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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)Yes. Whenever people hand over personal information, they need to know why they are doing so, and the implications. That is as important for a child as for an adult, and we need…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)I understand what the Minister is saying. The review in Northumbria showed that about 50% of requests were not strictly necessary and proportionate. That must be wrong, and we are…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)We all agree on the problems here; we have suggested some solutions and the Minister has explained why she is not convinced. I think it would be hard for the Minister not to agree…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. She speaks with great experience, and she is absolutely right: doing these reviews has wider benefits. Reading the review on Child Q…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)The full package of these reforms will be named “Kay’s law” in memory of Kay Richardson, who was murdered by her ex-partner following his release under investigation despite…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Nearly 5,000 women are turned away from refuges each year, because the support just is not there and so much provision has been taken away.…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)I worked for six months at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. That happened to be when things were coming to light about a doctor called Myles Bradbury, who had abused many, many children.…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)My hon. Friend has made a series of correct points. Across the board, in the digital and the online worlds, when it comes to laws, we are behind what is happening in the real…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)As more and more crimes take place online or are enabled through digital devices and the internet, the extraction of information from electronic devices has increasingly become a…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)The Opposition support these clauses, for exactly the reasons the Minister has outlined. The case of Keith Bennett was incredibly awful. Today we saw the news about the ongoing…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)I cannot really argue with the points my hon. Friend makes, which seem completely correct. At the bottom of my road was the Shirley Oaks home, which was the scene of massively…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)I will not press the amendments on the basis of what the Minister said on those ones. I was also pleased to hear that there is going to be better data gathering—she might come to…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)The Minister is outlining how important the code of practice is. Is she therefore sympathetic to the view that we have put forward in our new clauses that that code of practice…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)My hon. Friend makes a very good point, which was raised last week, and which I know the Minister has clocked. We have an amendment to shift the age from 16 to 18, but my hon.…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)I completely agree. The issue of people having things on their phone that relate to their family or friends, which they feel it would be terrible for others to see, has not been…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)That is completely right and why we think that having some advice would help in both directions. It would help be clear about when a phone should or should not be handed over, but…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to be back here today. Before I get into the detail of the clauses, I want to put some questions to the Minister, to reflect on the importance of reviews when…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the Minister for her responses. On amendments 76 and 77, I stress again how keen the police world is that we make some progress on those two issues. I noted that she said…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. She is absolutely right, and all the police organisations have been really clear that this is how we get the best outcome from the…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I agree with my hon. Friend. It is always good to look back at what has worked in the past, and I go back to the example I cited earlier of the teenage pregnancy strategy. There…25 May 2021