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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank the Minister for her response. In many ways, we are in the same place. We are trying to make this new duty as effective as it can be. I would like to test the will of the…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 50, in clause 7, page 8, line 4, at end insert— “(3A) Specified authorities which are housing authorities must have particular regard to their housing…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)These amendments have been tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy). They are supported by a vast array of very sensible organisations, from Redthread…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)That is something that we need to try and shift over the long term and that is the point of the clauses and amendments. I understand the Minister’s points. On new clause 28, there…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his political jibe. He is correct to say there are examples of bad housing in Croydon, as there are in other parts of the country. It…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 116, in clause 7, page 8, line 10, at end insert— “(d) the local voluntary sector and local businesses.” This amendment would create a duty to consult the…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)It is unusual for housing and the Home Office to be in the same conversation, which is possibly why the Minister was using strange terminology more akin to the MHCLG.25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)Amendment 116 would create a duty to consult the voluntary sector and local businesses in preparing a strategy to prevent and reduce serious violence in an area. As part of the…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention and for her points about Rotherham. It is absolutely clear that the voluntary sector and local businesses are part of the solution and…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I heard what the Minister said, in particular about amendments 81 and 87. She said that she did not want to push organisations towards having to prepare revised strategies all the…25 May 2021HANSARDDaniel Morgan: Independent Panel ReportDaniel Morgan Jr., Daniel Morgan’s son, lives in my constituency, and I spoke to him this morning. I met Daniel at an advice surgery back in 2019, when he came to see me to ask if…24 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Thank you. That was really helpful.20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Thank you.20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)That is very clear. Thank you.20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)Q It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. Dame Vera, you answered, in response to your first question, most of the questions that I was going to ask, so I…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Hello. It would be good if you could start by setting out your view on the duty in the Bill to prevent serious violence. Do you think that will help towards a public health…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Just to be clear on that, do you think that putting the safeguarding of children on the face of the Bill would be the way to ensure that this is part of the picture? Iryna Pona:…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q My question is for Nina. Could you talk to us about the serious violence reduction orders and any concerns you might have about the disproportionality, which the former Prime…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q This is a question for the Children’s Society. Could you explain, for the purposes of Committee members, what is understood by the term “plugging”? Iryna Pona: Plugging is when…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Do you think that there would be benefit in trying to define that in a better way, in terms of a criminal offence? Iryna Pona: Yes. That definitely came up a lot when we were…20 May 2021