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Offender Management Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 17 April 2007, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Scotland of Asthal. The answering member was Baroness Anelay of St Johns.
Offender Management Bill. Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

691 c121-204 

Session

2006-07

Department

Home Office

Legislative stage

Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Related items

Offender Management Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 47-EN also published.
Thursday, 1 March 2007
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 691 c126-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Government claim that the aim of the Bill is to reduce reoffending. Everyone in the Ho...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 691 c121-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. I am very pleased to be opening o...

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Baroness Linklater of Butterstone | 691 c129-34 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the arrival of this Bill has been awaited for some time and in the process has generated i...
Lord Woolf | 691 c134-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, notwithstanding the elegance with which the Minister presented the Bill, I listened with g...
Lord Filkin | 691 c135-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will address three issues—first, as touched on by my noble friend, why this matters as a...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 691 c140-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we will discuss that further—perhaps outside the session—but the question of how one resto...
Lord Filkin | 691 c140 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I made it explicitly clear that we had great confidence and belief in the public sector pr...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 691 c139-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very happy to follow the noble Lord, Lord Filkin, because there are a number of deep ...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 691 c154 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is precisely my point that we misunderstand the third sector entirely if we assume that...
Lord Adebowale | 691 c152-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as the chief executive of Turning Point, a health and social care or...
Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen | 691 c155-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as noble Lords may know, including the Minister, I have had worries about this Bill since ...
Lord Adebowale | 691 c154-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for that clarification; we are in violent agreement. The third sect...
Lord Dear | 691 c159-61 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, usually I am very careful never to begin any statement with ““I remember when? or ““There ...
Baroness Turner of Camden | 691 c169-71 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to participate in this Second Reading debate. I well understand ...
Lord Borrie | 691 c173-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have a very great respect for members of the Probation Service, in particular for their ...
Bishop of Worcester | 691 c171-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I deliberately asked if I could speak late in the debate as I wanted to hear people who we...
Lord Birt | 691 c143-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have fewer conflicts of interest to declare than the noble Lord, Lord Filkin. My wife wa...
Lord Sheikh | 691 c148-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this Government have the reputation of sometimes passing Bills and enacting further legisl...
Lord Carter of Coles | 691 c145-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is a point, but if you look at the rest of Europe, those separations have proved to b...
Lord Hurd of Westwell | 691 c145 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the noble Lord agree that if you close one division, you open up others? You are now ...
Lord Carter of Coles | 691 c144-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we all seem to be able to agree about the main objectives of any offender management syste...
Lord Avebury | 691 c149-52 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at the beginning of this debate the Minister reminded us that the original purpose of NOMS...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 691 c198-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank all those who have participated in the debate and must say how much I agree with t...
Lord Dear | 691 c203 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the greatest respect, I was not saying that we should simply go back to where we were...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 691 c203-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that model can absolutely be delivered within the Bill, not least because, as my noble fri...
Lord Elton | 691 c201 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the Minister has been kind enough to elaborate that, I ask whether her words imply that...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 691 c201-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord will know that in the local criminal justice boards and in the way that we ...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 691 c201 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for distributing her letter, which many of us have not yet seen. I we...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 691 c201 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I understand why the noble Lord has anxieties about that. The transition from probation bo...
Baroness Anelay of St Johns | 691 c199-200 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was being as kind to the Government as I could be in citing statistics, because we could...
Baroness Scotland of Asthal | 691 c200-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I can see that we shall have an interesting debate. A number of people have agreed that of...
Lord Dholakia | 691 c191-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we now reach the concluding part of this interesting debate. All of us agree that the inci...
Viscount Bridgeman | 691 c195-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been a most interesting and detailed Second Reading debate, with knowledgeable an...
Lord Laming | 691 c182-3 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, my Lords—that is why I encourage the opposition to carry on in that role. But in my experien...
Lord Judd | 691 c183-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that the noble Lord, Lord Laming, for whom I have unbridled respect, will forgive m...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 691 c186-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, yet again we are trying to address the crises facing our prisons—the crises of overcrowdin...
Lord Corbett of Castle Vale | 691 c189-91 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I remind the House that I chair the All-Party Group on Penal Affairs. Perhaps I should beg...
Lord Elton | 691 c175-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I remind the noble Lord, Lord Borrie, that this Bill achieved its Third Reading in another...
Baroness Massey of Darwen | 691 c177-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am glad to have this opportunity to debate the Bill in such distinguished company. Many ...
Lord Laming | 691 c180-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the main thrust of the Bill in the belief that this is one of the most pressing ...
Lord Elton | 691 c182 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I ask the noble Lord to consider what the state would be like if opposition parties did no...
Lord Rosser | 691 c161-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of Prison Service and National Offender Management Servi...
Lord Ramsbotham | 691 c165-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like many other Members of this House, I find myself on the horns of a dilemma over the Bi...

Subjects

Children
Offenders
Private sector
Prisons
Public sector
Probation
National Offender Management Service
National Probation Service for England and Wales
Standards
Voluntary organisations
Young people
Reoffenders
Probation trusts

Legislation

Offender Management Bill 2006-07

Link

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