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HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewAll dangerous offenders—those who receive an extended determinate sentence, including some of the serious offenders to which my hon. Friend has referred—will be excluded from this…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewMy hon. Friend is absolutely right: it is a day of shame for the Conservative party. I am sorry to see that the attitude of Conservative Members today is shameless. He makes a…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewLet me thank the right hon. Gentleman for his remarks of personal respect, which are shared across this House. I thank him for that and for the important issue he raises. I hope…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewAfter some months in this job facing the shadow Ministers, I am afraid that nothing about their behaviour surprises me any more. I will take notice—as, I think, will the…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewThe hon. Gentleman will know that the track record of his party in government was to run prisons boiling hot, with violence off the charts. The shadow Justice Secretary has been…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewMy hon. Friend raises a really important point. This is why the Government have already rolled out employment work councils, where prisons link up with employers in their region…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewLet me reassure the hon. Lady that this is a huge uplift in funding for probation. It is a £1.6 billion budget as it stands, and it will increase by up to £700 million by the end…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewThe review recommends immediate deportation—meaning “as quickly as possible”, because we still have to detain people before we can get them on a plane and back to their country of…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. This Government are determined to clean up the mess left by the previous Conservative Government and to put victims first, cut crime and make…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewWhat absolute rubbish, I am sorry to say. I am not taking any lessons from the hon. Gentleman or the SNP. This is a programme for England and Wales, for which I am directly…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewI shall take my hon. Friend’s early bid for further building in her constituency under advisement immediately.22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewThis Government will make sure we are running a prison system that is sustainable and not on the point of collapse, so that we can ensure that dangerous offenders in this country…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewI am happy to ensure that the evidence is available. I would say to the hon. Lady that the very small-scale pilot that I inherited had been running for some time without anybody…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewMy hon. Friend is absolutely right: we are already deporting more foreign national offenders than the previous Government. We are taking forward the measures from the Gauke review…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewThe hon. Gentleman may have seen that just last week, when the Home Secretary set out the immigration White Paper, we announced that we are reviewing the use of article 8 in…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewI pay tribute to the organisations in my hon. Friend’s constituency; such voluntary organisations play a hugely important role in helping the justice system to succeed in…22 May 2025HANSARD Independent Sentencing ReviewWhat puts the whole country at risk, including current, future and potential victims of crime, is letting our prison system collapse, and I will never let that happen. The…22 May 2025HANSARD Victims and Courts BillThese matters are devolved in Northern Ireland—the Bill applies to England and Wales—but we are in regular contact with our counterparts in Northern Ireland. I know that the…20 May 2025HANSARD Victims and Courts BillMy hon. Friend raises an important point, and I am sorry about the case of her constituent. She will know that her request is one of the leading recommendations of the independent…20 May 2025HANSARD Victims and Courts BillMy hon. Friend speaks of one of the tragic cases that has led to these changes in the law and on which, in fairness, the previous Government were also seeking to act before the…20 May 2025