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Criminal Justice

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

449 c472-89 

Session

2005-06

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Deposited Paper DEP 06/1458
Thursday, 20 July 2006
Deposited papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c488 (Link to this contribution) We do that by making sure that the maximum sentence for carrying a knife—whether it is classified as...

Charles Walker | 449 c488 (Link to this contribution) I can reassure the Home Secretary that, despite being in touch with my feminine side, I will not be ...

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Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c489 (Link to this contribution) Although I am always willing to try to help hon. Members, especially on the Opposition Benches, I wi...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c488 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman will find that the vast majority of serious offences now are given i...

Philip Davies | 449 c485 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the direction taken by the statement, although it represents an admission of failure becau...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c485 (Link to this contribution) That does not seem to be the view of the leader of the hon. Gentleman’s party, who has resiled from ...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c485 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to confirm to my hon. Friend that the priorities independently identified by her constitue...

Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 449 c487 (Link to this contribution) In welcoming much of what the Home Secretary has announced today, I urge him to have an early discus...

Chris Bryant | 449 c486 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to the Home Secretary’s consultation with former jurors, as, like my hon. Friend the ...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my hon. Friend’s comments. That is why our priorities included not only protec...

Roger Gale | 449 c486 (Link to this contribution) My constituent was left in a coma after an assault by a young thug who, 10 days earlier, had been re...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c486 (Link to this contribution) As I told the House earlier, the Attorney-General, the Lord Chancellor and I will be consulting our ...

Roberta Blackman-Woods | 449 c485-6 (Link to this contribution) Can my right hon. Friend assure me that money for new prison places will not direct resources away f...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c486 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I will try to do that. In another place, Lady Corston is carrying out a review. My noble Friend...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c487 (Link to this contribution) I am always willing to have discussions with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Norther...

Robert Flello | 449 c487 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right when he says that, for many people, the world begins outsid...

Julian Lewis | 449 c488 (Link to this contribution) According to the Home Secretary’s statement, the Government will end the requirement that judges sho...

Speaker | 449 c488 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that the Home Secretary understands the point that the hon. Gentleman is making.

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c487-8 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can tell my hon. Friend that we intend to bring forward and implement measures that are inten...

Speaker | 449 c488 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am trying hard to accommodate everyone. May I please ask for one supplementary question and...

Andrew Turner | 449 c488 (Link to this contribution) May I tell the Home Secretary that there is a site designated on the Isle of Wight for a fourth pris...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c488 (Link to this contribution) The answer to the last two questions—rather than one question, there were three—is: as soon as possi...

Nick Clegg | 449 c479-80 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for advance notice of his statement, although I saw from my early edition...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c481-2 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I will bear that in mind. Most people looking at some of the decisions that have been taken bel...

James Clappison | 449 c482 (Link to this contribution) The public do indeed need to be protected from those who commit serious, violent and sexual offences...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c480-1 (Link to this contribution) Again, I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman, despite the burden of his remarks, seems to find much...

David Kidney | 449 c481 (Link to this contribution) Stafford has a prison that I visit regularly. I agree with my right hon. Friend that too many prison...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c482 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her comments. I made my views known about that sentence at the time. I am...

Peter Bottomley | 449 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) The Home Office knows that every week more than 2,000 people commit for the first time a serious cri...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c482 (Link to this contribution) We want to act in a humane way. The Government have done more on domestic violence than any predeces...

Julie Morgan | 449 c482 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s proposals to change the sentencing guidelines. I know that my const...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c483 (Link to this contribution) Of course we want ultimately to have fewer people committing crimes. That would have the consequence...

Gordon Prentice | 449 c483 (Link to this contribution) Next Wednesday, when everyone is going off on holiday, I shall be in Blackfriars crown court startin...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c483-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend’s commitment to public service appears to know no bounds. We are all, I am sure, duly...

Tony Baldry | 449 c484 (Link to this contribution) The Chahal decision was in 1996, a decade ago. When do the Government expect to mount an effective c...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c484 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman understands that, as in our own judicial system, things do not alway...

Tony Lloyd | 449 c484 (Link to this contribution) If the Home Secretary is intent, as I know he is, on making sure that society and my constituents ar...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c484 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely true, which is one of the reasons why we have been exploring and introducing prev...

Elfyn Llwyd | 449 c484 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary referred in his statement to the perception of the way in which the criminal just...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c484-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman and join him in his last comment. On the leniency of sentences, I hope th...

Sally Keeble | 449 c485 (Link to this contribution) A recent survey that I carried out among my constituents on policing and law and order issues showed...

John Denham | 449 c479 (Link to this contribution) I welcome much of what my right hon. Friend said. If we want to be smarter, rather than simply tough...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c479 (Link to this contribution) I take my right hon. Friend’s point that protection and punishment have to be accompanied by rehabil...

David Davis | 449 c475-7 (Link to this contribution) Sadly, I cannot give way to Labour Members at the moment or I should be delighted to take that inter...

Siobhain McDonagh | 449 c475 (Link to this contribution) So you are going to introduce a second one.

Speaker | 449 c479 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I ask hon. Members to restrict themselves to one supplementary question that elicits a br...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c477-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for the kind words with which he welcomed my statement and for his ...

David Davis | 449 c474-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for advance sight of his statement and I agree with a good deal of what h...

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c472-4 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, I set out to the House our plans for transforming the Home Office, and I said that I woul...

Peter Bone | 449 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Home Secretary’s comments about low-level offending and the fact that more police offi...

Subjects

Criminal proceedings Crime Administration of justice Human rights Law and order Sentencing Reform Victims

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