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HANSARD Solar Development: NewarkThe hon. Lady makes an important point. We should think about the impact on rural communities. Larger projects such as those that I am speaking about will have a profound impact…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Solar Development: NewarkMy hon. Friend makes an important point. The answer is no. If we want to pursue net zero— even with the zealotry of some in the Government—we have to strike a balance. It is not…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Solar Development: NewarkI certainly do. The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. Imagine the disruption, even just for a couple of years, of constructing 10,000 acres of solar farms in small rural…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Solar Development: NewarkMy hon. Friend makes a very good point, and I know he has spoken about this before. Let us do exactly that—let us have floating solar panels, if there is the appetite for them.…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Solar Development: NewarkI am not clear from the hon. Gentleman’s comments whether he supports or opposes the vast number of solar farms being built in Nottinghamshire. Of course, it is a free market in…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Solar Development: NewarkI will, briefly, and then I should conclude.02 Sept 2025HANSARD Solar Development: NewarkMy hon. Friend makes a very good point indeed. The suggestion we have heard over a generation that green jobs will come to the UK has turned out to largely be a mirage, because so…02 Sept 2025HANSARD Solar Development: NewarkThe hon. Member is always welcome to come up a ladder with me in Newark. Perhaps I will pay him a visit as well to fix some Union flags. The hon. Member is right to say that these…02 Sept 2025HANSARDTrial by Jury: Proposed Restrictions(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if she will make a statement on her plans to restrict trial by jury through the creation of a Crown court bench…09 Jul 2025HANSARDTrial by Jury: Proposed RestrictionsAll of us agree that justice delayed is justice denied. That is why it is so important to get control of the court backlog. No one pretends that this is straightforward, but the…09 Jul 2025HANSARDPrison Officers: Terms and Conditions of ServiceThere has been a spate of attacks on prison officers in recent months by Islamist terrorists. One study even revealed that terrorists inside prisons are teaching organised…08 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsIn the year since Labour took office, can the Justice Secretary tell us how many individuals have been prosecuted for smuggling people in on small boats?08 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI asked the Justice Secretary a very simple question about one of the biggest challenges facing our country right now, and the whole House can see that she did not have a clue.…08 Jul 2025HANSARDGrooming Gangs: Criminal Justice SystemSohail Zaffer raped a child. He received 42 months. Manzoor Akhtar raped a child. He was sentenced to four and a half years. Ramin Bari was convicted of four rapes. He got just…08 Jul 2025HANSARDImmigration Offences: SentencingFor the first time, the Sentencing Council has published immigration sentencing guidelines. They water down sentences passed by Parliament, which means that hundreds of illegal…03 Jun 2025HANSARDViolent Offenders: Early ReleaseCan I first say how sorry I was to hear that the Minister was the subject of intimidation and an attack on her office? I think all of us across the House would like to wish her…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsBrave prison officers are under attack, and I am warning again that, if the Government do not act now, an officer will be killed on the Justice Secretary’s watch. After the…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsLast month, nine countries wrote to the Council of Europe calling for urgent reform of the European convention on human rights to tackle the migration crisis. The UK was…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewToday is about one question: should violent and prolific criminals be on the streets or behind bars? I think they should be behind bars. For all the Justice Secretary’s rhetoric,…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing Reviewindicated assent .22 May 2025