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HANSARDVictims and Courts Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you for giving evidence today. Can I take you back to the restriction of parental responsibility? Farah, you mentioned the impact that issues around parental…17 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q You mentioned the Law Commission review of the unduly lenient sentence scheme. How important do you feel it is that we let the Law Commission complete that before we make any…17 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q What are the benefits of the Bill having the first ever duty to co-operate among housing providers, the Victims’ Commissioner and other relevant authorities? What will that do…17 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q Before you come in on that point, Katie, obviously you will be aware of the new domestic abuse flag that we are bringing in as part of the sentencing review, so that will be…17 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q I will come back to you, Baroness Newlove, and then I would like to bring you in on this, Katie. In the Bill, we are introducing a victim contact scheme with, for the first time…17 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q Bringing it back to victims, which is exactly what the Bill is meant to be about, one of the new measures in the Bill concerns the victim contact scheme and a dedicated helpline…17 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q On that point specifically, the non-attendance of sentencing hearings, we feel that we have gone as far as we can in the Bill in terms of introducing prison sanctions and other…17 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q What do you see as being the future benefits of having extra capacity within the CPS as a result of the measures in the Bill? Sarah Hammond: It will allow us to recruit. We were…17 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you, Sarah, for coming to give evidence to us today. How do you think the measures currently in the Bill will help with the prosecutorial capacity issue that we have at…17 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you all for coming to give evidence to us today. Going back to non-attendance at sentencing hearings, what impact will compelling perpetrators to attend their sentencing…17 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q How do you see the new powers that the Bill gives the Victims’ Commissioner affecting work with police and PCCs, particularly on victims of antisocial behaviour? Clare Moody:…17 Jun 2025HANSARDHumanist MarriageIt is important to ensure we do this properly. I am against any piecemeal reform here. If we are to do this, we need to do it properly and together, so that it is succinct. There…12 Jun 2025HANSARDHumanist MarriageI totally agree, and I recognise that point, which I have addressed in terms of Jews and Quakers; this is about equality before the law, but we need to recognise the concerns…12 Jun 2025HANSARDHumanist MarriageIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dame Siobhain. I start by thanking my hon. Friends the Members for Tamworth (Sarah Edwards) and for Morecambe and Lunesdale (Lizzi…12 Jun 2025HANSARDViolent Offenders: Early ReleaseI thank my hon. Friend for that question. I also had the privilege of meeting those families in March, and I heard their concerns. I know personally how important victim personal…03 Jun 2025HANSARDViolent Offenders: Early ReleaseThis Government are making choices to keep this country safer, and are cleaning up the mess left after the previous Government led our criminal justice system to rack and ruin.…03 Jun 2025HANSARDViolent Offenders: Early ReleaseI thank the hon. Member for pointing out the failures of the previous Government, and their refusal to exempt domestic abusers and offenders who have committed violence against…03 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims of Sexual AbuseWe fund key support services, such as independent sexual violence and domestic abuse advisers. The Crown Prosecution Service has introduced victim liaison officers to ensure that…03 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims of Sexual AbuseMy hon. Friend is right. As the House knows, justice delayed is justice denied. That is why this Government have doubled magistrate sentencing powers and funded a record number of…03 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims of Sexual AbuseI thank the hon. Member for raising that case. I am pleased that the review is taking place. Victims of child sexual abuse are victims of some of the most heinous crimes in our…03 Jun 2025