Victims and Prisoners Bill

My Lords, I declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I thank ...

My Lords, I too welcome the Bill, and I thank the Minister for the concise way in which he outlin...

My Lords, it is a privilege to speak today, to follow the noble and learned Lord, and to be in th...

My Lords, with your Lordships’ permission, I will use the minutes available to me to speak princi...

My Lords, it is an absolute privilege to follow that outstanding speech from the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill’s provision to bring the victims’ code into primary legislation and ...

My Lords, I share the view that victims deserve a Bill to themselves. Extending the Bill to priso...

My Lords—no pressure for me now. Nearly 13 years ago I stood, with some trepidation, as I made my...

My Lords, it is a genuine privilege to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove. I was privileged ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett. Unfortunately, the House will...

My Lords, my interest in the Bill lies in how families and children affected by crime are support...

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register, in particular that I am the CEO of M...

My Lords, in the main I welcome the measures introduced in Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Bill, with pro...

My Lords, I welcome this Bill. As the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove, has said, it is one we have w...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to speak in this debate, and I, too, look forward to the maiden ...

My Lords, I wish to speak today on a couple of issues to which the Bill gives rise. Noble Lords h...

My Lords, this is an important Bill. The Government deserve credit for seeking to address many of...

My Lords, I am grateful to His Majesty’s Government for introducing this Bill. I am also grateful...

My Lords, the Bill covers a lot of ground, and I agree that in some respects it has benefited fro...

My Lords, I look forward to hearing the maiden speech of the noble Lord, Lord Carter of Haslemere...

My Lords, a recurrent theme so far today, in the Commons and in briefings, including from the chi...

My Lords, for me, there were echoes of the arrival of the Online Safety Bill in your Lordships’ H...

My Lords, I too welcome the Second Reading of the Victims and Prisoners Bill, as it offers a vita...

My Lords, it is a great honour and privilege to have taken my seat and to be giving my maiden spe...

My Lords, I will begin with the routine: reminding the House of my entry in the register of inter...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Carter of Haslemere, on a very wise maiden speech. ...

My Lords, as I so often find myself saying in your Lordships’ House, in the Green Party, when we ...

My Lords, this Bill covers a great deal of ground, and I will restrict my comments to a limited n...

Any legislation that might improve the position of victims is to be welcomed. As someone who has ...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy of The Shaws, and I ...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a former executive chairman of the Parole Board of England and...

My Lords, it is a particular pleasure for me to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Prashar, whom I a...

My Lords, I declare my non-remunerated role as chair of the Commission on Alcohol Harm. That is r...

My Lords, more than 30 years ago, when I was Bishop of Oxford, I was very much heartened by the i...

My Lords, I am grateful to have two minutes in the gap to register my interest, and that of Plaid...

Before I sum up on behalf of these Benches, I pay tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Carter of Hasle...

My Lords, I open by thanking the Minister for the tone in which he introduced the Bill. It has be...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Ca...

My Lords, it is with the greatest respect that I intervene on my noble and learned friend. I genu...

My Lords, my noble friend makes a perfectly fair debating point—and we are debating, so it is per...

I am sure that the noble and learned Lord understands the irony of that statement, set against hi...

I am not sure that I entirely understood the noble Baroness’s point, but it is perfectly true tha...

It is very generous of the Minister to say, as he has done with other Bills, that we should write...

I warmly thank the noble Baroness for that intervention. I will ask my officials to go through th...

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