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Sentencing Reform/Legal Aid

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

530 c165-89 

Session

2010-12

Department

Ministry of Justice

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

George Howarth | 530 c171-2 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman should be aware that part of the problem with his original prop...

Anna Soubry | 530 c171 (Link to this contribution) Does the Lord Chancellor agree that it was the last Labour Government who, having introduced IPPs, t...

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Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c171 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. I think that the reason why the last Government introduced IPPs was tha...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c171 (Link to this contribution) I could answer each of those three things. Most of the cuts being made to citizens advice bureaux an...

Speaker | 530 c171 (Link to this contribution) Order. In the interests of maximising the number of contributors, I appeal to hon. and right hon. Me...

Gerald Kaufman | 530 c170-1 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware—he certainly should be because I have told him a numbe...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c170 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the right hon. Gentleman. Talking tough is easy and most politicians do it; delivering ...

Lord Beith | 530 c170 (Link to this contribution) Although the Justice Committee will continue to have concerns about the extent of the legal aid chan...

Sadiq Khan | 530 c167-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Justice Secretary for advance sight of his statement. Our justice policy should be abou...

Speaker | 530 c168 (Link to this contribution) Order. There was too much noise when the Secretary of State and Lord Chancellor addressed the House,...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c165-7 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, and further to the written ministerial statement I laid in the House ea...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c173 (Link to this contribution) We have defined domestic violence, and we are not sceptical at all. Indeed, I hope that the hon. Lad...

Andrea Leadsom | 530 c173 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. and learned Friend assure the House that, in spite of the proposed changes, suppo...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c172 (Link to this contribution) On the first point, I share my hon. Friend's amazement, as I am sure anyone would on their first int...

Fiona Mactaggart | 530 c173 (Link to this contribution) In view of the mistakes that the right hon. and learned Gentleman's team have made in their policies...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c172 (Link to this contribution) I never advocated—nor did the Government —the replacement, as it were, of short prison sentences wit...

Edward Leigh | 530 c172 (Link to this contribution) What on earth did my right hon. and learned Friend mean when he said that he would introduce drug-fr...

Robert Halfon | 530 c173 (Link to this contribution) Harlow Welfare Rights and Advice and the citizens advice bureau are deeply concerned about the propo...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c173 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will be surprised to learn that there are 1,000 fewer foreign national pris...

Lord Hanson of Flint | 530 c173 (Link to this contribution) Just so that we can judge the Lord Chancellor's performance, will he tell us how many fewer foreign ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c173 (Link to this contribution) To give a short answer, I agree with my hon. Friend that all of those are an important priority.

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c189 (Link to this contribution) There is a lot of work going on about the transparency of justice and the publication of local figur...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c188-9 (Link to this contribution) I have very welcome conversations with the victims commissioner from time to time, and very much hop...

Andrew Percy | 530 c189 (Link to this contribution) The transfer of foreign national prisoners is obviously not a simple issue. However, last year, Humb...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c188 (Link to this contribution) I think there will be an automatic increase in the number of life sentences when we get rid of IPPs....

Rob Wilson | 530 c188 (Link to this contribution) Many of my constituents want reassurance that the victims of crime will be properly catered for in t...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c189 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to say that there is an agreement on the transfer of prisoners within the European Union—[...

Philip Hollobone | 530 c189 (Link to this contribution) Should not judges and magistrates be made aware of the success or otherwise of their individual sent...

Jake Berry | 530 c188 (Link to this contribution) My constituents will welcome the Secretary of State's announcement that more life sentences will be ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c188 (Link to this contribution) I hope that we can do more. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health is looking at dru...

Jane Ellison | 530 c188 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Secretary of State's commitment to making our prisons more drug free. A constit...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c187-8 (Link to this contribution) There are people with better clinical expertise on drug rehabilitation than I, but I share my hon. F...

Paul Maynard | 530 c186 (Link to this contribution) The Howard League for Penal Reform's recent report on short sentences makes it clear that one reason...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c186 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend's analysis. The reoffending rates are very bad for short-term offenders ...

Lord Barwell | 530 c186-7 (Link to this contribution) As a London MP, I warmly welcome my right hon. and learned Friend's proposal to introduce mandatory ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c187 (Link to this contribution) I think the message from the whole House is that we disapprove of the carrying and using of knives. ...

Paul Uppal | 530 c187 (Link to this contribution) The Justice Secretary touched on the issue of clinical negligence, particularly in cases where litig...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c187 (Link to this contribution) A lot of that lies within the province of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health. Ma...

