Victims and Prisoners Bill

My Lords, a number of the amendments in this group are in my name and that of my noble friend Lad...

My Lords, this is quite a large group and I will speak briefly on the amendments I have my name t...

My Lords, I will say a couple of words on—

I do not think the noble Lord has finished.

I am so sorry; I thought that the noble Lord had finished.

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Nearly—soon, I devoutly hope, but I have more to talk about, sorry. My Amendment 59 is about the ...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendments 60, 64 and 70, which echo amendments on support services ...

My Lords, I will speak briefly again in relation to the provision of transcripts covered by Amend...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 57. Why would I not, since it is a duty to collaborate and co...

My Lords, Amendment 79, in my name and that of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Glouceste...

My Lords, I rise to support Amendments 60 and 64 in the name of the right reverend Prelate the Bi...

My Lords, I support Amendment 19 from the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, principally because it is...

My Lords, from listening to this debate, I am struck again and again by how so much of what we ar...

My Lords, I fully support my noble friend Lady Brinton’s Amendment 19 and her passionate and comm...

My Lords, I had not intended to speak on this group but, having heard from the noble Baroness, La...

My Lords, I apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Russell. I was surprised when there seemed to be a ...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendment 61, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby of ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this debate. I first bring forth the...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken on this group, and particularly the Minister fo...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

20: Clause 2, page 3, line 13, leave out paragraph (c) and inse...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

25: Clause 3, page 3, line 28, at end insert—

“(b) the Co...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

28: Clause 4, page 4, line 22, after “General” insert “, the Co...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

31: Clause 5, page 4, line 27, at end insert—

“(A1) Where...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

33: Clause 6, page 4, line 38, leave out “victims’ code” and in...

Moved by

Lord Bach

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

“(4A) Regulati...

My Lords, Amendment 35 would require information on compliance with the victims’ code to be linke...

My Lords, I rise very briefly to support this, with a slightly heavy heart. It has the virtue of ...

My Lords, it is important to acknowledge that we need to improve the kind of data collection that...

My Lords, I spoke in Committee on this issue, and I continue to offer our support from these Benc...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for introducing this amendment. As he said, we had a helpful di...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Bach, for his amendment, which seeks to introduce a consis...

My Lords, I thank the Minister very much for his response. I also thank noble Lords around the Ho...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

36: Clause 6, page 5, line 27, leave out “such” and insert “the...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

38: Clause 7, page 6, line 4, leave out “victims’ code” and ins...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

40: Clause 8, page 6, line 37, leave out “victims’ code” and in...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

42: Clause 9, page 7, leave out line 40 and insert “duty in sec...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

44: Clause 10, page 8, line 26, at end insert—

“(A1) The ...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

48: Clause 10, page 8, line 33, leave out “these purposes” and ...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

54: Clause 11, page 9, line 23, leave out “children or individu...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

56: Clause 11, page 9, line 34, leave out “such” and insert “th...

Moved by

Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede

57: After Clause 11, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lady Thornton, I wish to test the opinion of the House on ...

Moved by

Lord Russell of Liverpool

58: After Clause 11, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, we debated this amendment on the first day on Report last week. It is to do with traini...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

63: Clause 13, page 11, line 27, leave out “children or” and in...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

74: Clause 15, page 12, line 31, leave out “children or” and in...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

76: After Clause 15, insert the following new Clause—

“Di...

My Lords, Amendment 76 has been tabled to clarify that victims of crime can get the support they ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to the amendments in my name: Amendments 87, 88, 89 and 94. I thank my ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 87A, 88A and 158, which, as the Minister has already said, ...

My Lords, I am using IT in this speech—trying to get trendy, as my daughters tell me to do. My ap...

My Lords, I speak to my Amendment 96. I thank those noble Lords who added their names to this ame...

My Lords, I offer some brief words in support of Amendment 96. Like the Domestic Abuse Commission...

My Lords, I support the amendments to which the noble Baroness, Lady Bertin, has spoken. This was...

My Lords, my honourable friend Layla Moran laid an amendment about the ending of non-disclosure a...

My Lords, it is really a pleasure to respond to this group from these Benches, because there is r...

I shall answer a couple of questions and make one clarification. I think it was the noble Barones...

I hope the Minister will forgive me for interrupting him, but I want to thank him for suggesting ...

I am always happy to meet, but we might not get much further.

I just wanted to put on record that we have agreed that we will meet, and I welcome that.

Moved by

Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede

77: After Clause 15, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, I will speak to this briefly, although we regard it as fundamentally important. Amendme...

My noble friend Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames wanted to speak to these two amendments but is una...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, and, in her absence, the noble Baroness...

My Lords, I am not convinced by the noble Earl. When he opened, he acknowledged that this is an e...

Moved by

Baroness Chakrabarti

80: Clause 16, page 13, line 14, at end insert “or a se...

My Lords, we are now in the family court because in the real world and in a joined-up justice sys...

My Lords, I have put my name to these four amendments. I feel quite strongly about Amendment 80 i...

My Lords, I support these amendments. They are underpinned by a simple principle: the best intere...

My Lords, I will speak in support of Amendments 80 and 84. These amendments would extend the prov...

My Lords, I added my name to Amendments 80, 83, 91 and 92, and I support Amendment 84 as well, al...

My Lords, although this has been a relatively short debate, it has been quite comprehensive. All ...

My Lords, we have before us various amendments that deal essentially with family justice. I will ...

I fully understand the point that the Minister is making. Can he indicate whether this problem ha...

There have been preliminary discussions with the committee but it has not formally started work. ...

Will the Lord Chancellor do that?

It would be extremely regrettable if the Family Procedure Rule Committee were to refuse to embark...

My Lords, I hope noble Lords will forgive me for forgetting courtesy in my brevity. I failed to m...

This is Report.

Then I have no hope. But I will take comfort from the Minister’s comments, because that would be ...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

81: Clause 16, page 13, line 22, after “step” insert “of any ki...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

85: After Clause 17, insert the following new Clause—

“Vi...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

86: Clause 18, page 17, line 17, at end insert—

“(za) in ...

Moved by

Baroness Bertin

87: Clause 24, page 22, line 38, at end insert—

“(3A) ...

Moved by

Baroness Bertin

88: Clause 24, page 23, line 21, at end insert—

“(10) ...

Moved by

Baroness Bertin

89: Clause 24, page 25, line 6, at end insert—

“(1A) T...

Moved by

Earl Howe

90: After Clause 25, insert the following new Clause—

“Child...

My Lords, I will speak on behalf of my noble and learned friend Lord Bellamy. Government Amendmen...

My Lords, I support Amendment 90, which provides for the relaying of information to schools. Scho...

My Lords, from these Benches, we also welcome Amendment 90. I want to add one other issue though....

My Lords, I have a genuine question. Of course, I support the amendment, but the wording here is<...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords who have spoken in support of this amendment. I will d...

Moved by

Baroness Fox of Buckley

93: After Clause 25, insert the following new Clause...

My Lords, Amendment 93 simply but crucially calls on the Secretary of State to

“issue guida...

: My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, for her Amendment 93, which requires guidance t...

My Lords, when I was at school, there used to be a tactic called sending people to Coventry, in w...