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25 Mar 2025, 4:48 p.m. - House of Lords
"trace of that agreement. Turning to the answer given to the question put to Jack Straw on this question in "
Lord Murray of Blidworth (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
25 Mar 2025, 4:48 p.m. - House of Lords
"to Jack Straw on this question in January 2009 Lord Woolf, the Noble "
Lord Murray of Blidworth (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript
3 Mar 2025, 3:43 p.m. - House of Lords
"led by Jack Straw in 2006 and 2007. No draft bill as in 2011. No Joint Committee as in 2002, 2003 or 2011. "
Lord True (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript


Calendar
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
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Parliamentary Debates
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
140 speeches (33,397 words)
Committee stage part one
Tuesday 25th March 2025 - Lords Chamber
Leader of the House
Mentions:
1: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) afraid I cannot find a trace of that agreement.Turning to the answer given to a question put to Jack Straw - Link to Speech

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
150 speeches (29,999 words)
Committee stage part one
Monday 3rd March 2025 - Lords Chamber
Leader of the House
Mentions:
1: Lord True (Con - Life peer) There have been no cross-party discussions, as led by Jack Straw in 2006 and 2007; no draft Bill, as - Link to Speech

Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill
29 speeches (19,259 words)
2nd reading
Wednesday 29th January 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Lord Waldegrave of North Hill (Con - Life peer) co-operation, Star Academies, which emerged out of Blackburn with a great deal of help from Mr Jack Straw - Link to Speech

Political Parties: Donations from Abroad
21 speeches (1,536 words)
Wednesday 22nd January 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Mentions:
1: Lord Maude of Horsham (Con - Life peer) his Government will follow the practice in the latter part of the last Labour Government, where Jack Straw - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
120 speeches (9,921 words)
Wednesday 8th January 2025 - Commons Chamber
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) was a racial or cultural motivation behind some of these crimes, where white girls were seen, as Jack Straw - Link to Speech

Police Officers: Recruitment
31 speeches (2,399 words)
Tuesday 10th December 2024 - Lords Chamber
Home Office
Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) Back then, Jack Straw very sensibly ring-fenced additional funding for our police service. - Link to Speech

House of Lords Reform
180 speeches (59,124 words)
Tuesday 12th November 2024 - Lords Chamber
Leader of the House
Mentions:
1: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) I supported Jack Straw and the Labour Government’s proposition that it be a partly elected House. - Link to Speech
2: Lord Strathclyde (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I sat on two Joint Committees, one chaired by Jack Straw and one successfully by Nick Clegg, building - Link to Speech

House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
242 speeches (37,780 words)
Committee of the whole House
Tuesday 12th November 2024 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Andrew Murrison (Con - South West Wiltshire) He is right to say that consensus in these sorts of matters is nigh on impossible, as poor Jack Straw - Link to Speech

Valedictory Debate
114 speeches (57,382 words)
Friday 24th May 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Ben Wallace (Con - Wyre and Preston North) I could tell the House about my trip to Iran with Jeremy Corbyn and Jack Straw, which was like something - Link to Speech

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 Straw - 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 Straw - 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 Straw - 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

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) view and from the charter point of view it was illegal.”Indeed, it was the then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw - 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 Straw - 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) scurrilous and baseless attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi—and to quote the involvement of Jack Straw - 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) I took part in one of the first university sit-ins at Leeds University in 1968, when—led by one Jack Straw - 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 Straw - 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) brilliant at all other kinds of other things, but that is not one of them, so I left the dog with Jack Straw - 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



Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 19th February 2025
Written Evidence - School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, and School of Law, Leeds University
MHB0007 - Mental Health Bill

Mental Health Bill - Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Found: rights in care settings (HC 216, HL Paper 51, 2022) pp26-28. iii [2024] EWHC 2265 (KB)iv Ibid. v Jack Straw

