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HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewThe right hon. Lady is quite right to ask about the trial process. I think she knows that my fundamental view about this is that things go wrong well before cases get to court and…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewMy hon. Friend is right to focus on the need for early support for victims. As I said in my statement, the evidence is clear that an ISVA can reduce quite dramatically the number…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewI take on board the proper points of the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee. I do not have specific figures to hand, but I can tell her that the RASSO—rape and serious sexual…21 Jun 2021HANSARDEnd-to-end Rape ReviewI pay tribute to my hon. Friend’s assiduous campaigning on this most grave and disturbing case. The decision to reconsider is one that I am looking at very carefully. I am taking…21 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. I can assure him that when it comes to ramifications, we must remember that this was a decision of first instance that turned on its…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsMy hon. Friend puts in very heartfelt, genuine terms the real sense of loss and frustration, to say the least, that his constituents and their families feel. I have already…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsI am very grateful to the hon. Lady, who makes an important point about the archive. There is a general point to be made here which goes back to the initial question. The ongoing…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsI am profoundly grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his remarks and I listened very carefully to what he said. He was a witness to what happened and, no doubt, he has to live with…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsI am grateful to the hon. Lady, and she will forgive me if I do not go through all the important points I have made in response to other hon. Members. I will simply say this to…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsI join the hon. Lady in paying tribute to the great city of Liverpool. I am a proud Welshman, but Liverpool is very close to my homeland and to my heart. It is a great city—a…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsThe hon. Gentleman encapsulates the feelings very well indeed. I refer him to the answers I gave a moment ago. With regard to the CPS, I have to say that I am not the accountable…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsI join the hon. Gentleman in paying tribute to all those from the borough of Sefton who lost their lives and to their families, to whom he quite rightly refers. Those campaigners,…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsThe hon. Gentleman asks a very important question. Indeed, he touches on detail that my officials and I need to consider regarding not just the ruling, but the evidence that was…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsI can absolutely understand the strong feelings that the hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Paula Barker) has articulated. She is right to remind us that every time comments…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsWithout repeating the points I made in earlier answers, I reiterate my commitment to carefully considering the 2018 consultation and the responses that have been given, which were…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsI listened carefully to the careful question from the hon. Gentleman. He appreciates that with regard to criminal procedure the law applicable at the time is the law that is then…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsThe hon. Gentleman asks a proper question about compensation; indeed, it echoes that of my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool South (Scott Benton). I undertake to write to them…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman and, of course, I reiterate the commitment that I made to the hon. Member for Garston and Halewood (Maria Eagle) to work across the…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsI am grateful to my right hon. Friend, and I pay tribute to her for the approach that she took not only as Prime Minister but as Home Secretary throughout those years,…10 Jun 2021HANSARD Hillsborough: Collapse of TrialsI thank my hon. Friend for that important point. As I outlined in previous answers, it is important, certainly from my position with regard to the justice process, that we act as…10 Jun 2021