Modern Slavery Bill

My Lords, I will be brief. We have an amendment in this group that is considerably briefer in det...

My Lords, I have Amendment 36 in this group, and I have put my name also to the amendment moved b...

My Lords, I wonder whether anything covered under Clauses 1, 2 and 4, creating these criminal off...

My Lords, I, too, support the noble Baroness’s amendment. These cases are incredibly difficult to...

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment simply because it provides better access to justi...

My Lords, it seems that all three amendments in this group have the potential of being helpful to...

My Lords, I agree in principle with what lies behind the amendments but I would like to take up w...

My Lords, if I may respond, the point has been brought to us by several lawyers, both members of ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Young, for introducing this debate, and the noble Lord...

My Lords, may I ask the Minister for a point of clarification? I stress again that I am not a law...

The noble Lord was gracious enough to mention that he is not a lawyer, and I join in that fellows...

My Lords, I think the situation is that if there is a criminal conviction for a civil wrong that,...

My Lords, I could not have put it better myself.

Having regard to the nature of the statutory torts or the ordinary common-law torts that might be...

If I may, I will come back to the noble and learned Lord’s point and perhaps write to him in clar...

My Lords, the Minister says that they are, in effect, compensation for crimes. The particular con...

I will come back to that, if I may. We have before us two proposed new clauses in Amendment 34, w...

I, too, had a question in mind. First, penalties already exist—but then, I am not a lawyer. I was...

I acknowledge that. A huge part of what we have covered here concerns the lack of awareness on th...

My Lords, I hesitate to intervene in this discussion, but the day before yesterday we talked abou...

The noble Baroness is absolutely right. Again, that gives me an opportunity to draw the House’s a...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have participated in this brief but telling discussion on t...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

37: Clause 14, page 10, line 4, after “satisfied” insert “be...

My Lords, this amendment takes us to Part 2 of the Bill, which deals with prevention orders. My a...

My Lords, I rise very briefly in support of the noble Baroness and thank her for tabling the amen...

The noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, and my noble friend Lady Lister have made reference to the views...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for speaking to this amendment and my noble friend Lady Hamwee for ...

My Lords, I was not surprised by anything that my noble friend has just said; her reply was very ...

My noble friend is quite right. It was not the intention to imply that they were in any way worth...

Then I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

38: Clause 14, page 10, line 14, at end insert “and notwiths...

My Lords, the defendant may have been convicted and served a sentence but this seems to be anothe...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for moving the amendment, which aims to clarify this part of th...

I am grateful for that. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

39: Clause 15, page 10, line 19, leave out paragraph (b)

My Lords, this may be the longest grouping of amendments, but it may be one of the shortest debat...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 39A in this group. Part 2 makes arrangements for slavery and...

I thank my noble friend and the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, for tabling these amendments. They r...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for that reply. She said that the Government would not want to ...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

44: Clause 17, page 12, line 9, at end insert—

“( ) Th...

My Lords, under the Bill the court can make a prohibition for any period, and the criterion is th...

My Lords, the noble Baroness has not stolen my thunder at all, and again I am most grateful to he...

My Lords, I thank both noble Baronesses for speaking to these amendments. They raise the importan...

My Lords, of course I shall seek leave to withdraw it. I had hoped that by referring to regulatio...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

63A: Clause 30, page 22, line 15, leave out “not exceeding £5,00...

My Lords, there are two amendments in this group and perhaps I may explain the purpose behind the...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, for bringing this amendment forward....

I thank the Minister for that response. I am more than happy to beg leave to withdraw the amendme...

Moved by

Lord Warner

65: Clause 40, page 30, line 26, leave out subsections (3) and (...

My Lords, the amendment is in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Patel. My concern here is ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 65A and 69A in this group, and I of course welcome Amendmen...

My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Warner. As a member of the commission, ...

I agree with everything that has been said on that last point. One can imagine that NGOs which th...

My Lords, I support all these amendments, which aim to ensure the genuine independence of the ant...

I have added my name to the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Warner. Powerful argume...

My Lords, I make a brief comment on this debate from my experience of setting up the Supreme Cour...

My Lords, this has been an extremely interesting and welcome debate, and I pay tribute to the nob...

To put the record straight, I did not mention the Victims’ Commissioner, I mentioned two Home Off...

Indeed, I am sorry. It was the noble Lord, Lord Rosser. I am tempting fate here because he will d...

It will be for my noble friend to decide whether to withdraw, although I am sure that he will at ...

Before the Minister answers the noble Baroness, I will add what might be a conciliatory note, sta...

My Lords, I meant to mention one more point, which was the one made by the noble and learned Lord...

My Lords, we will come to the staff’s functions and powers next week, but we should not lose sigh...

At the risk of overloading the Minister with questions, I asked a very specific question that I d...

I will come back to a few of the points raised there. I take the point the noble Baroness made ab...

My sympathies are entirely with the Minister in having to read out some of that stuff. It was alm...

I apologise for interrupting the noble Lord. When I talked about budget setting, I should have ma...

My Lords, I am nothing like as much of a spendthrift as that. I recognise that the Home Secretary...