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HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)The purpose of the amendments is to remove unnecessary consequential amendments, which included a reference to a serious terrorism sentence in sections 273 and 274 of the…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)We now come to a series of relatively technical parts of the Bill and various technical Government amendments. I will go over these as quickly as I decently and reasonably can.…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)Do not tempt me. Finally, I thank the phenomenal public servants who have supported the preparation of the Bill and the wider work that goes on, in particular members of my…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Seventh sitting)It is worth reminding the Committee that the purpose of using polygraphs in this context, rather like the monitoring of licence conditions that we discussed earlier in our…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)I think they are correct in both. There is the stock, and there is the flow. The stock is the number of extra people in prison as a consequence of the measures, which could be 50.…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)It is a pleasure to respond to the points that the shadow Minister has just made. I think I answered the points about numbers in my intervention on his speech, so let me speak to…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)The hon. Member for St Helens North has raised an important matter: the problem of lone wolf attackers acting outside recognised group structures. We have seen, in those incidents…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)The changes we made back in February, through the Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Act 2020, extend the remit of the Parole Board. Previously, terrorist…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)The hon. Member for St Helens North is more familiar with parliamentary constituencies than I am. My hon. Friend the Security Minister is working on this and I am sure, in a…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)On a point of order, Mr McCabe. Before you conclude the final sentence of this Committee proceeding, I shall quickly take this opportunity to thank all Committee members for their…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)I sense a certain appetite for brevity, so I will endeavour to achieve that in my response. I entirely agree with the points about the importance of inter-agency working. Many…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)Clearly, the probation service is important and I pay tribute to the thousands of men and women who work in that service helping to rehabilitate offenders, and by so doing keep…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)Let me again thank the shadow Minister for raising a very important point. We know mental health can often contribute to, or perhaps even cause, significant portions of offending,…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)Of James’s time.07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)I was in full flow, but okay.07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)Clause 50 gives the Secretary of State the power to make consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provisions by regulation, in relation to provisions in the Bill, by…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)I am not the Prisons Minister, I am the Courts Minister, but I am not aware of any plans at all in the Ministry of Justice to change the current detention arrangements. None have…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)I understand this to be a technical amendment to ensure legislative consistency between the Bill and the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act. I am not aware of any plans to…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)Clause 51 explains the territorial extent of the provisions in the Bill, which we debated quite extensively, because many of the clauses applied separately to England and Wales,…07 Jul 2020HANSARDCounter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 1, in clause 50, page 41, line 30, at end insert— “(7) In the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000— (a) in section 77 (supplementary and…07 Jul 2020