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HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Support for VictimsThe hon. Lady and I have worked together on previous cases. While I suspect that some elements of what she is referring to come under other Departments, hence her involving the…10 Jan 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Support for VictimsWe all have a shared desire to improve victims’ experiences, particularly in cases of rape and serious sexual offences. The rape review action plan set out the steps we are…10 Jan 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Support for VictimsI apologise to my hon. Friend for not being able to attend that meeting as I was caught in another meeting. My right hon. Friend the Lord Chancellor has related that meeting to…10 Jan 2023HANSARDSentencing Policy: Rural CrimeMy right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister has regular meetings with Cabinet colleagues and others to ensure a joined-up approach to tackling crime, including rural crime.…10 Jan 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice System: Support for VictimsIn May, we published our landmark draft Victims Bill and a wider package of measures to improve victims’ experiences of the criminal justice system. The Bill will enshrine the…10 Jan 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are determined to reduce any unnecessary bureaucratic barriers that make it harder for our police, and our criminal justice system more broadly, to work as effectively as…10 Jan 2023HANSARDSentencing Policy: Rural CrimeThe hon. Lady is quite right to highlight a rural crime that blights both rural and urban communities, but predominantly rural communities including mine in Leicestershire. We…10 Jan 2023HANSARDSentencing Policy: Rural CrimeMy hon. Friend highlights a number of crimes that particularly impact rural communities—crimes highlighted in the National Police Chiefs’ Council strategy on rural crime. It is…10 Jan 2023HANSARDSentencing Policy: Rural CrimeMy hon. Friend is right to highlight the work going on in Cumbria. I pay tribute to the work of the police and crime commissioner Peter McCall and Cumbria police to tackle rural…10 Jan 2023HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionThere are many opportunities in front of hon. Members. They may wish to submit a private Member’s Bill. When the new Session starts there will be a new ballot. I may take a view…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionLet me briefly finish answering the hon. Lady. On her second point about rights, I come back to the point that it is entirely open for the House to legislate in primary…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionI may be tempting the hon. Lady. I am grateful to her, although I suspect that I will hear from her in a moment. [ Interruption. ] I am also grateful to the hon. Member for…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionIf my right hon. Friend will give me a little space, I was going to come to her remarks on that, and also on the position of the Department of Health and Social Care. The recent…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionIt is a pleasure to be back in the Ministry of Justice after an absence of three and a half years, and to return to issues that I dealt with when I was last a Minister there. I…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionThere are two points in there. I will address the point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke more explicitly than I did previously. We have been clear…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionI am very grateful, Sir Charles. It is my intention to sit down sooner than that to give the hon. Member for Gower plenty of time for her remarks. I am grateful to my hon. Friend…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionI appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s strength of feeling on this issue. I know that several right hon. and hon. Members who voted against the amendment when it was brought to the…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionBefore I address abortion in the context of the Bill of Rights, I will turn to the points made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke—and then I will give way to the…28 Nov 2022HANSARDLegal Rights to Access AbortionI did promise the hon. Lady and I will honour that promise. I may regret it but I will honour it.28 Nov 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her question, which she puts with typical passion and care. My noble Friend Lord Bellamy and I are carefully considering the Justice Committee…22 Nov 2022