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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)Q It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. Welcome, Dame Vera. Your role as national lead on victims for the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Second sitting)Thank you for your time.18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Second sitting)Q I know. Suffragettes are often referred to; I always say that the suffragists, the letter writers, had an equally great impact. I jest, but it is an important point. My final…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q Special constables are a much-loved part of our communities and are respected by everybody, including by the force. The Bill amends the Police Act 1996, which does not permit…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (First sitting)Q One quick point: we heard from our previous witnesses about the rise of assaults on emergency workers. That is a key part of the Bill, which has really captured the imagination…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Second sitting)Q On unauthorised encampments, I am sure all the MPs in the room receive a mixed bag of correspondence on this issue. I am very interested in this issue and there are two parts to…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Second sitting)Alison Hernandez. Thank you. Alison Hernandez: There are a few things, actually. Some of the existing arrangements under the legislation that you mentioned are quite strong, but…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Second sitting)Q Do you support the introduction of secure schools? Stephanie Roberts-Bibby: We wholeheartedly support the introduction of secure schools. We very much welcome the Government’s…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Second sitting)Q How important is the expertise of the people running secure schools? You have mentioned Oasis already. Who else is in the mix, and how do we ensure that that expertise is in…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Second sitting)Q If I may ask one more question, albeit in two parts, how do youth offending teams rehabilitate children who are given community sentences? Also, where there has been a tragic…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Second sitting)Q If I may ask just one very final question—18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Second sitting)Very tiny. I have a number of youth groups in my patch, as no doubt all MPs have, that are trusted by youngsters and that have been there and built the relationships. How do the…18 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Second sitting)Q I will be brief. There has been some suggestion this afternoon that there is no need for changes to the law, because protests should be managed in part by winning hearts and…18 May 2021HANSARDDebate on the AddressThe hon. Member makes a good point. Everybody across the House wants to see online harms tackled, and we have to give a huge amount of praise to the Government, who are working…11 May 2021HANSARDDebate on the AddressI give thanks to my hon. Friend the Member for Dover (Mrs Elphicke) for paying tribute to the family of Julia James. My heart, thoughts and prayers go to them for their loss—the…11 May 2021HANSARDEngagementsMy constituency of Stroud recently won the title of best place to live. There is much to visit there, including an historic lamp standard that was erected to celebrate Queen…28 Apr 2021HANSARDElected Women Representatives: Online AbuseI thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Mrs Miller) for securing this really important debate. How free do we think online speech is at the moment, when posting…20 Apr 2021HANSARDOnline Anonymity and Anonymous AbuseI thank my hon. Friend; it was very kind of him to set up a meeting between me, Katie and her mum Amy. We talked about her experiences of the trolls. What they have been through…24 Mar 2021HANSARDOnline Anonymity and Anonymous AbuseI beg to move, That this House has considered online anonymity and anonymous abuse. In recent weeks, we have been rightly concerned about safety in our towns and cities, yet…24 Mar 2021HANSARDOnline Anonymity and Anonymous AbuseI have been asked to be brief, so I will. I thank the members of the Backbench Business Committee for allowing the debate to go ahead. They rightly challenged me as to whether…24 Mar 2021