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Wednesday 7th September 2022 10 a.m. Constitution Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Role of the Lord Chancellor and the Law Officers At 10.15am: Oral evidence The Rt Hon Jack Straw - former Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (2007-10) at Ministry of Justice View calendar |
Parliamentary Debates |
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Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
73 speeches (16,778 words) Committee stage Wednesday 17th April 2024 - Lords Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) looking back at some of the debates on the Human Rights Act 1998, during which then Home Secretary Jack - Link to Speech |
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
49 speeches (8,342 words) Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message Wednesday 17th April 2024 - Commons Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: William Cash (Con - Stone) The noble Lord Irvine, Tony Blair as Prime Minister and Jack Straw all agreed that the sovereignty of - Link to Speech |
James Bulger Murder: Public Inquiry
29 speeches (10,199 words) Monday 25th March 2024 - Westminster Hall Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) minimum term.When Venables was recalled to custody in 2010, the then Secretary of State for Justice, Jack - Link to Speech 2: Jess Phillips (Lab - Birmingham, Yardley) However, as the Minister said, Jack Straw was the last person to ask for a review. - Link to Speech |
Prevention of Future Deaths Report: Terance Radford
16 speeches (5,935 words) Wednesday 20th March 2024 - Westminster Hall Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) place for over two decades, having been created and introduced in 1999 by the then Home Secretary, Jack - Link to Speech |
Prisons and Probation: Foreign National Offenders
25 speeches (5,561 words) Tuesday 12th March 2024 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) There was one in 1997 and another in 2007, when Jack Straw had a terrible argument with Lord Falconer - Link to Speech |
Justice
20 speeches (1,894 words) Friday 1st March 2024 - Ministerial Corrections Home Office Mentions: 1: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) It is well known that this is the Ben Kinsella amendment, which Jack Straw introduced in 2007 in response - Link to Speech 2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) Straw introduced in 2010 in response to a campaign fought very passionately by Ben’s sister, Brooke, - Link to Speech |
UK Military Action in Iraq: Declassified Documents
20 speeches (8,753 words) Wednesday 13th December 2023 - Westminster Hall Attorney General Mentions: 1: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) of view and from the charter point of view it was illegal.”Indeed, it was the then Foreign Secretary Jack - Link to Speech |
HM Prison Bedford
6 speeches (4,746 words) Thursday 30th November 2023 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) By regrettable contrast, the plans under Jack Straw in the last Labour Government were to build 7,500 - Link to Speech |
King’s Speech
112 speeches (57,201 words) Wednesday 8th November 2023 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Lord Farmer (Con - Life peer) Former Home Secretary Jack Straw said that the state removes the liberty of those convicted of crime - Link to Speech |
Prison Capacity
95 speeches (12,672 words) Monday 16th October 2023 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Alex Chalk (CON - Cheltenham) Jack Straw stood at this Dispatch Box and said, “We will build three titan prisons, each one of them - Link to Speech |
Victims and Prisoners Bill (Eleventh sitting)
52 speeches (12,532 words) Committee stage: 11th sitting Thursday 6th July 2023 - Public Bill Committees Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) When Jack Straw became Home Secretary in 1997, he was convinced that something needed to be done, in - Link to Speech 2: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) Member for Garston and Halewood mentioned Jack Straw in 1997. - Link to Speech |
National Security Bill
62 speeches (11,586 words) Consideration of Lords amendments Wednesday 3rd May 2023 - Commons Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: Alistair Carmichael (LDEM - Orkney and Shetland) This is not fanciful; we know what was done by Jack Straw and senior officials of the day in relation - Link to Speech |
Illegal Migration Bill
