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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you. You also raised concerns about remote hearings and clause 166. What concerns do you have about that? Ellie Cumbo: I should say that we are in a middling…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)Q Thanks. I just want to ask about sentencing and the wide range of proposals in the Bill. Have you detected anything in the Bill that you think will contribute to sentence…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Finally, the Government do have a policy about diverting women from prison. They have a concordat. They have policy development ongoing that seeks to do that. Do you believe…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I want to press a little further on the impact on women in prison and on whether this Bill will help or make things more difficult. As my hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q In your experience, does it happen that women end up getting sentenced, usually for short terms of imprisonment, because they have either breached community orders or have…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)I think that the Howard League wanted to come in there, if I can see properly. Dr Janes: Thank you very much; I just want to make a brief point. I completely agree with what Kate…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)Q I was not really asking you to tell me whether the provisions for longer sentences will create longer sentences, but whether there is anything else in the Bill that might…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)Yes, certainly.20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q I want to ask about the serious violence reduction units and what you think they will be able to do in practice and how they will interact. I do not know what experience you…20 May 2021HANSARDPost Office UpdateSerious concerns have been expressed about the conduct of many of the private prosecutions that led up to the 900 or so wrongful convictions of innocent sub-postmasters, including…19 May 2021HANSARDAffordable and Safe Housing for AllI want to address whether the Government’s proposals help many of the leaseholders in Garston and Halewood in any meaningful way. Liverpool City Council is currently monitoring…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you, Mr McCabe. People in this country have a right to peaceful protest, and it is tremendously important that it is kept. You have acknowledged that in your earlier…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q The Good Law Project is concerned that, in effect, “entire classes or types of protests” will be prohibited and that the bar for what will constitute significant disruption to…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q Have any of you ever policed a protest or been involved in policing a large protest that has been peaceful, or otherwise, and that has not been noisy? Chief Constable…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q Are you telling me that those protests have all been noisy or that some of them were not noisy? Chief Constable Harrington: Some are very, very noisy, with drums, cymbals and…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q Finally, if there is a small one-person picket outside a shop for a particular reason, or a very small collection of people with a legitimate reason to protest or picket at a…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you. And finally, finally, did you ask the Government for these powers? Chief Constable Harrington: As I said, we asked for greater consistency in sections 12 and 14 of…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q May I ask you both whether the new powers for policing protest contained in the Bill are necessary, and do you welcome them? Chief Superintendent Griffiths: I know that you have…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (First sitting)Mr Apter, do you have anything to add from the federation’s point of view? John Apter: These were changes that the Police Federation had not particularly called for, but what I do…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q Do you have any view on the impact of the use of these powers on the important relationship between the public and the police? Chief Superintendent Griffiths: I think the…18 May 2021