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HANSARDAid Budget Reduction: Humanitarian ImpactI welcome the G7’s call for unimpeded access for aid workers to the Tigray region of Ethiopia, as a potentially catastrophic man-made famine is unfolding. The UN estimates that…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I do not wish to divide the Committee. I am content with what the Minister said about profit, but I would be grateful if he could write to me about why local authorities cannot…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourteenth sitting)My amendment 146 is designed to ensure that local authorities are able to run secure 16-to-19 academies, either alone or in consortia, and to prevent such establishments from…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I fully support the arguments made by my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton North on the amendments. I have a fundamental concern about remanding children. It impacts on them…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I apologise, Sir Charles.15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourteenth sitting)When I used to run a children’s hospice, we had offenders under probation supervision come in. They were meant to be doing gardening at the children’s hospice, but instead they…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Will the Minister give way?15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I am grateful for the Minister’s comments. I have worked extensively with the Government’s victims team and it is fantastic. The victims code is great, but only if it is…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 145, in clause 109, page 98, line 41, at beginning insert— ‘(1) In subsection (3) of section 239 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (the Parole Board), after…15 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Thirteenth sitting)It was not my intention to make a speech on this clause, but more questions are being raised than answered, and I hope that the Minister will be able to answer a few of them. I…15 Jun 2021HANSARDUK Steel Sector: Supply ChainsIt is always a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Graham. I am very frustrated that we are here once again; I hope my speech will explain why. The British steel…09 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)First, people all around the world are being murdered for being gay, so there is the element of protest. Secondly, can the Minister confirm that the measures she is putting in the…08 Jun 2021HANSARD 0.7% Official Development Assistance TargetThank you, Mr Speaker, for your assistance in securing this debate. The number of people not only who have campaigned on this issue for the past year but who want to speak today…08 Jun 2021HANSARD 0.7% Official Development Assistance TargetThat accounts for the cuts in July, but surely it was a political decision, and potentially an unlawful one, to cut to 0.5% in November.08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)I wonder whether my hon. Friend was as struck as I was when we had the witnesses in front of us and the police said that, actually, they feel that they have enough powers. They…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)My hon. Friend has got to the nub of the problem, which was highlighted by a number of the witnesses, as I will come to in my speech. This is ambiguous and lacks the clarity that…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)Does my hon. Friend share my concerns that the people who are absolutely set on protesting are going to do it regardless of the legislation, in that getting arrested is almost…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)I am grateful that the Foreign Secretary has been very good on protecting the right to protest internationally. It seems somewhat hypocritical that we are reducing the right to…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)I do not know whether it was recorded properly, but I do not think we ever got to the bottom of what “serious noise” was. During our evidence session, a drill was going in the…08 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Ninth sitting)Owing to the areas I campaign on, I have had protests against me and that does cause me serious unease—it is horrible. They have led to death threats and all manner of things, but…08 Jun 2021