214 speeches (45,693 words) Report stage- Wednesday 26th April 2023 - Commons Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: None As things have progressed, we need to bear in mind what, for example, Jack Straw said—I am speaking now - Link to Speech |
Illegal Migration Bill
243 speeches (46,587 words) Committee stage: Committee of the whole House (day 1) Monday 27th March 2023 - Commons Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: David Davis (CON - Haltemprice and Howden) In fact, that was demonstrated when we had the case of prisoner votes and Jack Straw, who took through - Link to Speech 2: William Cash (CON - Stone) happened there.In the House of Commons during the passage of the Human Rights Act, the Home Secretary Jack - Link to Speech |
Illegal Migration Bill
51 speeches (7,541 words) Wednesday 8th March 2023 - Lords Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) By way of a Statement, the then Minister in charge of the Bill, Jack Straw, provided that this test should - Link to Speech |
Business of the House
78 speeches (10,828 words) Thursday 26th January 2023 - Commons Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Bob Blackman (CON - Harrow East) particularly scurrilous and baseless attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi—and to quote the involvement of Jack - Link to Speech |
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
122 speeches (30,766 words) Report stage Wednesday 7th December 2022 - Lords Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) that I took part in one of the first university sit-ins at Leeds University in 1968, when—led by one Jack - Link to Speech |
Public Sector Pay: Proposed Strike Action
60 speeches (13,465 words) Tuesday 1st November 2022 - Westminster Hall HM Treasury Mentions: 1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) In Scotland, it does have the right to strike; I was offered that dubious denial in Scotland by Jack - Link to Speech |
Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
101 speeches (39,098 words) Friday 9th September 2022 - Lords Chamber Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Lord Blunkett (LAB - Life peer) are brilliant at all other kinds of other things, but that is not one of them, so I left the dog with Jack - Link to Speech |
Human Rights Act 1998
54 speeches (18,331 words) Thursday 14th July 2022 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Lord Bellamy (CON - Life peer) In 2008, Jack Straw, the very Home Secretary who introduced the Act, commented that it did not seem to - Link to Speech |
Iran’s Nuclear Programme
51 speeches (17,710 words) Thursday 30th June 2022 - Commons Chamber Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) because the members of the delegation were Lord Lamont, a former Conservative Minister and Chancellor, Jack - Link to Speech |
Bill of Rights
84 speeches (11,336 words) Wednesday 22nd June 2022 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) Jack Straw said back in 2007 that he wanted to rebalance the rights set out in the Act, adding explicitly - Link to Speech 2: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) Interestingly, he did that with Jack Straw, the architect of the Human Rights Act, but my right hon. - Link to Speech |
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
113 speeches (23,547 words) Report stage Monday 13th June 2022 - Commons Chamber Department for Education Mentions: 1: Jess Phillips (LAB - Birmingham, Yardley) Jack Straw, who was then a Labour MP, was banned from the student union—I forget why. - Link to Speech |
Elections Bill
77 speeches (16,698 words) Lords Hansard - Part 2 Wednesday 23rd March 2022 - Lords Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: None In his autobiography, Mr Jack Straw said with some pride that as Justice Secretary at the time he had - Link to Speech |
Legal Aid
38 speeches (5,528 words) Tuesday 15th March 2022 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) I remind him that a previous Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, had plans to cut almost £200 million a year - Link to Speech |
Elections Bill
125 speeches (28,202 words) Lords Hansard - Part 2 Thursday 10th March 2022 - Lords Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Lord Rennard (LDEM - Life peer) executive and investigative powers”.Introducing the resulting legislation, the then Home Secretary, Jack - Link to Speech |
Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [Lords]
