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HANSARDEarly Release of PrisonersThank you for correcting me, Madam Deputy Speaker. I was quoting the tweets so exactly that I forgot my responsibilities. As I was saying, this is an ideologically anti-prison…07 Jul 2026HANSARDEarly Release of PrisonersI completely agree with my hon. Friend. Over a period, the construction of prisons has become needlessly expensive and needlessly time-consuming, as has the development of other…07 Jul 2026HANSARDJury TrialsI listened carefully but do not think the Minister answered my question— [ Interruption. ] We will see, won’t we? I am replying to the Justice Secretary’s comment from a sedentary…30 Jun 2026HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Government referred the sentences of the teenage gang rapists who attacked two schoolgirls to the Court of Appeal as unduly lenient, but the Government also say that they want…30 Jun 2026HANSARDJury TrialsThe Justice Secretary and his ministerial team say that the attack on jury trials is needed to deal with the backlog in the courts. When the right hon. Member for Makerfield (Andy…30 Jun 2026HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The House may be interested in this following the earlier point of order. Earlier today, the Minister for Women and Equalities accused…24 Jun 2026HANSARDForest City: West SuffolkIt is undoubtedly the case that we need to build more houses in this country, but schemes such as the one described by my hon. Friend must be proportionate for the areas in which…23 Jun 2026HANSARDForest City: West SuffolkI think we have just had it—the people of West Suffolk will know that local Labour representatives are in favour of Forest City, which I think is shameful. As I was saying, the…23 Jun 2026HANSARDForest City: West SuffolkI draw your attention, Madam Deputy Speaker, to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I also declare that my family and I are local residents affected by the…23 Jun 2026HANSARDForest City: West SuffolkI thank the Minister for his considered answers to my questions. The point is that the Forest City developers are not seeking a process where Ministers consider an application…23 Jun 2026HANSARDForest City: West SuffolkTo be honest, I am at a complete loss as to how that does not express support for the scheme, and if the hon. Gentleman is saying that he does not support it after his earlier…23 Jun 2026HANSARDForest City: West SuffolkI completely agree, and I will come to the needs of Cambridge and the surrounding area. You will have noticed, Madam Deputy Speaker, that none of the examples that I have just…23 Jun 2026HANSARDForest City: West SuffolkI do agree, but it is not just a distraction from the need to build in the way that that is needed in the broader region around Cambridge. Only today I received an email from one…23 Jun 2026HANSARD 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 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 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 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 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 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 2026