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HANSARDDisclosure of Youth Criminal RecordsI disagree with the hon. Gentleman and I will explain why. In my review, I talk about the German system, which makes an assessment of maturity and particularly focuses on the…28 Mar 2019HANSARDDisclosure of Youth Criminal RecordsI am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising the issue in the manner that she has. It is way more effective than I would be if I raised the same point. Does she know that there is a…28 Mar 2019HANSARDDisclosure of Youth Criminal RecordsAbsolutely. Those of us with teenage children—I had a firm word with my 13-year-old son yesterday, who had got into trouble at school—know that the assessment of risk and risky…28 Mar 2019HANSARDDisclosure of Youth Criminal RecordsI am hugely grateful to the Justice Committee for this excellent work and the way in which the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill) outlined the importance of…28 Mar 2019HANSARDDisclosure of Youth Criminal RecordsThe hon. Gentleman rightly mentioned Ban the Box in a positive light, and I am sure everyone in the Chamber would welcome it, but does he acknowledge that the problem with that…28 Mar 2019HANSARDDisclosure of Youth Criminal Recordsrose —28 Mar 2019HANSARDDisclosure of Youth Criminal RecordsThe hon. Gentleman is recalling childhood friends of his own, but will he also reflect on childhood today? There is a whole suite of crimes and temptations resulting from social…28 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeThe public health approach in Scotland also involved a cross-party approach, with much of the work beginning under Labour and continuing under the Scottish National party. The…04 Mar 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUI will not, because of the time available. If we do not stop a no-deal Brexit, a whole generation of families will be impoverished. “Project Fear” will become project reality. The…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUMay I take up the point about social order? I have faced social disorder in my own constituency and rightly condemned it, however hard that condemnation was for some constituents…27 Feb 2019HANSARDUK’s Withdrawal from the EUI have not met a Member who supports no deal who has experienced real poverty—the scarcity that, in previous eras, was so common: the destitution that families endured in…27 Feb 2019HANSARD Serious ViolenceI am grateful to the Home Secretary for that. This is a very serious issue. Over the almost 20 years that I have been in public life, very sadly, I have had to comfort far too…18 Feb 2019HANSARD Serious ViolenceI am grateful to have the opportunity to speak in this debate. I have worked with the Home Secretary and the Minister on these issues, and I am grateful to them for extending an…18 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush Scheme(Urgent Question): To ask the Home Secretary to make a statement on the operation of the Windrush scheme.05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeHome Secretary, I have asked you to make a statement to the House on the operation of the Windrush scheme. Your Department’s treatment of the Windrush generation has been nothing…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Windrush SchemeYou are quite right, Mr Speaker. Every single one of these cases is a shocking indictment of this Government’s pandering to far right racism, sham immigration targets and the dog…05 Feb 2019HANSARDPrisons: ViolenceWe found out from the Secretary of State’s Department last week the alarming fact that 51% of our youth offenders now come from a black minority or ethnic background. That puts us…05 Feb 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. In pressing the point about PRUs and alternative provision, will she also recognise—I am sure that she sees this in Croydon—the…24 Jan 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeI am grateful for the opportunity to speak in the debate, but I have to acknowledge that after 19 years in this place I am weary, depressed and upset. Here we are again:…24 Jan 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeLet me put it on the record that my hon. Friend is entirely right; if my comments came out the wrong way, they were not what I meant. However, there are issues about what it is…24 Jan 2019