Andrew Griffiths | 530 c187 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend's statements about knife crime will be welcomed by my constituent, ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c186 (Link to this contribution) No. I shall have to write to my hon. Friend with that information, but I am grateful for his welcome...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c186 (Link to this contribution) I will take back to my ministerial colleagues the fact that several respected Members have made that...

Rehman Chishti | 530 c186 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's statement and, in particular, the abolition of legal aid for squa...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c185 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my hon. Friend, who has expertise in that subject, and I am working very close...

David Evennett | 530 c185 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that time in prison should be time well spent and, there...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c185 (Link to this contribution) Of course, and that is why I have stressed some of the measures that we are introducing today to try...

Martin Vickers | 530 c185 (Link to this contribution) The Lord Chancellor said in his statement, ““Public confidence in the criminal justice system is una...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c185 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, the NHS Litigation Authority has been involved in our consultation, but at the moment I s...

Sarah Wollaston | 530 c185 (Link to this contribution) On legal aid for medical negligence cases, can the Secretary of State reassure the House that he has...

Speaker | 530 c185 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am keen to accommodate remaining Back Benchers, but I reiterate my ritual appeal for brevit...

Peter Bone | 530 c184 (Link to this contribution) Parliamentarians on both sides of the House will welcome not only the Secretary of State's statement...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c184 (Link to this contribution) There are some measures in the consultation on the release of foreign national prisoners after they ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c184 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. It is far more sensible to have an appropriate determinate sentence, an...

Jeremy Corbyn | 530 c183 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State invited us to look at what the situation will be four years down the line. Do...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c183 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. The figure she repeats—one in two ex-offenders will be caught ...

Richard Graham | 530 c184 (Link to this contribution) My constituents will welcome the Secretary of State's announcement today that serious sexual offende...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c184 (Link to this contribution) I always believe that policy is best judged by results and that half the fuss that surrounds policy ...

Ian Lucas | 530 c183 (Link to this contribution) The Lord Chancellor is a respected parliamentarian. It has become increasingly clear during the stat...

Jessica Lee | 530 c183 (Link to this contribution) It is a sad fact that half of adults leaving prison are reconvicted within a year of release, a lega...

David Mowat | 530 c182 (Link to this contribution) Even after these changes, we will be spending between four and 10 times as much on legal aid as othe...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c182 (Link to this contribution) I have to admit that I thought that was a rather extraordinary way of reorganising the Departments w...

Lord Brennan of Canton | 530 c182 (Link to this contribution) I am beginning to wonder whether it was a mistake to separate the Ministry of Justice from the Home ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c181 (Link to this contribution) I hope soon. I take on board the hon. Gentleman's views, with which I have considerable sympathy. We...

Mike Crockart | 530 c181 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree with me and my previous experience, not only as a wishy-washy libe...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c181 (Link to this contribution) Roughly, the spending reductions we are making are from £9 billion a year to £7 billion a year. The ...

Angela C Smith | 530 c181 (Link to this contribution) Will not this U-turn on sentencing mean that some of the long-term savings planned by the Ministry o...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c182 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's welcome for our policy. Let no one underestimate: it is going to ...

Jason McCartney | 530 c181 (Link to this contribution) I particularly welcome the plans to introduce a full working week across the prison estate, and the ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c181 (Link to this contribution) Again, I am indebted to the Under-Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon. In response t...

Diana Johnson | 530 c181 (Link to this contribution) Will there be specific provision in the Bill on children and legal aid? In particular, will children...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 530 c180 (Link to this contribution) The opportunistic shroud-waving of the Opposition obscures the fact that Labour never enacted the Pr...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c180 (Link to this contribution) We are aiming at a package of radical reform of sentencing to make it more effective in protecting t...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c181 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for welcoming our moves on prisoners' earnings and their use to supp...

Kate Green | 530 c179 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be aware that many prisoners have very poor levels of skills and limited...

David Nuttall | 530 c179-80 (Link to this contribution) Last year's Conservative party manifesto stated:"““Many people feel that sentencing in Britain is di...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c179 (Link to this contribution) I agree with all that the hon. Lady has said and we will try to produce programmes that deliver what...

Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 530 c180 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this latest and expertly executed U-turn from the Government. Cannot the Justice Secretary...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c180 (Link to this contribution) The honesty in sentencing issue concerns the fact that it is not currently explained to people that ...

Speaker | 530 c180 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think Opposition Front Benchers have taken some sort of tickling powder. I have been listen...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c180 (Link to this contribution) I have done many U-turns in my time. They should be done with purpose and panache when we have to do...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c178 (Link to this contribution) I have already stated that I am not in a position today to say what we can do to support citizens ad...

