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HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillIt is important that we set the direction of travel. We need to take this incredibly important step today. This work ought to be seen in the context of the total annual police…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI agree entirely; my hon. Friend makes an important point. This legislation, and our having this debate, is incredibly important in giving victims the confidence to come forward…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will pick up the point that was made about public perception, because the regulator has a role in reassuring people that the system—all elements…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI agree with the hon. Gentleman, but it is sometimes tempting to speculate more widely. I appreciate the focus that he wishes the debate to have, which is to some extent…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI thank my hon. Friend for his message. Let me finish this point about the future tech. We have not really touched on the internet of things, and that global connectivity of…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI appreciate my hon. Friend’s concerns, but I would be cautious about going down that route. Increasingly, the policing system as a whole reflects on the specialist skills…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI agree with the concerns that my hon. Friend highlights. When the system looks in one way or another at a victim’s smart device, which has so many personal messages and so much…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI think that point reflects what the hon. Member for Bristol North West said about this being a starting point in terms of the regulator body. This also relates to the sphere of…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI congratulate the hon. Member for Bristol North West (Darren Jones) on introducing such an important Bill at such an important time. There is so much pent-up demand in both…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillThe hon. Lady commented on the free market, but does she not think that, with DNA profiling and fingerprints, there is a happy marriage between forensics on the one hand and the…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillDoes my hon. Friend share my concern that spending on the forensics sector decreased, from memory, from about £120 million a year in 2008, or thereabouts, to about £50 million to…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillWill the hon. Gentleman also consider a problem in the digital sphere if there is no effective market for delivering services digitally? If victims of the worst crimes have their…25 Sept 2020HANSARD Covid-19 UpdateIn Bolton, the national lockdown has been followed by the local lockdown and economic lockdown. Positive covid cases are rocketing up, and that is having a devastating impact on…17 Sept 2020HANSARD Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) BillDoes my hon. Friend share my concern about the labelling of something as green? We might think particularly about electric cars. We have to be aware that when mining and other…11 Sept 2020HANSARD Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) BillI learned recently from a local credit union that although many people know they are there to borrow money from, if more people recognised that they could also deposit money there…11 Sept 2020HANSARD Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) BillThat is an excellent point. This debate has been very well informed on both sides of the House; we have heard my hon. Friend the Member for Clwyd South (Simon Baynes) and others…11 Sept 2020HANSARD Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) BillI agree entirely; if this were a mechanism for or route to demutualisation, that would be fundamentally against the views of these organisations as they are at the moment—they…11 Sept 2020HANSARD Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies (Environmentally Sustainable Investment) BillIt is an absolute pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Ruth Edwards), who made the important point that we need to have more than just good intentions in…11 Sept 2020HANSARDCPTPPIndespension, at the heart of my constituency, manufactures top-quality trailers, whether for motorbiking, camping or transporting a mechanical digger, so I am sure my right hon.…03 Sept 2020HANSARDCPTPPWhat recent discussions she has had with her international counterparts on the UK joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.03 Sept 2020