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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 20 Nov 2025
Child Grooming Victims: Compensation Awards

"My Lords, we discussed criminal exploitation of children last night. I know from my experience that a young woman was denied any compensation because of the way the trial was conducted. She was in the position where, when the third barrister had been appointed by the defendant, she was told …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 29 Nov 2022
Rape: Prosecutions and Support

"My Lords, I am concerned that the Minister’s ambition seems to be to get back to the figures from 2016. Those who work with children, young women and women who have been abused, sexually and in other ways, know that the numbers misrepresented the problem that was out there even …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Prisons: Releasing Women into Safe and Secure Housing

"My Lords, it is very clear that many women end up in circumstances where perpetrators of abuse exploit and take advantage of them if they are not in safe and secure housing. One recent study has shown that, overwhelmingly, a number of those women in prison have previously been subjected …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 17 Nov 2021
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

"My Lords, I am enormously grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Paddick. I am chairing a Select Committee. I will come back for the rest of the debate, but I have to come back from Millbank, and I am not as fast as I used to be.

I want to …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 08 Feb 2021
Domestic Abuse Bill

"My Lords, I am pleased to support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Young, and Amendment 147. Both deal with being clear about what the Government have sought to do in Clause 71 to extend to survivors or victims of domestic abuse the priority need for homelessness. It …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 15 Jun 2016
EU Referendum and EU Reform (EUC Report)

"I wonder if the noble Lord will reconsider what he has just said. Nissan in the north-east exported 800,000 cars in 2014, largely to the EU and all of them through EU agreements. It exports one in three of the cars exported from this country, so he has his numbers …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 15 Jun 2016
EU Referendum and EU Reform (EUC Report)

"My Lords, this is a very timely debate. As a fairly new member of the European Union Committee, I thank the chair, the noble Lord, Lord Boswell. He makes sure that we approach these things in a measured way and has been incredibly inclusive and supportive of all members, particularly …..."
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Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Public Appointments
Wednesday 22nd July 2015

Asked by: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will list those persons appointed as chairs of non-departmental public bodies by the Ministry of Justice.

Answered by Lord Faulks

The Minister of State for Civil Justice, Ministry of Justice (Lord Faulks QC): Details of the Chairs of Ministry of Justice Non-Departmental Public Bodies have been lodged in the House library. These, and further details, are also available in a Cabinet Office publication, Public Bodies 2014, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-bodies-2014

Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 09 Dec 2014
Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

"My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, largely because since this House last discussed secure training colleges, two secure training centres have been given notice of closure by the Youth Justice Board. One of those, Hassockfield, was in my constituency. What lessons have the Government learnt from the …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 26 Jun 2014
Women: Custodial Sentences

"My Lords, I, too, congratulate my noble friend Lady Healy on securing this debate. It is an unusual day today, or it seems so to me at least. We have at least two debates in Grand Committee dealing with this sort of issue and there is a debate in the …..."
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