Victims and Prisoners Bill

I could not disagree with that. I suspect that there are a whole host of issues behind habitual o...

My Lords, this is the first group of amendments which really gets into victims’ rights—not just w...

My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, as I often do, that we are now digging i...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken to this group of amendments. The Government app...

I think we are all very sympathetic to the idea that a huge amount could go in the code and the g...

My Lords, as the noble and right reverend Lord invites me, I will look again at that evidence and...

My Lords, the problem with Clause 2(2) is that it is followed by Clause 2(3), which starts by say...

My Lords, I think we will come to the “must”/“should” point a bit later when we discuss the amend...

My Lords, I want to pick up the point made by the Minister about victim services going into the c...

My Lords, if I may say so, what one should put in the Bill and in the code are matters of judgmen...

My Lords, I am quite a localist normally, but is this not the very point? A single point of conta...

I shall not be attempting to answer the email that has not yet come through until it does, but my...

My Lords, I am sorry to delay things, but there is one thing I am not clear about. Restorative ju...

My Lords, I may be as underinformed as anyone but my understanding is that the classic case of re...

My Lords, I know there is an unwritten convention that noble Lords should not intervene when they...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, for his question. I would obviously not dream of...

I thank noble Lords who have spoken on this group and those who supported Amendment 13. I thank t...

Moved by

Baroness Coussins

18: Clause 2, page 2, line 27, at end insert—

“(3A) ...

My Lords, I will speak to the four amendments in the second group in my name, which are supported...

My Lords, I apologise that I was not able to be present at Second Reading—the day job had to take...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for bringing forward this amendment. When I spoke at Second ...

My Lords, I support of all four of the amendments and thank the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, fo...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, particularly on the collection of evidence...

My Lords, I also support Amendment 18, which would require the code to provide for interpreting a...

My Lords, I also apologise for being unable to be present for Second Reading. I will speak very b...

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendments, and I particularly emphasise the points we have...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Benjamin would have liked to speak from these Benches today, but, ...

My Lords, I too thank the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, for this group of amendments, to which I...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, for raising this important topic. I join in ...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who spoke in support of my amendments in this group. I...

Moved by

Baroness Brinton

20: Clause 2, page 2, line 36, at end insert—

“(5A) R...

My Lords, I have tabled Amendment 20 and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Russell of Liverpool, and t...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, in this amendment. I pay tribute to her and...

My Lords, it is a total privilege as always to dip my first toe into your Lordships’ Committee on...

My Lords, I am listening to all of this. My brief, from my team, is to correspond with Ministers,...

My Lords, what this debate has shown is the need for some clarity about what can and cannot prope...

My Lords, I too speak in favour of this amendment on court transcripts. I too pay tribute to Sara...

My Lords, it will be abundantly clear what our view is from these Benches, but I am speaking form...

Only sometimes.

I suppose it is like our written notes: sometimes we have them, sometimes we do not and sometimes...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions. I appreciate that this places the Mini...

My Lords, as my name has just been mentioned in this short debate, I will make a quick interjecti...

My Lords, it is heartening to hear a story with a happy ending in one respect, as we are generall...

Unfortunately, there are no rooms available to do that. I would love that—and I welcome my noble ...

That would be enormously helpful in many civil and family cases as well, and it simply is not ava...

I am very grateful for those interventions. I have personally seen this in operation in Mancheste...

That is where Ministers are taken.

I recognise the nature of the problem.

The modern versions of AI, or whatever generation of...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate, particularly the noble Bar...

My Lords, before my noble friend withdraws the amendment, as I suspect she is about to, I ask the...

I am very grateful to my noble friend, and I beg leave to withdraw my amendment.

I am going to give the Minister an opportunity to respond, if he wishes.

Thank you. The Sentencing Council point is an interesting one, which I will reflect on. As for th...

Moved by

Lord Hampton

21: Clause 2, page 3, leave out lines 8 and 9 and insert—