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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)On the issue of deferred prosecutions, there is an excellent organisation in Lambeth called Juvenis that gets referrals from people in agreement with the police, via a panel.…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree that it would be better to use some of the money that will be spent on this change for more community policing and more youth services, which would…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree that the greater involvement of victims in the process, particularly for out-of-court disposals, is much better for reaching a satisfactory conclusion…10 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)On that point, does my hon. Friend agree that more needs to be done to engage with the BAME community to ensure that those discrepancies do not occur in the future?10 Jun 2021HANSARDNapier Barracks Asylum AccommodationI, too, wish you a very happy birthday, Mr Speaker. I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper) on securing this urgent…10 Jun 2021HANSARDDraft Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2021
Draft Immigration (Collection, use and retention of Biometric information and related Amendments) Regulations 2021It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Robertson. I begin by associating myself with the Minister’s remarks about the Under-Secretary, the hon. Member for Torbay.…09 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)My hon. Friend is absolutely right that this will be very subjective. I used to play rugby, and this is what we would have called a hospital pass. It is going to put the police in…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)Again, I cannot comment on that individual protest, but the issue of climate change is a very important one; it affects us all, irrespective of where we live. The issue of a third…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)Again, my hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and that demonstration is now going to be in the parliamentary record, so I think the person making the demonstration will have…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)My hon. Friend makes an excellent point, which I will come to later. The Bill includes many ambiguous clauses that will no doubt cause lots of legal argument in the effort to…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)I accept the point that the right hon. Gentleman is making. However, if the purpose of the protest was to create greater publicity for the issue, then the person making the…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. These are human rights that have been fundamentally fought for and won. We need to do everything we can to secure them, and they should…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)My hon. Friend makes a good point: policing is done primarily by consent. If the consent is not there and the police do not have the approval of the people, it is a recipe for…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)The hon. Member makes an excellent point, but the point is that the police are the ones making the decision, and they should make the decision, because they are in the firing…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)Again, my hon. Friend makes an excellent point. Good policing is done with discretion. What the Bill tries to do is to look at different ways of making the police do certain…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)Again, my hon. Friend makes an excellent point. This measure puts more power in the hands of the Home Secretary. The Home Secretary may have different views in the future and use…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)That is one way to protest, but elections only come every three or four years. In the intervening period, people have no way to exercise their right to protest via the ballot box…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)My hon. Friend again makes a very good point. The Government clearly have a desire to imprison more people, because they are embarking on a prison-building programme—I do not know…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)Again, my hon. Friend makes an excellent point. The lowering of the bar will mean that innocent people will be caught up in something when they have gone to protest about a…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)Again, my hon. Friend makes an excellent point. Many of the rights we have today are hard won and came about through protest. If it were not for those protests, we would not be…08 Jun 2021