Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

I commend the speech of my noble friend Lord Blunkett. I agree with every single word of it. I am...

My Lords, first, I commend, as others have, all those who have, in recent times, been building th...

My Lords, I support all the amendments in this group, but, for the sake of brevity, I will specif...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to my Amendment 208C. My noble and learned friend Lord Falconer e...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 208D in my name. I am grateful to the noble Lords who have l...

My Lords, I shall contribute very briefly to this group of amendments. I fully support the views ...

My Lords, because of the quality and content of the speeches already made this afternoon, I hope ...

My Lords, I add my voice to those who have already spoken in favour of these amendments. I declar...

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the right reverend Prelate and precede, I think, the noble ...

My Lords, I strongly support all the amendments in this group, not least because the cause of pri...

My Lords, I find myself in a puzzle. The Government of the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, and the nob...

My Lords, I hope that the Minister can acknowledge that this is one of those comparatively rare o...

My Lords, I hope that when the Minister responds to this debate, he can put away the departmental...

My Lords, I have met a few of the people who these sentences are designed to control, and quite o...

I was not intending to contribute to this debate, but I think decency requires me to do so, becau...

My Lords, I am humbled by speaking at the end of an extraordinarily strong debate. It was eloquen...

My Lords, I have already spoken once. I speak very briefly to say two things. First, what an impr...

My Lords, Amendments 208A to 208H relate to offenders serving sentences of imprisonment for publi...

None of the amendments would mean that there would not necessarily be a consideration by the Paro...

I am not basing it only on what I have called automatic termination. The scheme set out in Amendm...

My Lords, there can be no disagreement that this has been a thoughtful and deeply impressive deba...

Moved by

Baroness Burt of Solihull

209: After Clause 124, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, Amendment 209 seeks to reinforce the existing provision of maternity services for pregn...

I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Burt, on her extremely moving opening speech. I agree who...

My Lords, I have added my name to this amendment and I warmly commend the speeches of the noble B...

My Lords, I support this amendment, and very much hope that the Government will either accept it ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Burt, for tabling this amendment. As the...

The amendment would not be duplicating anything because it contains specific provisions that are ...

What is required is that women in prison have access to the same maternity services as they could...

My Lords, before the Minister sits down, I would like to ask him about the relationship between h...

I know that when it comes to the prison estate, there is a very close relationship between my dep...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful for the learned contributions that have followed my words today...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

210: After Clause 124, insert the following new Clause—

“D...

My Lords, I shall also speak to Amendment 211 in the name of my noble friend Lord Hodgson of Astl...

My Lords, as my noble friend Lord Attlee has just said, I have tabled Amendment 211 in this group...

I support Amendment 211, to which I have added my name. The case has been made very powerfully by...

My Lords, both these amendments are really sensible. I very much hope that the proposers can work...

My Lords, I rise to support Amendments 210 and 211, and congratulate the noble Earl, Lord Attlee,...

My Lords, I am sure that the fabulous quintet of noble Lords led by the noble Earl, Lord Attlee, ...

My Lords, I rise to speak on behalf of my noble friend Lady Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville, wh...

My Lords, I will add a few words to give some examples of how this actually affects real people. ...

My Lords, I was not intending to speak to these amendments but, having been involved in prisoner ...

An incredibly powerful case has been made. We support it and I am grateful to the noble Earl, Lor...

My Lords, I am grateful for the various speeches which have been given on these amendments, which...

I thank the Minister for giving way; that is very kind. Is he aware of how daft that sounds? We h...

I am trying to deal with the amendments in what I hope is a logical way. At the moment, I am deal...

The Minister may be about to come to the point I was going to make. The provisions in Amendment 2...

The Minister said that he was dealing with the amendments logically. He dealt with only Amendment...

I am coming to the point about discretion in Scotland. I will respond to that in a moment, if I m...

I am of course impressed by the list of initiatives being taken by the Government and the roll ca...

I am not suggesting it is not possible; I am asking whether it is the best way to deal with the p...

The Minister has made a slightly better fist of it than the Government did in the Commons, but in...

I do not want to repeat what I have said. My focus is on ensuring that people have access to serv...

My Lords, I confess that I am little disappointed by my noble friend’s reply. I hope that he feel...

Moved by

Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede

212: After Clause 124, insert the following new C...

My Lords, the purpose of Amendment 212 is to encourage sentencers to used community-based sentenc...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 213. My noble friend Lord Ponsonby was somewhat critical of ...

The noble Lord, Lord Dubs, asked: these amendments are so simple, why waste time debating them? W...

My Lords, I do not intend to fall into a bit of disagreement with the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, w...

My Lords, I speak on behalf of my right reverend colleague the Bishop of Gloucester, who is unabl...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, for moving his amendment, ...

I rise to speak briefly to this group of amendments, which I strongly support. I declare my inter...

My Lords, I offer Green support for Amendments 212 and 213, with a preference for Amendment 213, ...

My Lords, I support both these amendments, but I want to add a brief comment on the mechanism whi...

My Lords, I would like to add a little to the evidence which has already been provided to the Min...

My Lords, this debate has raised two important issues: the justification for short custodial sent...

My Lords, it is important to remember what is in the amendments and what is not. We are not reall...

I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way. Does he take my point that none of those provi...

I accept that they do not refer specifically to short custodial sentences, but when the court is ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for summing up his response to the two amendments in this group. I...