All 2 Debates between Lord Cryer and Helen Grant

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Debate between Lord Cryer and Helen Grant
Thursday 30th January 2014

(10 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Helen Grant Portrait Mrs Grant
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I am afraid that I fundamentally disagree with the hon. Gentleman. There are powers in the form of article 4 directions, which can be and have been used successfully.

Lord Cryer Portrait John Cryer
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They do not work.

Helen Grant Portrait Mrs Grant
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They do work, and they have been used very successfully in relation to both Southwark and Barking and Dagenham. I remind the hon. Gentleman that Newham council also used licensing conditions to control unacceptable activities in betting shops.

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Debate between Lord Cryer and Helen Grant
Tuesday 13th November 2012

(12 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Helen Grant Portrait Mrs Grant
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The Government are committed to ensuring that as many victims as possible receive compensation from offenders. The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 places a new duty on courts to consider imposing compensation in any case where the victim has suffered injury, loss or damage. Issuing guidance to courts is a matter for the independent Sentencing Council, not for the Government, but the council’s guidelines already draw the courts’ attention to their powers to impose compensation.

Lord Cryer Portrait John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead) (Lab)
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To what extent is this form of compensation a substitute for the criminal injuries compensation scheme, which has been cut to ribbons by the order laid in July this year?

Helen Grant Portrait Mrs Grant
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Criminal injuries compensation is state-funded compensation. This is offender-funded compensation; it is completely different.