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HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Cardiff North, and the hon. Member for Rotherham. Having set out the rationale behind our new clause, I will confine…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley, who knows whereof she speaks, having worked extensively in this area. We believe that this is the appropriate approach.…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)This is our first opportunity to debate Government new clause 4, which will make provisions to ensure that the police and other specified law enforcement organisations request…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)The reason I push back on the hon. Lady is that this is the purpose of the new clause: to highlight the limited circumstances in which it should be happening. The hon. Lady raised…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister and the hon. Member for Rotherham for their comments. On chasing flashy headlines, I have to confess that in my eight and a half years in this…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I set out key—for want of a better phrase—broad categories of skillsets in terms of judicial experience, probation and psychiatry, but I did say that the board remains free to…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)It is important at the outset to highlight IICSA’s hugely important work on this issue. When any large inquiry conducts its work, it remains for the Government, whatever their…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Clause 47 amends schedule 19 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003, which governs the membership and operation of the Parole Board. The clause makes important changes to the Parole…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member for Lewisham East for her kind words, for the approach she has adopted throughout the passage of the Bill and for her amendment, which gives us an…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)In the latest progress update, we also recognised that there is more to do. I want to be very clear on the record that I am not unsupportive of what the hon. Member for Lewisham…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Clauses 42 to 44 will disapply section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998 from prisoner release legislation. Specifically, clause 42 disapplies section 3 from chapter 2 of part 2 of…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)As I have said, I am always happy to take into account and reflect on—as I know the Lord Chancellor will—the points raised by the shadow Minister. I know that, as well as my…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The shadow Minister says “what we have always done before”, but the powers and the approach—the so-called separation of powers—are relatively new, and I believe came in under the…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)Before I start, I should make a correction: I think I just inadvertently took away membership of the Privy Council from the right hon. Member for Garston and Halewood. I restore…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her amendment, which would change the appellate chamber for appeals of any Secretary of State decision to refuse release to the Court of Appeal,…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)We have already discussed clauses 35 and 36, which create a new power for the Secretary of State to intervene in release decisions for the most serious offenders. It is only right…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for her words and for the approach she is taking. She knows that my right hon. and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor is, quite rightly,…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)The clause is the first of two covering the Parole Board, and it will enable two changes to be made to the Parole Board rules, which are in secondary legislation. Let me begin…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am grateful to the shadow Minister for the new clause, which would require the Secretary of State to develop proposals for a scheme to give victims of rape access to free and…11 Jul 2023