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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twelfth sitting)I understand exactly what my hon. Friend is saying. However, I know from discussions with the Lord Chancellor that he is very shy about addressing the issue of people receiving an…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am sorry, but I do not accept the Minister’s argument. He himself talked about the small number of applications under the existing system, but he is choosing to remove that…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this morning, Sir Charles. First, I especially thank Unlock, Transform Justice, and the Centre for Justice Innovation for their…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I most certainly agree: the more that victims are involved, the easier the process is for them. Talking about victims goes well beyond what we are debating today. The Opposition…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I certainly do agree with my hon. Friend, particularly when it comes to youth services. We have seen youth services being devastated over the last 10 or 11 years, and all manner…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)That is most certainly the case. We have seen a breakdown in those relationships in recent years, but funding for work in that area has also suffered considerably. The real point…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. Yes, if the police believe that they need to proceed to court because someone refuses to take responsibility, the case should be…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful for the Minister’s response. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)It most certainly is. The Government should be looking at examples of that best practice and rolling it out across the country, because in the longer term, support for…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)Will the Minister give way?10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)The Minister is talking a lot of good sense, and I take issue with very little of what he has to say. I am keen to understand whether he is content that we are seeing lower…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am really interested in what the Minister said about working with ethnic minority and BME communities. We have seen a tremendous cut in services over the last 10 or 11 years, so…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way, and I am sure that he will excuse me for being parochial about this. In Cleveland, we have the third-highest rate of serious…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)Because there is so much crime all over the place!10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)We are not debating them.10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I appreciate the Minister’s response. As far as the amendment is concerned, I accept that we are perhaps all looking at different levels of confusion within the system. It is just…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 46, in clause 76, page 71, line 7, leave out from “Diversionary” to end of line 8 and insert— “cautions must have one or more conditions attached to them.…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 8, in clause 76, page 71, line 21, at end insert— “(8) The Secretary of State must, within the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which this Act…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)On this occasion, we are in a different place. I appreciate what the Minister said about the various methods through which information is available and about the opportunities to…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)The new diversionary caution that these clauses introduce is extremely similar to the existing conditional caution. The same authorised persons would be able to issue them,…10 Jun 2021