Victims and Prisoners Bill

My Lords, I was very disappointed by the Minister’s response in Committee, so I felt that I ought...

My Lords, I associate myself with the remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Marks, and the noble Barone...

My Lords, Section 3 of the Human Rights Act requires courts to interpret legislation compatibly w...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames, for his amendments, which seek ...

I am puzzled by this because it is an unusual thing in legislation to say that Section 3 is disap...

My Lords, that is not by any means the Government’s position; nor can that inference be drawn. Th...

My Lords, I beg leave to withdraw Amendment 150.

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

153A: Clause 53, page 54, line 14, leave out from beginning to ...

My Lords, for convenience, I will start, if I may, with Amendments 154B to 154D, which relate to ...

My Lords, I need some guidance. Today’s list indicates that in this group are contained the gover...

If I may help advance this, our understanding is that the Clauses 55 and 56 stand-part debates ar...

My Lords, that is my understanding. I am in a slight panic at the moment—the noble Lord, Lord Pan...

I am simply referring to today’s list, which is what I am working from. If the Minister looks at ...

My Lords, I associate myself with those remarks. I stayed late, expecting to debate the question ...

My Lords, I will try to help once again, because I have in front of me a copy of the groupings th...

I am very happy to proceed on the basis that group 6 will deal with these matters.

I have to say that I decided to ignore those and will discuss them in the next group, because the...

It is also the Government’s wish and position that we discuss that in the next group.

Would it be possible to say something about what I think is common ground in this group—namely, t...

My Lords, I concede that I am the amuse-bouche of this debate, rather than the main course, as al...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for explaining his amendments, which accept a number of p...

My Lords, I am very glad that we have managed to sort out which are the right amendments in the r...

My Lords, I begin with the amendments proposed by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas. It was...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

154A: Clause 53, page 54, line 21, at end insert—

“(2) Af...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

154B: Clause 54, page 54, line 23, leave out subsections (1) an...

If Amendment 154D is agreed, I cannot call Amendments 155 or 156 due to pre-emption.

Amendm...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

154D: Clause 54, page 55, line 1, leave out from beginning to e...

My Lords, with the permission of the House, I suggest that we de-group this amendment and begin t...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

156ZB: Clause 55, page 56, line 34, leave out “written”

M...

For the convenience of the House, as we have just agreed to de-group the amendments, it would be ...

We are now on what was group 6. In any event, the Government are bringing forward Amendments 156Z...

My Lords, I have tabled my opposition to Clauses 55 and 56, which noble Lords know will prohibit ...

My Lords, it is a real privilege to support my noble friend Lord Pannick in this debate on whethe...

It was Winston Churchill.

It was Winston Churchill; I am corrected—both great names.

If we have progressed at all fro...

My Lords, I do not intend to say much, for the very good reason that I do not have to. The argume...

My Lords, I raised questions about Clause 55 and how it might operate in practice at Second Readi...

My Lords, from these Benches, and in the absence of the noble Lord, Lord German, I want to say th...

My Lords, from these Benches I express irritation that we have these in the Bill at all. We have ...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, for tabling his amendments, and of course I thank the noble...

I thank the Minister. I also ask him to give a very modest undertaking this evening that, before ...

I can and will and do give that undertaking.

Amendment 156ZB agreed.

Amendments 156ZC...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

156ZC: Clause 55, page 56, line 36, leave out “written”

M...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

156ZE: Clause 56, page 57, line 25, leave out “as follows” and ...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

156A: Clause 58, page 58, line 31, leave out “section 16, 55 or...

Moved by

Earl Howe

156BA: Clause 58, page 58, line 33, leave out from “legislation” t...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 156BA and to the three further government amendments in this...

My Lords, from these Benches, we are very grateful that the Government have agreed to move forwar...

My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton. We welcome these amendments.

I am grateful.

Moved by

Earl Howe

156C: Clause 59, page 59, line 8, after “Act” insert “made by the ...

Moved by

Earl Howe

157A: Clause 59, page 59, line 8, at end insert—

“(2A) For r...

Moved by

Earl Howe

157CB: Clause 59, page 59, line 8, at end insert—

“(2A) A st...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

159: Clause 60, page 59, line 24, at end insert—

“(da) Pa...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

161: Clause 61, page 59, line 27, leave out “This Part comes” a...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

162A: Clause 61, page 59, line 27, at end insert—

“(a) se...

If Amendment 162B is agreed to, I cannot call Amendment 163 in the name of the noble Baroness, La...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

162B: Clause 61, page 59, line 28, at beginning insert “Except ...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

164: Clause 61, page 59, line 28, leave out “The other provisio...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

167: Clause 61, page 59, line 31, leave out “this Act” and inse...

Moved by

Lord Bellamy

169: Title, line 3, after “incidents;” insert “for an infected ...