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HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 33, in clause 21, page 17, line 33, after “subsection” insert “, and may make consequential amendments of this section”. This amendment will ensure that,…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Seventh sitting)I have talked about the liaison and diversion officers and the treatment capacity, but on police resources, which the hon. Lady was asking about, we have just completed a…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Seventh sitting)Well, the actual tests often get administered by police officers, and the hon. Lady asked about police officer capacity. We are also removing some of the administrative burdens on…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Eighth sitting)It could be; that is certainly a possibility that I have in mind. If those regulations were brought forward, and maybe there would be some further clarifying codes of practice and…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Eighth sitting)Clause 21 will facilitate the ability of police and other law enforcement officers to access driver information from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency automatically at the…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Eighth sitting)It is not often that someone says that after I have been speaking. I hope I have given a bit of a flavour of how this could help catch serious criminals who might otherwise not be…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Eighth sitting)The officer will go over and say, “Excuse me, sir, what is your name?” When he has established that the match is accurate and that they are who the system thinks they are, it is a…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Seventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 25, in clause 15, page 11, line 19, leave out lines 19 to 21. The amendment and amendment 26 ensure that procedural provisions in respect of regulations…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Seventh sitting)As I just set out, drug testing might be done, particularly if the inspector thinks that drug abuse might have contributed to the offending. If someone is on drugs that are…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Eighth sitting)That is a really good question and I do not know the answer to it. However, I can certainly find out and come back to the Committee. I know that this technology can be used to…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Eighth sitting)Existing DVLA data, including photographs —I have a driving licence; I am sure that the hon. Member has one and everybody on the Committee probably does as well—can already be…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Eighth sitting)First, for clarity, I should say that the purpose for which the information might be made automatically accessible is circumscribed by the words at the very end of the newly…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Eighth sitting)rose—16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Eighth sitting)I think that I have just spent the last five minutes or so—16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank the hon. Lady. On the first question, which was about how live facial recognition works, we first of all need a watchlist—the list of wanted people—and then the…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Eighth sitting)I would like to speak to a couple of matters concerning the clause, and then talk about the read-across into facial recognition. I think there is some conflation of two different…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Seventh sitting)I will do my best to conclude prior to 11.25, when the Committee might consider adjourning. Clause 20 and schedule 3 create a new power for UK law enforcement and other…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Seventh sitting)I very much welcome the Opposition’s support for the principle behind clause 19. As the hon. Member for Nottingham North mentioned, some people—a small number, I would add—have…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Seventh sitting)On that point, it is important to clarify the reason we are introducing the national partnership agreement, which applies Right Care, Right Person across the whole of England and,…16 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Seventh sitting)If illegal activity were taking place, which would include illegal gambling, then the provisions of the clause would apply. As to whether the Gambling Commission can make the…16 Jan 2024