Elizabeth Truss | 530 c178 (Link to this contribution) This Government inherited the most expensive criminal justice system per capita in the world. As £10...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c178 (Link to this contribution) We are abolishing the Legal Services Commission. One of the most frequent complaints that I get abou...

Tony Baldry | 530 c177 (Link to this contribution) Reducing reoffending will require not only painstaking work in prisons, but working with reoffenders...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c177 (Link to this contribution) That is why we have proposals to improve rehabilitation and reduce reoffending by introducing a paym...

Jack Dromey | 530 c178 (Link to this contribution) Legal aid is a lifeline to those in need, often at a time of crisis in their lives. This Bill, and G...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c178-9 (Link to this contribution) That is just a very broad-brush defence of what the hon. Gentleman believes is the need to carry on ...

William Cash | 530 c179 (Link to this contribution) The Lord Chancellor said that he had been personally impressed by the representations of the senior ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c179 (Link to this contribution) We did have quite a lot of support and it was not all from wishy-washy liberals. We also had some op...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c176 (Link to this contribution) We have recommended the extension of restorative justice from the start. The more I come across it, ...

Yasmin Qureshi | 530 c176 (Link to this contribution) Will the Lord Chancellor reconsider provision for citizens advice bureaux, given that last year my l...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c175 (Link to this contribution) If, as I gather from her question, that case was conducted on a no win, no fee basis—I am not sure a...

Tom Brake | 530 c175 (Link to this contribution) I welcome many aspects of the Justice Secretary's announcement, including greater clarity on sentenc...

Lisa Nandy | 530 c175 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has spoken about the need for alternatives to the courts, so will he tell us ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c177 (Link to this contribution) I should think that I have been on probation for the past few decades. Sooner or later I will get th...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c176-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the kind remarks with which my hon. Friend began his question. It seems that he ag...

Lord McCabe | 530 c177 (Link to this contribution) Is the Justice Secretary now on probation, and does he anticipate time added on or early release?

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c176 (Link to this contribution) Only 15% of CAB funding comes from my Department, and about 50% of CABs receive no legal aid funding...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c173-4 (Link to this contribution) I had better refer my hon. Friend to the consultation document. He has taken up this matter in the p...

Grahame Morris | 530 c174 (Link to this contribution) I note that the Justice Secretary has said that legal aid will no longer be routinely available in c...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c174 (Link to this contribution) Well, 80% of clinical negligence cases are already undertaken on a no win, no fee basis. Only 20% by...

David Ruffley | 530 c174 (Link to this contribution) Longer sentences on their own have clearly failed to cap reoffending. May I therefore urge the Lord ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c174 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, with whom I agree. Of course one of the things that we should addre...

Speaker | 530 c174 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I gently and in a jocular fashion say to the Secretary of State that he should not be lik...

Sheila Gilmore | 530 c174-5 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has made much of his desire to have alternative dispute resolution, which he ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c175 (Link to this contribution) My apologies, Mr Speaker. Probably the problem with my political career is that I have not swivelled...

Helen Grant | 530 c175 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that mediation is no panacea and that it can fail badly ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c175 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has much greater expertise on the practice of family law than I do, so I rely on her ...

Amber Rudd | 530 c186 (Link to this contribution) Although I acknowledge the need for cuts to legal aid, may I share with the Secretary of State my co...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c182-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend talks common sense about where we are with the legal aid system. I still think it is ...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c183 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister, other colleagues in the Government and I have all had perfectly reasonable discu...

Yvonne Fovargue | 530 c177-8 (Link to this contribution) What assessment has the Secretary of State made of the availability of face-to-face welfare advice f...

Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 530 c169-70 (Link to this contribution) Well, first of all I can confirm what the right hon. Gentleman says: the proposals that I presented ...

Sadiq Khan | 530 c168-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, Mr Speaker. As I was saying a moment ago, the proposals on legal aid have been round...

Philip Davies | 530 c176 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend on listening to the consultation and rowing back on ...

Notes

Answers in response to David Hanson and Grahame M. Morris corrected on 29 June 2011 at 530 c52WS.

Subjects

Children Care proceedings Crime Employment Legal aid scheme Eligibility Domestic abuse Drugs Foreign nationals Knives Offenders Pensioners Protection Prisons Public consultation Misuse Rehabilitation Sentencing Special educational needs Remand in custody Squatting Victim support schemes Reparation by offenders Government responses Self-defence Community orders

Legislation

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill 2010-12

Link

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