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HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q What level of damage would you be happy for local residents to live with? Gracie Bradley: As I have already said, the issue is that we are talking about “likely to cause…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Sorry, but you have not answered my question. What level of distress do you deem to be acceptable for local residents? Gracie Bradley: That is a difficult question to answer. I…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q But this is not dealing with the whole of the Traveller community. As your colleague Professor Clark made clear, 70% to 80% of the Traveller community live in bricks and mortar,…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Mr Feeley-Sprague, you said in your evidence that the Bill criminalises an entire way of life in relation to unauthorised encampments. Under clause 61, which we are focusing on,…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Mr Feeley-Sprague, forgive me, but we are dealing only with England and Wales in this context. I just want to press you on that point: do you believe that significant…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)So do you see it as inevitable—20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)Q There are many aspects to public confidence, but that is why we are addressing this one aspect of it in the Bill as part of the Government’s overall work on the rape review and,…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)Q This will not be operating in a vacuum. The police are of course accountable to police and crime commissioners, as you know as a former commissioner. The police are also…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)Q The police force or the CPS are accountable for their conduct under the codes of practice. That is why the code of practice is in the Bill, not least because putting the sort of…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Does the Law Commission have a reputation for not understanding human rights law, or for somehow wanting to diminish people’s human rights? Gracie Bradley: Not that I am aware of.…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Good. I think that one witness this afternoon has mentioned the wording “serious annoyance”. Presumably you all accept that, in the context of public nuisance, that is a…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Forgive me—sorry. It is specifically in clause 59; that is the public nuisance clause, as recommended by the Law Commission. That is why I used that wording. It is in clause 59,…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Fourth sitting)“Serious annoyance” is a phrase that has caught attention. In the context of public nuisance, that is a phrase that has arisen over centuries—I think I am right in saying that—of…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)Q Dame Vera, I want to roll back and put this set of clauses in context. Everybody acknowledges that there is a significant problem with the trust of victims of sexual violence in…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)Q Okay. Within that context, we have to bear in mind the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 and the Data Protection Act 2018. Do you accept that? Dame Vera Baird: Yes,…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)Q All right. Clause 36(5)(a) sets out the conditions under which the power may be exercised—namely, that an “authorised person”, as defined elsewhere in the Bill, must reasonably…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)Q All right, but do you accept that there is a test of relevance in terms of disclosure under the 1996 Act? Dame Vera Baird: There is a test of a reasonable line of inquiry under…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)Q I will come back to that. The test in clause 36(5)(b) is that the authorised person must be “satisfied that exercise of the power is necessary and proportionate”. Again, that…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)Q I have long accepted that, Dame Vera. That is why we have the end-to-end rape review, which is ongoing, as you know. The reason I ask that is because one would not want the…20 May 2021HANSARDPolice, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (Third sitting)But you accept— Dame Vera Baird: That is a difference in power, is it not? That is an important point.20 May 2021