Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
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Monday, 15 March 2021
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Proceeding contributions
Before we resume the debate, I want to remind the House of what was said yesterday regarding the ...
How often have we heard the notion that somehow liberty is an integral part of the English charac...
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May I start by joining colleagues in expressing my condolences to the friends and family of Sarah...
I join others across the House in extending my sincere condolences to the family and friends and ...
The clock has not been started, because I did not want to eat into your time, Tracey, but I want ...
Thank you for your kind words, Mr Deputy Speaker. Time is exceptionally limited, so I shall keep ...
I join others in expressing my condolences. This Bill continues the authoritarian drift of this G...
My hon. Friend and I have organised and been on many peaceful protests together. The measures in ...
I have indeed worked many times with my hon. Friend on all kinds of activities. What the Governme...
The first duty of any Government is to protect members of the public from harm, and I welcome the...
This monster of a Bill includes the word “women” zero times in 295 pages, yet statutes, war memor...
Order. I am terribly sorry; we have to move on.
3.21 pm
Given the recent focus on violence against women and the fact that the coronavirus pandemic has i...
I should just like to remind those who are on the call list but who, for whatever reason, are una...
This Bill has provisions that I support, including whole-life orders for premeditated child murde...
What a rare treat to be able to speak in the Chamber.
One of my colleagues said earlier tha...
This is a broad and significant Bill. There are many areas that I would like to discuss, but I ha...
I am grateful to be called in this debate. I wish to place on record my thanks to the Under-Secre...
Thank you. We now go by video link to Dame Angela Eagle.
3.36 pm
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. This is a huge portmanteau Bill. It contains proposals that I wo...
I will be supporting this important piece of legislation, which delivers on our manifesto pledge....
On the day the Parliament of Scotland seeks to place the United Nations convention on the rights ...
It is a pleasure to speak in this important debate and to support this vital legislation. At the ...
In any legislation, any of us on any of these Benches can always find some good, and this legisla...
There is so much to say in such a short time. First and foremost, I wish to thank the brilliant o...
This 300-page incoherent mish-mash of a Bill contains some truly odious measures, and I have time...
First, I want to join in the sympathies and prayers expressed by Members from across the House to...
This is a dangerous Bill in many ways, both in what it contains and in what it omits, including i...
On a sunny spring morning early on a Saturday in 2017, weeks away from the general election, I wa...
First, may I pay my respects to the loved ones of Sarah Everard? My thoughts and prayers are with...
It is a privilege to speak in this important debate. I, too, would like to extend my deepest cond...
The Government admit that there is a crisis in policing, the criminal justice system and courts, ...
In the last three years, there have been 1,329 assaults against emergency services workers in Not...
Our hearts are with the family and friends of Sarah Everard, and our thoughts with those who gath...
The Bill delivers on our manifesto commitments to tackle crime. Let me start with protection for ...
What a shame that the Government have chosen to turn a piece of legislation that we could have al...
There is so much wrong with the Bill that three minutes could not possibly cover it. It marks a d...
I was elected to represent the people of Stockton South on a manifesto that pledged to get tough ...
I am grateful to my next-door neighbour in Stockton for giving way. We have the third-most seriou...
Today the hon. Gentleman has the chance to be on the side of the emergency workers, those brave m...
There is much in the Bill to be welcomed, but there is an attempt to mislead the public—to accuse...
I will do my best to contain my remarks to the actual content of the Bill. The Government were el...
I commend all those who have been involved in bringing the Bill before the House. It has much mer...
It is a pleasure to speak in this debate. Of course, it is somewhat disappointing to hear the Opp...
Much of what has been said about the Bill goes to show just how divisive it is. Rather than seeki...
I am delighted to speak in support of this Bill. I particularly welcome the balance it strikes on...
As we have heard through this debate, the right to demonstrate peacefully underpins democracy; pe...
There is much to welcome in this far-reaching Bill, with tougher sentences for violent crime, for...
I will be voting against this Bill: it is a pernicious piece of legislation and it must be stoppe...
Despite events in London over the weekend, I would like to thank our police forces throughout the...
