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HANSARDIndependent Review of Administrative Law UpdateMy Lords, I am grateful for my noble friend’s comments on the report. I think the consultation period is six weeks. As soon as we have the responses in, we will work at pace to…22 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Review of Administrative Law UpdateMy Lords, I am grateful for the comments of the noble and learned Lord, particularly for his support on the two matters he first mentioned. Respectfully, he is certainly right…22 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Review of Administrative Law UpdateMy Lords, that is a very interesting proposal from my noble and learned friend. Generally, of course, judicial review does not substitute the decision of the court for the…22 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Review of Administrative Law UpdateMy Lords, we are not disappointed with the report from the noble Lord, Lord Faulks, and his team. On the contrary, it is a very good piece of work. We are consulting for the…22 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Impact on the Prison SystemMy Lords, I am in substantial agreement with the noble Lord on both points. I am very grateful that he mentioned videoconferencing, because that is something we have put a lot of…22 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Review of Administrative Law UpdateMy Lords, I agree entirely with my noble friend that Parliament is sovereign. Its role is central and sovereign when we are considering questions around judicial review—I hope…22 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Review of Administrative Law UpdateMy Lords, with respect to the noble and learned Lord, we are not seeking to limit the remedies at all. On the contrary: one of the things we are consulting on is whether we should…22 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Review of Administrative Law UpdateMy Lords, a Minister does not decide what his or her powers are. If there is an ouster clause in an Act of Parliament, it is an ouster clause in an Act that has been passed by…22 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Review of Administrative Law UpdateMy Lords, I certainly agree that the courts would be expected to respect institutional boundaries, and Parliament and the Government should do likewise. The purpose of our…22 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Review of Administrative Law UpdateMy Lords, I am grateful for the noble and learned Lord’s comments. On prospective remedies, I mentioned the decision in Ahmed in my opening remarks. I hope I am not rubbing salt…22 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Impact on the Prison SystemMy Lords, the very short answer is yes. The slightly longer one is that I agree with my noble friend that programmes such as this are just the sorts of things which are important…22 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Impact on the Prison SystemMy Lords, the plan for managing releases continues to be guided by the appropriate legislation and a public health assessment of what can safely be implemented. I am sure we will…22 Mar 2021HANSARDPublic Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2021That the Regulations laid before the House on 19 February be approved. Relevant document: 47th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee18 Mar 2021HANSARDPublic Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2021My Lords, the instrument before us prevents enforcement agents—bailiffs—attending residential premises in England to execute a writ or warrant of possession, except in the most…18 Mar 2021HANSARDPublic Health (Coronavirus) (Protection from Eviction) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2021My Lords, I fear that the somewhat innocuous title of these regulations ought to have a health warning below it along the lines of “Light blue touchpaper and stand well back”…18 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Office for Police ConductMy Lords, one must have a balance. If you are going to investigate the police, you need some people in your organisation who have the skill set to know how the police operate. The…16 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Office for Police ConductThe noble Lord raises a critical point. Both my department and the CPS are focused on ensuring that we improve the number of rape allegations which come to court, where there is…16 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Office for Police ConductMy Lords, in her letter to the Home Secretary dated 15 February 2021, the commissioner set out that the MPS will follow the College of Policing media approved professional…16 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Office for Police ConductMy Lords, so far as the Mail ’s investigations are concerned, I would make three points. First, the message must go out that if you deliberately lie about sexual abuse, you will…16 Mar 2021HANSARDIndependent Office for Police ConductMy Lords, there is indeed a difference between pre and post charge. The Government believe that, in principle and in general, there should be a right to anonymity pre charge in…16 Mar 2021