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HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court BillThis Bill contains some of the most controversial restrictions of our rights for many years. It is very long, and we have only a few hours to debate it, so I agree with the hon.…05 Jul 2021HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court BillI wonder where that stops and at what point we accept the right balance between the right to protest peacefully and the right of people to go about their business. The…05 Jul 2021HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court BillI thank my hon. Friend for her intervention; that is clearly the case. It is also really important to note that the police at no point have asked for these powers on the basis of…05 Jul 2021HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court BillI will give to the hon. Gentleman, if he would like, a list of existing police powers and laws that do exactly that. There are many different laws from different pieces of…05 Jul 2021HANSARD Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court BillI thank the right hon. Gentleman for making that good point and I welcome the amendments that he has tabled to this section of the Bill. The Opposition want clauses 55 to 61…05 Jul 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)The Minister is making the arguments that I thought he would. They are perfectly reasonable, but I come back to him on the point that one of the problems is the tiny proportion of…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I was talking this week with some of the larger organisations, and they made exactly that point: the very small convenience stores are often in…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I will shortly cite figures that bear out the suggestion that assaults have increased during this period. We saw a raft of assaults during…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe. I rise to speak to new clauses 45, 46 and 62. New clause 45 would introduce a new penalty for assaults on retail…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)My hon. Friend makes a good point. I do not have those figures here, but we know that more women than men are in such positions, so I imagine that that breakdown would bear out…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Nineteeth sitting)I am grateful for the opportunity to state publicly that I very much support the new clause. On the point that the Minister has just made, in my local area abortion services can…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)The arguments about under-reporting make our case for us. People would be much more likely to report these things if they knew that a specific sentence had been identified, and if…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Twentieth sitting)Does my hon. Friend accept that some wider societal issues are pushing people into this situation? I had a constituent who had no recourse to public funds who had a child. She was…24 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighteenth sitting)Does my hon. Friend share my experience as a Member of Parliament, which is that many people have come to my door on a Friday afternoon who have been made homeless for a…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I am glad about what the Minister has just said, that she remains in listening mode and that she will continue to examine the case. Does she have more detail on what form that…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I will not try to remake my hon. Friend’s argument, which was compelling. I shall speak to new clauses 48 and 55, which have been grouped with new clause 24. I have spoken…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighteenth sitting)The Minister points to the risks of legislation being passed that defines something that is as yet undefined, and that being a blank cheque. Does she agree that our concerns about…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventeenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The new clause was tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Halifax (Holly Lynch), with my support and that of my hon. Friends…22 Jun 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighteenth sitting)I am interested in the homicide board to which the Minister referred. We would appreciate more details about how that would work, and it would be nice if we could get them before…22 Jun 2021