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HANSARDReoffending RatesMy hon. Friend is right: the work that we are doing on skills and education right the way through to getting offenders into work is vital. I am very pleased, as he may know, that,…05 Jul 2022HANSARDReoffending RatesBy 2024-25, we will be investing £200 million a year, in dealing with skills and work, as I have already said, and also with drug rehabilitation, particularly sustainable…05 Jul 2022HANSARDReoffending RatesMy hon. Friend is absolutely right; research shows that the odds of reoffending are 39% higher for prisoners who did not have visits from family or friends while they were inside…05 Jul 2022HANSARDReoffending RatesAt the moment, when the vital question of risk is assessed, there is a risk that separate reports, whether from psychiatrists or probation officers and those who manage risk, may…05 Jul 2022HANSARDReoffending RatesThere is renewed investment going in to community payback. There has been a covid effect since the years the hon. Gentleman mentions; I know he has raised the issue of those…05 Jul 2022HANSARDInternational Criminal Court: UkraineWe have offered the International Criminal Court a comprehensive package of financial and technical support to ensure that leaders under President Putin and those in the field can…05 Jul 2022HANSARDInternational Criminal Court: UkraineI thank the hon. Lady, and she is absolutely right that the Court can only do so much. It is not an overarching justice system with all the investigators, witness relocation…05 Jul 2022HANSARDInternational Criminal Court: UkraineMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right: this is another unlawful act, taking Russia further and further into pariah status. We have said that clearly, and our allies have too.…05 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsSince the last oral questions the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 has entered into force, I published the Bill of Rights and we submitted our victims Bill to…05 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman has raised an important issue. I am considering the recommendations very carefully, and will respond shortly.05 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend; she is absolutely right. The Bill of Rights is now published and she will see, explicitly and squarely in relation to article 8, clear guidance and…05 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsAgain, an Opposition Front Bencher is denigrating the important—albeit incremental—reforms that we are making for victims. In fact, a victims law is currently subject to…05 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI have fond memories of playing Sunday league football in my younger years in The Mount prison against the offenders. They won fairly convincingly—something tells me that they…05 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am not sure what the hon. Lady thought she was referring to in the sense that we have ignored any rulings. We have one of the highest compliance records in the Council of…05 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat is not what I said.05 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis always comes back round to independence rather than the bread-and-butter issues that the people of Scotland face. The hon. Lady should vote for our Bill of Rights because the…05 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe issued a call for evidence on a suite of proposals, and we are gathering the responses and formulating proposals to ensure that those with deep pockets—oligarchs and the…05 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman is right to raise this issue. We have been there at the outset supporting the ICC. I remember, as a young lawyer in The Hague, negotiating the UK-UN agreement…05 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI can reassure the hon. Gentleman that the Government’s position has not changed. We do not think that now is the right time for a second referendum, given all the pressures and…05 Jul 2022HANSARDEngagementsThe hon. Lady is right in one respect at least: of course, people who come here need to be treated decently and humanely. We are absolutely committed to that. We also need to make…29 Jun 2022