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Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009)

Dominic Grieve: I am grateful to all the hon. Members who have participated in the debate and to the Secretary of State for the way in which he has responded, but I remain of the view that our amendment is useful. I hate to think that if we did not press it to the vote, I would regret it at a later date in the realisation that it would have helped in the interpretation of a difficult clause. I therefore wish...

Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009) has video

Dominic Grieve: I am grateful to the Secretary of State for having put on the record so clearly the issues surrounding the protocol and the protections that he intends to put in the Bill, but he may agree that amendment (a) does no harm. Its merit is that it focuses on the issue of the suspension of the coroner's inquiry. For that reason, I again press him to agree that there is a really good reason for...

Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009) has video

Dominic Grieve: Again, my hon. Friend has made a good point. One of the deficiencies of the system that the Government have decided to adopt—although at this late stage, it is the best that we shall get—is that the nature of the communications that would take place between the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice is not clear. Lord Bach tried to set out something of the procedure, but it is...

Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009) has video

Dominic Grieve: I do not wish to get involved in a spat with the hon. Gentleman, but when we debated the matter on the last occasion, I could not have made clearer my reservations about the amendments that we were to vote on. I made it clear that the reason why we would support those amendments was that we wanted to prolong the debate to try to resolve the issue, although I recognise that those amendments...

Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009)

Dominic Grieve: I beg to move amendment (a) to Lords amendment 1B.

Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009) has video

Dominic Grieve: When this matter was last before the House, there was an extensive debate about whether the Bill contained sufficient safeguards in respect of converting an inquest process, which would be open and with a jury, into an inquiry process, part of which might have to take place in secret to allow intercept evidence to be used. There has been a lengthy debate while the matter has gone through the...

Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009) has video

Dominic Grieve: The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful and important point. Given the problems, it could be that intercept might be the only possible trigger for such an inquiry, but I take his point. When I look back on the Bill's passage through the House, there have been difficulties in focusing on the key ways to resolve this issue. As I have told the Secretary of State, I have always had some sympathy for...

Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009) has video

Dominic Grieve: The hon. Gentleman has anticipated me by a few sentences, and I shall deal with that point in a moment.

Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009) has video

Dominic Grieve: My right hon. Friend and I have worked on this together, and he knows that the Opposition have long been consistent in our desire to see intercept evidence being available to prosecute prisoners and in other settings, including inquests. That remains our commitment, and that is why my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) sits on the Chilcot...

Coroners and Justice Bill: Schedule 1 — Duty or power to suspend or resume investigations (12 Nov 2009) has video

Dominic Grieve: My hon. Friend is right, and that is the next point that I want to address. The Government came up with their amendment in the other place, but my hon. Friend the Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) is right that it proposes a full judicial scrutiny process, with a Minister making an application to a court in a hearing at which interested parties can make representations. I would...

Written Answers — Justice: Foreigners: Prisoners (12 Nov 2009)

Dominic Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many foreign national prisoners were ineligible for deportation due to interference with their family life in the last three years.

Written Answers — Justice: Prison Accommodation (12 Nov 2009)

Dominic Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many offenders were transferred (a) from HM Prison Pentonville to HM Prison Wandsworth and (b) from HM Prison Wandsworth to HM Prison Pentonville in each of the last 24 months.

Written Answers — Justice: Prosecutions (12 Nov 2009)

Dominic Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the prosecution rate was in each criminal justice area in each year since 1997.

Written Answers — Home Department: Violent and Sex Offender Register (11 Nov 2009)

Dominic Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many offenders with records on the violent and sex offender register whose nationality is not British are recorded as residing at a UK address; (2) how many offenders of each nationality have records on the violent and sex offender register.

Written Answers — Justice: Magistrates Courts: Closures (11 Nov 2009)

Dominic Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 20 October 2009, Official Report, column 1373W, on magistrates courts: closures, how many magistrates' courts opened in each type of area in each year since 1997.

Written Answers — Justice: Money for Ministers (11 Nov 2009)

Dominic Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's guidance entitled Money for Ministers—An Introduction to Finance in the Ministry of Justice for Ministers.

Written Answers — Justice: Prison: Offences (11 Nov 2009)

Dominic Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prison staff have been suspended following allegations of the possession of (a) illegal drugs and (b) illicit mobile telephones or SIM cards in the last three years.

Written Answers — Justice: Prisoners' Transfers: Isle of Wight (11 Nov 2009)

Dominic Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the cost was of using (a) boats, (b) commercial flights and (c) private flights to transfer prisoners to prisons on the Isle of Wight in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Justice: Re-offenders (11 Nov 2009)

Dominic Grieve: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many offenders supervised under level 1 multi-agency public protection arrangements have reoffended in each of the last five years.

Point of Order (10 Nov 2009) has video

Dominic Grieve: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I noted that in answer to the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry), the Justice Secretary seemed to make a statement about sentencing in knife crime. I was not aware of any written or oral statement having been made, so I wondered whether that was a novel way of making such a statement.