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HANSARDLearning Disabilities: Child Trust FundsMy Lords, the Government have committed to making the process of obtaining legal authority to access a child trust fund more straightforward. A working group comprising the…11 Feb 2021HANSARDLearning Disabilities: Child Trust FundsMy Lords, the reason is that it is not for the Ministry of Justice to give its blessing to private sector schemes and to say whether they do or do not comply with the relevant…11 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, I am grateful for the question put to me by my noble friend. As I said, that is precisely what the Government seek to do: to provide an additional tool for the…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, on the face of it the purpose of this amendment, tabled by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, is to provide for a pilot of polygraph testing for…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 42 to 65 inclusive and to Amendments 69, 71, 72, 74 and 76. I make four very short points. First, the hour is late and getting later.…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, I am grateful for the comments of the noble Lords, Lord Thomas of Gresford and Lord Paddick. In response to the specific point put to me by the noble and learned Lord,…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing BillMy Lords, in responding to the amendment and the various points put to me, I will bear in mind and seek to avoid falling into the trap of being one of those “pesky lawyers” that,…09 Feb 2021HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill09 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, I will start with the point made by my noble friend Lady Bertin. It is of course late; I am conscious of that. But I have to say that it is worth staying up late to hear…08 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy of Southwark, for raising this matter—I am tempted to say “again”, but of course I should really say “again and again”. The…08 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, I hope I can be relatively brief in my reply—not because the point is not important, nor indeed out of a lack of respect for any of the contributions we have just heard,…08 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, my noble friend Lady Bertin has, as she has explained, tabled an amendment which seeks to ensure that UK citizens who commit marital rape in countries where such…08 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, it might be most efficient for me to do just that. I will add it to the list of questions and respond in writing.08 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames, seeks to strike out—alone among the clauses in the Bill—Clause 69. I will endeavour to persuade him, and the rest of the…08 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames, explained, these amendments seek to bring the procedure relating to special measures in civil courts in line with the…03 Feb 2021HANSARDDomestic Abuse BillMy Lords, I will begin with the amendments tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, to which the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, so ably spoke, and will then turn to the government…03 Feb 2021