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HANSARD Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) BillMy hon. Friend makes an important point. Unless we have the ability to use the powers we have and the powers we are discussing in this Bill, in practice nothing will happen. We…07 Mar 2022HANSARDTackling Violence Against Women and GirlsThat is an incredibly disturbing case. Many of us as constituency MPs will have had deeply troubling cases where, at every stage from the policing response, the investigation and…02 Mar 2022HANSARDTackling Violence Against Women and GirlsI am glad that the Minister is doing something. She will know that Labour tabled an amendment in the Lords that she initially resisted. May I ask, however, whether she did…02 Mar 2022HANSARDTackling Violence Against Women and GirlsWhy, then, is the Minister not rolling out Operation Soteria to every single force straight away, and why not require RASSO units in the meantime? I would love her to go further,…02 Mar 2022HANSARDTackling Violence Against Women and GirlsI know that the Minister takes the matter very seriously. I urge her not to just accept that it will take time. I do not think we should accept that; I think we should be much…02 Mar 2022HANSARDTackling Violence Against Women and GirlsMy hon. Friend is completely right. We all know that, just as we campaigned for many years to reclaim the streets from abuse and violence, we may need to reclaim the internet from…02 Mar 2022HANSARDTackling Violence Against Women and GirlsI agree with my hon. Friend. In fact, a couple of weeks ago I sat in on the morning report sessions of senior officers in West Yorkshire police. They raised a couple of spiking…02 Mar 2022HANSARDTackling Violence Against Women and GirlsI completely agree with my hon. Friend’s point. I have also had cases raised with me where the victim of spiking was told to make an appointment with the police to have the tests…02 Mar 2022HANSARDTackling Violence Against Women and GirlsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. That has an incredibly damaging impact on the prosecutions of rape and other sexual assaults in the criminal justice system. This has not just…02 Mar 2022HANSARDTackling Violence Against Women and GirlsI beg to move, That this House condemns the Government for failing to take sufficient action to tackle the epidemic of violence against women and girls and for presiding over a…02 Mar 2022HANSARDTackling Violence Against Women and GirlsI agree. I think that things are going wrong at every stage in the process. Things are going wrong in the police investigation—I will come on to talk about Operation Soteria, and…02 Mar 2022HANSARDUkrainePeople’s homes in Kharkiv have been shelled, children have been killed and Russian tanks are now rolling in on Kyiv. The Ukrainian people are showing immense courage and resolve…01 Mar 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Home Secretary said that the routes have been in place, but she has been trying to get people to use existing visas, which do not work in a time of crisis. That is why her…28 Feb 2022HANSARDPoints of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Earlier this afternoon, in response to the Home Secretary’s very confusing statement on sanctuary arrangements for Ukraine, I asked her…28 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe Home Secretary said that she was announcing a bespoke humanitarian route, but it is extremely unclear from what she said what the details actually are or who it will apply to.…28 Feb 2022HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. I rise to ask again whether you have had any response from the Prime Minister after the UK Statistics Authority said that the statements that the…08 Feb 2022HANSARD Points of OrderFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thank you for that clarification, but given that, in this particular case, we have not only the facts from the ONS but the…07 Feb 2022HANSARD Points of OrderOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Further to the points of order made by my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon Central (Sarah Jones) on Friday and by the hon. Member for…07 Feb 2022HANSARDSpeaker’s StatementNo one could have failed to be moved on Monday by the incredible tributes to Jack from his three children, Harry, Joe and Amy. All of us know the pride that Jack had in his…02 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am glad that the Home Secretary stands by her words and her defence of the police, but how on earth can she then defend the Prime Minister, who has publicly admitted breaking…17 Jan 2022