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HANSARDMarriage and Religious WeddingsMy Lords, I think the theological point put to me will take an answer that is probably longer than the allotted time, but I am happy to consider it further. However, I reject the…28 Jun 2021HANSARDMarriage and Religious WeddingsMy Lords, I think my noble friend will have seen my letter to various groups on that point. Marriage at 16 and 17 has the significant risk of people being forced into marriages…28 Jun 2021HANSARDMarriage and Religious WeddingsMy Lords, the premise behind the question of the noble Baroness is that the bars to effective relief are the same in Judaism and Islam, but that is not in fact the case. As I…28 Jun 2021HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Equal Treatment of Deaths and InjuriesMy Lords, my noble friend raises an important point. I made a comment about cyclists earlier, and I will not ask the House to indulge me by saying it again. As far as e-scooters…24 Jun 2021HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Equal Treatment of Deaths and InjuriesMy Lords, I agree that perhaps going slightly above the speed limit is something that, inadvertently, many of us might do for a short period, but no one is sympathetic to the…24 Jun 2021HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Equal Treatment of Deaths and InjuriesMy Lords, I am aware of that case, and I send my condolences to the family of Ryan Saltern. Failure to stop offences are often referred to as hit and runs, but that is not really…24 Jun 2021HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Equal Treatment of Deaths and InjuriesMy Lords, some of the points the noble Lord has raised are really for my colleagues in the Department for Transport, and I will pass those on. But he is absolutely right that…24 Jun 2021HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Equal Treatment of Deaths and InjuriesMy Lords, my noble friend is absolutely right when he says that the purpose of criminal law generally is to look not only at the consequences of the behaviour but, far more…24 Jun 2021HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Equal Treatment of Deaths and InjuriesMy Lords, where there is evidence of an intention to kill or cause serious injury, offences committed by motorists will be prosecuted in the same way as other homicides or…24 Jun 2021HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Equal Treatment of Deaths and InjuriesMy Lords, first, I acknowledge the gravity of that incident and we should pay our respects to the police officer’s family, remembering the work that police officers do, day in and…24 Jun 2021HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Equal Treatment of Deaths and InjuriesMy Lords, as would be expected, my noble and learned friend is absolutely right. Homicide offences and the specific driving offences of causing death and injury are different.…24 Jun 2021HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Equal Treatment of Deaths and InjuriesMy Lords, I have some experience of this; in a former life, I argued a few cases against some other Members of your Lordships’ House relating to the Vienna convention and the…24 Jun 2021HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Equal Treatment of Deaths and InjuriesMy Lords, I am afraid I do not have those precise figures to hand, but I will write to the noble Lord with them and place a copy in the Library. So far as bans are concerned, the…24 Jun 2021HANSARDChild Trust Funds: People with a Learning DisabilityMy Lords, the Mental Capacity Act 2005 provides a process to obtain legal authority to access matured child trust funds. We are working with stakeholders to examine the case for…22 Jun 2021HANSARDChild Trust Funds: People with a Learning DisabilityMy Lords, I fear that I might be straying from my own ministerial brief if I were to say too much about that. It is important that we recognise that part of education generally is…22 Jun 2021HANSARDChild Trust Funds: People with a Learning DisabilityMy Lords, we have decided to consult, and that is a very important point. It should not be thought that there is nothing, so to speak, on the other side of the argument. I have…22 Jun 2021HANSARDChild Trust Funds: People with a Learning DisabilityMy Lords, I will pick up the noble Baroness’s second point first. As the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, explained on a previous occasion, regrettably, no thought was given when these…22 Jun 2021HANSARDChild Trust Funds: People with a Learning DisabilityThe noble Lord puts his finger on a problem: the Law Commission in 1995 highlighted the need for a small payments procedure, but that was not picked up in Parliament in the Mental…22 Jun 2021HANSARDChild Trust Funds: People with a Learning DisabilityMy Lords, we are putting the consultation material together as quickly as we can. The noble Lord is certainly right that we have to balance the ability of young adults to access…22 Jun 2021HANSARDChild Trust Funds: People with a Learning DisabilityMy Lords, I respectfully agree that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, should be congratulated on his work on the Mental Capacity Act. He described it as “a vitally…22 Jun 2021