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HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (First sitting)Q My final question is about the minimum age provisions in that. I know that the age of criminal responsibility begins at 10, but based on your work, was that an area where you…12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)Q You have made some very important points about cohort and how that is determined, and obviously the risk of a borderline case—or a case where, in fact, a judge may not have…12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)Q Can I just stop you there? That intimates that you are suggesting them as a sort of risk assessment tool. How would that have worked as a matter of practice? What flows from…12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)Q I see. So they accurately temper behaviour, not only in the way the individual responds to the fact of polygraph testing, but in terms of what the police glean from questions…12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)That is very helpful. Thank you.12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (First sitting)Q I have just one question for you, Mr Biggar. You were talking about child sex abuse material. I want to ask specifically about border services. At the NCA, have you encountered…12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)Q Mr Redgrave, may I ask you a bit about some of the section 16 provisions about drug testing? You may be familiar with the ambition to give greater powers to test for controlled…12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)Q I think that some of that is in the Sentencing Bill, which is running in tandem with this legislation. The other question I wanted to ask is about Crest Advisory’s role in…12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you think it is helpful then that the duty of candour, and what is required underneath it, will be set by the College of Policing? Do you think that will help ensure…12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (First sitting)Q I will start with the Domestic Abuse Commissioner. First, I want to provide some reassurance; statutory instruments are being used to implement more of Clare Wade’s…12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)Q My final question on this topic is about the other highly irregular employment-law-type power in the Bill: the right conferred on a chief constable to appeal against a…12 Dec 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Second sitting)Q Okay, that is helpful. My final line of questioning is about one of the issues that has been debated in Parliament, not just in relation to this Bill but previously too. It was…12 Dec 2023HANSARDTown Centre SafetyIt is difficult for me to identify every single complaint and whether somebody has attended, but one thing I think is relevant is that the increase in shoplifting that we have…05 Dec 2023HANSARDTown Centre SafetyThe hon. Gentleman asks a fair question, and I will have to get back to him on that. I know that the number in my part of the Thames Valley is quite low, but that may not extend…05 Dec 2023HANSARDTown Centre SafetyI do not have that figure, so I will have to write to the hon. Lady. It is right that decisions about how police resources are deployed, including the number and composition of…05 Dec 2023HANSARDTown Centre SafetyIf I could just finish my sentence, I will of course give way to the hon. Lady. The most recent figures we have are from March 2023, when the figure for police offices in England…05 Dec 2023HANSARDTown Centre SafetyI will come specifically to shop workers. I have no difference of opinion with the Opposition on the points about the role of shop workers and some of the issues that affect them…05 Dec 2023HANSARDTown Centre SafetyI thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention. I accept without reservation that there is considerable courage and selflessness in being a first responder whose job and duty…05 Dec 2023HANSARDTown Centre SafetyI am glad to have this opportunity to speak and hope to set the record straight. Forgive me if I do not recognise the counsel of despair emanating from the Opposition Benches. The…05 Dec 2023HANSARD Digital Devices: Search Powers at the UK BorderMy hon. Friend has accurately pointed out what looks like a lacuna in the law—where physical objects that may be identified in someone’s baggage indicate something, Border Force…05 Dec 2023