I would like to begin by echoing the comments of my hon. and right hon. Friends yesterday and tod...
The need to protect women and girls from violence and the importance of protecting our fundamenta...
The Second Reading of a Bill is, for me, about the principle of the legislation. As a candidate a...
I draw the attention of the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.
This Bill works to ensure that the criminal justice system continues to reflect the views of soci...
During the pandemic, our civil liberties have been curtailed in a way that was previously unimagi...
This is a thorough, ambitious and necessary Bill. Ministers know that the public expect those in ...
I want to start by remembering Sarah Everard and all women who have died at the hands of violent ...
This legislation marks an undermining of human rights and civil liberties. It represents a slide ...
My constituents have waited a long time for the justice system to feel like it is putting victims...
Many of the rights we enjoy today were won not because of politicians with great ideas, but becau...
I welcome measures in the Bill that will help to ensure that our justice system better reflects w...
The Secretary of State no doubt thought that she could rush this Bill through Parliament, groupin...
Thank you for calling me to speak in this debate, Madam Deputy Speaker. Anyone listening outside ...
This Bill is a disgrace. It is dangerous, undemocratic and disproportionate.
It is dangerou...
I have a very different view from the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas), my nea...
Harold Laski, professor at the London School of Economics and chair of the Labour party in the At...
I associate myself with the heartfelt and genuine comments from Members of all parties about the ...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Milton Keynes North (Ben Everitt), although I am a...
I will not support the Bill tonight. I have been contacted by many constituents over the past few...
All Governments come to power seeking to reduce crime and antisocial behaviour, and it is clear t...
I rise to deal with the absolute brass neck that we have heard from the Government Benches during...
Order. We have not had heckling here for a very long time. Now, behave!
They do not like it: Government Members do not like being confronted with their record. That is w...
When the Home Secretary said that she wanted criminals to “feel terror” at the thought of committ...
First, I would like to offer my condolences to Sarah Everard’s family and friends. My thoughts ar...
The right to protest peacefully in this country is enshrined in article 11 of the European conven...
I stand proud to support this Bill today. There are many good measures in it; in fact, we have ev...
My hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey (Dame Angela Eagle) summarised the Bill perfectly: it cont...
There is lots to welcome in this Bill, but I want to focus on the issue that it covers on which I...
I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add:
“t...
I will not give way for the moment.
When the suffragettes marched for the right to vote, so...
When the Opposition vote against this Bill tonight, does the right hon. Gentleman not think that ...
I know that the hon. Gentleman is just getting started, but the party that introduced whole life ...
The right hon. Gentleman mentioned stalking twice. It is worth remembering that in the Government...
Given all that has been said by women over the past few days, with the street harassment and stal...
As the right hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy) said, it is an honour to close this debate and ...
Will the Secretary of State give way?
No, I will not give way to the right hon. Gentleman. I do not think I can do justice to the numbe...
Will the Secretary of State give way?
No, I will not give way.
Opposition Members are concocting synthetic arguments in objection...
Will the Secretary of State give way?
No, I will not give way.
In this Bill, we are making sure that those who commit offences su...
Will the Secretary of State give way?
No, I will not give way. I will explain what is going on, and then I will let the right hon. Gent...
I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way. Last year, the Government spoke about add...
It is a very nice try from the right hon. Gentleman, for whom I have the utmost respect, but it d...
Will the Secretary of State give way?
No, I am not going to give way.
Much has been said about the excellent campaigns run by Lab...
Unlike yours.
They don’t like it when the truth is explained to them. They think that they have the moral high ...
I asked whether the Lord Chancellor could explain to my community why someone who was in a positi...
The hon. Gentleman knows that matters dealt with in court are matters for the independent judicia...
Will the Lord Chancellor give way?
Not at the moment.
I am particularly pleased to thank my hon. Friend the Member for North W...
The pages of the Bucks Free Press attest to the sheer scale of the costs to our green spaces and ...
My hon. Friend puts it very well. This is all about balancing the rights of Traveller communities...
Order. We require social distancing in the Chamber at all times, please.
Question put, That...
I will now briefly suspend the House for three minutes so that arrangements can be made and peopl...