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HANSARD Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (Review)I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require the Secretary of State to review the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority; and for connected purposes. From…06 May 2025HANSARDCriminal Injuries CompensationI beg to move, That this House has considered compensation for criminal injuries. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship for the first time, Dr Murrison. At the outset, I…29 Apr 2025HANSARDCriminal Injuries CompensationI am delighted to hear a reference to a White Paper from 1993. I am a great believer in the theory that obscurity is a source of strength, and my hon. Friend has provided some…29 Apr 2025HANSARDCriminal Injuries CompensationI will not detain Members long, but I wish to thank everyone who has spoken in this debate for their informed speeches and for their tone. It is right that we scrutinise and…29 Apr 2025HANSARDCriminal Injuries CompensationThe hon. Member is making a very informed speech. On his point about the complexity of the application, I recently had cause to see the application form for the pre-statutory…29 Apr 2025HANSARDCriminal Injuries CompensationMy hon. Friend is making a very informed speech, as did the hon. Members who spoke before him. Does he agree that, with each year that passes without re-examination of the…29 Apr 2025HANSARDCriminal Injuries CompensationI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention, and I agree with her. USDAW’s Freedom From Fear campaign, which has been running for many years and covers a number of important…29 Apr 2025HANSARDCriminal Injuries CompensationMy hon. Friend, the Chair of the Justice Committee, makes an important point. We must also consider the number of victims of crime who are so exhausted by the process that they…29 Apr 2025HANSARDCriminal Injuries CompensationMy hon. Friend is very learned and experienced in these matters, and I wholeheartedly agree. The discrepancy is hard to explain, especially as the pre-1996 non-statutory scheme…29 Apr 2025HANSARDCriminal Injuries CompensationThe hon. Member raises what sounds like a truly shocking case. All my sympathies are with that child and his family. I agree wholeheartedly with the point she makes about…29 Apr 2025HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Can you please advise me on the correct response to late notice of a constituency visit by another Member? On 3 April, the hon. Member…22 Apr 2025HANSARDBirmingham: Waste CollectionI thank the Minister for his efforts to keep Birmingham MPs informed on a cross-party basis during this dispute. I would also like to associate myself with the condemnation of the…22 Apr 2025HANSARDSteel Industry (Special Measures) BillI am glad to be called in this debate. I declare an interest: the GMB—one of the steelworkers’ unions, whose parliamentary group I chair—has donated to my constituency party.…12 Apr 2025HANSARD Fly-tipping: West Midlandsindicated assent .08 Apr 2025HANSARD Fly-tipping: West MidlandsThe right hon. Lady is exactly right to say that there is west midlands Conservative party representation; I was merely making a point about the city. We do not have the same…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Fly-tipping: West MidlandsFor the avoidance of doubt, I am a member of Unite. I was on the BBC over the weekend to talk about exactly these issues. There has been a change in the policing of the egress…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Fly-tipping: West MidlandsA 40% increase is more than “a few”, by any measure, but on the right hon. Lady’s substantive point, I was a trade union official, and in my experience the vast majority of…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Fly-tipping: West MidlandsI think what people in my constituency want is a regular and reliable service. They want the current backlog to be cleared. Some streets in my constituency have not had a…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Fly-tipping: West MidlandsI have made my comments. The hon. Member is acting irresponsibly, because we are in discussions—I mean “we” in the sense that the council, which I am not a member of, and the…08 Apr 2025HANSARD Fly-tipping: West MidlandsI must say, listening to this, that I feel there is a real rewriting of history going on. Under the leadership of the Conservatives, the sharpest central Government cuts on any…08 Apr 2025