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HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)Will the Minister give way on that point?16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Fifth sitting)The hon. Member is doing a good job of highlighting the whole additional set of complexities of the new system. We cannot predict how those are going to pan out. She referenced…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)Again, there is no pressure on the Minister to answer immediately, but I presume the same is true for the other cases.16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Fifth sitting)The Minister said earlier, and she just said again, that it was the test recommended by the independent review. But if we are being specific, the test that was recommended was two…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)Will the Minister give way on that point?16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Fifth sitting)I have a background in healthcare. The Minister has talked about triage being led by healthcare professionals, but there is another side of healthcare where people can insist on…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)Just so we are really clear, I have met Supreme Court judges and they tell me that they go back through discussions and debates about legislation to understand the intent or will…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)We are now being asked to vote in a totally unsatisfactory situation when it comes to the facts of how this legislation will operate in two very important regards. I put it to the…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)As I said, our preference is for an appeal. The Government could say, “We are not going to add additional rights that do not exist; you do not get a right of appeal on allocation…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)Sorry—with confidence. The Minister says she is happy to go away and double-check. She should know for certain whether people have a right to a judicial review of an allocation…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)I absolutely agree. We will go on to discuss reallocation, and the hon. Member anticipates the points I was going to make. The reallocation decision is even more of a minefield,…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)Perhaps the Minister is sincerely—not deliberately—misunderstanding the point I make.16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Fifth sitting)Yes, and my hon. Friend did an excellent job of pointing out that although that might have been in some non-statutory documents, we do not know, because we do not have the…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Fifth sitting)I covered that in earlier remarks, when I pointed out that those people are not adults, so it is a different set of circumstances. If the hon. Member is asking me to be…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)Does the PPS want to intervene? No, I did not think so. As we have agreed, judicial review exists for an allocation decision by the magistrates. The Minister has quite rightly set…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dr Huq. I want to begin by touching again on the question of necessity. One of the key arguments for clause 3, and one of the…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)I want to pick out a couple of points. The Minister has criticised the risk of retrials, and we have made several points about how other elements in the Bill will increase that…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Fifth sitting)In all the other regions and overall, the backlogs are going up. That is why we have to understand what is happening regionally and why I asked the Minister about that. Throughout…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)That goes straight to the point we discussed earlier about why it is important to separate the two, because in this scenario it is the same person all the way through. Ultimately,…16 Apr 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals Bill (Sixth sitting)To return to the heart of the matter, I will pick up on the comments made by my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight East on an issue that I had not talked about. I talked…16 Apr 2026