Homicide Law Reform

Certainly, on any view, life imprisonment must remain the maximum sentence—that is the maximum in...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Alex Chalk), who is a fellow member of t...

Yes.

Sorry. I, too, have real concerns about the law of parasitic accessory liability, or joint enterp...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Evans, and it is a pleasure to follow two f...

I appreciate what my hon. Friend is saying about sentencing. Of course, we now have the Sentencin...

My hon. Friend is another member of the Justice Committee who is more talented than me. Yes, we s...

Just to clarify, I was making the point that that was the reality of the situation; that sentence...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. I think most of my constituents will be pl...

My hon. Friend is making some very helpful and important contributions. What he says is absolutel...

I agree with that point; as I said at the start, I do not necessarily disagree with my hon. Frien...

It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Evans. This is my first time doing so...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Evans. I am pleased to respond to the debat...

Don’t hold your breath.

Some people would like me to hold my breath, maybe for a long, long time but, on this occasion, I...

I am probably the only non-learned Member present in the room, apart from my hon. Friend the Memb...

I thank the Minister for making that important point, and I look forward to hearing about that in...

As usual, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Evans—I really mean that. I congr...

This has been a helpful debate. I introduced the topic to see whether there was an appetite for d...

Or less.

Yes; a maximum of half. My hon. Friend the Member for Shipley made an important point, and there ...