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HANSARDPrison CapacityMy Lords, I declare an interest as a trustee of the Prison Reform Trust, which is already known to the Minister. Will he accept that it was a great pity that, under the last…24 Jul 2024HANSARDPrison CapacityI am still on the right.24 Jul 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillIt is not the Oscars ceremony, but I just wanted to agree with the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, and the noble Lord, Lord Marks, in relation to the Arbitration…23 May 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, I wish I could speak as eloquently as a number of those who have already spoken—I am sure that the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, will do so in a moment. We have travelled…21 May 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillIt is a cross-party justice question. If I cannot stand up and speak for justice as a Conservative, I am in the wrong business. I will be voting with the noble and learned Lord,…21 May 2024HANSARDEnd of Custody Supervised Licence Scheme: ExtensionMy Lords, I declare my interest as a trustee of the Prison Reform Trust. Would my noble and learned friend accept that there is much of merit in the ECSL scheme, but there are not…13 May 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend on the Front Bench for his response. I take on board precisely what he has said. This is complicated but it is not as complicated…30 Apr 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill30 Apr 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, I wonder whether I can achieve such a satisfactory result at the end of my little outing. For my noble friends on the Front Bench, listening to me speaking about this…30 Apr 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Blower, and I was delighted to be able to co-sign her amendment. It is also a pleasure to witness a debate in the…12 Mar 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillI am most grateful to my noble friend. I will have to check tomorrow morning the Hansard report of where I had got to in my speech; I have a suspicion I was in the middle of a…12 Mar 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillI apologise, because I know my noble and learned friend wants to complete his speech, but I ask this question simply because I failed to hear. The action plan has been spoken of a…12 Mar 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillMy Lords, I am grateful to my former neighbour, the noble Lord, Lord Bach, for permitting me to jump the queue. I want to make some equally brief points to the points made by the…12 Mar 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillAm I to draw the inference from what my noble friend has just said that, under the current arrangements, inappropriate members of the board have been inappropriately appointed to…12 Mar 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillI am sorry that it is very late and I am being tiresome. My noble friend the Minister said that there may come a time or there may be circumstances in which it would be necessary…12 Mar 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners BillJust to be clear, the Government are proposing that they will need to sack somebody who could be responsible for a breach of confidence, a breach of security, or some other…12 Mar 2024HANSARDCriminal JurorsMy Lords, I ask a question as an even more lowly recorder than my noble and learned friend the Minister—albeit that he and I have not carried out that role for some many years.…06 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I briefly want to follow my noble friend Lord Hailsham in his remarks. Had he been the presider in a three-person court, I would have been very happy to say that, having…12 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI apologise for interrupting, because I know that my noble friend the Minister wants to sit down for good. When he spoke to Clause 1(2)(b), was he speaking for Parliament or the…12 Feb 2024HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill07 Feb 2024