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HANSARDLegal AidThe criminal legal aid system is different from the civil legal aid system, but the overarching principles and the need to ensure access to justice are common to both. That is why…15 Mar 2022HANSARDLegal AidThe proposals on the Public Defender Service and the means test review, and the increase in the fees, will all look across the board at areas where there is a scarcity of supply…15 Mar 2022HANSARDLegal AidI think the hon. Lady was also around at the time when the Labour Government were planning their cuts. [ Interruption. ] She does not like it, but I remind her that it was Tony…15 Mar 2022HANSARDDomestic Abuse: ProsecutionsThis Government are committed to bringing more perpetrators of domestic abuse to justice. It is a key plank of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, which creates new offences such as…08 Feb 2022HANSARDUK’s Human Rights FrameworkMay I gently say to the hon. Member that there is an issue around extraterritorial jurisdiction, where we will want to consult very carefully? Whether it is the deportation of…08 Feb 2022HANSARDUK’s Human Rights FrameworkI thank my hon. Friend, the Chair of the Select Committee. First, I have already thanked the chair and all the panel, but I am happy to join my hon. Friend in doing so again. The…08 Feb 2022HANSARDUK’s Human Rights FrameworkI am very grateful for the independent Human Rights Act review. We looked very carefully at all the recommendations, some of which we take on board and for others we are going to…08 Feb 2022HANSARDUK’s Human Rights FrameworkIt is precisely through the process of consultation on our proposal for a Bill of Rights that we can have a proper, substantive debate, listen to all sides of the argument and…08 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsOver the last month, I have met offenders participating in the community payback scheme in Birmingham, prisoners at HMP Hatfield who are being supported back into work in…08 Feb 2022HANSARDDomestic Abuse: ProsecutionsI totally agree with the hon. Lady’s sentiment and frustration. We need to do more. We have got the local criminal justice scorecards, which will deal with not just wider crime,…08 Feb 2022HANSARDDomestic Abuse: ProsecutionsI thank my hon. Friend, who is absolutely right. The remarks she cited are utterly abhorrent I would imagine to everyone on all sides of the House. The public rightly expect the…08 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMay I thank the hon. Lady and express my solidarity in the awful and harrowing case that she refers to? If she writes to me, I will be happy to look at her specific proposal. The…08 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for his support. He is right that across a whole suite of issues, including illegal migration, the proposals for a Bill of Rights with common-sense,…08 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am happy to write to the hon. Gentleman about that particular prison in his constituency. He will know that we are investing almost £4 billion over the next three years to…08 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI totally agree with my hon. Friend. I was at HMP Hatfield just last week, looking at the excellent work that the governor is doing with a local charity, Tempus Novo. One of the…08 Feb 2022HANSARDUK’s Human Rights FrameworkWe have been around this house a few times. It is precisely because our reforms through a Bill of Rights can make a substantial difference by injecting some common sense without…08 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe right hon. Gentleman is not the only one who has raised this with me; my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis) has also been campaigning on it. I…08 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I recently met the President of the Family Division. About 60% of the cases that go there, certainly on the civil side, are safeguarding or…08 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI absolutely endorse what my hon. Friend said. She will have seen that section 28, which deals with pre-recorded evidence from victims of rape, is set out in there. We will be…08 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI agree with the hon. Gentleman that that is absolutely abhorrent and of course I think that the club in question took the right decision. As the father of two young boys, I take…08 Feb 2022