I know that he wants to make a politi...

No.

Well, all right, he wants to make a point. I was at a call centre on aid the other day. I listene...

I am grateful to the Minister, and I am grateful for what he said earlier. There is £1.7 billion ...

I am sorry to intervene and I do not want to prolong the debate. However, as the noble Lord knows...

No.

Oh yes; it is four-square. The House took a decision and the decision stood. That was the case wi...

I do not think that the Minister can really get away with that. The Government changed their poli...