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HANSARDHuman Rights Act 1998: Discussions with Scottish GovernmentThe hon. and learned Lady is right that, of course, the Human Rights Act does provide the power for individuals to assert and invoke those rights, but if we are committed to the…14 Jul 2020HANSARDHuman Rights Act 1998: Discussions with Scottish GovernmentMay I thank the hon. and learned Lady for her question? She will, I hope, acknowledge that perceptions are not always borne out by reality. The United Kingdom Government remain…14 Jul 2020HANSARDHuman Rights Act 1998: Discussions with Scottish GovernmentI thank the hon. Lady for her question. Of course, it is axiomatic that membership of that committee, which has yet to be settled, must include those who have the wherewithal to…14 Jul 2020HANSARDDraft Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Section 75 - Designation of Public Authority) Order 2020I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Section 75 – Designation of Public Authority) Order 2020. It is a pleasure to serve under…01 Jul 2020HANSARDDraft Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Section 75 - Designation of Public Authority) Order 2020I thank the hon. Gentleman for his remarks. Yes, I am in a position to say that the British Government are committed to the IMA, and we are committed to it because we recognise,…01 Jul 2020HANSARDDraft Human Rights Act 1998 (Remedial) Order 2019I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Human Rights Act 1998 (Remedial) Order 2019. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. The draft…01 Jul 2020HANSARDDraft Human Rights Act 1998 (Remedial) Order 2019I thank the hon. Member for Hove and my right hon. Friend the Member for Clwyd West (Mr Jones) for their helpful observations, which I will deal with in turn. On the reassurances…01 Jul 2020HANSARD Lammy ReviewI am grateful for that question. Stop-and-search is, we think, an important part of the tools required to keep the streets safe. It is worth emphasising that those most likely to…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Lammy ReviewI am very grateful to the hon. Lady for raising this directly but sensitively. My goodness, if people take the view that what has taken place is victimisation, of course it will…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Lammy ReviewOne of the really valuable things that emerged from the Lammy review was the point that many of the issues that lead to people being in the criminal justice are upstream. So when…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Lammy ReviewOverall, diversity is improving. I do not know the specific figures on the police—I apologise, but that is a Home Office matter. For example, the Parole Board did not have a…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Lammy ReviewOf course the Government will pull every lever they can, but I want to make this point about the data. It is online, on the “Ethnicity facts and figures” website, for anyone to…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Lammy ReviewWe are absolutely committed to ensuring that there is greater diversity, for precisely the reason my hon. Friend indicated. It is not enough just for the police to be more…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Lammy ReviewI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that important point. We are committed to taking forward recommendations across the piece. I do not know about every last one in…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Lammy ReviewMy hon. Friend pays a powerful and moving tribute to his constituents, but he also highlights such an essential point: the way we drive down, eradicate and root out the cancer of…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Lammy ReviewI am very grateful to the hon. Lady for raising that, and I am quite sure that what is going on at Lea Manor High School is extremely enlightened and very advantageous to the…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Lammy ReviewI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point. I think it is a proposal that has found favour in other jurisdictions—maybe even in the United States. I cannot speak for…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Lammy ReviewMy hon. Friend has hit on probably the single most important principle that emerged from the Lammy report—I think that was recommendation 4. “Explain or change” is intended to…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Lammy ReviewI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for raising that point. He is right that in January 2019 there was the Gallagher judgment from the Supreme Court. Judgments of the…30 Jun 2020HANSARD Lammy ReviewMy hon. Friend makes an excellent point. We cannot hope to solve this issue as a society if people are leaving school with ingrained racist instincts. I think we have moved on a…30 Jun 2020