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HANSARDSecure 16 to 19 Academies BillIt is always a pleasure to respond to the hon. Lady. She is right. Even though these specific measures do not apply to Wales, the concept underpinning the secure schools to which…01 May 2024HANSARDSecure 16 to 19 Academies BillMy right hon. and learned Friend will be aware from his time doing my job some years ago that we have within our youth custodial estate young offenders institutions, secure…01 May 2024HANSARDSecure 16 to 19 Academies BillIt is always a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. I will not detain the Committee long, but I want to voice my wholehearted support for my hon. Friend the…01 May 2024HANSARDCommonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) BillThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. I often say when I am talking to schools or more broadly in my constituency—I suspect he does so in his—that if our electorate want to see…26 Apr 2024HANSARDCommonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) BillI am sorry; the New Zealand Parliament, which gave the power to the Speaker or the Chair that if a Minister had not been deemed by the Chair to have given a sufficiently accurate…26 Apr 2024HANSARDCommonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) BillAs ever, my right hon. Friend is right. Therefore, subject to the passage of this legislation and prior to those regulations being introduced, until they come into force, they do…26 Apr 2024HANSARDCommonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) BillIt is a genuine pleasure to speak at the Dispatch Box on behalf of my right hon. Friend the Deputy Foreign Secretary, and it is a pleasure for various reasons. I suspect this will…26 Apr 2024HANSARDEnd of Custody Supervised LicenceI am grateful to my hon. Friend, because she is quite right to highlight that a key element of tackling the prison capacity crisis is sending back, through deportation, foreign…26 Mar 2024HANSARDEnd of Custody Supervised LicenceI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. There are a number of points there. The ECSL is a response to, yes, acute capacity challenges, but it is a targeted scheme operating in…26 Mar 2024HANSARDSecure Youth Estate: ViolenceI am grateful to the shadow Minister for her question about Cookham Wood. As she will be aware, a number of specific local factors at work in Cookham Wood led to the urgent…26 Mar 2024HANSARDEnd of Custody Supervised LicenceEnd of custody supervised licence began in October 2023. Analysis of and statistics on its use will be based on one year’s worth of data and published on an annualised basis in…26 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising this important issue. He is right to highlight that there are occasions when it is not possible to make all the information public, but…26 Mar 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to the hon. Lady for highlighting a serious and important issue. I am happy to meet her to discuss it further, if she wishes. In line with established protocols for…26 Mar 2024HANSARDSecure Youth Estate: ViolenceThe plan we have put in place is working, but there is more to do. The hon. Gentleman highlighted statistics that, as he will accept, I acknowledged from the Dispatch Box. We…26 Mar 2024HANSARDSecure Youth Estate: ViolenceThe number of children in custody has fallen by nearly 70% in the last decade, but that means that those in custody are more complex; 71% of them are detained for violent…26 Mar 2024HANSARDViolence against Prison OfficersNo one, in any walk of life, should be in fear of assault at work, and that obviously includes dedicated prison officers. I have already highlighted the steps we are taking to…26 Mar 2024HANSARDEnd of Custody Supervised LicenceIt is always a pleasure to face the gentle barbs of the hon. Gentleman, whom I have known for a long time. As I have made very clear on a previous occasion in the House, and…26 Mar 2024HANSARDSecure Youth Estate: ViolenceI did address the point about violence on the estate in response to the original question from the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth (Stephen Doughty). The hon. Lady asked…26 Mar 2024HANSARDViolence against Prison OfficersAll assaults on prison staff are utterly unacceptable. That is why we have taken steps to protect our staff. I put on record something that I suspect those on both sides of the…26 Mar 2024HANSARDJames Bulger Murder: Public InquiryI am grateful to the hon. Lady. As I say, the decisions on what to include are ultimately down to the prosecuting counsel and prosecuting lawyers from the CPS, but I will touch on…25 Mar 2024