Victims and Prisoners Bill

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 154 in my name and to Amendment 168 at the same time, as the...

My Lords, it is a privilege to rise in support of my old boss, the noble Lord, Lord Carter of Has...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, for mentioning the release test ...

My recollection is that there is a section in the original 2012 legislation that would shift the ...

I am somewhat crushed by the fact that the noble Lord is able to bring before your Lordships’ Hou...

I heard what the noble Lord, Lord Clarke, had to say and I know that if my noble friend Lord McNa...

I am very grateful. Again, my speech is being shredded in advance by points that I was about to m...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 159 and 160 in this group, which the noble Lord, Lord Blunk...

My Lords, I support every single amendment in this group, particularly the “two strikes” part of ...

My Lords, I apologise that I was unable to be in the Chamber for the entirety of the Second Readi...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Blower, and I was delighted to be a...

My noble friend is of course talking to an audience in this Chamber which agrees with every word ...

I am most grateful to my noble friend. I will have to check tomorrow morning the Hansard report o...

My Lords, it was a real privilege to witness that exchange and I think we are getting to the hear...

My Lords, I particularly support the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Blower, although I s...

My Lords, I support this group of amendments and it is a pleasure to follow noble Lords and benef...

My Lords, I am not a lawyer but I do have some experience of visiting prisons, thanks to the Koes...

My Lords, on the first group of amendments my noble and learned friend the Minister said that the...

My Lords, this too has been a wide-ranging debate and more wide-ranging than that on the first gr...

My Lords, following on from what the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, said, the Government agree entire...

I pay tribute to my noble and learned friend and his colleagues in the department, including the ...

I thank my noble friend Lord Clarke of Nottingham for inviting us to foregather at the Dog and Du...

Unlike other prisoners, they may have been up before the Parole Board many times, but this is lon...

My Lords, I entirely understand the point that the noble Baroness is making, which effectively en...

I did not suggest that they were more likely to cause harm. The argument is whether we accept tha...

My Lords, as I have tried to say, the whole purpose of the action plan is to create a framework i...

The problem is that the Parole Board is made up of real-life men and women with a very heavy resp...

I see the force of the points being made by the noble Lord, Lord Clarke. I respectfully suggest t...

I want to ask the noble and learned Lord about the word “proportionate”. Is there an objection to...

The Government’s position, frankly, is that the word “proportionate” causes more difficulties tha...

Should I wind up on this group?

I just need to finish. Noble Lords come at me from all directions, which is perfectly fine, but I...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed to this constructive, powerful an...