Thursday 30th January 2025
Written Evidence - 33 Bedford Row chambers
NIL0010 - Northern Ireland Legacy Remedial Order

Northern Ireland Legacy Remedial Order - Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Found: . 19 During the committee stage in the house of commons, on 24 June 1998, the home secretary, Jack Straw

Tuesday 17th December 2024
Oral Evidence - The Rt Hon Charles Clarke, and The Rt Hon Michael Gove

Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing - Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Found: he did that, and it meant a completely new start with a new Secretary of State—as it happens, Jack Straw—at

Wednesday 4th December 2024
Oral Evidence - UK Government

Executive oversight and responsibility for the UK Constitution’ - Constitution Committee

Found: I remember when Jack Straw moved from being Home Secretary to Foreign Secretary and I met him as Foreign

Wednesday 4th December 2024
Oral Evidence - UK Government

Executive oversight and responsibility for the UK Constitution’ - Constitution Committee

Found: I remember when Jack Straw moved from being Home Secretary to Foreign Secretary and I met him as Foreign

Wednesday 30th October 2024
Oral Evidence - Institute for Government

Executive oversight and responsibility for the UK Constitution’ - Constitution Committee

Found: One of the Joint Committees was led by Jack Straw and the other by Nick Clegg, in which I think you

Friday 31st May 2024
Formal Minutes - Formal minutes Session 2023-24 (November 2023 to May 2024)

Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa The Rt Hon Jack Straw, Former Secretary of

Wednesday 29th May 2024
Report - Third Report - The House of Commons standards landscape: how MPs’ standards and conduct are regulated

Committee on Standards

Found: Jack Straw 1R 2008–0922 Jan 2009Reported £3000 donation to constituency event held in his honour 4

Wednesday 17th April 2024
Scrutiny evidence - Petitioner Evidence Part 1 of 2

Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL] Committee

Found: Home Office Jack Straw 26th March 2000 One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State (a) 1993

Wednesday 17th April 2024
Scrutiny evidence - Promoter Evidence Part 2 of 4

Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL] Committee

Found: Jack Straw One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State 99 208APPENDIX SCHEME FOR THE ALTERATION

Wednesday 28th February 2024
Oral Evidence - Sir Robert Buckland, and University College London

The UK Government’s engagement regarding the British Indian Ocean Territory - Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on the Overseas Territories

Found: They put through a Privy Council order, which Jack Straw appended his name to, banning their returning

Wednesday 28th February 2024
Oral Evidence - David Snoxell, and King's College London

The UK Government’s engagement regarding the British Indian Ocean Territory - Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on the Overseas Territories

Found: They put through a Privy Council order, which Jack Straw appended his name to, banning their returning

Tuesday 20th February 2024
Oral Evidence - Alex Salmond

Intergovernmental relations: 25 years since the Scotland Act 1998 - Scottish Affairs Committee

Found: I should say that the European one was still working; in fact, Jack Straw, who was Foreign Secretary

Friday 9th February 2024
Report - 3rd Report - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

Constitution Committee

Found: The Rt Hon Jack Straw, then Home Secretary, and minister in charge of the Human Rights Bill in the House

Tuesday 6th February 2024
Oral Evidence - Ministry of Justice, HM Prison and Probation Service, and Ministry of Justice

Future prison population and estate capacity - Justice Committee

Found: Titan prisons were proposed by, I think, Jack Straw, with 7,500 places, but they were never built.

Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Oral Evidence - European Commission, Sir Mark Lyall Grant, and The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa - Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: Jack Straw: My name is Jack Straw.

Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Oral Evidence - European Commission, Sir Mark Lyall Grant, and The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa - Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: Jack Straw: My name is Jack Straw.

Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Oral Evidence - School of History, St Andrew’s University, and Foundation for Defense of Democracies

The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa - Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: Jack Straw: My name is Jack Straw.

Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Oral Evidence - School of History, St Andrew’s University, and Foundation for Defense of Democracies

The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa - Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: Jack Straw: My name is Jack Straw.

Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Oral Evidence - Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa - Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: Jack Straw: My name is Jack Straw.

Monday 18th December 2023
Written Evidence - Women for a Free Iran
MENA0032 - The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa - Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: Historical attempts at engagement, spanning administrations from Jack Straw to Clinton, Obama, and

Thursday 14th December 2023
Report - Second Report - Scott Benton

Committee on Standards

Found: on Standards - First Report of the 2015–16 session on the conduct of Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Mr Jack Straw

Monday 13th November 2023
Oral Evidence - Professor Jim Gallagher, and Professor Ciaran Martin

Intergovernmental relations: 25 years since the Scotland Act 1998 - Scottish Affairs Committee

Found: When I was a Justice Minister in Scotland, I dealt with Jack Straw and occasionally, depending on

Monday 13th November 2023
Oral Evidence - Lord Dunlop, Lord Wallace of Tankerness, and Lord Robertson of Port Ellen

Intergovernmental relations: 25 years since the Scotland Act 1998 - Scottish Affairs Committee

Found: When I was a Justice Minister in Scotland, I dealt with Jack Straw and occasionally, depending on

Thursday 9th November 2023
Written Evidence - Self-employed/indepedent practice
SOT0033 - The Status of the UK’s Overseas Territories in the 21st Century

The Status of the UK’s Overseas Territories in the 21 Century - Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Found: action=view_ar ticle&article=850 - Text of a Letter from The Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to Miguel

Wednesday 13th September 2023
Written Evidence - Self-employed/indepedent practice
TTC0023 - The procedure of the House of Commons and the territorial constitution

The procedure of the House of Commons and the territorial constitution - Procedure Committee

Found: action=view_article&article =850 - Text of a Letter from The Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to Miguel

Wednesday 14th June 2023
Oral Evidence - Judiciary of England and Wales

Constitution Committee

Found: last six years —six of them, and one of them twice—but looking back to the early days, although Jack Straw

Wednesday 1st March 2023
Oral Evidence - Ministry of Justice

Constitution Committee

Found: I for one was impressed by the evidence of Jack Straw, who has written a preface to a Policy Exchange

Wednesday 25th January 2023
Report - Ninth Report - Legislative Scrutiny: Bill of Rights Bill

Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Found: As the then Home Secretary Rt Hon Jack Straw set out during the second reading debate on the Human Rights

Wednesday 18th January 2023
Report - 9th Report - The roles of the Lord Chancellor and the Law Officers

Role of the Lord Chancellor and the Law Officers - Constitution Committee

Found: In a Written Ministerial Statement accompanying the Bill’s introduction, Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, then

Tuesday 10th January 2023
Oral Evidence - International Agreements Committee, House of Lords, and International Trade Committee, House of Commons

The Scrutiny of International Treaties and other international agreements in the 21st century - Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Found: CRaG was only introduced because Jack Straw was a bit worried, or dizzy at the height of power he

Wednesday 14th December 2022
Oral Evidence - Ministry of Justice

Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Found: A whole range of other people were involved right at the outset: Jack Straw, David Blunkett—very much

Tuesday 29th November 2022
Oral Evidence - Independent Commission into the Experience of Victims and Long-term Prisoners, Independent Commission into the Experience of Victims and Long-term Prisoners, School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, Sentencing Academy, and Claire Waxman OBE

Public opinion and understanding of sentencing - Justice Committee

Found: Jack Straw was Home Secretary at the time.

