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HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. In answer to questions, the Justice Secretary said at one point that 17 prisoners a day were released in error under the last Conservative…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorThat is also wrong.11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Releases in ErrorSo we are back here again. At least the Justice Secretary is getting some use out of his new suit. But where has Wednesday’s bombast and bravado gone? “Get a grip, man!”, he…11 Nov 2025HANSARDPrisoner Release ChecksDear, oh dear, where to begin? This Justice Secretary could not deport the only small boat migrant who wanted—no, who tried—to be deported. Having been mistakenly released, Hadush…27 Oct 2025HANSARD Alleged Spying Case: Role of Attorney General’s Office(Urgent Question): To ask the Solicitor General if she will make a statement about the role of the Attorney General’s Office in the decision to drop the China spy prosecution.23 Oct 2025HANSARD Alleged Spying Case: Role of Attorney General’s OfficeLet me cut to the chase. It is standard practice for the CPS to inform the Attorney General if a case of political significance that had required Attorney General consent in the…23 Oct 2025HANSARD Alleged Spying Case: Role of Attorney General’s OfficeYou are supposed to be a Law Officer—answer the questions.23 Oct 2025HANSARD Alleged Spying Case: Role of Attorney General’s OfficeOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. May I ask your advice? Unusually, the Attorney General does not sit in the House of Commons. When I submitted written parliamentary questions to…23 Oct 2025HANSARDSupport for Victims of Rape and Sexual ViolenceChild sex offenders destroy the lives of their victims, so why did the Justice Secretary, as Foreign Secretary, appoint the “best pal” and known business partner of one of the…16 Sept 2025HANSARDSupport for Victims of Rape and Sexual ViolenceThe Minister could not answer, because it is simply indefensible and she knows it. Everyone in this House knows it. Everyone knows it. On Sunday, the family of one of Epstein’s…16 Sept 2025HANSARDSupport for Victims of Rape and Sexual ViolenceIt is about justice for victims.16 Sept 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI welcome the Justice Secretary to his place. The only one in, one out deal that is working in the Government is the one for Deputy Prime Ministers. Just last month, the country…16 Sept 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI will give it to the Justice Secretary; that was a better reply than the one he gave when he was asked which monarch succeeded Henry VIII and he said Henry VII, but it was not…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillMy right hon. Friend may well be right. A number of the policies introduced by this Government have had the most extraordinary unintended consequences. The Secretary of State said…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillI beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add “this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Sentencing Bill, despite supporting…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillThe hon. Lady perhaps does not remember the last years of the last Labour Government. They let out 80,000 criminals on to our streets. That is how they emptied the prisons—not by…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillThe hon. Gentleman is on rocky ground, because the Justice Secretary literally put his name to a letter stopping the then Government deporting foreign criminals from our country…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillI must make progress—I need to bring my remarks to a close. In plain English, there are more FNOs overall, and more FNO sex offenders in particular, while those on Labour’s Front…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Sentencing BillI could not agree more with my right hon. Friend. The truth is this: most people in this country are already raging at the fact that prisoners get let out of prison early. They…16 Sept 2025HANSARD Solar Development: NewarkMadam Deputy Speaker, can I begin by thanking you—and, through you, Mr Speaker—for granting me this Adjournment debate? It is unusual to allocate Adjournment debates to members of…02 Sept 2025