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HANSARDChild Grooming Victims: Compensation AwardsMy Lords, there are three routes by which victims of child grooming may be awarded compensation. First, following a criminal conviction, a court can order compensation to be paid…20 Nov 2025HANSARDChild Grooming Victims: Compensation AwardsIt is always a pleasure to speak to the noble Baroness, and the answer is yes.20 Nov 2025HANSARDChild Grooming Victims: Compensation AwardsAs the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, knows, it is a top priority for the Government to appoint the chair of the national inquiry as quickly as possible, and we are grateful to…20 Nov 2025HANSARDChild Grooming Victims: Compensation AwardsThe noble Baroness raises a number of points in that question. Many of those will be for the national inquiry to deal with, so I will simply deal very quickly with the question of…20 Nov 2025HANSARDChild Grooming Victims: Compensation AwardsIt is a very good point. Every judge at the end of a criminal trial has the ability to make a confiscation order, and these are being pursued with rigour because it is really…20 Nov 2025HANSARDChild Grooming Victims: Compensation AwardsI thank the noble Baroness very much for that. Obviously, that is something that will be very useful to look into once the inquiry is set up.20 Nov 2025HANSARDChild Grooming Victims: Compensation AwardsThe difficulty with that question is that it presupposes the existence of a compensation scheme for these victims. There is no such compensation scheme in existence. Whether or…20 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I acknowledge the intention of the noble Lords, Lord Davies of Gower, Lord Cameron of Lochiel, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Keen of Elie, to oppose Clause 39…19 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThis is probably not the moment for me to embark on that one. This, of course, is simply about agreeing with the Sentencing Council’s guidelines in individual cases, not…19 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Gower, and the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, for tabling Amendments 215 and 216 respectively. I have great respect…19 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThe first thing we want to do is Clause 39, which, of course, was opposed by the noble Lord, Lord Davies. But in addition, this is about making it clear to everybody that it…19 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillThe difficulty is that if somebody were to put something on a fence, for example, and they were not aware that this was associated with a gang, they would potentially be…17 Nov 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing BillI thank the noble Lords, Lord Davies of Gower and Lord Cameron of Lochiel, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Keen of Elie, for tabling Amendments 51 and 52. These amendments…17 Nov 2025HANSARDHillsborough LawMy Lords, it would be customary to begin by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for securing this debate, but I am sure he will agree with me when I say that I should open my…13 Nov 2025HANSARDTrials: TimelinessThe noble Lord raises a very important point, and once again I agree with his fundamental premise. The difficulty is that any court in the Crown Court is a complex system. It is…10 Nov 2025HANSARDFinancial Provision on DivorceMy Lords, I begin by joining all other noble Lords in thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, for securing this debate. The noble Baroness has, as other noble Lords have said,…10 Nov 2025HANSARDTrials: TimelinessMy Lords, as of June 2025, the average time from charge to the main hearing in the Crown Court, whether that is a guilty plea or a contested trial, for all Crown Court cases is…10 Nov 2025HANSARDTrials: TimelinessI am grateful to the noble Lord for raising this important issue. Palestine Action has conducted an escalating campaign involving alleged criminal damage to Britain’s national…10 Nov 2025HANSARDTrials: TimelinessI could not agree more with the basic premise of the noble and learned Lord’s question. It is simply unacceptable, and behind every one of those statistics are human beings…10 Nov 2025HANSARDTrials: TimelinessI thank my noble friend for that, and I can understand why that seems like an obvious solution. But the separation of powers between the Government and the courts is one of the…10 Nov 2025