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HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I will not trouble the Committee too much longer. I am not sure that a public mandate allows me, as somebody elected by the people, to be somebody with expertise in risk…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I welcome the fact that the Minister thinks the power will be used only in very rare cases. When assessing the risk, what will the Secretary of State have that the Parole Board…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)He is aware.11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Has my hon. Friend, like me, found that when councils and sometimes health authorities are dealing with adult victims of domestic abuse, they feel they should commission specific…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree that if we were to walk up to anybody in the street and ask them whether a murderous father could decide whether his children could go on holiday, they…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I just gently point out the reason that I think nobody has been detained or deported in that period. It is because there is nowhere to detain them; there is no space in the…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)It is good that the Minister is referencing European human rights law, which parts of the Bill seek to undermine. It is good to see that he does not want to dissociate from this…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Again: please see other debates from the past eight years about how important this issue is. At least my hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham and I do not have to keep redrafting…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I absolutely agree. So much attention is given in our country to who exactly the perpetrators of sexual abuse are, but it is often not based on data. We need to know where our…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I cannot stress enough how disappointing it is that somebody has to stand up in this place every single time and say that there is not the data to tell us about these sorts of…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I do not really need any notes, because I am about to make a briefer than normal speech that I have made what feels like a hundred times. One day, what we are asking for will…11 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I wonder whether, potentially before Report, the breakdown of the number of killings of women in their homes deemed to be manslaughter, rather than murder, could be provided to…11 Jul 2023HANSARDRape and Sexual Violence: Criminal Justice ResponseI of course welcome today’s statement—any progress on this issue is to be welcomed—but I would outline that the rape review was commissioned in 2019. It then took two years to…10 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)I do.06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)Mmm-hmm.06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)As I rise to my feet, news is emerging that the courts have forced the Government to give in to Lady Hallett on the covid report, and to reveal something that they went to court…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)I think Parliament has pretty well-defined ways to ensure that things are not discussed in Parliament or called for in Parliament when they could create a problem of sub judice.…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eleventh sitting)My right hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. I am the Member of Parliament who represents the majority of the families affected by the Birmingham pub bombings. When things do…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Eleventh sitting)I appreciate what the Minister is saying. I cannot foresee any incident involving even one death, certainly not one involving multiple deaths, after which pressure would not be…06 Jul 2023HANSARDVictims and Prisoners Bill (Twelfth sitting)In the accounting of whether there is a risk, is there anything that would ensure that, for example, evidence is taken by the Parole Board from the family courts? There is a…06 Jul 2023