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HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are absolutely looking at how we can strengthen stalking protection orders. We will look at our stalking laws in the round, but also at how policing handles all cases of…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPolicingI remind the right hon. Gentleman and the House that concerts were cancelled in Vienna because of a terror threat that the CIA identified could harm tens of thousands of people. I…21 Oct 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsLet me make it clear that the new Government intend very swiftly to set up new taskforces to ensure that across Departments—in this case, with our counterparts in the Department…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPolicingAs it falls to me to answer this, let me say that the right hon. Gentleman knows fine well that operational decisions for policing fall to the police, in this situation and in…21 Oct 2024HANSARDPolicingAs the Home Secretary outlined on neighbourhood policing, we will bring in respect orders to ensure that antisocial behaviour in particular areas is targeted in a way that it…21 Oct 2024HANSARD Commercial Sexual ExploitationI am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Gower (Tonia Antoniazzi) for securing this debate, which, as she pointed out, is my first as a Home Office Minister—although…23 Jul 2024HANSARDArrests and Prison CapacityThe Minister has stood in front of us today and said, “It would never be any of the kind of crimes you’re talking about.” The Prime Minister said last week at Prime Minister’s…22 May 2024HANSARDArrests and Prison CapacityOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker, I wonder if you could help me to get some answers. The Minister said during the urgent question that certain criminals who are a risk to…22 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI fear the Minister is coming to the end of her remarks, but she has not addressed my new clause 44. Does she have any comment on it?15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI was not expecting it to be me—thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have tabled amendments. I am sure everybody in this House will be delighted to hear that I will not be pushing…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillIt is a pleasure to see in the Public Gallery some of the families who have championed this issue in the west midlands. Am I right in thinking—I really hope that I am not—that…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillIt is not that amendment.15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI absolutely agree, and it can truly happen to anybody—we have seen how people even in this House can be coerced into things. It is dangerous. If there are criminal charges for…15 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionYes. Today, just on this one day, I have spoken to two women who were raped by Members of this Parliament. That is a fairly standard day for me. I notice that they are not the…13 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionI rise, in an unusual moment, to agree with the hon. Member for Shipley (Sir Philip Davies), and with the point that the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills) also laid out…13 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionI welcome the right hon. Gentleman’s intervention, and I hope that he took the fact that I was seeking to correct him in the spirit in which it was intended. I will just point out…13 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionI guess it would entirely depend on the sexual offence, but even though I jokingly said earlier that I will be on the panel, I can recognise enough my own particular bias in this…13 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionThe trouble is that that is what is currently happening. The hon. Gentleman, or anybody else who does not want there to be a two-year wait between arrest and charge, might like to…13 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionLike, I say, I am often right on these things. I am going to err to the right hon. Gentleman’s judgment on that point. What I am saying—I do not mean to besmirch him—is that we…13 May 2024HANSARDRisk-based ExclusionWill the Leader of the House give way?13 May 2024