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HANSARD Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) BillMy hon. Friend, the Chair of the Select Committee on Justice, like me has much experience in the criminal justice system. He will know that deciding whether remorse is real or…11 Feb 2020HANSARD Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) BillMy hon. Friend speaks with much experience as a counsel who has prosecuted and defended in cases involving serious offences. He is absolutely right to remind us that it is the…11 Feb 2020HANSARD Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) BillMy hon. Friend is quite right. Indeed, that was an aggravating factor that was specifically taken into account by the sentencing judge. I was drawing a comparison with clause 1.…11 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentThe hon. Gentleman can shake his head as much as he likes, but I am totally clear that we need to act quickly. That is why we are going to introduce emergency legislation, and I…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentI have not seen that report. It is a matter for those responsible for the assessment of risk within the custodial estate to look at the evidence, to professionally assess it and…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentMy right hon. Friend, as a former Security Minister, is indeed very familiar with these issues, and he and I worked together on them during the passage of the Investigatory Powers…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentI welcome the hon. Lady’s support for the measures that we are going to introduce. She is absolutely right about the need to end automatic early release. I assure her that we use…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentI am grateful to my right hon. Friend, the Chair of the Select Committee on Education. He will be reassured that the Prevent programme is under constant examination and review.…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentI am grateful to the hon. and learned Lady for her remarks about the solidarity that we have across these islands with regard to terrorism. Let me deal with her last point first.…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentI am not going to begin prejudging what the business managers might have in mind or, indeed, the allocation of time in the House, but as soon as possible.03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentMay I join my hon. Friend in her tribute to everybody who did their utmost to try to save a life in what was a terrible tragic incident in her constituency? Sadly, it is an…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentI am grateful to the right hon. Lady, the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, for her question. The Acheson recommendations were, with his agreement, consolidated into 11…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentI thank the hon. Lady for her question. She is representing her constituents fearlessly and well. I join her in the tribute to the people of Streatham who experienced not just the…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentMy right hon. Friend served with distinction as the Security Minister. Indeed, I remember sitting with him in the Bill Committee on the TPIMs legislation some years ago. He and I…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentMy hon. Friend will be glad to know that, as part of our measures announced several weeks ago, a review of the MAPPA provisions has been announced. It will be led by Jonathan…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentThe hon. Lady raises a pertinent point, because it allows me to remind the House that we are dealing not just with so-called Islamic terrorism but with far-right terrorism. About…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentI pay tribute to the work of the right. hon. Gentleman on that Committee. He will know that it would be invidious of me to descend into the particular circumstances of this…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentThe hon. Lady will remember the legal morass that we got into with control orders—it was not a happy experience—which faced constant challenge in the courts. Their effectiveness…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentThe hon. Gentleman would obviously advocate a counsel of perfection. I am dealing with serious violent and sexual offenders— [ Interruption. ] No, I am sorry but I will not accept…03 Feb 2020HANSARD Streatham IncidentWith permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will make a statement about the senseless and horrific terror attack in Streatham yesterday afternoon. Two members of the public were…03 Feb 2020