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HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls StrategyI absolutely agree. Schools need to play a vital part, as do the tech companies that have been identified, but absolutely there is a need for parents, who are often pulling their…15 Dec 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls StrategyMy hon. Friend hits on a point that anyone who has actually worked with victims on the frontline would make. It is very easy in this building to only want to see criminal justice…15 Dec 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls StrategyI thank the hon. Gentleman for, over the year and a bit that he has been here, genuinely bringing forward issues on which he wants to see change. Clare’s law is patchy across the…15 Dec 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls StrategyThroughout the building of the strategy, we have worked very closely with the Metropolitan police and police forces across the country. It would be pointless for me to put…15 Dec 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and Girls StrategyFar be it from me to make policy and commissioning decisions for the council in my hon. Friend’s area—although I would quite like to just say yes to her. Absolutely, there is…15 Dec 2025HANSARDGrooming Gangs: Independent InquiryI would be happy to give evidence.09 Dec 2025HANSARD Angiolini InquiryAlthough I am an expert in this particular field, I am by no means an expert on rural communities, with the disparity and the need for better “by and for” services; we have “by…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Angiolini InquiryWith regard to my hon. Friend’s comments on trust in policing, what I would say is that nobody dislikes a bad copper like a good copper. When I go all over the country, the ones I…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Angiolini InquiryThe right hon. Gentleman makes a very important point. In part 1 of the Angiolini inquiry, Lady Elish made recommendations with regard to psychological testing prior to police…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Angiolini InquiryIt certainly does. There will not be a woman sitting in the Chamber today who has not experienced this—we have all felt unsafe. Lady Elish speaks for every single woman in the…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Angiolini InquiryThe Minister for Policing is in the office right next to mine. I get up in literally everybody’s grill, but I am very welcome in her office. Policing reform has to be rooted in…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Angiolini InquiryI only wish that writing things on to the statute book changed the culture—it has been illegal to rape someone for quite some time, and it has been illegal to murder for even…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Angiolini InquiryI do not want to give too many trails on the strategy, but yes. For a long time, I have spent my career trying to put nicer, better plasters on cuts that do not get any smaller.…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Angiolini InquiryThe findings of the report will absolutely inform the strategy. I do speak to Lady Elish—but I am not waiting for Lady Elish’s various reports to do things or not. I cannot wait…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Angiolini InquiryI can give an example from this morning, when I met around 60 stakeholders from organisations that work with children, with women and girls, and with perpetrators—lots of civil…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Angiolini InquiryWe owe it to Sarah and to Sarah’s family, and to every family in our own constituencies that we have met, to ensure that this work actually gets done. I hear my hon. Friend’s…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Angiolini InquiryObviously, it was a manifesto commitment of this Government to ensure that there were specialist RASSO—rape and serious sexual offences—teams in every police force, for the exact…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Angiolini InquiryI thank the hon. Gentleman for his tone and his genuinely constructive questioning. The first thing to say is that, absolutely, Operation Soteria started under the previous…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Angiolini InquiryDo I think I will get enough money? Any Minister who stands before the House and says yes to that question is lying. Look, I would, of course, always want more money, but actually…02 Dec 2025HANSARD Angiolini InquiryOkay, I will say “very soon”—that is the answer to that. When all hon. Members get to read Lady Elish’s full report, as I have—I obviously get it sooner—they will see that she…02 Dec 2025