98 speeches (16,547 words) Report stage Tuesday 22nd February 2022 - Commons Chamber HM Treasury Mentions: 1: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) proportional representation system, as there were only two people who understood it: Mr d’Hondt, who died, and Jack - Link to Speech |
House of Commons Commission
6 speeches (1,238 words) Tuesday 18th January 2022 - Commons Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) recommended by the Governance Committee, which I served on, actually, under the distinguished chairmanship of Jack - Link to Speech |
Human Rights Legislation
63 speeches (9,484 words) Tuesday 14th December 2021 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) Let me quote to him what the architect of the Human Rights Act, Jack Straw, said:“There is a sense that - Link to Speech 2: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) I cited Jack Straw—there have been others—as one of the architects of the Act who has been seriously - Link to Speech 3: Dominic Raab (CON - Esher and Walton) for reform very powerfully, and there is of course the Labour architect of the Human Rights Act in Jack - Link to Speech |
Strengthening Standards in Public Life
199 speeches (36,048 words) Wednesday 17th November 2021 - Commons Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and North Perthshire) the matter most recently in February 2015 when there was a scandal about a sting operation involving Jack - Link to Speech |
Committee on Standards
125 speeches (14,690 words) Wednesday 3rd November 2021 - Commons Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) endorsement of the standards commissioner’s advice to the Committee.I refer to the debate in 2010 when Jack - Link to Speech |
The Coroner Service
23 speeches (13,661 words) Thursday 28th October 2021 - Westminster Hall Mentions: 1: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) I was the courts Minister in the MOJ for a period of time, back when Jack Straw was the Lord Chancellor - Link to Speech |
Iran
28 speeches (10,941 words) Tuesday 19th October 2021 - Lords Chamber Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB - Life peer) clear position, and I think it was the right one.Successive British Governments, as far back as when Jack - Link to Speech |
Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill [HL]
27 speeches (14,099 words) 2nd reading Tuesday 7th September 2021 - Lords Chamber Mentions: 1: Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the noble Lord, Lord Howard of Lympne, and the Home Secretary who followed him, the right honourable Jack - Link to Speech |
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Cammell Laird: Industrial Disputes
Asked by: Gareth Thomas (Labour (Co-op) - Harrow West) Thursday 1st December 2022 Question to the Cabinet Office: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make available all documents related interactions between Jack Straw and stakeholders representing those involved in the Cammell Laird industrial dispute of 1984. Answered by Jeremy Quin I refer the Honourable Member to the answer given to PQ 59415 on 20 October by the then Minister for the Cabinet Office, my Right Honourable friend, the member for Croydon South. |
Parliamentary Research |
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Members' pay and expenses 2023/24 - CBP-9995
Mar. 27 2024 Found: statutory expenses regime, under the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 . 160 In introducing the legislation, Jack |
LGBT+ History Month - CDP-2024-0044
Feb. 26 2024 Found: defeated the provision to change the age of consent to 16 on two occasions and the then Home Secretary Jack |
The royal prerogative and ministerial advice - CBP-9877
Oct. 24 2023 Found: In 1994 Jack Straw , also a Labour MP and future Lord Chancellor, wrote that the prerogative had “no |
Royal Assent - CBP-9466
Aug. 21 2023 Found: Now the Lord Chancellor may be an MP or a peer, and Jack Straw was the first non- peer to act as a |
Members' pay and expenses and ministerial salaries 2022/23 - CBP-9763
Mar. 30 2023 Found: expenses regime, under the Parliamentary Standards Act 2 009 . 1 64 In introducing the legislation, Jack |
LGBT History Month - CDP-2023-0022
Jan. 26 2023 Found: defeated the provision to change the age of consent to 16 on two occasions and the then Home Secretary Jack |
The UK Supreme Court - CBP-9536
Jun. 22 2022 Found: role being held by a someone with legal experience. 91 The absence of these requirements enabled Jack |
State Opening of Parliament - history and ceremonial - CBP-9501
