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HANSARDGovernment and the CourtsWell, not me. I will leave that to others to answer. Naturally, I do not disclose the details of private conversations that I have with Cabinet colleagues, but I can say that the…29 Jun 2021HANSARDGovernment and the CourtsForgive me, Mr Speaker, I was thinking about the pies at HMP Berwyn.29 Jun 2021HANSARDProbation ReformThis Government are committed to cutting crime, by improving how we protect the public from serious offenders and by tackling repeat offending. On 26 June we took a key step…28 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewThe hon. Gentleman is right to press me on speed. I remind him that the decision to publish the rape review now was made in the light of a very important judicial review that was…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewI pay tribute to my right hon. and learned Friend, who as Attorney General worked very hard with me on the issue of disclosure and started the process that resulted in the revised…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. I rightly have to speak about England and Wales as a jurisdiction, but I know these issues cover all three jurisdictions. There are…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewMy hon. Friend is right to ask how we will measure this process; the scorecards, the data metrics, that will be published later this year will be a crucial way to do that. They…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewI thank the hon. Lady for her question, and I pay tribute to the work being done by agencies in Durham. As she rightly points out, that is an example of the very good practice we…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewMy hon. Friend rightly identifies the breakdown that can sometimes occur when one agency passes over responsibility to another. That should not be happening. There are plenty of…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman and, again, I pay tribute to the work that he has done on victims’ issues. Even though he has other responsibilities, I know that he will want…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewMy right hon. Friend posits a very interesting point about the merits of perhaps a more inquisitorial or consensual system than the adversarial system, but I remind him—of course,…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewI join the hon. and learned Lady in her remarks about the Scottish system. I congratulate the new Lord Advocate and look forward to meeting her. As I have always said to the hon.…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewI am grateful to my hon. Friend, who, as a practitioner in the law, dealt with, in a family context, many of the consequences of serious sexual abuse. She will see that the report…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewThank you, Mr Speaker, for allowing me to make a statement. I want to put on record my thanks to the Opposition Chief Whip, too, for allowing some valuable Opposition day time. I…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewI am mindful of your stricture, Mr Speaker. May I remind the right hon. Gentleman very firmly about what I said? I rightly took responsibility and apologised for the overall…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewMy hon. Friend the Chair of the Justice Committee is right to point out the significant difference between the number of complaints that are made and the number of cases that…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewMay I pay tribute to the right hon. and learned Lady for her tireless work in this area? Indeed, she and I have regular dialogue about these issues and have done in the past. I…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewI thank my hon. Friend, and I say this: we have already rolled out the section 28 provisions to cover intimidated witnesses, many of whom will of course themselves have been the…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewI am grateful to the hon. Lady, who makes some extremely relevant points and gets to the heart of the issue when it comes to the need to reduce the number of victims in the first…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewMy right hon. Friend has very graphically illustrated some of the appalling experiences that many complainants and victims have undergone, and that is very much at the core of…21 Jun 2021