Results 1-20 of 380 for speaker:Baroness Corston
- Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) Regulations 2012: Motion to Regret (27 March 2013)
Baroness Corston: My Lords, is the Minister suggesting that my noble and learned friend Lady Scotland is either scaremongering or not telling the truth?
- Crime and Courts Bill [HL] — Commons Amendments (25 March 2013)
Baroness Corston: My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord McNally, must know that during our time in government, 39 women's centres were set up-£15 million was spent setting them up-to divert women from custody. I take great offence at his suggestion that nothing happened.
- Crime and Courts Bill [HL] — Commons Amendments (25 March 2013)
Baroness Corston: My Lords, I support Amendment 133A in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham. He suggested that my report had sunk without trace. Perhaps I may reassure him that I have not. Having waited over a year from the day when the noble Lord, Lord McNally, promised this House that we would have a strategy for women offenders which would be published "quite shortly", the statement released last...
- Probation Services: Outsourcing — Question (21 March 2013)
Baroness Corston: Can the Minister assure me that no woman will be recalled to prison for a breach constituting mere failure to keep a probation appointment, sometimes for very good family or transport reasons?
- Homeopathy — Question (19 March 2013)
Baroness Corston: My Lords, given that many GPs ask for training in homeopathy and become homeopaths using both conventional and homeopathic medicine, and speaking as someone who personally uses homeopathic remedies, will the Minister ensure that the views of people such as the noble Lord, Lord Taverne, with which we are all familiar, are not given such credence within the National Health Service that those...
- Crime: Domestic Violence — Question (14 February 2013)
Baroness Corston: My Lords-
- Crime: Domestic Violence — Question (14 February 2013)
Baroness Corston: My Lords, is the Minister aware that domestic violence is a major cause of women in this country ending up in prison? With which organisations in this country are the Government working to eradicate this drastic harm to all these lives?
- Food: Banks — Question (5 February 2013)
Baroness Corston: I note, in passing, that FoodCycle is not a food bank. Would the Minister be interested to know that, during the years of the Major Government, my staff in my former constituency of Bristol East never once received a phone call from anyone in work, in floods of tears, because they could not afford food? I gather that now happens routinely on his watch. Will he please tell us not that he is...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Badgers (17 January 2013)
Baroness Corston: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the comments by Lord De Mauley on 11 December (Official Report, col. 973), what are their "assumptions about the effectiveness, humaneness and safety of controlled shooting" of badgers.
- Transforming Rehabilitation — Statement (9 January 2013)
Baroness Corston: My Lords-
- Transforming Rehabilitation — Statement (9 January 2013)
Baroness Corston: My Lords, given that we are in nearly the third year of this Government and still have no published strategy for women offenders and those at risk of offending, I ask the Minister a short question and hope that his answer will be both short and positive. Will he confirm that the current network of women's centres, which have done such splendid work in turning women's lives around and which...
- Crime and Courts Bill [HL]: Third Reading (18 December 2012)
Baroness Corston: My Lords, I congratulate the noble and learned Lord, Lord Woolf, on tabling this amendment, for which I signify my support. However, I have to convey to the House an element of great frustration in that by the time the strategy which we have been promised is published three years will have been wasted. I have now wasted quite a lot of my patience listening to Ministers say they are following...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Prisoners: Women (27 November 2012)
Baroness Corston: To ask Her Majesty's Government what advice has been given to the NHS Commissioning Board concerning the provision of healthcare for women prisoners.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Prisoners: Women (27 November 2012)
Baroness Corston: To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Lord McNally on 20 March (Official Report, col. 778), when they will publish their strategy for women prisoners and those at risk of offending.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Prisons: Strip Searches (27 November 2012)
Baroness Corston: To ask Her Majesty's Government what control and restraint techniques are deployed during the forcible removal of women prisoners' clothes at HMP New Hall.
- Children: Child Protection — Question (22 November 2012)
Baroness Corston: My Lords-
- Children: Child Protection — Question (22 November 2012)
Baroness Corston: My Lords, following yesterday's report by the deputy Children's Commissioner Sue Berelowitz, what steps will the Government take to make sure that all those who are involved in the care, education and upbringing of children are alerted to her findings about the signs of sexual abuse? They are things such as staying out late, drinking alcohol and missing school. A combination of those things...
- Slavery — Question (18 October 2012)
Baroness Corston: Will the Minister accept that nearly 20 years ago, when I was a Member of the other place, I had a constituency case involving a young woman who had been brought into this country allegedly as a servant by a wealthy family? She had been kept for two years as a slave. I do not believe that it was an isolated incident. What measures do the Government take to ensure that families who bring...
- Parliamentary Boundary Commission: Electoral Administration — Motion to Take Note (12 July 2012)
Baroness Corston: Would the Minister acknowledge that we have also had a vastly growing population?
- Parliamentary Boundary Commission: Electoral Administration — Motion to Take Note (12 July 2012)
Baroness Corston: My Lords, it is a great privilege to take part in this important debate. I congratulate my noble friend Lord Campbell-Savours, who has done us a great service in allowing us to do so. What we are discussing-the proposals of the parliamentary Boundary Commission-is based on what I can only describe as a Faustian pact entered into May 2010, in which in return for an alternative vote referendum...