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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree that the fear of giving evidence as the system stands, prevents any justice from happening? Any movement that the Government can make that is sensitive…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I am happy to work with the Minister to get the wording exactly right, so that it does exactly what I think we both want.22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I appreciate the Minister’s giving way. I am not entirely convinced that his civil servants have read my amendment. After proposed new paragraph (b) in subsection (2), the new…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)My new clause shifts the choice to the victim rather than the judge. What the Minister is saying is great, but will he support my new clause, so that the victim is able to choose…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I am very heartened by what the Minister is saying. One problem that keeps getting raised with me is that if victims choose to go down the live link route there must be authorised…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)It is always a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. I am fully supportive of new clause 3, because I think it addresses a rather patriarchal approach that is…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)We do it every day.22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I thank the Minister for giving way—we are so intuitive now that we do not need to ask to intervene on each other. This sort of behaviour starts at a very young age, which is why…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I appreciate how sensitively and proactively the Minister is responding. The problem seems to be the perception as opposed to the reality on the part of the victim and also on the…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I completely agree. While the hon. Gentleman was talking, I was reminded of my grandma, who had a budgie called Bluey. As a child, I did not realise why, every few years, Bluey…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I completely agree with the hon. Member. Yes, of course, we need robust data to be able to do that. We are in a chicken-and-egg situation because, as the hon. Member highlights,…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)Does my hon. Friend agree, though, that fitting a black box would not inhibit a good driver, and it should not put an additional cost on the hire? The new clause would allow us to…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I would like to speak to new clause 57, which would restrict evidence or questions about mental health counselling or treatment records, unless a defined threshold is met. Under…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I support the new clauses, because I have yet to see a positive reason for women going into prisons. As my hon. Friend is saying, the impact on children is dramatic, but it is not…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am listening intently to everything the Minister and his colleague are saying, which is great, but does the Minister understand that we have been promised all this for a long…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I hope the Minister is aware of how grateful I am for all the work she has done on this cause. She has really been a champion for it. Is she able to share with the Committee her…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighteenth sitting)Will my hon. Friend comment on Nottinghamshire police’s pilot on misogyny as a hate crime? They thought it worked exceptionally well in challenging behaviour. That is the sort of…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I hear what the Minister says, but the new clause would mean that we could address any issues on a Friday and before the weekend, when no staff are available.22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighteenth sitting)My hon. Friend is making powerful points. Does he agree that the new clause would prevent the expensive merry-go-round of short-term wasteful prison sentences that do not ever…22 Jun 2021