Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

My Lords, this has been a short debate about the place of secure children’s homes in the youth cu...

My Lords, as I hinted when moving the amendment, I shall not divide the House on this issue. Howe...

Moved by

Lord Ramsbotham

108: Clause 32, page 31, line 2, at end insert—

“( ) N...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 111 and 121.

Last Thursday, the noble Baroness, ...

My Lords, my Amendments 120A and 120B in this group both concern the use of force in secure colle...

My Lords, I have added my name to three amendments in this group, and will focus particularly on ...

My Lords, perhaps I may start with a moment of generosity to my much admired noble friend the Min...

My Lords, I support the amendments tabled by my noble Friend Lord Ramsbotham about delaying proce...

My Lords, in my maiden speech I said that one of the things I wanted to concentrate on in this Ho...

My Lords, I hope that I am not a flag-waving antagonist but I support the pleas made by the last ...

My Lords, 20 years ago last week I made my maiden speech in a debate on the care and protection o...

My Lords, I had not intended to speak in this debate, which is unusual bearing in mind the subjec...

My Lords, this amendment contains two aspects which cause concern. One is the use of force—a matt...

My Lords, the Government’s plans for the largest children’s prison in Europe are,

“bad for ...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed to the debate on these amendments...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I ascribed the wrong number to the schedule to whic...

I could go through go through the entire section, which is very lengthy, and deal with all the va...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his careful, thoughtful and wide-ranging response. I ...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord; he is quite right to reproach me for not giving credit to m...

Having said that and witnessed the Minister’s customary graciousness, I agree with him that there...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

109: Clause 32, page 31, line 2, at end insert—

“( ) No f...

My Lords, I have effectively spoken to this amendment in dealing with the issue of girls and boys...

My Lords, I will speak both to this amendment and Amendment 110. I know that I am up against a ve...

Last Thursday, my noble friend Lord Faulks and his ministerial colleague from another place, Mr S...

My Lords, I have two amendments in this group—Amendments 117A and 117B. I should have said at the...

My Lords, it seems wiser not to keep girls in this proposed new pathfinder institution, in part b...

My Lords, the hour is getting late and I am aware that we are hoping to divide the House on anoth...

My Lords, most of the arguments about girls on this site have been clearly made, so I want to mak...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed to the debate on these amendments...

I am grateful to my noble friend for giving way. I accept everything he has said about it not bei...

As I said a little earlier, we do not expect this to happen, certainly in the short term. However...

I apologise for intervening once more. I promise not to do so again, at least in this speech. Doe...

No, the answer is that by their secure college the Government are trying to provide a college whi...

Will the noble Lord exclude Clayfields from that, where the reconviction rate is 18% and costs ar...

I am perfectly happy to accept the costs from the noble Lord. As regards the offending rate, one ...

My Lords, I shall be brief. If the proposal goes ahead, which it might, we will end up with two g...

Moved by

Lord Ramsbotham

111: Clause 32, page 32, line 17, leave out from “43” to end...

I wish to test the opinion of the House.

Moved by

Lord Faulks

112: Before Schedule 5, insert the following new Schedule—