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HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)And a champion of the needy!16 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)The hon. Lady must know that over 90% of Cart cases are immigration cases, although it is possible that some of those people might themselves be disabled. If she then takes the…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I have given up.09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I was quoting scripture.09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I do not want to delay the Minister because I am keen to get on myself, but the point really is not so much the test of convenience, which is the one he is describing, or even the…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I’m going shortly.09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is making a compelling case. I agree with a lot of what he says and I know the Minister will too, because he has been very sensible about the need to review…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I want to emphasise what the Minister is saying. He is going much further than I did. I was giving the Opposition too much credit—saying that we simply wanted to return to a…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)rose —09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)This is precisely the point I made when I intervened on the hon. Member for Glasgow North East. What are the parameters? What are the limits? Where is the line drawn? We have…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)The reforms that we are arguing for are to restore the system that prevailed throughout the lifetime of the previous Labour Government. This change happened in 2011. If Opposition…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I did not say that.09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I am inspired to speak to this part in our consideration, partly by the Minister’s eloquent explanation of why the amendments are undesirable, partly by the wise words of my hon.…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I do not want to prolong the hon. Gentleman’s peroration except to say that a third argument has been made, which relates to the integrity of judicial review per se. When only 3%…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I wonder whether the hon. Lady will give me one more bite of the cherry.09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I wonder whether the hon. Lady will provide some clarity about the parameters within which she believes the system should work. Presumably, she cannot be saying that there should…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)But 97% of these cases fail, and they fail on the grounds that the hon. Lady says she supports—she supports the existing system, as she made clear in her answer to my previous…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I said 97% of cases fail. When they fail, those people have exhausted the legal avenues that the hon. Lady says she supports—the current system, criteria and means by which people…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)On a point of fact, could the hon. Lady tell us how many Cart cases are brought by disabled people?09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)We could all have disabilities in the future.09 Nov 2021