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Written Answers — Attorney General: Domestic Abuse: Transgender People (21 Nov 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: It is important that the public are clear on how the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will apply the law around domestic abuse so that they can be confident in its approach. As set out by the Director of Public Prosecutions, the CPS has therefore conducted a review of Annex D with a view to recontextualise its purpose and improve clarity. The revised guidance will be published by the end of...

Written Ministerial Statements — Attorney General: Law Officers Department Update (14 Sep 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: My Right Honourable and Learned Friend, the Attorney General, has today made the following statement: “I am today announcing the appointment of Stephen Parkinson as the next Director of Public Prosecutions. Under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, it is my duty to appoint a person to be the Director of Public Prosecutions, who shall discharge their functions under my superintendence....

Written Answers — Attorney General: Domestic Abuse: Transgender People (28 Jul 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: As part of their independent functions the CPS periodically issue guidance to aid their prosecutors. The publication of the domestic abuse guidance came following a CPS run public consultation that was widely publicised through Government departments, Police and Crime Commissioners, Domestic Abuse and Victims’ Commissioners, and the public. A full consultation response can be found on the...

Operation Soteria - Question (13 Jul 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: My Lords, there are early signs of improvement. In the pioneering Soteria force, Avon and Somerset, the number of cases charged has more than tripled; the number of victims who withdrew at the police stage and post charge remains high, as does the time it takes for cases to pass through each stage of the system. There is further to go to improve the response to rape, but I am pleased to...

Operation Soteria - Question (13 Jul 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for her Question and for giving me of her time yesterday at our informal engagement so that she could outline the thinking behind this Question on an exceptionally important topic. She asked about introducing specialist courts for sexual violence; we have already completed a national rollout of pre-recorded evidence, which spares victims the ordeal...

Operation Soteria - Question (13 Jul 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: My Lords, I am again grateful for that contribution from the noble Lord, who of course speaks from his professional insight and great experience in investigating and superintending police officers working on this. I am aware that there is objective data about jury responses to crimes available which is the result of meticulous study in England and Wales. I can also assure the noble Lord and...

Operation Soteria - Question (13 Jul 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: Once again, my noble friend makes an exceptionally important point. Progress on the implementation of Operation Soteria has touched on matters such as the essential aspect of possession and use of a mobile phone. People nowadays are entirely dependent on their phones in all sorts of ways. As the noble Baroness and other noble Lords who have contributed will appreciate, mobile phones are often...

Operation Soteria - Question (13 Jul 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: The Government have established a unit in the Home Office which will work in conjunction with police chief constables in order to attempt to shape police responses, attitudes and—for want of a better expression—the general culture within the police force. Beyond that, I hope I can give the noble Baroness some assurance that, from now, all new recruits and first responders will be trained...

Operation Soteria - Question (13 Jul 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: My Lords, I do not have to hand the information that the noble Baroness seeks, but I undertake to write to her. I am aware of the existence of SARCs. They came in and were located within hospitals so that people did not face the daunting prospect of immediate engagement with the criminal justice system but were brought in gradually. I share the noble Baroness’s concern about this matter...

Operation Soteria - Question (13 Jul 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: My Lords, I am happy to say that my professional arc and that of the noble Lord have coincided, so he and I share experiences in this field. The point the noble Lord makes is—as the noble Lord is—an evergreen one. Certain essentials in relation to these matters exist and will always exist. On the specific matter the noble Lord raises, in my ministerial post I am very conscious of...

Operation Soteria - Question (13 Jul 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: My Lords, the Operation Soteria principles in relation to this field are directed to improving every aspect of rape prosecution and the management of people complaining of those serious crimes. I can give the noble Baroness some assurance, but she will appreciate that the data that I give is, in essence, at an early stage, because the reforms that Soteria introduced will take time to bear...

Illegal Migration Bill - Commons Amendments and Reasons: Motion W1 (as an amendment to Motion W) (12 Jul 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: My Lords, we do not characterise the time taken properly to consider the identification and implementation of safe and legal routes as being in any sense a delay. Rather, it is a proper, considered application of thought to make sure that the measures will work correctly. Beyond that point, I have nothing further to add.

Illegal Migration Bill - Commons Amendments and Reasons: Motion W (12 Jul 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: My Lords, I am grateful for the debates we have had on safe and legal routes and their importance. As has been stated hitherto, the Government are committed to providing safe and legal routes, and we recognise the United Kingdom’s role in providing protection for those in need. The United Kingdom has been proud to offer for many years a range of global resettlement routes as part of our...

Illegal Migration Bill - Report (3rd Day): Amendment 168 ( 5 Jul 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: My Lords, Amendment 168 moved by the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, seeks to confer on the National Crime Agency a specific function in respect of tackling organised immigration crime and to require it to maintain a cross-border people-smuggling unit. The noble Lord opposite has spoken powerfully today, as he did at previous stages of the Bill. I am gratified to hear the powerful expressions of...

Illegal Migration Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 19 (28 Jun 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: My Lords, I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, of course, for his intervention. It seems to me that the point he raises is one that calls for a degree of interpretative scrutiny that I do not think I am in a position to give at this stage from the Dispatch Box. I wonder if he would be content were I to undertake to write to him on the point that he raises.

Illegal Migration Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 19 (28 Jun 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: My Lords, I suspect that nothing I could say from the Dispatch Box will alter the fixed purpose of the noble and learned Lord in any event, but I do repeat my undertaking to write to him on the topic. I was about to address the matter raised by the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, in relation to secret agreements. The Government must retain, I submit, the ultimate discretion over the amount...

Illegal Migration Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 19 (28 Jun 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: My Lords, I repeat the point. The Government retain discretion to enter into agreements and discretion in relation to the level of detail to be shared.

Illegal Migration Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 19 (28 Jun 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: The straightforward answer to the noble and learned Baroness’s question is that we are content to treat with countries that have not signed up to the refugee convention. On Amendments 29 to 36, the Secretary of State may add a country to Schedule 1 by regulations only if satisfied that there is in general in that country or part of it no serious risk of persecution and will not in general...

Illegal Migration Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 19 (28 Jun 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: As the noble and learned Lord will be aware, the Rwanda litigation found it to be the case that Rwanda was safe. Beyond that, in relation to the sources of information, the Government operate on the basis of information gathered by their officials, discussed with Ministers and considered in relation to legislation to be put forward.

Illegal Migration Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 19 (28 Jun 2023)

Lord Stewart of Dirleton: The guidance furnished by the Foreign Office to British citizens for travelling is a separate matter from the guidance upon which the Government are relying in the present case. I can see that that clearly has not impressed the noble Baroness, but none the less it is the position.


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