Results 1-20 of 339 for speaker:Baroness Corston

Crime: Domestic Violence — Question (11 Nov 2009)

Baroness Corston: My Lords, is my noble friend aware that one woman a week in the United Kingdom is murdered as a result of domestic violence? Will he accept that in my work as the chair of the Fawcett Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice System it has been evident that the Government's initiative on domestic violence courts, independent domestic violence advisers and sexual assault referral centres...

Policing and Crime Bill: Second Reading (3 Jun 2009)

Baroness Corston: My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. Perhaps I may draw her attention to a debate in the other place on 19 May and a very moving speech by the right honourable John Gummer MP, speaking of the experience in his Ipswich constituency of the murder of five women sex workers and referring to the fact that the exploitation of human beings is at the heart of evil. He said...

Prisons: Drugs (19 Nov 2008)

Baroness Corston: My Lords—

Prisons: Drugs (19 Nov 2008)

Baroness Corston: My Lords, would the Minister be surprised to know that during the course of my review of women in prisons I came across almost universal appreciation of the fact that drug detoxification treatment in women's prisons has improved so dramatically under this Government from what was previously a pretty poor programme? Indeed, this treatment allows some women coming out of prison to remain...

Energy Bill (5 Nov 2008)

Baroness Corston: My Lords, I support noble Lords who have spoken in favour of feed-in tariffs. About five years ago, in my previous residence, my husband and I had solar panels for hot water and photovoltaic panels for generating electricity. I cannot say how excited I was, watching my electricity meter going backwards in the summer when I had the fridge, the freezer and the kettle on. I have to admit that my...

Prisons: Titans (29 Oct 2008)

Baroness Corston: My Lords—

Prisons: Titans (29 Oct 2008)

Baroness Corston: My Lords, will the Minister confirm that Government do not plan to provide any Titan prisons for women? He will know that the Government accepted 41 of the 43 recommendations that I made in my report two years ago, where I said that women should be held be in small custodial units close to home. Will he confirm that that is still government policy in relation to women prisoners?

Prisons: Deaths in Custody (15 Oct 2008)

Baroness Corston: My Lords, will the Minister revisit one of the recommendations that I made in my report on women with particular vulnerabilities in the criminal justice system? Arising from that review and from my previous work as the chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, I met the families of people who had died in prison, and I was shocked to discover that they were even having to consider selling...

Prisons: Population (21 Jul 2008)

Baroness Corston: My Lords, does the Minister agree with my finding that the majority of women in prison are not dangerous, serious or violent offenders but are a danger only to themselves? Does he accept my main recommendation that these women should not be imprisoned, but should be dealt with more appropriately in the community and that the prison population would reduce if my report were implemented in full?

Crime: Restorative Justice (15 Jul 2008)

Baroness Corston: My Lords, would it surprise my noble friend to hear that, during a visit to New York last week as a member of the Howard League for Penal Reform's Commission on English Prisons Today, I learnt that the local prison population there has plummeted, crime has gone down dramatically and people feel safer? Can he see to it that we examine the factors that were put into place in New York to bring...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Children: Poverty (8 May 2008)

Baroness Corston: asked Her Majesty's Government: Further to the Written Answer by Lord Davies of Oldham on 1 October 2007 (WA 242), what is the estimated total number of children who would have been in poverty in the United Kingdom, according to the European standard of less than 60 per cent of the median household income, in 2007 and 2008 (estimate), if the level of child benefit had been raised, in relation...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Tax Credits (1 May 2008)

Baroness Corston: asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the latest estimate of the take-up of child tax credit among households eligible for such benefit, giving the estimated number of (a) households and (b) children.

Criminal Justice: Women (7 Feb 2008)

Baroness Corston: My Lords, earlier this week, a former colleague from another place asked me how I was getting on here, and he said, "The truth is that you have better debates than us". Today exemplifies that statement. I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part. I opened my remarks by saying that it was impossible for me to summarise everything that was in my report. It was wonderful to note...

Criminal Justice: Women (7 Feb 2008)

Baroness Corston: rose to call attention to the report by Baroness Corston entitled Review of Women with Particular Vulnerabilities in the Criminal Justice System, and the Government's response (Cm 7261); and to move for Papers. My Lords, it is a great pleasure to have the opportunity today to discuss my report on women with particular vulnerabilities in the criminal justice system. The background to my report...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Prisons: Circuit Judges (7 Feb 2008)

Baroness Corston: asked Her Majesty's Government: How many judges went on circuit for the last year for which figures are available; and, of these, how many visited a women's prison while on circuit.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Prisons: Domestic Violence Programmes (6 Feb 2008)

Baroness Corston: asked Her Majesty's Government: In how many male prisons domestic violence programmes are running.

Debate on the Address (6 Nov 2007)

Baroness Corston: My Lords, I beg to move that an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty as follows: "Most Gracious Sovereign—We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, beg leave to thank Your Majesty for the most gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament". I thank my noble friends the Leader of the...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Children (1 Oct 2007)

Baroness Corston: asked Her Majesty's Government: What was the total number of children eligible for child benefit in the United Kingdom in 1997, 2001 and 2006, or the latest year for which there is information available.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Children (1 Oct 2007)

Baroness Corston: asked Her Majesty's Government: What was the amount per week of child benefit for the first child and for each other child in the family in 1997, 2001 and 2006, or the latest year for which there is information available; and (a) what would these amounts have been, and (b) what would the total cost in billions of pounds have been, if maintained in strict accordance with the growth of average...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Children (1 Oct 2007)

Baroness Corston: asked Her Majesty's Government: What is the estimated total number of children who would have been in poverty in the United Kingdom, according to the European Union standard of less than 60 per cent of the median household income, in 2006, if the level of child benefit had been raised, in relation to its 1997 level, (a) by 25 per cent, and (b) by 33 per cent more than the rise equivalent to...