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HANSARDFeltham Young Offender InstitutionMy Lords, I am not aware of the withdrawal of a police unit from Feltham and therefore cannot comment on that point. But I undertake to write to the noble Lord and I will place a…24 Jul 2019HANSARDFeltham Young Offender InstitutionI acknowledge the point made by my noble friend. The issue very often is not the availability of staff or resources, or the ability to provide education and rehabilitation, but…24 Jul 2019HANSARDFeltham Young Offender InstitutionAgain, we attempt to provide a regime of education and rehabilitation. I regret having to repeat the point I made earlier: underlying this is the need to secure motivation. It is…24 Jul 2019HANSARDFeltham Young Offender InstitutionMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I will now repeat in the form of a Statement the Answer to an Urgent Question given by my honourable friend the Member for Charnwood. The…24 Jul 2019HANSARDFeltham Young Offender InstitutionMy Lords, I am grateful for the noble Lord’s observations. We have developed a clear process to respond to urgent notification letters. Senior officials, led by the executive…24 Jul 2019HANSARDFeltham Young Offender InstitutionI cannot accept either proposition put forward by the noble Lord. The ministry has certainly not been asleep on the job. Our dedicated staff of civil servants and the immediate…24 Jul 2019HANSARDSentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 12 and the other amendments in the group pertain to Schedule 2 to the Bill. Again, the amendments are mainly technical to ensure that sentencing procedural law…23 Jul 2019HANSARDCrown Prosecution Service: Rape and Sexual OffencesMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, for securing this debate. I join other noble Lords in expressing my thanks to the noble Baroness, Lady Newlove, and…23 Jul 2019HANSARDCrown Prosecution Service: Rape and Sexual OffencesAs far as I am concerned, neither the DPP nor the CPS would endorse the implied threat that, if there was a reason for not signing a consent form for the disclosure of digital…23 Jul 2019HANSARDCrown Prosecution Service: Rape and Sexual OffencesIn so far as I follow what the noble Baroness is saying, it requires first of all a balance between rights that arise under the European Convention on Human Rights—the right under…23 Jul 2019HANSARDCrown Prosecution Service: Rape and Sexual OffencesI am not at all aware of a policy in place such that, if a complainant is presented with a consent form, they will be told, “If you do not sign it, there will be no attempt to…23 Jul 2019HANSARDSentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL]23 Jul 2019HANSARDSentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL]23 Jul 2019HANSARDSentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL]23 Jul 2019HANSARDSentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL]My Lords, I intend to move Amendment 1 and speak to the other amendments in the first group. The amendments mainly relate to adding further exceptions in Schedule 1 to the Bill to…23 Jul 2019HANSARDSentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL]23 Jul 2019HANSARDSentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL]My Lords, government Amendment 2 will ensure that any pre-consolidation amendments of sentencing procedural law made by or under the Bill extend to the Crown dependencies and…23 Jul 2019HANSARDSentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL]My Lords, I want to make one or two observations for the record in response to the comments made by the noble and learned Lord as chairman of the committee. Clearly, as was…23 Jul 2019HANSARDSentencing (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Bill [HL]23 Jul 2019HANSARDSercoI am obliged to the noble Lord for his question. In December 2018, the Chief Executive of the Civil Service wrote to central government departments asking each to include contract…04 Jul 2019