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HANSARDCriminal Justice: Royal CommissionMy Lords, I am grateful to have the opportunity to express real gratitude for the work done by prison chaplains, particularly during the pandemic when the chaplaincy had to move…07 Feb 2022HANSARDCriminal Justice: Royal CommissionMy Lords, we know that prisoners who maintain contact with their families and communities behave better in prison and have lower reoffending rates when out of prison. During the…07 Feb 2022HANSARDCriminal Justice: Royal CommissionMy Lords, I am afraid that I cannot go further than what I have already said. We are looking at it, and we want to make sure that we maintain our current programmes. In the last…07 Feb 2022HANSARDCriminal Justice: Royal CommissionMy Lords, I am reluctant to write the terms of reference for the royal commission from the Dispatch Box, but we do know that such services are absolutely essential for people who…07 Feb 2022HANSARDCriminal Justice: Royal CommissionMy Lords, as I understand it the royal commission would need significant resource from the department. The people working on the royal commission were deployed on other work…07 Feb 2022HANSARDCriminal Justice: Royal CommissionMy Lords, I can only agree with that. We have recently looked very carefully at our education programme in prisons, which has undergone an absolute revamp. Minister Victoria…07 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillThat the Bill be now read a second time.07 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillMy Lords, the Judicial Review and Courts Bill comprises important measures dealing with both areas. I shall start with judicial review, but before getting to the detail of what is…07 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to all Members of your Lordships’ House who have contributed to a wide-ranging and, if I may say so, extremely good debate. The noble Lord, Lord…07 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillThat it be an instruction to the Committee of the Whole House to which the Judicial Review and Courts Bill has been committed that they consider the bill in the following order:…07 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillThere are a number of ways of skinning this particular cat because there are separate amendments but common themes. If when I am about to sit down, I have not dealt with it fully,…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, which has ranged fairly widely. I will try to cover everything in my response. I start with…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI really do not want —as I said earlier—to get into a position of glossing the wording of the Bill. It is very important that decision-makers and the courts are able to look at…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I think I was asked a similar question, in a different context, on the police Bill. I will give the same answer, not least because I am conscious that a lot of these…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillLet me come to that point in a second. First, let me say that I almost took it as implicit in the request from the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, that the Committee would…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI think I have received the email from the Red Cross, as I think it emailed everyone. I have set up a folder for all these briefings, so I do not want to say that I have read it,…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillIn that case, I will certainly read it over the weekend. I know that those in the Home Office responsible for this area are obviously looking at the debate and will have picked up…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillAs regards the in terrorem threat that things will be litigated ad nauseam, I am tempted to say that that is not really a change from the current position. More substantively, and…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillIt does not do that either. It does not say that the tribunal “must give the evidence minimal weight”; it says that the tribunal “must, in considering it, have regard to the…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillIt is because there is absolutely nothing wrong with Parliament saying to a tribunal, “We want you to have regard to this principle, but of course the final decision is yours”. We…03 Feb 2022