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HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) BillMy Lords, I add my note of sadness at the news of the death of Lord Justice William Davis recently and add my condolences to those of the Minister to his family upon his passing.…10 Jun 2025HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) BillMy Lords, in the first group, we considered what we regard as the unsatisfactory nature of this Bill. My Amendment 5 is directed to ensuring that guidelines promote the use of…04 Jun 2025HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for his response. However, I do not believe that the proposed guidelines that the Bill seeks to make unlawful were inimical to…04 Jun 2025HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill04 Jun 2025HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for his helpful and detailed response. As I hoped he would, he has given an outline of the Government’s very real commitment to more…04 Jun 2025HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) BillMy Lords, before turning to Amendment 2 in my name, I will make a number of points that are relevant to the general difficulty of this Bill, highlighted by all the amendments in…04 Jun 2025HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill04 Jun 2025HANSARDIndependent Sentencing ReviewMy Lords, unlike the noble and learned Lord, Lord Keen, we welcome the Independent Sentencing Review. We also applaud the appointment of David Gauke to lead it. He was an inspired…02 Jun 2025HANSARDCriminal Cases Review CommissionTo ask His Majesty’s Government, following the exoneration of Peter Sullivan after 38 years in prison, what assessment they have made of performance of the Criminal Cases Review…20 May 2025HANSARDLegal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity IncidentMy Lords, this cyberattack and its result have exposed the lamentable insecurity of the Legal Aid Agency data systems. The ramifications are serious. The personal information that…20 May 2025HANSARDCriminal Cases Review CommissionMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord for that answer. Of course, Peter Sullivan’s case is even more extreme than Andrew Malkinson’s—38 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.…20 May 2025HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) BillMy Lords, my two amendments in this group, Amendments 15 and 18, cover two separate topics. The first relates to the public sector equality duty and seeks to provide that:…19 May 2025HANSARDRecalled Offenders: Sentencing LimitsMy Lords, limiting recalls is welcome; but these are very short sentences. During the 28-day period, will there be any attempt at rehabilitation or to find out what went wrong and…19 May 2025HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) BillMy Lords, this group of amendments raises some interesting and quite difficult points. Amendments 9, 10 and 17 were introduced by the noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst, and also proposed…19 May 2025HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill19 May 2025HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) BillMy Lords, before I come to the substance of the debate, may I make one more plea to the Government? I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, and others in their…19 May 2025HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) BillMy Lords, I have spoken at length on my amendment in the last group. My amendment here is to suggest, as I believe is completely uncontroversial, that sentencing guidelines about…19 May 2025HANSARDSentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) BillMy Lords, I am content to withdraw the amendment at this stage and will consider further developments before Report.19 May 2025HANSARDEx-offenders: ReintegrationMy Lords, does the Minister agree that the problems highlighted by the right reverend Prelate’s Question are compounded by the prison overcrowding crisis? The need to use whatever…15 May 2025HANSARDPolice, Prison and Probation OfficersMy Lords, last week the Minister promised a “seismic shift” to improve professional standards across the Prison and Probation Service. He described reports of bullying,…13 May 2025