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HANSARDSafer Streets FundWhat I can tell the hon. Lady is that under the safer streets fund, £3.9 million has been allocated to Merseyside, including for a project in St Helens town centre. Let me remind…15 Jan 2024HANSARDSafer Streets FundI thank the hon. Lady for her question. I think it has been widely reported that the Home Secretary was making a joke about not being good enough for his wife. The point is that…15 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for her question, and congratulate her police and crime commissioner on the excellent work she is doing. My hon. Friend will be aware that we have amended…15 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)Opposition Members have made two very good points, which I will respond to. The issue of publishing or hosting unlawfully obtained internet photographs is salient. It was probably…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for his forbearance. Just to pick up on that point, I think he is right to hold the Government’s feet to the fire on the commencement of the Online…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 23, in clause 11, page 8, line 23, after “conviction” insert “in England and Wales”. This amendment and amendments 24 and 43 extend the offence under this…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I am not going to engage in a case-by-case discussion. It is so difficult for me to do that; I do not have the papers in front of me. I understand the issue about community-based…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I am very sensitive to the issues that have been raised and will respond to them, but I will also explain why we do not accept the new clause. We have steered very close to the…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for her point. She is making very, very good ones, as she always does. That is a legitimate challenge. I just would also ask her to bear this in mind. She…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Bardell. Government amendments 23, 24 and 43 amend the penalty provisions in clause 11 and the extant provisions in clause 77…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I have probably gone as far as I can. There are no circumstances in which Georgia Harrison’s case would not be covered by the provision that we are discussing. The other person…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I am sorry if I misunderstood the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley. I thought she was identifying a rape scenario, which would be caught by the Sexual Offences Act 2003. It is…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I will give way—I thank the hon. Gentleman very much.11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)The clause is the latest in a sequence of legislation dealing with intimate image abuse. People may correct me if I am wrong, but I think I am right to say that we have not dealt…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. I think a very helpful fabric of possible scenarios has been identified this afternoon. I simply say that in the different…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)A number of very good points have been made and I will try to respond to all of them. On Scotland, the offence relates to devolved matters, but Scottish Ministers have decided…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)My apologies. I am sorry for being too informal; I am not familiar with this. I think that it is the case that the issue is readily identifiable within certain forms of domestic…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I was going to complete the point. If the hon. Lady will forgive me, I will do so before I give way again. We have to create laws that apply equally to everybody in the United…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)I will, but I would like to develop this point a little bit more.11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixth sitting)Well, okay, but I struggle to conceive of circumstances, other than very unusual and extreme ones, where it would be said that a statutory body was doing an act with the intention…11 Jan 2024