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HANSARDPrisoners: Access to WorkI am delighted to say that large companies such as Greene King from the catering and hospitality sector and Wates from the construction sector are now working with the new futures…09 Jul 2019HANSARDPrisoners: Access to WorkA year ago, our education and employment strategy set out plans to transform the way prisoners develop the skills they need to secure employment on release, and in addition our…09 Jul 2019HANSARDDangerous DrivingMy colleague will hear that. I am told that the statement is due later this year, so they had better crack on with it.08 Jul 2019HANSARDDangerous DrivingThe point is made and understood, which I can say because I can make promises on behalf of my colleagues. I am sure they would do the same for me. I am extremely grateful to the…08 Jul 2019HANSARDDangerous DrivingI cannot give the hon. Gentleman a date. That is a matter of bitter regret to me, but today’s debate will be used as an important platform to indicate the degree of concern,…08 Jul 2019HANSARDDangerous DrivingI am grateful for the hon. Lady’s contribution in her speech and intervention. I ask the question “How?” simply because it can very often be an issue for all of us, so ignoring it…08 Jul 2019HANSARDDangerous DrivingIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Moon, but a greater pleasure to thank the hon. Member for Warrington North (Helen Jones) for opening the debate with a…08 Jul 2019HANSARDDangerous DrivingMy hon. Friend makes an important point; I am perhaps illustrating in my response the struggle, the tension and the difficulty that exist here in fully reflecting the harm and the…08 Jul 2019HANSARDDangerous DrivingI certainly was not suggesting in any way that hon. Members of any party would want to impede such a Bill. The point that I seek to make is that we can achieve this with broad and…08 Jul 2019HANSARD Imprisonment for Public ProtectionMy hon. Friend has considerable experience of criminal practice, and he has dealt with many cases of great seriousness. He is right to draw to my attention the specific case of…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Imprisonment for Public ProtectionThe right hon. Gentleman asks that question again, and I take it fairly and squarely. The answer must be that it will be on a case-by-case basis, because each prisoner has an…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Imprisonment for Public ProtectionIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Edward; as a former member of the legal profession, you will have a particular interest in this important issue. I…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Imprisonment for Public ProtectionI agree that in the appellant procedure there will often be that check and balance, but this is slightly different. This would be a change in the law and legal framework to alter…11 Jun 2019HANSARD Rehabilitation of OffendersThere would be a judicial review. That point was considered carefully in the other place. I readily accept and deal full on with the potentially onerous nature of having to bring…05 Jun 2019HANSARD Rehabilitation of OffendersThe hon. Lady tempts me down the road of ad hocery, which, as we know, can be a somewhat cumbersome instrument when it comes to issues of this nature. She can be reassured that…05 Jun 2019HANSARD Rehabilitation of OffendersThis might not have been the longest of debates, but I very much hope that those listening, particularly in the other place, will abandon their usual criticism of our House,…05 Jun 2019HANSARD Rehabilitation of OffendersI beg to move, That the draft Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2019, which was laid before this House on 1 April, be…05 Jun 2019HANSARD Rehabilitation of OffendersI am looking again at paragraph 7.6, and I think its purpose is to illustrate other examples of inquiries that have been set up pursuant to the Inquiries Act 2005. I will go on to…05 Jun 2019HANSARD Rehabilitation of OffendersI am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is the Chair of the Justice Committee and a barrister of long standing at the criminal Bar. He is absolutely right to talk about the test of…05 Jun 2019HANSARD Rehabilitation of OffendersThe right hon. Gentleman raises a very proper point, and I can assure him that the work that his Committee has done and the campaign to ban the box are matters that I and my…05 Jun 2019