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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)I am very pleased to confirm that the Home Office will provide funding for the relevant review partners to cover the costs of the reviews during the pilot stage, and will meet the…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)I welcome the discussion about this chapter of the Bill, because the framework we are setting out is a really important step forward in improving the expectations about and…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)I cannot hope to do justice to a parliamentary question answered by my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon South, the Immigration Minister, because I know the care and attention he…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)indicated assent.27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank the hon. Lady. As I say, we will reflect on the issue. New clause 50 would provide that, where the user of a device was a child or adult without capacity, their views were…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Eighth sitting)As the Committee will remember, I gave a very quick example of circumstances in which it would be appropriate for the authorised person to use information extracted from a digital…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)On what the hon. Lady has described, I am not sure what difference it would make. I am trying to put myself in the boots of a police officer. Would a police officer ask for data…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)We have been working together on this. We must not not forget that the background to the legal framework has to take into account the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)I will deal with that in detail in due course. Just so that colleagues understand how that age was settled upon, in the drafting we carefully considered people’s views, including…27 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Seventh sitting)I am very cautious about distinguishing between different victims. Perhaps the hon. Lady is alleging that the person she is talking about is a victim. The framework is about…27 May 2021HANSARD Istanbul Convention: Position of the UK GovernmentAs always, Mr Hollobone, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Henley (John Howell) on securing this important debate on…26 May 2021HANSARD Istanbul Convention: Position of the UK GovernmentIn a little while, I am going to encourage countries to follow our lead on some of the measures we have taken, including in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, in which my right hon.…26 May 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the hon. Member for raising this very important topic. This is totally unacceptable behaviour and I hope he will welcome the Government’s forthcoming violence against…26 May 2021HANSARD Istanbul Convention: Position of the UK GovernmentVery much so. It is not acceptable for Turkey to seek to excuse its own actions by referencing other countries, including the United Kingdom; it is responsible for its own…26 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)Criminal gangs are keen?25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)Again, if it will assist the Committee, I am content to hear the hon. Member for Croydon Central set out her stall, as it were, and I will then respond.25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)The hon. Lady asks a specific question—namely, will local policing bodies be able to request case-level information on children at risk and how will they use it? Police and crime…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)I will deal straightaway with the point about information sharing, as it would seem to me that the other clauses are understood. Clause 15 provides a new permissive information…25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)Again, Sir Charles, I am trusting it to the Committee.25 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Sixth sitting)Serious violence has a devastating impact on victims and their families, instils fear in communities and is extremely costly to society, as I have already said. I hope the…25 May 2021