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HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillPerhaps the Minister wants to stand up and make another speech, but I will carry on. The Home Secretary is pushing amendments that the police do not want and did not ask for, and…28 Mar 2022HANSARD Daniel Morgan Independent Panel ReportI thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement—three hours’ advance sight, which is very good. Yesterday, some of us gathered on Westminster Bridge to remember the…23 Mar 2022HANSARDMetropolitan Police: Strip-search of SchoolgirlThe Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review published last week, compiled by the extremely highly regarded Jim Gamble, into the case of Child Q was deeply disturbing. The details…21 Mar 2022HANSARDMetropolitan Police: Misogyny and Sexual HarassmentMy right hon. Friend makes an excellent point. I have talked to the police about that issue and about whether misconduct proceedings, which I was about to come to, need to be…08 Mar 2022HANSARDMetropolitan Police: Misogyny and Sexual HarassmentIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Cummins. I too congratulate the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Sarah Olney) for securing this important debate on International…08 Mar 2022HANSARDMetropolitan Police: Misogyny and Sexual HarassmentI thank the Minister for giving way. I just wanted to draw to her attention a major report that is being published this morning by Sir Michael Barber and the Policing Foundation,…08 Mar 2022HANSARDHMICFRS RecommendationsMay I say that that was an exercise in making a very good apology? I appreciate it very much. On so many measures around violence against women and girls, we are sadly going in…01 Mar 2022HANSARDHMICFRS RecommendationsI thank the Minister for her statement, a copy of which we received 15 minutes before it was made. You might think, Mr Speaker, that with the machinery of government at their…01 Mar 2022HANSARDHMICFRS RecommendationsIt was at 12.15 pm, and we thought the statement was starting at 12.30 pm.01 Mar 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillThe hon. Lady puts it very well, and I completely agree. We have seen with the recording of such crimes in Nottinghamshire and other places that this measure works. It is welcomed…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillJust to be clear, I am not against people having a position; our amendment seeks to make sure that clinics ensure that people get their vaccines, that NHS workers can get to work,…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI thank the hon. Lady for that intervention, but as my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow said, there is precedent for this with the case of the murderers of Stephen Lawrence.28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI feel as if there should be a three-way conversation in another place to tackle some of these questions. But they are real questions, and my hon. Friend the Member for…28 Feb 2022HANSARDViolence Against Women and GirlsWe have heard lots of words on strategies, taskforces, roundtables and action plans, yet many victims will never see justice, and more and more criminals are getting away with it.…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI thank the Minister for his speech. He comes late to this party—he was not part of the Committee stage—and he has done well to catch up at this point. We believe parts 3 and 4 of…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, who put it so well.28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI want to begin by making a comment in this House on the Government’s procedure in the other place. The Government tried to sideline the Commons from its role in the democratic…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI understand what the hon. Member is saying, but as my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy) said, there is a carve-out clause particularly designed to satisfy…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillI understand the point that the hon. and learned Lady is making. The offences are motivated by hostility towards the sex or gender of the victim, and the amendment is designed to…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillThat is a very valid point. On the noise issue, I cannot see that the police will find a way to use the legislation. It would be a waste of legislation: it would not be…28 Feb 2022