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HANSARDJusticeI want to provide some reassurance to the shadow Minister. Under our scheme, no sexual offender, no terrorist offender and nobody who has been convicted of a serious violent crime…20 May 2024HANSARDJusticeI want to provide some reassurance to the shadow Minister. Under our scheme, no sexual offender, no terrorist offender and nobody who has been convicted of a serious violent crime…20 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Programme) (No. 2)No.15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Programme) (No. 2)It is an honour to open this debate and bring the Criminal Justice Bill back to the House for consideration on Report. This important legislation is focused—15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI have heard what was said by the hon. Member for Poplar and Limehouse (Apsana Begum) and my right hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Dame Maria Miller) and made a careful…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI agree with that sentiment entirely. We are already creating an express statutory power at clause 28 to compel an offender to attend the sentencing hearing if they have been…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI thank my hon. Friend, because the speech he gave on Second Reading played a major role in the changes we are introducing today. I reassure him that the change brings into scope…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for raising that point. We are encountering a rapidly changing world of deepfake images that can be used for the purposes of manipulating…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillThat is music to our ears. It was not lost on us that, within days of making the announcement, two of the major deepfake or nudify sites had blocked access to UK users in…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI have to thank the team at Glamour magazine, because they led an excellent campaign. I was halfway through trying to make the change myself when I became aware of it, but I read…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI want to be crystal clear that, under the new clause, the offence is committed if the pseudo-image is created without the consent of the person who is the subject. That is at…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillThe hon. Member is correct. I simply want to say again that this is a novel power that we are extending to Crown court judges, who typically do not have any knowledge of family…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillThat is an excellent suggestion. I confirm that and thank my right hon. Friend once again. Before I conclude, I would like to address a number of other matters that have been…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI will have to double-check that new clause, but I simply say that, with two exceptions, all the convention rights are qualified rights, which can be restricted in reasonable…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI thank my hon. Friend for her comments. They were truly appalling crimes, and I had the constituents of both my hon. Friends in mind when I thought about how to develop the law.…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI thank my hon. and learned Friend for his sensible intervention, which engaged two issues: article 6 considerations on the right to a fair trial, and article 8 considerations on…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI hope that I can provide my hon. Friend, my right hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Vicky Ford) and my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham) with some…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillThis has indeed been a wide-ranging debate—we use that phrase too often in this place, but it is true today—and it is a pleasure to bring it to a close. I am grateful to all hon.…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillI am going to respectfully differ from the hon. Lady. I am happy to have another conversation with her about it, but I am afraid that even those on the periphery often have their…15 May 2024