Friday 23rd September 2022
Written Evidence - University of Dundee, and University of the West of Scotland
BOR0015 - Legislative Scrutiny: Bill of Rights Bill

Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Found: : The Human Rights Bill (1997) para 1.14. 6 In the House of Commons, the then Home Secretary, Jack Straw

Friday 23rd September 2022
Written Evidence - Newcastle Forum for Human Rights and Social Justice
BOR0062 - Legislative Scrutiny: Bill of Rights Bill

Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Found: ECtHR, 21 January 2021) [126]. 31 Iraq Invasion: HC Deb vol 42(87) col 487-488 17 May 2004 (Jack Straw

Wednesday 7th September 2022
Oral Evidence - Ministry of Justice

Role of the Lord Chancellor and the Law Officers - Constitution Committee

Found: Jack Straw: I do not think it has.

Friday 2nd September 2022
Written Evidence - Ministry of Justice
RLC0020 - Role of the Lord Chancellor and the Law Officers

Role of the Lord Chancellor and the Law Officers - Constitution Committee

Found: 1The Rt Hon Jack Straw Œ written evidence (RLC0020)House of Lords Constitution Committee inquiry into

Tuesday 5th July 2022
Oral Evidence - University College London (UCL), and Kings College London

The Scrutiny of International Treaties and other international agreements in the 21st century - Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Found: the Bar Council noted in its evidence that, during the passing of CRaG, the then Lord Chancellor, Jack Straw

Friday 25th March 2022
Correspondence - Letter from B Hayter to Amanda Milling in response to letter of 8 March

International Agreements Committee

Found: effects than most treaties.”2 The Committee recorded the evidence of the then Lord Chancellor, Jack Straw

Friday 30th April 2021
Oral Evidence - Dominic Raab (First Secretary of State, and Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

International Relations and Defence Committee

Found: I remember helping to draft a speaking note for Jack Straw as Foreign Secretary to engage with Condoleezza

Friday 9th October 2020
Correspondence - Letter from Lord Goldsmith QC to Rt Hon. Dominic Raab MP on the Croughton Annex agreement, 9 October 2020

EU International Agreements Sub-Committee

Found: This reflects the view of (then) Lord Chancellor, Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, who told the Joint Committee

Friday 11th September 2020
Oral Evidence - The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office at Cabinet Office)
Cabinet Office

The work of the Cabinet Office - Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Found: I remember Jack Straw saying that, when he was Home Secretary, he was very conscious of the fact that

Friday 13th March 2020
Oral Evidence - Sir Mark Sedwill KCMG FRGS (Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service at Cabinet Office), and Sir John Manzoni KCB (Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet Office and Civil Service Chief Executive at Cabinet Office)
Cabinet Office, and Cabinet Office

The work of the Cabinet Office - Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Found: Sir Mark Sedwill: I know, for example, one of my Secretar ies of State, Jack Straw, for whom I was



Select Committee Inquiry
10 Feb 2015
Former Leaders of the House of Commons
Procedure Committee (Select)
Not accepting submissions

Witnesses

Wednesday 4 March 2015, Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

19 Oct 2010
Cost of motor insurance
Transport Committee (Select)
Not accepting submissions

The Transport Committee held a short inquiry into the cost of motor insurance, focusing on:

  • The reasons and consequences of recent increases in the cost of motor insurance
  • The impact on young people of the high costs of motor insurance
  • The extent to which the cost of motor insurance is influenced by the prevalence of road accidents, insurance fraud, legal costs and the number of uninsured drivers
  • Whether there are public policy implications of the rise in the cost of motor insurance and, if so, what steps the Government might take in response to them.

Follow up inquiry

In light of further concerns about the rising cost of insurance, the Transport Committee agreed to re-open this inquiry and took further oral evidence on 11 October 2011. The Committee published its report on 12 January 2012.

