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HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI beg to move that this House disagrees with Lords amendment 71.28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI am sorry, but the hon. Lady seems determined to have a fight about this and I really do not want one. She keeps referring to street lighting, but that is one of a suite of…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Billrose—28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI have said that specifically.28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillThis is an important issue and I am grateful to the hon. Lady, but I just wanted to point out to her that the Law Commission said in its consultation paper that it thought it…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Billrose —28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillAs I say, there are already offences being committed in those circumstances, and we have had successful prosecutions in exactly the circumstances the hon. Member outlines. Anybody…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillAnd finally!28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillWe do believe that the online harms Bill will cover the vast majority of the offending where this is advertised, and I have to say that the vast majority of that these days does…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillThere are a number of definitional issues within the Lords amendment that produce fatal flaws, but I absolutely commend the spirit behind it. It comes from a good place and from a…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy hon. Friend has put her finger on the button of the problem. It is not that we are unsympathetic to the issue—of course we are not. I just do not see how, given the views of…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI am grateful to the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee. I cannot give her a definition as it stands, but I am happy to write to her about the scope of the consultation. If she…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI can appreciate the hon. Lady’s requirement for action. As I say, action is what we are trying to put in place. To be clear, again, we are not saying that the fact that we are…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillThe Law Commission report is unequivocal about the dangers that it may present. The hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy) is shaking her head, but the report’s conclusion…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI am sorry, but I am not sure that the Government ever made that promise. [ Interruption. ] Hold on, I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman has read the Law Commission’s report.…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillAll I can do for the hon. Lady is quote from the Law Commission’s report, which I assume she has read, extensive though it is. It specifically states: “We recognise that many…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI completely agree with my hon. Friend, and he is absolutely right that we need to look carefully at the recording patterns and what they are telling forces such as…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI completely agree with my right hon. and learned Friend, and I am as impatient as he is, not least because I am keen to kick off some analysis programmes looking at particular…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillMy right hon. and learned Friend is right that we need to have a serious look at the suite of offences used in this area. He will know that many street harassment offences are…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI had hoped to avoid the approach that the hon. Lady takes. Of course we believe that women deserve strong protection—we absolutely do—but all I can say to the hon. Lady is that…28 Feb 2022