Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Helen Grant and John Cryer

Thursday 30th January 2014 Commons Chamber

[Mrs Grant]

I am afraid that I fundamentally disagree with the hon. Gentleman. There are powers in the form of article 4 directions, which can be and have been used successfully.

[John Cryer]

They do not work.

[Mrs Grant]

They do work, and they have been used very successfully in relation to both Southwark and Barking and Dagenham. I remind the hon. Gentleman that Newham council also used licensing conditions to control unacceptable activities in betting shops.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Helen Grant and John Cryer

Tuesday 13th November 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mrs Grant]

The Government are committed to ensuring that as many victims as possible receive compensation from offenders. The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 places a new duty on courts to consider imposing compensation in any case where the victim has suffered injury, loss or damage. Issuing guidance to courts is a matter for the independent Sentencing Council, not for the Government, but the council’s guidelines already draw the courts’ attention to their powers to impose compensation.

[John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead) (Lab)]

To what extent is this form of compensation a substitute for the criminal injuries compensation scheme, which has been cut to ribbons by the order laid in July this year?

[Mrs Grant]

Criminal injuries compensation is state-funded compensation. This is offender-funded compensation; it is completely different.