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HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I thank the hon. Members for Bootle and for Swansea East for compellingly setting out the impact of various forms of driving offence that are raised in our surgeries. When we talk…30 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend the Member for South Basildon and East Thurrock for his speech. I am grateful for the opportunity—30 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixteenth sitting)No, I do not, but I can respond to the hon. Lady on that.30 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I am happy to take that correction—sorry, I was just speaking informally when I should not have been. On new clauses 26 and 30, section 1 of the Street Offences Act 1959 enables…30 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The Opposition Members are all correct: how the Government approach prostitution, and the way society views it, has changed and developed significantly in the last decades. Our…30 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixteenth sitting)But the police do not tell us that they lack the tools or that there is a gap in the law that requires us to amend section 2. Together, the offences defined in sections 1 and 2…30 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley for setting out her case for the new clause. I understand the concern underpinning the new clause that there are inconsistencies…30 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixteenth sitting)The guidelines already include a range of aggravating factors for theft, among which are stealing to order, an intention to cause harm to the victim personally, and where the…30 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixteenth sitting)Well, this is the decision of the Court of Appeal.30 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for Birmingham, Yardley for tabling new clauses 31 and 32 and new schedule 2, which would create two new statutory defences for victims of domestic abuse.…30 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifteenth sitting)As I say, we are looking at the definitional issues. We are also looking carefully at the paramountcy principle, which underpins the way in which cases are approached in the…30 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I noted what the hon. Lady said in her opening remarks, but I will go through the legal landscape before I come to other issues. As I say, we are carefully considering the force…30 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am grateful to everybody who has spoken on this matter. Both new clause 1 and new clause 2 seek to decriminalise abortion. The Government maintain a neutral stance on these…25 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford, who has been an important voice on the issue. When I made a statement to the House just before Christmas, I…25 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 147, in clause 77, page 69, line 11, after “by” insert “section (Administering etc harmful substances (including by spiking))(2) or”. This amendment…25 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Okay, but it is one, to give the Committee a sense of the scale of this issue in the criminal courts. I turn first to amendment 1 and new clause 1, tabled by the right hon. Member…25 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member for his intervention. I have no hesitation in congratulating and thanking all the members of the Committee, and Members across the House, for what…25 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fourteenth sitting)It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Robert. New clause 45 concerns the issue of spiking. The offence of spiking is captured under various criminal provisions,…25 Jan 2024HANSARD Licensing Hours Extensions BillI congratulate the hon. Member for South Shields (Mrs Lewell-Buck) on her success in the ballot and on presenting this very worthwhile private Member’s Bill. I can confirm that…19 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Ninth sitting)I think it would have to be part of the planning for any prisoner who was going to be transferred for there to be space for them to be returned, because that is part of the…18 Jan 2024