Oral Evidence

11 October 2011

Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, John Spencer, Chairman, Motor Accident Solicitors Society, Andrew Dismore, Access to Justice Action Group, and Paul Evans, CEO, AXA UK; and Mike Penning MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport, and Jonathan Djanogly MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice

11 January 2011

Deputy Chief Constable David Ainsworth (lead on vehicle crime), and Chief Superintendant Geraint Anwyl (representing Roads Policing), Association of Chief Police Officers, and Viv Nicholas, Executive Director, European Secure Vehicle Alliance, and David Powell, Manager, Underwriting, Lloyd’s Market Association, and Mark Boleat; David Bott, Vice President, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, and Laurence Beck, Managing Director of Accident Advice Helpline, Claims Standards Council, and Tony Baker, Director General, and Steve Evans, CEO, Accident Exchange, The Credit Hire Organisation; and Mike Penning MP, Under-Secretary of State, and Pauline Morgan, Head of Driver Licensing and Insurance Team, Department for Transport

9 November 2010

Edmund King, President, AA, and Will Thomas, Head of Car Insurance, Confused.com, and Dr David Brown, Chair of the Actuarial Profession’s Third Party (Motor) Working Group, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, and Duncan Anderson, EMB Consultancy; and Nick Starling, Director of General Insurance and Health, Association of British Insurers, and Graeme Trudgill, Head of Corporate Affairs, British Insurance Brokers Association, and Ashton West, Chief Executive, Motors Insurers Bureau, and John Spencer, Chairman, Motor Accident Solicitors Society



Written Answers
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
Members' pay and expenses 2024/25 - CBP-10225
Mar. 28 2025

Found: expenses regime, under the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009.162 In introducing the legislation, Jack Straw

The office and role of Speaker - CBP-9974
Jul. 09 2024

Found: and replaced an earlier body set up under an Act of 1812.231 Following a report by Labour MP Jack Straw

Military action: Parliament's role - CBP-10001
Apr. 19 2024

Found: for reform from several members of the Cabinet at the time, including former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw

Members' pay and expenses 2023/24 - CBP-9995
Mar. 27 2024

Found: expenses regime, under the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 . 160 In introducing the legislation, Jack Straw

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 Straw

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 Straw

LGBT History Month - CDP-2023-0022
Jan. 26 2023

Found: the provision to change the age of consent to 16 on two occasions and the then Home Secretary Jack Straw



Bill Documents
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 Act 2024
Written evidence

Found: Parole Board [2020] EWHC 1457 (Admin) [13] R v McLoughlin [2014] 1 WLR 3964 [14] See eg Rt Hon Jack Straw

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
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

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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

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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

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Department Publications - Policy paper
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



Non-Departmental Publications - Policy and Engagement
Mar. 01 2016
Independent Commission on Freedom of Information
Source Page: Independent Commission on Freedom of Information: call for evidence
Document: Independent Commission on Freedom of Information: call for evidence (PDF)
Policy and Engagement

Found: The Commission is chaired by Lord Burns; its other members are the Rt Hon Jack Straw, the Rt Hon Lord

Mar. 01 2016
Independent Commission on Freedom of Information
Source Page: Independent Commission on Freedom of Information: call for evidence
Document: Independent Commission on Freedom of Information: call for evidence (Welsh) (PDF)
Policy and Engagement

Found: Jack Straw, y Gwir Anrh.



Deposited Papers
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: new clauses 27 to 29 I said: “It is well known that this is the Ben Kinsella amendment, which Jack Straw




Jack Straw mentioned in Welsh results


Welsh Government Publications
Wednesday 14th February 2018

Source Page: Written Statement - Powys County Council – Update (14 February 2018)
Document: Written Statement - Powys County Council – Update (14 February 2018) (webpage)

Found: representatives of the opposition as well as a number of independent members, including the Chair, Jack Straw



Welsh Senedd Research
Parliamentary Voting and Constituencies Bill - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014
Parliamentary Voting and Constituencies Bill October 2010 This paper provides a background briefing on the Parliamentary Voting and Constituencies Bill, which was presented to the UK Parliament by the Rt. Hon Nick Clegg MP, the Deputy Prime Minis...

