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HANSARDCriminal 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 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 BillYes, I can confirm that those inchoate offences—attempt offences—are all captured in the 1981 Act to which I referred in my opening speech. On whether naming the offence of…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 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 thank my right hon. Friend for her intervention, and I am sorry that we somehow did not manage to overlap when I made my comments about her. I thought her speech was…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 listened very carefully to what my right hon. Friend said, and I agree with every single word of it. Some of this sits with the Department for Science, Innovation and…15 May 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice BillIt is not just the effect of the amendment that will improve police recording; one purpose of the amendment was to improve police recording and it will give, I hope, a much more…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 BillI certainly give my right hon. Friend that reassurance. I look forward to continuing our discussions throughout the passage of the Bill. Question put and agreed to. New clause 86…15 May 2024HANSARDPublic Confidence in Victim SupportI thank my hon. Friend for her question. I was not aware of that, but I knew that an amendment had been suggested that was not within the scope of the Bill. My hon. Friend’s…14 May 2024HANSARDPublic Confidence in Victim SupportI can reassure my hon. and learned Friend, the Chair of the Select Committee, that I spoke to the chair of the Bar Council about exactly that issue last week, but I want to…14 May 2024HANSARDNon-disclosure AgreementsAs someone who spent more than a decade practising as an employment lawyer, I can tell the hon. Lady that there is a role for the confidentiality clause in any kind of compromise…14 May 2024HANSARDPublic Confidence in Victim SupportI share my right hon. Friend’s profound concern about death caused by either dangerous or careless driving. As he knows, it was the Conservative Government who created a criminal…14 May 2024HANSARDPublic Confidence in Victim SupportI count myself as one of the people who campaigns on violence against women, and there are many other right hon. and hon. Members across this House who do the same thing. The hon.…14 May 2024HANSARDPublic Confidence in Victim SupportAs the hon. Gentleman will know, the issue with Harrow Crown court is that reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete was discovered in that building. We are investing more than £220…14 May 2024HANSARDNon-disclosure AgreementsIt is important to flag at the outset that confidentiality clauses are only ever used in the civil context, rather than the criminal. With that in mind, we are tabling an…14 May 2024HANSARDPublic Confidence in Victim SupportI 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…14 May 2024HANSARDPublic Confidence in Victim SupportWe are doing a huge amount to drive down the backlog, which was principally a result of the pandemic. We have increased the fees for both solicitors and barristers by 15%; we have…14 May 2024