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HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionIn November 2022, the Commission launched “a consultation on excluding Members charged with violent or sexual offences from the Parliamentary estate until any such cases are…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bristol West (Thangam Debbonaire); perhaps she can answer the question why the Commission has changed its remit completely. In…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionThe hon. Lady is prejudging the situation. She is saying that, if somebody makes a complaint and it is taking the police a long time to investigate it, the person under…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionIn a situation where a specific person who is working on this estate has brought a complaint against somebody that is the subject of investigation but has not yet reached a…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionOkay, the hon. Gentleman thinks we should change the Representation of the People Act. That is fine. Let somebody bring forward the proposal to do that. Let them do that expressly…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionI agree with the right hon. Gentleman completely. That is my concern. Essentially, this proposal opens the floodgates to vexatious accusations that will deny the accused the right…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionDoes the hon. Lady think it essential that all people who work in this building should be subject to disclosure and barring?12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionShould all people who work in this building be subject to disclosure and barring checks?12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionAt the moment, there is a question as to whether people who have voluntarily excluded themselves from the estate because of allegations made against them should be able to…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionIf it is put to the House on a vote, how will confidentiality be retained?12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionI am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way. Both my hon. Friend the Member for Bracknell (James Sunderland) and I were talking about the importance of the presumption of…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionTo what extent is the hon. Lady sympathetic to the plight of those who are on the receiving end of false accusations? My understanding is that she herself has been on the…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Members of Parliament: Risk-based ExclusionSuch a lengthy period of investigation between arrests and possible charge is, I agree, totally unacceptable. It is capricious and oppressive. If that is where our criminal…12 Jun 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseTomorrow some of us will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of our first election to this place. Will my right hon. Friend give Government time for a debate on the comparison…08 Jun 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsDoes my right hon. Friend agree that road congestion is bad for the economy, bad for the environment and bad for the mental health of motorists? To that extent, why are the…08 Jun 2023HANSARD Net Zero: 2050 TargetBefore I call Barry Gardiner, I remind hon. Members that we have the wind-up speeches at 5.10 pm at the latest, so each contribution should be a maximum of five minutes.06 Jun 2023HANSARD Net Zero: 2050 TargetOrder. We have limited time and the hon. Gentleman has now gone over his time limit. I call Virginia Crosbie.06 Jun 2023HANSARD Net Zero: 2050 TargetDoes the right hon. Member for Spelthorne (Kwasi Kwarteng) seek to intervene?06 Jun 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsHas my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State read the report “Safe and Effective?” produced in April by a group of senior clinicians, which is very critical of the work of the…06 Jun 2023HANSARDImmigration Rules: Offshore WorkersOrder. The hon. Gentleman is eating into valuable time. He is probably right that we should allow the Minister to respond to this debate now.06 Jun 2023