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HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)In order to amplify the voices of victims and to signpost them to the right support service, advocates must have the ability to share information with public authorities and…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)Although I have a huge amount of respect for the noble Lord Wills, I disagree with him on that point, hence the approach that the Government are taking in this legislation. If the…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)As I have set out, the clause is not designed in any way to restrict the powers of individual advocates, but to set guidance on the way a number of different advocates will…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)Clause 31 gives the Secretary of State the power to produce guidance to which an advocate must have regard when exercising their functions. The Secretary of State cannot, however,…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Given his personal experience and connection, this will not have been easy for him, and I am grateful for not only his words, but his service on…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady for the point she makes, and I understand that she is getting at how widely one draws out what is relevant and useful information pertinent to…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am always conscious that the hon. Lady is an extremely able lawyer, so I listen carefully to everything she says and will reflect carefully on her points. I am also conscious…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)As we have set out in previous debates on this matter, there are already provisions—around legal proceedings, for example—for the retention and preservation of information.…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)The clause is an amendment to an existing power in section 128 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. The power allows the Secretary of State to be…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)I will speak to clauses 27 and 28, and will return to the new clauses in this grouping once they have been spoken to by the Members who tabled them. Clause 27 sets out that the…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for her support and for her words. I hope clause 34 can stand part of the Bill. Question put and agreed to. Clause 34 accordingly ordered to…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eleventh sitting)I will speak to clause 24 now, and to new clause 15 in my concluding remarks, once I have heard what the right hon. Member for Garston and Halewood wishes to say about it. Clause…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful, as ever, to the right hon. Lady not only for her campaigning on behalf of her constituents and others, but for her ministerial career—the roles she held as Minister…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eleventh sitting)First, I should have said in response to the previous set of amendments that I am grateful to the shadow Minister for her tone on this part of the Bill and the way Opposition…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)It is a pleasure to be back before you this afternoon, Mr Hosie. I thank the right hon. Member for Garston and Halewood for her amendment, which would require the Secretary of…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eleventh sitting)Therefore I am always sensitive to the depth of experience and knowledge that the right hon. Lady brings as a parliamentarian to these proceedings. I am very grateful to her for…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am again grateful to the right hon. Member for Garston and Halewood for her amendments. Amendments 70 and 72 would make the IPA a data controller, enabling them to obtain and…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)Clause 25 requires the Secretary of State to agree terms with an individual who is to be appointed as an advocate. The clause makes it clear that an individual officially becomes…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for the amendment, which would remove the Secretary of State’s ability to omit material in the advocate’s report if they believe it is…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)Again, I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Garston and Halewood for tabling amendments 74 and 75, which I will address together. As she set out, the amendments would enable…06 Jul 2023