Offender Rehabilitation Bill [HL]

My Lords, I beg to move the amendment standing in my name on the Order Paper.

My Lords, I wonder whether noble Lords might leave the Chamber quietly and whether those passing ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness the Chief Whip for that intervention.

I suspe...

My Lords, I strongly sympathise with the noble Lord’s observations and share his strictures on th...

My Lords, a lot of what the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, said was very familiar, because of cours...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister and to the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, for what they have s...

My Lords, that is what a Committee stage is for. I will try to answer as many of those questions ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for that because it was precisely what I was hoping he wo...

Moved by

Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede

1: Clause 1, page 1, line 7, leave out “1 day” an...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 1, I shall also address Amendments 3, 5 and, in passing, Amendment ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, for the way in which he moved that...

I thank the noble Lord for those answers. He said in addressing Amendments 1, 3 and 5 that the su...

Moved by

Baroness Linklater of Butterstone

2: After Clause 1, insert the following ne...

My amendment is for a proposed new clause to the Bill. The Minister will be aware of the generall...

I support Amendment 4 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Linklater, with the suggestion that...

My Lords, may I add one thing what my noble friend Lord Ramsbotham has said, as well as supportin...

My Lords, I join the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, and the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, in supportin...

My Lords, I am grateful for the debate that my noble friend has stimulated. She is absolutely rig...

Accepting for a moment, for the purposes of argument, the noble Lord’s assurance—and of course I ...

That is one of the things that I want to think about. I hope that the two bodies concerned would ...

I thank my noble friend the Minister for his very thoughtful and detailed response. I am particul...

Moved by

Lord Bradley

6: Clause 2, page 2, line 37, at end insert—

“(7A) The su...

Amendment 6 is in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham. It requires the supervisin...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Bradley, said that the language which is used must be understandab...

I support the amendment so ably moved by the noble Lord, Lord Bradley, and, in so doing, declare ...

My noble friend Lord Northbourne’s comments on the word “rehabilitation” have stimulated my thoug...

Before my noble friend sits down, surely “rehabilitation” is the correct word because it relates,...

My Lords, this is an important amendment, apart from the fact that we have to consider whether th...

Perhaps I may add to the debate that the clutch of noble and noble and learned Lords started. Reh...

My Lords, I shall resist the temptation to reach for my copy of Roget’s Thesaurus but simply conf...

My Lords, as always, I have listened with great interest. I am for ever learning when I hear such...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for that detailed response. When you move an amendment yo...

Moved by

Lord Woolf

7: Clause 2, page 2, line 37, at end insert—

“(7A) The Secr...

My Lords, there are not many matters concerned with sentencing and dealing with offenders on whic...

My noble friends Lord Marks of Henley-on-Thames and Lord Dholakia and I have Amendments 10, 11 an...

I hope noble Lords will forgive me but, to make a clean breast of it, I came in when the noble an...

I added my name to one of the amendments tabled by my noble and learned friend Lord Woolf, rather...

My Lords, I support my noble and learned friend Lord Woolf on Amendment 7. I understand that at t...

I do not think that my noble and learned friend Lord Woolf need apologise in any way for the amen...

My Lords, Amendment 9, which is part of this group, would add a mental health assessment as a sup...

My Lords, first, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate. Again, many valid c...

Before the noble and learned Lord withdraws the amendment, as I assume he will, I wish to refer t...

My Lords, I hope that the Minister, for whose response I am grateful, will reconsider what he has...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

My Lords, this amendment seeks to amend subsection (2) of Clause 2 which, in turn, seeks to inser...

My Lords, the noble Lord will be quick to tell me if I am wrong, but as I read it, Amendment 7A h...

If I do, it will not be because of the noble Lord’s explanation. However, of course I will not pr...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

7B: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—

“Dut...

My Lords, it is common ground between all Members of your Lordships’ House, and reflected in some...

My Lords, I always assume that the noble Lord, Lord Beecham, is working in the most constructive ...

Out of sheer surprise, I certainly will. I welcome the thrust of the Minister’s reply. From the w...

Moved by

Lord Beecham

8: Schedule 1, page 20, line 6, leave out paragraph 1

My Lords, I expect this will be another brief debate. There are two matters to which I want to dr...

I have to inform your Lordships that if this amendment is agreed, I cannot call Amendments 9 to 1...

My Lords, I hope I am answering the amendment that the noble Lord has moved, because I am just wo...

It is purely a probing amendment. There is no intention to remove the provision.

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