Victims and Prisoners Bill

My Lords, I have signed Amendments 31, 51 and 83 in this group. Amendment 31 would give the Victi...

My Lords, I support in broad terms the need for the commissioner to have more powers to intervene...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 36, which is in my noble friend Lord Bach’s name, as well as ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords very much for their contributions to this group. I first apologise ...

Perhaps the Minister can drink a bit more water at this point, though that is not the sole reason...

I thank the noble Baroness for that intervention. I will continue to reflect on all the points ma...

My Lords, first, I pay tribute to the Minister, who for 25 minutes has responded to this group wh...

Moved by

Lord Bach

34A: Clause 6 page 5 line 25, at end insert—

“(4A) Regulatio...

My Lords, although this amendment has been put down rather late, I hope that once the Committee h...

My Lords, as it happens, I did read the article in the Financial Times, and pressed the little bu...

I too support the amendment. I am grateful that we have put people into the Bill, because that is...

My Lords, I too welcome this amendment. Although I am speaking from the Liberal Democrat Benches,...

My Lords, I too read Dr Natalie Byrom’s compelling piece. I very much took to heart the points ma...

My Lords, I do not think I could have put it better than the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby. It is a g...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this fairly short yet important deba...

Moved by

Lord Hampton

53: Clause 12, page 10, line 20, at end insert—

“(4A) Col...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to my Amendment 53, which would insert the concept:

“Collabo...

My Lords, I shall speak to a variety of amendments. I support the amendment just moved by the nob...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 56 and 59 in my name; I also support the other amendments...

My Lords, I support the amendments in this group specifically on domestic abuse services. The Jus...

My Lords, I wish to speak in support of Amendments 59, 60, 62, 64 and 65. When you become a victi...

My Lords, I am going to speak to my Amendment 65. I am delighted that the noble Baroness who has ...

My Lords, I want to pick up the last point of the noble Lord, Lord Bach. The duty to collaborate ...

My Lords, to repeat what I said earlier, I dealt with a couple of stalking cases relatively recen...

My Lords, this group of amendments brings together a very important set of issues, as we have hea...

I am sorry to interrupt, and I realise that the Minister has had to take over the brief at short ...

That is clearly a concern, and we must listen to the domestic abuse commissioner very carefully. ...

I thank the Minister very much for what he said. Does he accept that the officeholder, who is per...

First, I take the noble Lord’s point about the Victims’ Commissioner; I am happy to feed that int...

I apologise for interrupting the Minister. I am very grateful for his response; I am sure that th...

Indeed. We come back to the earlier amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Bach, on how one sho...

Can I make one additional point? The Minister just referred to allowing police and crime commissi...

I think we come back to the guidance on this—to get the guidance right and ensure that the focus ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who took part in this extraordinarily wide-ranging debate, whic...

Moved by

Baroness Thornton

67: Clause 15, page 12, line 12, at end insert—

“(c)...

My Lords, I will speak also to Amendment 69 in my name, and I have the support of the noble Baron...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, for speaking to these amendments.

We r...

My Lords, I support all the amendments. Listening to stories of stalking, we realise that it is j...

My Lords, I signed Amendments 67 and 69, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton. She was rig...

There is an important point about parole. I know that parole is in the Bill later, but I cannot w...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for that very helpful intervention.

At the end of ...

My Lords, I will speak extremely briefly, because others have spoken at great length, to support ...

My Lords, government Amendment 74 has been tabled to place a duty on the Secretary of State to is...

Before the Minister sits down, he said there is no need to add or specify independent stalking ad...

I thank the noble Baroness for her point. While we are clear that there should be no hierarchy of...

I thank the Minister for his comprehensive remarks and for his explanation about why Clause 15 is...

Moved by

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

67B: Clause 15, page 12, line 12, at end insert—

I must declare an interest, not because of my own age but because I used to work for Age Concern ...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 72, which I am delighted is supported by the noble Lord, L...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, and to support her ...

My Lords, I am sorry that the noble Lord, Lord Wigley, was not here to move his amendment. Given ...

I can clarify that.

Let me develop this point first. The difficulty that I have is that the one place where a trans w...

I only want to clarify. The example that I used, to be clear, concerned instances where there was...

With the greatest respect to the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, and the noble Lord, Lord Jackson, who ...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Foulkes on his suite of amendments. I am not surpri...

I thank noble Lords for their contributions to this debate on two related amendments. The amendme...

I think it is rather early to be saying, as the Minister did, having not read the Sex Matters rep...

I am afraid that the response to my noble friend is that the Government are absolutely adamant th...

I know that noble Lords want to move on, but the key to what I was saying is that service provisi...

I am very happy to take the noble Baroness’s comments back to the Minister and the Government, an...

My Lords, I particularly thank the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, and my noble friend Lady Thornto...

Moved by

Lord Roborough

74: Leave out Clause 15 and insert the following new Clause—<...

Moved by

Baroness Brinton

75: After Clause 15,

insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, I can be fairly brief because we have covered the issue of mandatory training in other ...

Moved by

Baroness Lister of Burtersett

76: In subsection (2)(a), after “girls” insert...

My Lords, I will speak also to Amendments 77 and 107 in my name, and in support of Amendment 80, ...

I rise to say very quickly, because I know that we are trying to get through this, how much I sup...

My Lords, reference was made briefly to Amendment 80, and

“services for victims … with no r...

My Lords, I have an amendment in this group—sometimes the way the groupings lie is a bit difficul...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Fox of Buckley, and shall speak to her Amendment 105...

My Lords, I rise to speak on behalf of two of my colleagues who have supported amendments in this...

My Lords, I rise to add my support to those remarks from the right reverend Prelate. I have added...

My Lords, I will make two extremely brief points. First, I will address Amendments 80 and 107, af...

My Lords, I was there in the 1960s but that is not quite the object of this debate.

I was s...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in the debate; it has been interesting, if slig...

My Lords, I too am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken to this group of amendments, ...

Can the Minister give the Committee any sense of the timescale? This is really overdue. It was pr...

I will need to write to the noble Baroness—and to other noble Lords, of course—on that point, as ...

My Lords, I gather that I am supposed to speak now, because I moved an amendment to the amendment...

My Lords, I beg leave to withdraw my Amendment 75.