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HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I understand exactly where the Minister is coming from. I understand not wishing to over-criminalise anybody for something accidental. I will just say that chance would be an…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifth sitting)I know the answer.11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)On the answer that the Minister got from her officials, there are so many bits of legislation about abuses of children, sexual violence towards children, sexual grooming of…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)Delightful?11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)rose —11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)In this case you are.11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I strongly suggest that the hon. Lady does not come from the same community as me. I described images being sent to the community; the nature of the image would absolutely be…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I will be brief. New clause 20 would extend the definition of “intimate image” to include specific categories of image that may be considered intimate by particular religious or…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)There isn’t. I hope, as the Minister hopes, that there will be by the time we have got to the end of our scrutiny of the Bill, but there is no crime of grooming adults in sexual…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I am not going to talk about my case, but with regard to the charge sheet, coercive control legislation does not currently cover adults who are sexually exploited in grooming…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)The Minister and I have had some back and forth on this. I rise really to hammer home the point regarding the good intentions of the clause, but the need to think about it in the…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I missed Clare Wade’s evidence because I was unwell when she gave evidence to this Committee. Are we to assume that the clause will be used in the prosecution of cases where…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I will speak more broadly about the issue in a moment, and I am pleased to hear what the Minister has said; that is what we would all want to see. However, I am concerned about…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (First sitting)Q Message received. To take you back to the conduct questions that you started with, are you satisfied with the current system in policing for finding bad conduct where it has…12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (First sitting)I am done.12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)Q For example, that could have been in the Bill, but it is not. Professor Lewis: I cannot comment on whether it could have been in the Bill.12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)I too will give you— Andy Marsh: Very rarely do we find right and wrong.12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (First sitting)Q One in five of those, so you can all do the maths quickly—because the Prime Minister tells us that that is important. Last year, the conviction figure on coercive control was…12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)Q Oh, specifically—apologies. Do you think that everything in the Bill could be implemented? Andy Marsh: I am supportive of the measures in the Bill. Some will undoubtedly come…12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)Q Harvey, do you think that there is the capacity for police forces across the country to drug-test everybody who comes through their doors? Harvey Redgrave: No, it needs to be…12 Dec 2023