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HANSARDReoffending RatesFirst, I associate myself with the hon. Lady’s comments about my hon. Friend the Member for Burton (Kate Griffiths) and her experience. She showed incredible courage. The hon.…14 Dec 2021HANSARDHuman Rights LegislationI thank my hon. Friend, who has been a champion of the ECHR and makes, in a powerful and eloquent way, the case for trying to deliver better outcomes at international level. We…14 Dec 2021HANSARDHuman Rights LegislationWith the greatest respect to the hon. Gentleman, he has not followed the point that I was making. We will stay within the European convention. There are some articles, such as…14 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsIf the hon. Gentleman wants to write to me about that and make the case—I do not know whether his question relates to a particular constituency case or a more general concern—I…14 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI just say to the hon. Gentleman that, as has already been pointed out, the backlog was lower before we went into the pandemic than that left behind by the last Labour Government.…14 Dec 2021HANSARDHuman Rights LegislationI think this is the first time that a consultation document has been put forward to the House of Commons. The hon. Gentleman is right that it has been much debated; we are now…14 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my right hon. Friend the Chair of the Select Committee for his question. I have been talking to other Members about this important issue. If he would like to write to me…14 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that a certain category of case, particularly in respect of the private family law courts, needs to go before a court because of safeguarding…14 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. He will have seen in our prison strategy White Paper plans to roll out more employment boards, which link prisons to local businesses and…14 Dec 2021HANSARDHuman Rights LegislationI pass on our best wishes to the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry). I hope that she is back up and running and well soon. I say to the hon.…14 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was making the case for the wholesale repeal of the Human Rights Act, but we are not going that far. We need to put in place a legal…14 Dec 2021HANSARDHuman Rights LegislationToday, I am launching our consultation on proposals to overhaul the Human Rights Act and replace it with a Bill of Rights. I thank Sir Peter Gross and the panel he chaired for…14 Dec 2021HANSARDHuman Rights LegislationOf course we live up to our international obligations, and it is precisely partly the aim of these reforms to protect the bespoke, tailored approach to primary legislation when it…14 Dec 2021HANSARDHuman Rights LegislationOf course it is right to say that in none of those areas will our reforms prevent accountability through constituents being able to bring cases to the courts. I will correct the…14 Dec 2021HANSARDReoffending RatesMy hon. Friend the Chair of the Justice Committee is absolutely right; it is important that on early admission into prison we evaluate all the different factors—the level of…14 Dec 2021HANSARDHuman Rights LegislationI thank the hon. Gentleman. As I said, it is a protective enactment. We will respect the devolved competences. Until we have got to the stage of full legislative proposals—which…14 Dec 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am not going to respond to claims or anonymous reports in the papers about what the security services may or may not say, but I am absolutely clear that the reforms that we will…14 Dec 2021HANSARDHuman Rights LegislationI thank the hon. Gentleman. Of course there are provisions for non-discrimination in the ECHR, but also in UK law. This reform will allow us to strengthen the protections that we…14 Dec 2021HANSARDHuman Rights LegislationLet me be clear that, as we have set out at some length, there are some things that we cannot do. We cannot send people back to the arms of a torturing tyrant in violation of…14 Dec 2021HANSARDHuman Rights LegislationI thank the right hon. and learned Lady for her perfectly reasonable and thoughtful response. She is right that we will stay within the European convention. If she looks me up on…14 Dec 2021