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HANSARDProbation Service: Chief Inspector’s Reviews into Serious Further OffencesMy Lords, last Tuesday, the Minister Damian Hinds gave a Statement commenting on the Chief Inspector of Probation’s independent review of the probation service’s management of…31 Jan 2023HANSARDProbation Service: Chief Inspector’s Reviews into Serious Further OffencesWill the Minister give way on that point? He said that there would be domestic abuse inquiries, and the noble Lord, Lord Marks, mentioned the £5.5 million for them, which was in…31 Jan 2023HANSARDProbation Service: Chief Inspector’s Reviews into Serious Further OffencesNot quite. The practice in family courts, domestic abuse courts and criminal courts is to get more information than the Minister has just alluded to—namely, call-outs. That is…31 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Codes of Practice) (Revision of Code H) Order 2023My Lords, we support this statutory instrument, which revises the PACE code of practice H to reflect the introduction of a new power of urgent arrest by the Police, Crime,…31 Jan 2023HANSARDPublic Order BillMy Lords, we also support these amendments. As my noble friend Lady Chakrabarti made clear in her introduction, her Amendment 38 would remove “the Secretary of State’s power to…30 Jan 2023HANSARDPublic Order BillMy Lords, I will make only a very brief intervention. I agree with what my noble friend said in her introduction of this group, and also what the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, said…30 Jan 2023HANSARDPublic Order BillMy Lords, this has been a wide-ranging and fascinating debate, and some would say that this may be the House of Lords at its best. I shall first address the amendments moved by…30 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice and Crime Commissioners: Accountability ArrangementsMy Lords, on 21 December in response to an earlier question by the noble Lord, Lord Lexden, the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, described the situation as very concerning. That was in…25 Jan 2023HANSARDLegal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Legal Aid: Family and Domestic Abuse) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2023My Lords, I too welcome this SI. I declare that I sit as a family magistrate in London and I am currently chairman of the Greater London Family Panel, which means that I represent…23 Jan 2023HANSARDCivil Legal Aid (Housing and Asylum Accommodation) Order 2023My Lords, the Explanatory Memorandum explains that the order will expand the “scope of civil legal aid to allow early legal advice before court, on a wider range of issues, for…23 Jan 2023HANSARDRape: Operation SoteriaMy Lords, for the Minister’s information, Professor Betsy Stanko wrote the Operation Soteria report. One of the things she recommended in that report was the improvement of data…23 Jan 2023HANSARDIreland/Northern Ireland Protocol: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (European Affairs Committee Sub-Committee Report)My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Jay, for his skilful and diplomatic chairing of the sub-committee. He has produced a report of real substance which this House has benefited…20 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillMy Lords, I will speak briefly to Amendment 115 in this group, where we call for an assessment of the impact of Clauses 87, 88 and 89 to be published before they come into force.…18 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security Bill16 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillI thank the noble Lord for making that clear. It will have an impact on the way we address this whole group, because it is a very extensive group and many different groups from…16 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillMy Lords, Amendment 83 provides that the Government must lay secondary legislation to define “specified persons” within 60 days of Royal Assent. A specified person under this Bill…16 Jan 2023HANSARDAsylum Seekers: Local Authority AccommodationMy Lords, at the end of last year, the Prime Minister pledged more staff to clear the asylum backlog, when it emerged that the Home Office had failed to process 98% of channel…16 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillI beg leave to withdraw my amendment.16 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillThe noble Lord, Lord Wallace, has raised an interesting but complicated question to answer. He has given various examples of the complications involved in trying to identify the…16 Jan 2023HANSARDNational Security BillMy Lords, in his opening statement, the noble Lord said that the Government plan to publish a policy statement and that the reason they were not doing so now, in anticipation of…16 Jan 2023