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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 11, in clause 76, page 70, line 38, leave out “diversionary” and insert “conditional”.10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twelfth sitting)Yes, that is very much the case. These organisations all make the same point: we are limiting the judges’ discretion. We are limiting the discretion of the individual who best…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twelfth sitting)On 3 May 2019, Ellie Gould was murdered by her former boyfriend in the kitchen of her family home. She was strangled, and stabbed 13 times, in a brutal and frenzied attack. She…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twelfth sitting)I beg to move amendment 131, in clause 104, page 89, line 1, leave out “18” and insert “26”. This amendment would make provision for minimum term reviews for those who are serving…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Free Trade Agreements: Cameroon and GhanaFollowing on from what my hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Matt Western) said, the hon. Lady will have heard the Foreign Secretary say that, when it comes to…09 Jun 2021HANSARD Free Trade Agreements: Cameroon and GhanaWill the Minister give way?09 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Tenth sitting)As I prematurely said some minutes ago, we fully support the proposals in clause 65, which introduces the new offence of causing serious injury by careless or inconsiderate…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)We probably all have our favourite demonstration from our past. Mine was in the 1970s, when I was a student at Darlington College of Technology. It is lamentable that nowadays…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)Has my hon. Friend had a chance to see the written evidence submitted by Zoe Everett? She describes herself as “a member and supporter of ACORN for several years.” In her written…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)The right hon. Member for Scarborough and Whitby makes a really interesting point, because people were demonstrating in his constituency and it came to the notice of the local MP,…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)I do not know what my hon. Friend’s postbag or email account has been like over recent weeks, but I have been inundated by emails from individuals and organisations asking me to…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)Has my hon. Friend seen the written evidence submitted by Leeds for Europe? It addresses some of the points that he has just outlined. It says: “The proposals risk making protests…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)I know this makes me a very old person, but I go back to the 1970s again and police and the exercise of their powers. I was a reporter at a sister paper of The Northern Echo ,…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)I want to quote again the evidence of Leeds for Europe because there is a real reputational issue here for our country and our Government: “Such draconian laws seem to align E&W…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)One of the things that troubles me most about the Bill is the stuff in relation to this place—this Parliament of ours, and this democracy—and the fact that people could be…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)I want to take my hon. Friend back to the issue of noise. Paragraph 546 of the explanatory notes to the Bill states: “Where a senior police officer reasonably believes, having had…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. There is the potential for the Bill to have unintended consequences. In my Stockton-on-Tees constituency, all the churches come together…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)The written evidence from Leeds for Europe quotes Mr Justice Laws saying that a margin must be given to protests. He also said: “Rights worth having are unruly things.…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)I do not think that the provisions were covered by the European convention on human rights. We have a proud history of demonstrations being effective in this country. May I refer…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)But the Minister will accept that the provisions in the Bill will criminalise more people who participate in protests.08 Jun 2021