Speeches by Munt.

“Can we pick that up, Chair? The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill provides for family group decision-making meetings bringing together family members and professionals so they can make a plan in response to concerns about a child’s wellbeing. They are meant to be a gatekeeper to care proceedings. Is that what happe…”

“I understood that someone could execute a power of attorney only if they had capacity, so if there had been a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, that would not have been possible. Am I incorrect?”

“I am the Member of Parliament for Wells and Mendip Hills. I am not a solicitor or a barrister, but I have a particular interest in WhistleblowersUK, all of which is declared on the Register, and I am the vice-chair of the penal affairs APPG.”

“Do you have an idea of the non-court options?”

“Can we pick that up, Chair? The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill provides for family group decision-making meetings bringing together family members and professionals so they can make a plan in response to concerns about a child’s wellbeing. They are meant to be a gatekeeper to care proceedings. Is that what happe…”

“I am moving to early intervention. The previous Government had a consultation supporting early resolution of private law family arrangements. That Government also said they wanted to work to make pre-court parenting programmes the norm. I was going to ask you a little about the reforms that are under way, and what pre-…”

“I am the Member of Parliament for Wells and Mendip Hills. I am not a solicitor or a barrister, but I have a particular interest in WhistleblowersUK, all of which is declared on the Register, and I am the vice-chair of the penal affairs APPG.”

“I am moving to early intervention. The previous Government had a consultation supporting early resolution of private law family arrangements. That Government also said they wanted to work to make pre-court parenting programmes the norm. I was going to ask you a little about the reforms that are under way, and what pre-…”

“Do you have an idea of the non-court options?”

“My constituents would be really shocked to discover the lack of clarity in this matter. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, as part of the licensing regime, anyone undertaking a funeral service in the community should be clear about where bodies are kept and the various arrangements that are in play? I have heard some …”

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“Funeral directors deal with people at the most vulnerable time in their lives. It is not the time when somebody asks, “What is happening? Where is my loved one’s body? What are you going to do next?” All of that detail is assumed. When people are so vulnerable, they are highly unlikely to ask the questions that they re…”

“The Chinook Justice Campaign presented a petition to Downing Street this week asking for transparency about the Mull of Kintyre crash in 1994. The Ministry of Defence at Boscombe Down grounded these Boeing Chinooks before the flight, but the special forces pilots were blamed by the RAF, only to be exonerated fully and …”

“The report to which the Government are responding outlines that the county court is in complete crisis. As the hon. Member for Hammersmith and Chiswick (Andy Slaughter) said, the county court is where the majority of our constituents will encounter the justice system, and it is the Cinderella service of the justice sys…”

“My constituent Phil is in the special category mechanism for the 916 people who were inexplicably excluded from the infected blood compensation scheme in February, even though the Government’s expert group said in August last year that they should be compensated. On 5 June, the Paymaster General said he would consider …”

“I just wondered whether I might pose the fact that the backlog has been created and exacerbated by problems in the criminal justice system, and that it is certainly nothing to do with the time a jury trial takes to be completed. Jury trial has been statistically proven to be fairer to ethnic minorities and people who a…”

“The point I would make, of course, is that a jury is free, and paid judges are not. Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman have any observation to make about that? The cost is a problem, is it not?”

“To accentuate that point in particular, as I understand it we are waiting still for the independent body to make recommendations on barristers’ fees. That was a key commitment to ending the strike which has yet to be implemented. Would my hon. Friend agree that needs to be sorted out as well as the fees for expert witn…”

“Will the Minister give way?”