Victims and Prisoners Bill

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier. I have the second ...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendment 112. My noble and learned friend’s proposal is an exc...

My Lords, I support the probing amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, which is an oppo...

My Lords, I will briefly address both amendments.

On the amendment from the noble and learn...

My Lords, I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, and the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton,...

My Lords, I thank my noble and learned friend Lord Garnier for raising this issue in Amendment 11...

My Lords, of course I will beg leave in a moment or two to withdraw my amendment. I am very grate...

Moved by

Lord Sandhurst

113: After Clause 27, insert the following new Clause—

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My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 113 and 114. Amendment 113 seeks to impose a duty to inform ...

My Lords, I signed this amendment, and it is a rerun for me, as I had similar amendments in the P...

My Lords, I do not want to take much time. I understand, and indeed sympathise with, the thrust o...

Part of the object of the amendments is to ensure that the scheme is published and explained. Tha...

I cannot quite see the wording that the noble Baroness refers to, but I am not sure I think it a ...

My Lords, I raise an issue with regard to the time limit. It is not from the wording of the amend...

My Lords, I support the principle put forward by the noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst, that there shoul...

My Lords, I have noticed the time as well, and the points that I was going to raise have already ...

My Lords, I apologise for the previous explosion from my phone—I was just making sure that you ar...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Sandhurst for Amendment 113, in relation to the unduly len...

My Lords, would it be possible for the Minister to find out whether the police keep records of th...

The noble and learned Lord makes a very sensible request, and I will do my best to write to him.<...

My Lords, I am grateful to various noble Lords for their support, the points that they have made,...

Moved by

Lord Wills

119A: Clause 28, page 29, line 23, leave out paragraph (a) and in...

My Lords, Amendments 119A to 119C in my name have been drafted to allow the independent public ad...

I have a very short amendment—wholly unrelated to what has just been put forward—and I thank thos...

My Lords, I support Amendments 119A to 119C in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Wills.

I su...

My Lords, on the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Wills, in some of the issues he r...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for moving his Amendment 119A and speaking to his other two ame...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for bringing forward the amendments in this group. All but...

My Lords, I am grateful to everyone who has spoken in this short discussion and to the noble Lord...

Moved by

Baroness Thornton

121: After Clause 28, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, in many ways, my Amendment 121 continues the discussion about the victims of major inci...

My Lords, I support this amendment. The Manchester Arena terror atrocity in 2017 chilled every pa...

My Lords, I wish briefly to add my support to this amendment. It seems to me that there is no goo...

My Lords, Amendment 121, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, is intended to establish a ...

I thank the noble Lord for that answer. If I understood him correctly, his key point was that the...

It might help the noble Baroness if I wrote with a fuller explanation of how it could compromise ...

That would be useful to the Committee, because then the legal eagles behind me and on other Bench...