Member

The Minister has told us that the Government will not support any of the Lords amendments. However well reasoned, thought through and well scrutinised they are, the response of this Government to three months of consideration in the House of Lords is to overturn every single change that their lordships have recommended. The amendments tabled in the other place would deliver more transparency and more access to justice for victims. They would give charities and victims abroad more support. They would give victims the power to ensure that sentences are fairer. They would show to anybody with an interest what is happening in our courts. They would help journalists and others to join the dots, and to expose the patterns of criminality and failures to enforce the law. But this Government refuse them all.