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HANSARDTopical QuestionsI hope that my hon. Friend heard the earlier answer on the unduly lenient sentence scheme and the review by the Law Commission, but if he writes to me with the specifics of that…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady will be aware that those seven biological males are on E wing, which is a transgender-only facility. We will review the recent Supreme Court ruling and make sure…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am content that this Government have deported more foreign national offenders than the previous Government. I am content that we have accepted the findings of the Gauke review,…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs I think the hon. Lady will be aware, that is primarily a policy area for our colleagues in the Northern Ireland Office, but I will make sure that we raise those issues with…03 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe do not have a blasphemy law, and we are not going to have a blasphemy law in this country. As the hon. Gentleman will be aware, I believe that that specific case is going to be…03 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims of Domestic Abuse and ViolenceI am very sorry to hear of the experiences of the hon. Lady’s constituent; it is clearly a horrifying case, and my sympathies are with her. Given that stalking protection orders…03 Jun 2025HANSARDVictims of Domestic Abuse and ViolenceThe Government are taking action to support victims of domestic abuse and violence. We are ensuring stronger management of domestic abuse perpetrators through new domestic abuse…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are deporting at a faster rate than the previous Government. We have accepted the review’s recommendation to drop the threshold for early…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewMy hon. Friend makes an incredibly powerful point and she is absolutely right. When we have a prison system on the point of collapse, it is not as if the criminals do not know…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewI thank my hon. Friend for his question. Let me tell him that we have already learned the lessons of the Tory party’s failure, and I am very sorry to hear about the situation he…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewOn tagging retrospectively, I will certainly go away and have a look at that point. I suspect, although I do not want to mislead the hon. Member or the House, that a retrospective…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewI pay tribute to the right hon. Member, his father and magistrates all over our country. They do an incredibly valuable job of keeping our justice system going. In fact,…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewI am very grateful to my hon. Friend for raising issues relating to the Probation Service. We have already expanded the number of staff. Last year, we recruited 1,000 extra, and…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewAll those who have received an extended determinate sentence—and that includes many of the offenders mentioned by the hon. Lady—are excluded from these measures. All other…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewOne of the problems of running a prison system at absolutely boiling hot—where it is permanently on the point of collapse, as has been the case in our prison system for far too…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewThe hon. Lady makes a good point. I pay tribute to the work that is going on in her constituency. As I have said before, 80% of offenders in this country are reoffenders. That…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewMy hon. Friend puts it very well, and he is absolutely right. We have made more progress on the deportation of foreign national offenders than the previous Government and we will…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to remind the House that 80% of offenders in our country are reoffenders, which tells us that our system is broken. It tells us that our prisons…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewStudies show a 60% reduction in offending. My hon. Friend is right to say that, for one subset of offenders, offending relates to power. For another subset of offenders, we…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewI am sorry to hear of the case of my hon. Friend’s constituent; those are truly horrible circumstances for any family to find themselves in. I can assure her that we will be…22 May 2025