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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)I fully support everything the right hon. Gentleman has said. This is not sport, but chasing down a wild animal to rip it apart for money. I am opposed to that, as I am to other…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree that the point of our justice system is to be seen to be acting without fear or favour in a fair way, and that for a child this would not be considered…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)Does my hon. Friend share my concern that, because the courts are clogged up, such examples are likely to become more and more pronounced in the coming months and years?24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)If it is acceptable, I want to put on record my thanks to the Minister, because from that point forward, when I raised the issue in that debate, she has always used the terms “sex…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)I understand the point that the Minister is making, but there is so much stigma around the word “prostitution” that I cannot see a situation where many young women would willingly…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)I fully support the arguments that my hon. Friend is making and the new clauses that he has tabled. They lead into arguments that I have been making myself, in that I do not think…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)It is only so that we do not lose the legislative opportunity.24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for Stroud for moving the new clause tabled by the hon. Member for Tonbridge and Malling. The hon. Member for Stroud has done the legal bit, and I am going…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)In lots of my local shops, there is just one person in the shop on their own; I wonder whether that has also been my hon. Friend’s experience. I am not sure whether that is…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)I support my hon. Friend’s powerful speech. I am unsure whether she has the gender breakdown for those figures, but in my experience it is predominantly women who work at the…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Nineteeth sitting)With those reassurances, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Clause, by leave, withdrawn. Ordered, That further consideration be now adjourned. — (Tom Pursglove.)24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I hear what the Minister says. I am still very concerned that, by the Minister’s own figures, we are looking at a quarter of clinics being targeted. I am very concerned about the…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I thank the Minister for recognising that this is harassment rather than protest. Does she share my frustration that more councils are not using public detention orders?24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. I am proud to speak to this clause, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing Central and Acton (Dr Huq) and supported…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for that reassurance, and I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Clause, by leave, withdrawn. New Clause 43 Offence of interference with access…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Nineteeth sitting)The Minister will not be surprised that I investigate the data quite routinely, and there are two problems that she might be able to address. First, when the ONS data come out,…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The new clause places a requirement on the Secretary of State to collect and publish annual data on child sex offences, child…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I am grateful to my hon. Friend for tabling the new clause, because I have dealt with survivors to whom this has happened and I think that the law needs to catch up with where we…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I fully support new clause 4. It links very tightly to my new clause 20, which I would like to speak to. New clause 20 would mean that once a witness was determined to be eligible…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton North for tabling these new clauses, because during the pandemic in particular the rate of dog theft has gone…22 Jun 2021