Apr. 30 2022 Found: bygone age ,” he told the Financial Times newspaper .241 In 2007, however , the then Lord Chancellor , Jack |
Members' pay and expenses and ministerial salaries 2021/22 - CBP-9514
Mar. 30 2022 Found: statutory expenses regime, under the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 . 157 In introducing the legislation, Jack |
Bill Documents |
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Apr. 16 2024
Petitioner Evidence Part 1 [Pages 1 to 113] Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL] 2022-23 Written evidence Found: Home Office Jack Straw 26th March 2000 One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State (a) 1993 |
Apr. 16 2024
Promoter Evidence Part 2 [Pages 106 to 232] Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL] 2022-23 Written evidence Found: Jack Straw One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State 99 208APPENDIX SCHEME FOR THE ALTERATION |
Jun. 29 2023
Written evidence submitted by Amnesty International UK (VPB35) Victims and Prisoners Bill 2022-23 Written evidence Found: Parole Board [2020] EWHC 1457 (Admin) [13] R v McLoughlin [2014] 1 WLR 3964 [14] See eg Rt Hon Jack |
Jul. 08 2022
Written evidence submitted by Reprieve (NSB01) National Security Act 2023 Written evidence Found: [14] Then-Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was himself accused of signing off on this activity. |
Tweets |
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Lord Pickles (Conservative - Life peer) - @EricPickles
2 Apr 2023, 6:31 p.m. I'm old enough to remember Jack Straw pedalling this in the 1990’s. It was not true then and it is not true now. There is no such thing as an average Council Tax. The only way to compare is band to band (A to A, B to B etc) On that basis Conservative Councils charge less https://t.co/NmhH49Xr5a Link to Original Tweet |
Lord Leigh of Hurley (Conservative - Life peer) - @HowardDLeigh
26 Mar 2023, 9:02 a.m. @QuarryGareth Actually most are leaving Parliament so looking for a next job. You won't find much Labour criticism ass this kind of entrapment works cross Party lines. See Jack Straw and others Link to Original Tweet |
Rehman Chishti (Conservative - Gillingham and Rainham) - @Rehman_Chishti
8 Mar 2023, 8:09 a.m. On International women’s day #IWD2023 pay tribute to Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto🇵🇰who gave her life fighting for democracy.First female Head of Gov in Islamic world. It was a privilege to be part of her team 1999-20007 as adviser.Picture 2005 meeting🇬🇧Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. https://t.co/LsVsqtkEhm Link to Original Tweet |
Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood) - @meaglemp
Shadow Minister (Defence) 4 Jan 2022, 10:37 p.m. @ruthkennedy They only arrived the week before the debate (Because Jack Straw ordered SYP to provide them after Derek Twigg MP asked him to in the statement following publication of Stuart-Smith) & they were just all in a mess, so it wasn’t easy Link to Original Tweet |
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Wednesday 6th December 2023
Home Office Source Page: Hillsborough disaster report: government response Document: A Hillsborough legacy: the government's response to Bishop James Jones' report (PDF) Found: • May 1997 : Then Home Secretary , Jack Straw , appoints Lord Justice Stuart -Smith to conduct |
Wednesday 6th December 2023
Home Office Source Page: Hillsborough disaster report: government response Document: A Hillsborough legacy: the government's response to Bishop James Jones' report (print-ready PDF) (PDF) Found: • May 1997 : Then Home Secretary , Jack Straw , appoints Lord Justice Stuart -Smith to conduct |
Deposited Papers |
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Wednesday 28th February 2024
Ministry of Justice Source Page: Letter dated 23/02/2024 from Laura Farris MP to Graham Brady MP, Hanna Bardell MP, Angela Eagle MP and Pauline Latham MP regarding clarification to responses given during the Committee stage (fifth to tenth sittings) of the Crimiinal Justice Bill. 5p. Document: CJB.pdf (PDF) Found: proposed new clauses 27 to 29 I said: “It is well known that this is the Ben Kinsella amendment, which Jack |
Scottish Government Publications |
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Monday 16th May 2022
Communications and Ministerial Support Directorate Source Page: White privilege tests: FOI release Document: White privilege tests: FOI release (webpage) Found: trevorphillips-on-sunday-the-highlights-from-todays-show-with-sajid-javid-nicola-sturgeon-jonathan-ashworthand-jack-straw |