Victims and Prisoners Bill — Report (2nd Day) — Amendment 57 — 23 Apr 2024 at 17:30
Moved by Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
57: After Clause 11, insert the following new Clause-“Duty to co-operate with Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses(1) The Commissioner may request a specified public authority to co-operate with the Commissioner in any way that the Commissioner considers necessary for the purposes of monitoring compliance with the victims’ code.(2) A specified public authority must, so far as reasonably practicable, comply with a request made to it under this section.(3) In this section “specified public authority” means any of the following-(a) a criminal justice body, as defined by section 6(6);(b) the Parole Board;(c) an elected local policing body;(d) the British Transport Police Force;(e) the Ministry of Defence Police.(4) The Secretary of State may by regulations amend this section so as to-(a) add a public authority as a specified public authority for the purposes of this section;(b) remove a public authority added by virtue of subsection (4)(a);(c) vary any description of a public authority.”Member's explanatory statementThis amendment would create a duty for specified public authorities to collaborate with the Victims and Witnesses Commissioner.
Ayes 200, Noes 192.
Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.| Party | Majority (Content) | Minority (Not-Content) | Turnout |
| Con | 1 | 175 (+2 tell) | 61.0% |
| Crossbench | 23 | 6 | 17.0% |
| DUP | 0 | 3 | 50.0% |
| Green | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Judge | 1 | 0 | 11.1% |
| Lab | 104 (+2 tell) | 0 | 61.6% |
| LDem | 59 | 0 | 72.8% |
| Non-affiliated | 7 | 4 | 19.6% |
| PC | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| UUP | 0 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 198 | 190 | 49.4% |
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