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HANSARD Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill [Lords]I am pleased to speak again on behalf of the Opposition as we carry forward the constructive debate that we had on Second Reading. Let me restate from the outset our support for…19 Nov 2025HANSARD Parkinson’s DiseaseIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Lewell. I will keep my remarks brief because the debate is so well attended. It is a real privilege to speak in this debate on…17 Nov 2025HANSARDSocial Media Posts: Penalties for OffencesI am happy to take an intervention.17 Nov 2025HANSARDSocial Media Posts: Penalties for OffencesDoes the Minister accept that our proposals, which were not just to abolish the Sentencing Council but to create a number of bodies that advise the Department, are essentially…17 Nov 2025HANSARDSocial Media Posts: Penalties for OffencesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I thank the Petitions Committee for enabling this debate, and the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter…17 Nov 2025HANSARDSocial Media Posts: Penalties for OffencesIt may come from a man, but it is just an explanation. The early release schemes that we used, and that the Minister was previously using, excluded all sexual offences. We…17 Nov 2025HANSARDSocial Media Posts: Penalties for OffencesI genuinely welcome that intervention. Throughout the debates on the Sentencing Bill, Labour MPs again and again made interventions that demonstrate that they fundamentally do not…17 Nov 2025HANSARDSocial Media Posts: Penalties for OffencesThat is a good example of the sort of question we cannot answer. We have had to rely on a media organisation putting forward FOIs to get some information. If the Government took…17 Nov 2025HANSARDIndependent Football RegulatorI thank the Secretary of State for explaining, and I am sure that people are glad to hear about the involvement of a sponsoring Department and a sponsoring Minister in a public…12 Nov 2025HANSARDDraft Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 (Permitted Disclosures) Regulations 2025It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Dowd. I join the Minister in paying tribute to Baroness Helen Newlove, somebody I had the pleasure of getting to know and…12 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsLast week, when told by my hon. Friend the Member for East Grinstead and Uckfield (Mims Davies) that the Sentencing Bill would cut prison time for rapists and child groomers, the…11 Nov 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsYet again, we have a Government and a Victims Minister who cannot tell the House basic facts about the implications of their Bill. I will tell her: 60% of rapists and 90% child…11 Nov 2025HANSARD Public Office (Accountability) BillToday is the day that, first and foremost, at the front of our minds will be one group of people, some of whom join us in the Gallery: those harmed by the state, those misled by…03 Nov 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillI do not think that it said anywhere in the Labour manifesto that a Labour Government would cut prison time for serious sexual and violent offenders. Does my right hon. Friend…29 Oct 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillThe Minister is perfectly capable of legislating on this issue and letting the homicide work continue. He says that that would be “wrong”, but it is not wrong—it is just his…29 Oct 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillI note the interest of the hon. Member for Derby North (Catherine Atkinson) in domestic abuse and other offences. Will the Minister confirm for her that the vast majority of…29 Oct 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillDoes the Minister accept that he is legislating to let those people out automatically? He expects Labour Members to accept the promise that later, at some point, he might…29 Oct 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillWith the leave of the House, I will finish by explaining again that whatever good this Bill may do, the consequences for victims and their families’ sense of justice in this…29 Oct 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillI rise to speak in support of new clause 19, and other new clauses tabled in my name and those of Opposition Members. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Leicestershire (Mr…29 Oct 2025HANSARD Asylum Seekers: MOD HousingLet me begin by making it crystal clear that Madam Deputy Speaker, my hon. Friend the Member for Sussex Weald (Ms Ghani), is doing everything she can to object to proposals to…29 Oct 2025