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HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)With Boston bosses. One of the risk factors in the case was that issue of a lottery win. There was a certain evidential threshold in the case that was easy to prove in court,…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)I agree 100%. For much of my career, I have been painted as being very one-sided on such matters, but I know that justice has been properly served to the victims I have worked…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)I have heard what the Minister said. The Committee is finding common cause on these matters, as we do on much of the Bill. This is in no way a criticism of him, his speech or what…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)That is brilliant. I am in good company with Chicago gangland—08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am not sure he would agree with the Minister on many other things, but maybe we will get the two of you together. I am sorry to slag off my husband in here—although, actually,…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)There is almost certainly always going to be an ideological difference between the hon. Lady and me on personal responsibility and the responsibility of the state. It is of course…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)Given the Minister’s words and the offer to work together, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Question put and agreed to. Clause 57…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)I want to speak to the amendment and to the desire of my hon. Friend the Member for Garston and Halewood, who is momentarily not in her place, to speak to a case, although the…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)I appreciate the tone that the Minister has taken, and I will withdraw the amendment with a view to see where we get before Report and Third Reading. I beg to ask leave to…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)It is going to be quite a slow process. The suggestion is that, for every single person who applies for legal aid in any civil remedy or order, we will start writing to a…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Twelfth sitting)The Minister has described the process, which, as with all Government processes, always works smoothly. Will they have to do that check on every single person who applies for…08 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Ninth sitting)I think he is a man of honour, so I will fire out the questions anyway. On whether we should go ahead and whether the Minister could be found somewhere in this building, where I…06 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Ninth sitting)It is a good job that the Bill is not about anything important. I say that to start, because it reminds me of going to the Department for Education with a headteacher from my…06 Sept 2022HANSARD Telford Child Sexual Exploitation: InquiryWill the Minister give way?05 Sept 2022HANSARDDeaths following Domestic AbuseOn 20 June, I stood at this Dispatch Box and asked the then Minister, the hon. Member for Redditch (Rachel Maclean), where the Government’s response to the domestic homicide…05 Sept 2022HANSARDNational Security Bill (Seventh sitting)We had all noticed.19 Jul 2022HANSARDConfidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentThe Justice Secretary says it is total rubbish. Would he like to get to his feet and tell me what I have said that is total rubbish? No, he would not. Shall I tell him what’s…18 Jul 2022HANSARDConfidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentWhile the right hon. Gentleman is jogging through his ideas—let us call them that—will he comment on what I spoke about and say whether he thinks that the Conservative party,…18 Jul 2022HANSARDConfidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentI would like to know what the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time did when the right hon. Member for Tamworth (Christopher Pincher) was given that position. I would like to…18 Jul 2022HANSARDConfidence in Her Majesty’s GovernmentThat is the convictions, but how is the charging, Secretary of State? Again, I am happy to take an intervention. Has the charging gone up or down? Currently, 1.3% of rapes that…18 Jul 2022