Found: Hon Jack Straw QC MP argued that the UK Government‟s proposals to hold a referendum on voting reform

Fixed-term Parliaments Bill - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014
Fixed-term Parliaments Bill October 2010 This paper provides a background briefing on the Fixed-term Parliaments Bill which was presented to the UK Parliament by the Rt. Hon Nick Clegg MP, the Deputy Prime Minister, on 22 July 2010. The Bill aims...

Found: Hon Jack Straw QC MP criticised the purpose of introducing a mechanism which would allow Parliament

The Governance of Britain - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014
Members’ Research Service / Gwasanaeth Ymchwil yr Aelodau November 2007 Abstract This paper provides background briefing on the recent UK Government Green Paper, The Governance of Britain (Cm 7170) which includes proposals to limit executive powe...

Found: Jack Straw MP, the Minister for Justice and Lord Chancellor, made a statement to the House of Commons

The Gambling Bill - Research paper
Wednesday 11th June 2014
The Gambling Bill Abstract This paper provides background briefing on the Gambling Bill as introduced into the House of Commons on 18 October 2004. The Bill will consolidate all gambling law into a single Act of Parliament. It established a new r...

Found: Gambling Bill 3.1 Gambling Review Report and White Paper In December 1999, the then Home Secretary, Jack Straw



Welsh Senedd Debates
6. Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
None speech (None words)
Wednesday 10th July 2024 - None


Welsh Senedd Speeches
Wed 10 Jul 2024
No Department
None
6. Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding

<p>'No-one would be forgiven for trying to rip up and reconstruct the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice at a time when crime is blighting our streets'.</p>
<p>So, just follow the logic of that: the very institutions that have led to this situation, where crime is blighting our streets, are the very institutions that should maintain and retain the powers. Look at the terrible scandal that's happening in Parc prison at the moment; the level of the incarceration of our ethnic minority communities in Wales—the highest in the world, it seems; certainly in western Europe. Are these the institutions, the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice, that we trust actually to deliver criminal justice policy?</p>
<p>And as Jenny Rathbone said, we never get progressive change out of the Home Office, and you referenced, I think, the power of the right-wing press: even Labour Home Secretaries find it very difficult to defeat that. There's an innate conservatism at the very heart of the institution. The very famous story about Jack Straw, when he was first appointed as Home Secretary, and he was invited up to see the Permanent Secretary in the Home Office—very generous of the Permanent Secretary to find the time in his diary to see the new Home Secretary—on the seventh floor. He invited him in, and he said to the new Home Secretary, 'Go and look out the window. Tell me what you see.' And Jack Straw was looking out and he said, 'Well, I just see blue sky.' 'Wrong,' he said. 'Wrong. Imagine an Exocet missile coming through that blue sky, shattering everything, because that's what it's like in the Home Office.' The nature of the institution is that it is incredibly defensive, conservative, waiting for the next bad headline always, and therefore wants to deter any reforming Home Secretary from any programme of change. And indeed, even Conservative Home Secretaries made exactly the same point, from a very different political perspective—they talked about the inertia of the institutions within the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice.</p>
<p>That's why we need to wrest control, because we'll never get the progressive change, the radical change that we need to deliver better security and community safety in our communities and better justice for our people. Don't trust those institution; they've failed the people of Wales in their own terms, and that's why devolution is urgent. I don't want to see it done in a phased way; we need it now.</p>
<p>When you speak to senior police officers in Wales, they are calling for it. These are not politicians; they are saying from an operational perspective, 'We need it, because we have ideas actually, from around the world, that we could implement here in Wales, and deliver progress for our communities.' And as Gareth just said—I'll send you a membership card, Gareth, look—we can have devolution and&nbsp;we can still have cross-border co-operation in terms of our policing; the model is already there. By the way, cross-border co-operation in the world that we are facing now in terms of serious organised crime cannot even stop at the borders of the United Kingdom, so we need to always have that, but we can have that and have democratic decision making and better policy&nbsp;here in Wales.</p>