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HANSARDWhiplash Reform ProgrammeI would like to provide an update on next steps for the whiplash reform programme. The Government remain firmly committed to implementing measures to tackle the high number and…27 Feb 2020HANSARDReoffending ReductionI welcome the spirit in which the hon. Gentleman raises his question. When I was Solicitor General, I met the lead official on community sentencing in the Scottish Government, who…25 Feb 2020HANSARDReoffending ReductionMy hon. Friend is right to mention the National Self Build & Renovation Centre. I am very interested in modern methods of construction and how they could be developed on the…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising this important point. He knows that it would be invidious for any of us to comment directly on the ongoing inquiry, which he knows…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman will have heard the answer of the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Alex Chalk), some moments ago regarding the…25 Feb 2020HANSARDDomestic AbuseThe hon. Lady raises an important point. This relates to a case that enlisted an appropriately high degree of public interest and concern. She will be glad to know that I will be…25 Feb 2020HANSARDIstanbul ConventionThe hon. and learned Lady knows that in response to the Joint Committee on the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill the Government are taking careful account of the evidence that has been…25 Feb 2020HANSARDReoffending ReductionThere will be a renewed and ambitious cross-Government effort to reduce reoffending. It will build on the existing established partnerships with a range of other Government…25 Feb 2020HANSARDReoffending ReductionI thank my hon. Friend for that question. She can be reassured that in April 2019 we implemented new prison education contracts which deliver services designed by prison governors…25 Feb 2020HANSARDReoffending ReductionMy hon. Friend speaks with authority on this matter. It is simple: a home, a job and a friend are the path away from reoffending. Through the Government’s rough sleeping strategy,…25 Feb 2020HANSARDReoffending ReductionI am grateful to my hon. Friend for citing an example from Llangollen, a wonderful part of my homeland. I agree that meaningful and rewarding paid work can contribute to…25 Feb 2020HANSARDReoffending ReductionThe only fundamentalist I see is sitting on the Benches dead ahead. This Government are committed to reforming and improving the probation service by creating a truly national…25 Feb 2020HANSARDIstanbul ConventionAs well as introducing our important domestic abuse Bill, we are already committing more resources to rape crisis centres. For example, rape and sexual abuse support services have…25 Feb 2020HANSARDIstanbul ConventionThe United Kingdom signed the convention in 2012 to reaffirm our strong commitment to tackling violence against women and girls, and, as required by the Preventing and Combating…25 Feb 2020HANSARDStillbirthsI am very grateful to my hon. Friend and share his strong commitment to this issue. Many Members in this House have been touched directly or indirectly by the tragedy of…25 Feb 2020HANSARDStillbirthsMay I welcome my new ministerial colleagues, my hon. and learned Friend the Member for South East Cambridgeshire (Lucy Frazer) and my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Alex…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am very grateful to the hon. Lady for raising this individual case. I would be happy to discuss it further with her. There obviously seems to have been a prosecutorial decision,…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend has raised this issue on many previous occasions, and he knows that I have engaged very closely on it. Now that we have the time and space with regard to the…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsKeeping the public safe from harm is the first duty of any Government. The terror attack in Streatham earlier this month sadly demonstrated that sentencing laws were not working…25 Feb 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman will be glad to know that we intend to bring that Bill forward very soon indeed—well before Easter—so that we can debate it. He made a point about local…25 Feb 2020