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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)I am hearing everything that the Minister is saying. Knowing that the review is coming out—I assume it is something that she has been working on or very closely with, because of…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)May I say how grateful I am that the Minister is clearly in listening mode on this issue? The difference with the Mental Capacity Act 2005 is that it does not define 16 and…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)I have heard everything that the Minister said. I 100% put on the record my gratitude that our work to research and prove the case around faith leaders was heard and listened to.…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)The frustration of wearing a mask is that the Minister cannot see that I am smiling. He is quoting back all the arguments I have been making for the last five years—I am grateful…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)As I am sure the Minister is aware, amendment 7 is a direct lift from the Sexual Offences Act 2003, so the definition that he is pulling apart now is already law. The bit that we…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)I hear that the Government use that excuse a lot, and my rebuttal is always that it has not been an issue for the past 18 years when it has been in place for teachers, so why…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)Like my hon. Friend, I am somewhat perplexed. He is right: subsection (2) suggests that the Government recognise that additional careers may need to come under the legislation,…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)My hon. Friend is making a very strong point. I am thinking about this from a parent’s point of view. At the moment, they assume that everybody in a position of trust over their…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)I appreciate what the Minister is saying. In that discussion, will he throw in the potential of another review? In relation to this crime, things have moved on so much, not in the…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)The Minister’s speech is incredibly reassuring, and I am glad that it will now be in black and white in the transcript, because it gives the comfort that we need. However, hearing…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)My hon. Friend makes absolutely the right point. I am talking about UK offenders abusing children internationally, but hon. Members, particularly the Minister, will also be very…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)The Minister is nodding. The IJM is leading the way in working collaboratively with international justice departments, police departments and local voluntary organisations around…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)My hon. Friend knows that I have the great privilege of knowing and working with Ian. He is a remarkable survivor, who does everything he can both to prevent and to seek justice…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)I am in the unusual position of having found out that things were going wrong with pre-charge bail at the same time that the Minister did. We were both in Rotherham with the…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)I support the amendments that my hon. Friend is putting forward, because the intention is to put the victim at the absolute centre of all of this. Does she agree that we also need…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)I will start with new clause 37 on extending double jeopardy. I start with a quote from Dean Radford in the Metro in 2019, “Like many young boys who grew up with a dream of…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 7, in clause 45, page 37, line 1, leave out subsections (2) and (3) and insert— “(2) In section 21, after subsection (5), insert— (5A) This subsection…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)My hon. Friend may not know that I used to run a children’s hospice. Child deaths are very rare, but a review such as this enables the family to have the closure that they need to…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)I think this involves the focus that I hope the Minister is going to come to. I hear everything she has just said about the justification and I am going along with that, but it is…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for sharing that experience, which reiterates the two points of early intervention and creating a culture in which it is automatic for a manager to ask,…25 May 2021