Shadow Minister (Justice)
ConservativeMP for Bexhill and Battle
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and let me begin, as I have throughout the passage of this bill, by placing at the forefront my admiration of the campaigners, the family and friends of the 97 who lost their lives in the Hillsborough traged…”
“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It's a pleasure to close this crucial opposition day debate, and I want to thank all the members who've taken part for their thoughtful contributions. Before I say anything else, I want to acknowledge the pe…”
“One thing that we know children will contact victim support services about is the letters they receive telling them that their abusers will be getting out of prison earlier. Victim Support supports more than 814,000 victims every year, and …”
“I am grateful to be able to respond to this estimates day debate considering the expenditure of the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office as it relates to criminal justice. I thank all Members who contributed. I especially thank the Chair…”
“(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will make a statement on the early release of rapists and child groomers.…”
“Shameful!…”
“I recently met Littlewood Fencing, a company in my constituency that makes specialist fencing for secure and sensitive locations, and it is facing crippling increases in costs. It might be noble to try to save jobs in the steel industry, bu…”
“The former Defence Secretary knew what was in the defence investment plan, thought it was inadequate and resigned as a result. I am sure the Minister would not be so shameless and disrespectful to the House as to spend an hour defending tha…”
“2. What steps he is taking to maintain non-digital access to primary care.…”
“2. What steps he is taking to help support the development of deep geothermal energy.…”
“One thing this sorry episode has achieved is to make the Minister an absolute expert on warm words and platitudes. I want to go back to the issue of disappearing messages, which was raised earlier. Obviously, those messages are not retrieva…”
“I welcome the new Minister to her post. For all the policies she might be glad to inherit, she is also inheriting a plan later this year to let out potentially thousands of the worst offenders against women and girls, including rapists and …”
“I refer the honourable Member to the words of Mr Speaker earlier. It is the Speaker who decides whether a privilege motion goes ahead. The honourable Member is criticising Mr Speaker for having allowed it.…”
“Let me say at the outset that the Opposition continue to support the broad aims of the Bill, as we have done throughout its passage. We recognise the importance of candour, transparency and accountability in public life and recognise the lo…”
“Will the Secretary of State give way?…”
“I politely say that the Minister’s overly sincere, butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-his-mouth act is beginning to wear thin—the way he suggests that the process he is going through has not put a foot wrong. He has repeatedly failed to answer questio…”
“7. Whether he plans to introduce curfew orders for parents who are non-compliant with child maintenance payments.…”
“There will be some back and forth about who wants what elements of this scheme and in what ways, but I think the Minister was wrong to say that our focus was on it being for everybody. I have been clear from the start that our focus was als…”
“The Prime Minister is suggesting that the idea that the security services had concerns about this appointment was a bolt from the blue to him two weeks ago, despite the fact it had been on the front page of a national newspaper in September…”
“It is a pleasure to have secured this Adjournment debate on the dualling of the A21 in my constituency. I thank the House authorities for giving me this opportunity, because the condition of the A21—the key strategic route serving the const…”
“Labour is causing chaos in local government in East Sussex. After firing the starting gun on tearing up our local government boundaries—something that no resident in East Sussex wanted and that was not in its manifesto—the Government now wi…”
“Right now there are potentially thousands of rapists, paedophiles and perverts, who are responsible for some of the worst offences against women and girls, who this Government are going to let out of prison earlier. That is a disgrace, and …”
“The problem with these sorts of scandals is that as time moves on, more and more people are tarnished by them. Last week, when the papers revealed that Mandelson received £75,000, I asked the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister whether th…”
“The Minister will know that the Government have a Bill about the duty of accountability and candour going through the House; one of his colleagues on the Front Bench will confirm that that requires Ministers to answer questions with candour…”
“It has been a positive debate in terms of the exchange of ideas, and there have been some fantastic contributions. I pay particular tribute to the honourable Members for Bolsover (Natalie Fleet) and for Warrington North (Charlotte Nichols) …”
“The only country that has successfully tackled illegal boat crossings similar to ours is Australia, and it did so not by paying people £40,000 per family to leave, but by sending them to a safe third country. I noticed that the Minister com…”
“On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I do not wish to put the Chair in the position of having to give an immediate answer, but as others have said, there are rumours online that the individuals arrested for spying include the partner …”
“As the Minister said, at the heart of this is the question of whether our enemies and malign actors fear the consequences of hostile acts against us. That question is why many of us say that the embassy should be paused. Why would the Chine…”
“I congratulate the honourable Member for Hastings and Rye (Helena Dollimore) on securing the debate. For those—perhaps our constituents—who do not know the etiquette of the House, an Adjournment debate is typically a debate for a single Mem…”
“(Urgent Question) : To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will make a statement on the implications for open justice of the impending deletion of the Courtsdesk court reporting data archive.…”
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