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Public Bill Committees
Victims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 14th sitting - Tue 11 Jul 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) justice process has finished will cause the criminal case to fall. - Speech Link
2: None Compensation is another area where victims can be let down. - Speech Link
3: None investigations and bring criminal charges. - Speech Link
4: Janet Daby (LAB - Lewisham East) Members will recognise the problem of disproportionalities in criminal justice. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Victims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme, and(c) victims of child sexual abuse may apply for compensation - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) injuries compensation scheme. - Speech Link
3: Jess Phillips (LAB - Birmingham, Yardley) injuries compensation scheme. - Speech Link
4: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) injuries compensation scheme. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Veterans UK - Wed 21 Jun 2023
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Gill Furniss (LAB - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough) surgeons’ professional assessments, resulting in armed forces personnel being undercompensated for their injuries - Speech Link
2: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) commit suicide.”Another said:“Veterans UK make it so difficult for all veterans and you feel like a criminal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill
Report stage - Wed 21 Jun 2023
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown (DUP - Life peer) to have regard to the general interests of persons affected by Troubles-related deaths and serious injuries - Speech Link
2: Lord Caine (CON - Life peer) to have regard to the general interests of persons affected by Troubles-related deaths and serious injuries - Speech Link
3: Lord Weir of Ballyholme (DUP - Life peer) Someone who, for example, could have suffered injuries or death as a result of their own terrorist actions - Speech Link
4: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (LAB - Life peer) Those who are victims suffer many wounds in later life that can never be measured in terms of compensation - Speech Link
5: Lord Caine (CON - Life peer) Section 17(2) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1995, which gives equivalent powers to the Criminal Cases Review - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Energy Bill [ Lords ] (Twelfth sitting)
Committee stage: 12th sitting - Tue 20 Jun 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) Injuries or damages will instead be covered by ordinary civil law, which is robust, proportionate and - Speech Link
2: Alan Whitehead (LAB - Southampton, Test) As the Minister said, schedule 20 is about accession to the convention on supplementary compensation - Speech Link
3: Andrew Bowie (CON - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) their compensation is paid as long as they receive it in the end for any damage that is caused. - Speech Link
4: None I am not sure what the arrangements for compensation are, but that is how it works. - Speech Link
5: None adding members of the CNC to the list of constables able to exercise their powers in part 10 of the Criminal - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Report - Mon 22 May 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) That includes driving work across Government to improve victims’ experience of the criminal justice system - Speech Link
2: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) Another area that demands proper leadership, and where protection is needed, is child criminal exploitation - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Committee stage - Mon 22 May 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) properties and those liable under the Building Safety Act, and it can leave the market vulnerable to criminal - Speech Link
2: None summary offences” means—(a) if the offence is committed before the time when section 281(5) of the Criminal - Speech Link
3: Earl of Lytton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) I just add that it was changing the health and safety regime a few years ago that radically changed injuries - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
2nd reading - Mon 15 May 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) grew so intolerable that Maria attempted to end her own life, leaving her with life-changing physical injuries - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) There may be scope to amend the Bill in relation to compensation for the victims of crime. - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) injury compensation, and only 25% knew of the victims code at all. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill
Committee stage - Thu 11 May 2023
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: None However, if those same concrete blocks resulted in injuries that did not require amputation but left - Speech Link
2: None This compensation could run to millions of pounds. - Speech Link
3: Lord Caine (CON - Life peer) dilute the commission’s credibility as the sole investigator of Troubles-related deaths and serious injuries - Speech Link
4: Lord Caine (CON - Life peer) commission to establish itself as the sole investigative body looking at Troubles-related deaths and serious injuries - Speech Link
5: Baroness O'Loan (CB - Life peer) Is this the end of the road for any right to compensation in Northern Ireland? - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Mon 06 Mar 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) To be eligible, a claimant must be in receipt of industrial injuries disablement benefit for a disease - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) He was a great supporter when I moved amendments in your Lordships’ House seeking to change the Criminal - Speech Link
3: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979. - Speech Link
4: Viscount Younger of Leckie (CON - Excepted Hereditary) injuries disablement benefit, a weekly payment based on the assessed level of disablement. - Speech Link