Proceeding contribution from Baroness Meacher (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Monday, 26 February 2024. It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Victims and Prisoners Bill.
Victims and Prisoners Bill
I apologise for interrupting the Minister. He referred to the payment of £100,000 to a lot of people in 2022, but is he aware that the whole point of Amendment 134 is to fill the gaps for all the people who did not receive an interim payment? When he referred to speeding up their response to the Langstaff inquiry, that was a verbal commitment, as I understand it. The point is that these people need an urgent payment of £100,000; as I understand it, they have not received any compensation, so it is urgent. We are talking about something that happened 50-odd years ago. The idea that we still need more time cannot be right, so I hope that the Minister can reassure us that absolutely everything will be done to get a payment of £100,000 out to the groups of people who have not yet received compensation—immediately and within a month of the passing of the future Act, as the amendment says.
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- Proceeding contribution
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- 836 c835
- Session
- 2023-24
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Lords chamber
- Subjects
- Disclosure of information Compensation Data protection Databases Codes of practice Coroners Advocacy Contamination Disasters Blood ICT European Convention on Human Rights Liability Domestic abuse Exemptions Offenders Ministerial powers Parole Prisoners Parliamentary scrutiny Life imprisonment Prisoners' release Post Office Offences against children Public inquiries Sentencing Registration Vetting Sexual offences Safety Victims Taxation Stalking High Court Parole Board Upper Tribunal Violent and sex offender register Sexual harm prevention orders Arms length bodies Stalking protection orders Infected Blood Inquiry Restraining orders Independent domestic violence advisers Independent sexual violence advisers Transgender people Information sharing Horizon IT system
- Legislation
- Criminal Justice Act 2003
- Sexual Offences Act 2003
- Victims and Prisoners Bill 2022-23 to 2023-24
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