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HANSARDDomestic Abuse3. Whether she has had recent discussions with the Domestic Abuse Commissioner on taking steps to help tackle so-called honour-based abuse.07 Feb 2024HANSARDDomestic AbuseSavera UK, which is based in my constituency, and the Domestic Abuse Commissioner are concerned by this Government’s failure to provide a statutory definition of so-called…07 Feb 2024HANSARDKnife and Sword BanMy hon. Friend is making a great speech. Will he support two parents in my constituency, Leanne and Mandy, whose children were killed by knife crime? They are calling for much…06 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillI welcome my hon. Friend’s contribution; that is exactly what the Bill is intended to do. To illustrate my point further, I shall turn to the 2010 Victoria station attack, which…02 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Before I begin, I pay tribute to the incredible people who have made it possible for us to be here today, challenging the…02 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillI do, and I will come to that point later in my speech. I thank the cross-party sponsors of my Bill, notably the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill), the…02 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillI totally agree with my hon. Friend’s point about the criminalisation of our young black people. We need cross-party consensus. Lastly, I thank my A-team, Becky and Charley, who…02 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillI agree that the Bill will look at righting those wrongs and challenging those miscarriages of justice.02 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillI can confirm that the party will be looking at this Bill when we are in power and when we get rid of—well, when we are in power. It is possible both to uphold the law by…02 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillI totally agree with my hon. Friend, and I will cover some of those points in my speech. I hope that the Minister will listen closely to the arguments I put forward today and…02 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillMy hon. Friend makes a valid point on the consequences of the landmark case of Ameen Jogee, whose mum is in the Gallery today. People are being given mandatory life sentences for…02 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillI thank my hon. Friend for raising that point and particularly for raising the Justice for Jay Abatan campaign, which is very similar to the Stephen Lawrence campaign. The Centre…02 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillThe hon. Member makes some valid points, and these issues have been raised by the campaign groups. Life has meant life for people prosecuted under joint enterprise—often 27 years…02 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillI thank my hon. Friend for those comments. I totally agree, and I will cover some of that later in my speech. With joint enterprise, it is often children or young people who are…02 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillI totally agree, and we all saw that play out in the Post Office Horizon scandal. I believe that the cases I have referred to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the current law…02 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillI totally agree with my right hon. Friend. That is what my Bill would do, by making a small change to the 1861 Act. During cross-party discussions with Ministers and shadow…02 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention; I will address that point about the CPS a bit later. Last year, the human rights groups Liberty submitted one such case to the…02 Feb 2024HANSARDJoint Enterprise (Significant Contribution) BillWith the leave of the House, I thank everybody who has contributed to my debate today, and particularly to the parents in the Gallery from Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by…02 Feb 2024HANSARDDirector of Public Prosecutions: PrioritiesDoes the Attorney General agree that a key priority for the CPS must be fixing the flawed way that joint enterprise laws are used, and does she agree that no one should ever be…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Children’s Mental Health Week 2024I thank my hon. Friend for bringing this very important issue to Westminster Hall. She just spoke about black children. Does she think that this crisis is impacting…30 Jan 2024