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HANSARD Point of Order: Rectification ProcedureOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am an honorary member of the Jockey Club Rooms, which provides accommodation and function rooms in Newmarket. It is an offshoot of the…04 Jun 2026HANSARDKnife Crime StrategyWhat the Justice Secretary just said about the record of the last Government was factually untrue, and he should withdraw it. He does not want to admit it, but it is his policy to…19 May 2026HANSARDKnife Crime StrategyThat’s not even true!19 May 2026HANSARDKnife Crime StrategyLast year, 6,397 knife criminals were sent to prison, and the average sentence was just over eight months. As the Government scrapped almost all sentences of less than a year,…19 May 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsThis weekend, two marches came to London: one was condemned by the Justice Secretary; about the other—yet another anti-Israel march—there was not a word. Once again we heard…19 May 2026HANSARD Youth JusticeIt is obvious that we are now in the legacy-hunting stage of this Government. Less a range of exhausted volcanoes, more a row of trampled molehills, Ministers are desperate to be…18 May 2026HANSARDVictims and Courts BillIn a week when the Government have been reprimanded for letting foreign criminals out of prison without proper checks or safeguards, have been found to have done absolutely…25 Mar 2026HANSARDVictims and Courts BillI think the Minister has been taking lessons from the Prime Minister. She may as well have been reading the phonebook in answering the question. [ Interruption. ] Well, the answer…25 Mar 2026HANSARDVictims and Courts BillThat is a good point. The Minister has her side of the argument, but on the other side is the Justice Committee, pretty much every journalist involved in crime and court…25 Mar 2026HANSARDJury TrialsThank you, Mr Speaker— [ Interruption. ]17 Mar 2026HANSARDJury TrialsThe Prime Minister, we learned this weekend, once said that trials without juries mean evidence is not properly tested and can lead to wrongful convictions. Was he wrong?17 Mar 2026HANSARDJury TrialsI think the public will be disappointed by this behaviour. The Justice Secretary cannot get his story straight. Like the Prime Minister, he once said: “Criminal trials without…17 Mar 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsI join the Justice Secretary in sending condolences to the family of Jeff Blair. I also pay tribute to the shadow Solicitor General, my hon. Friend the Member for Maidstone and…17 Mar 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals BillI completely—10 Mar 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals BillI give way.10 Mar 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals BillThe Institute for Government has made it absolutely clear that the figures that the Government have produced are based on assumptions that are not necessarily shared by anybody…10 Mar 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals BillMagistrates have their place in the system, but jury trials are fundamental to our inheritance, and to public confidence in the criminal justice system. If the reason is not…10 Mar 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals BillCrown court waiting times were actually lower under the Conservatives until the pandemic. It is true that the backlog grew during the pandemic, but the pandemic came before the…10 Mar 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals BillI will not give way. Of course, when the Justice Secretary’s predecessor, the Home Secretary, commissioned Sir Brian Leveson to conduct a review of the criminal courts, she knew…10 Mar 2026HANSARDCourts and Tribunals BillI do not accept that characterisation of magistrates courts. If that were a true cause for concern for the hon. Lady, this Bill would perhaps try to address what she says, yet it…10 Mar 2026