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HANSARDCommunity PaybackI rise both perplexed and pleased to respond. First, I am perplexed because, in seven years in this House, I do not think I have heard quite such a series of distortions of…28 Jun 2022HANSARDCommunity PaybackIt was a pandemic!28 Jun 2022HANSARDCommunity Paybackrose —28 Jun 2022HANSARDCommunity PaybackI salute my hon. Friend for doing his civic duty as a magistrate and he is right that these decisions are effectively for the independent judiciary and we are very limited in what…28 Jun 2022HANSARDCommunity PaybackI am sure the hon. Gentleman will acknowledge that while different types of crime can fall in different ways, some serious volume crimes are, according to the Office for National…28 Jun 2022HANSARDCommunity PaybackAs I am sure the hon. Gentleman knows, we use two methods to measure crime. There is recorded crime, as he says, which is sometimes affected by sentiment, but the more accurate…28 Jun 2022HANSARDCommunity PaybackThe hon. Gentleman is right that the probation service has a heavy caseload, and that is why we are in the process of recruiting significant numbers of new probation officers;…28 Jun 2022HANSARDCommunity PaybackThere was a decline between ’17-18 and ’18-19, but the hon. Lady will remember that the last three years of decline were covered by a lockdown; the lockdown began in the first…28 Jun 2022HANSARDCommunity PaybackAs I have said, the baseline was at or around 5 million hours a year for quite a period. It fluctuated from year to year because of a number of factors, not just the delivery but…28 Jun 2022HANSARDCommunity PaybackNo, I want to make some progress. [Interruption.] I will give way in a moment, but I have just given way to the hon. Lady.28 Jun 2022HANSARDCommunity PaybackAll right, go ahead.28 Jun 2022HANSARDCommunity PaybackThe hon. Gentleman is quite right that the decision on a sentence is a matter for the magistrate or for the judge at the time. It is for them to decide what is a fitting…28 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Seventh sitting)The hon. Lady is making exactly my point. I am afraid that the hon. Member for Ealing Central and Acton did use the word “racist” regarding the operation of stop and search. I was…21 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Seventh sitting)Given the comprehensive nature of the speeches, not least that of my hon. Friend the Member for Dover, I will keep my remarks short. During the course of the Committee’s debates,…21 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Seventh sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Dover. We all sympathise with the intentions of the new clause, initially tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool North…21 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Seventh sitting)I will speak first to new clause 8. The Home Office continues to publish extensive data on the use of stop and search to drive transparency, as the hon. Lady for Ealing Central…21 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Seventh sitting)I will give way in a moment. We also have the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, which makes it an offence for someone to pursue a course of action that they know will amount to…21 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Seventh sitting)In effect, the new clause brings back a clause that was initially tabled to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act in January 2022 on Report. As the hon. Lady said, it would…21 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Seventh sitting)The new clause introduces a requirement on the Home Secretary to issue statutory guidance to the police on responding to lock-ons. While we agree that the Government should guide…21 Jun 2022HANSARDPublic Order Bill (Seventh sitting)As the hon. Lady said, new clause 13 looks to create a framework that allows local authorities, chief constables, residents, and business owners in an area to apply for an…21 Jun 2022