Sentencing Bill

Let me take this opportunity to pay tribute to my hon. Friend. He has raised this issue on behalf...

All the offences in clause 2 have a maximum life sentence, so the proposed new power to require o...

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for raising that appalling case. It is important to note that in ...

I thank the Justice Secretary for giving way and very much welcome the introduction of the presum...

I am at pains to meet directly with the probation service—not just the leaders, important though ...

As the Secretary of State knows, I do not accept the argument that the best way to protect the pu...

I thank my hon. Friend for engaging with me so closely, carefully and constructively on the Bill....

I have obviously looked carefully at the definitions relating to those who would simply not be in...

My right hon. Friend speaks with great authority about this point, and I agree with every syllabl...

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I am extremely grateful—

Hang on, I haven’t given way yet. [Laughter.] I give way to my right hon. Friend the Member for S...

My right hon. and learned Friend is such a tease.

As my right hon. and learned Friend will ...

There are some important points to make about this. As my right hon. Friend will know, there is a...

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way. He is being very generous. The presumptio...

This is a formulation that is well understood by the courts. It applies, for example, in respect ...

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Order. Just before the Secretary of State takes an intervention, I wish to remind hon. and right ...

Yes, I give way to my hon. Friend.

Are we really comparing like with like here? The statistics produced by the Ministry of Justice c...

I have looked very carefully at the extremely rigorous analysis that my hon. Friend has provided....

I will make a bit of progress, but I will give way to my right hon. Friend the Member for North W...

As my right hon. and learned Friend knows, I support this move, and I said so when he made the pr...

That is a brilliant point, and I agree with it wholeheartedly. I think there is further that we c...

I will make a bit of progress and then I will take an intervention.

Requirement to receive ...

My only concern about the reply my right hon. and learned Friend gave me a few moments ago is tha...

I am certainly happy to look at the data, but whichever way we slice it, the central message is u...

During my 17 years representing people before the criminal courts, by far the largest cohort was ...

First, I pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who brings such expertise to the House and uses it in the...

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I want to turn to the issue of exclusions, because they matter, but I sense that my right hon. Fr...

My right hon. and learned Friend is being so generous—it is kind of him. Given what he has said a...

My right hon. Friend gets right to the point. I would not be making this argument unless I had ph...

We are here to debate the Second Reading of the Sentencing Bill, but it is impossible to consider...

I call the Chair of the Justice Committee.

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I shall be supporting the Bill without hesitation tonight, and I hope to do so without indulging ...

Just to clarify the point, the statistics that my hon. Friend cites show that for those who were ...

I am sorry to have to say that my hon. Friend is just plain wrong on that, because that assumes t...

When they are in prison, yes.

But equally, there is perfectly good evidence to suggest that there is an incapacitation effect o...

It is a pleasure to make a brief contribution to this Second Reading debate. I hope to add to poi...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr (Jonathan Edwards), wh...

It is a product, I suppose, of living in an age infected with contagious liberalism that people i...

My right hon. Friend is making a powerful point with which I substantially agree, but does he acc...

That is a plausible argument, except that having a tag on your ankle is not a deprivation of libe...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Now we will hear some more about the circumstances of the criminal.

I hope that my right hon. Friend will gently withdraw the incorrect attribution. What I said was ...

My hon. Friend did indeed say that, and it is the argument that I have heard repeatedly over deca...

I rise to support the Bill. If the House will indulge me, I will quote the great Sir Winston Chur...

I strongly welcome many aspects of the Bill, particularly the whole-life orders. They would have ...

There are parts of this Bill that I am sure my constituents will welcome, including the stronger ...

What my hon. Friend is talking about is stigma. There must be some stigma. Stigma is very unfashi...

My right hon. Friend is, as always, absolutely spot on.

We need to start having these kinds...

I will concentrate in my speech on two issues: first, sentencing; and secondly, suggestions to st...

For the public, there are probably two things that matter most when an offence is committed again...

I find the wording of the Bill quite curious. I will limit my remarks to issues relating to suspe...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the issue is that non-custodial sentences are, frankly, often path...

I agree. We cannot have a debate about criminal justice simply on the basis that everyone should ...

Is my hon. Friend saying that the Bill is inconsequential? If it is inconsequential, why do we ne...

Frankly, it allows our independent judiciary and magistrates, sitting throughout the country, to ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that it would be wrong to steer our independent judiciary away from thi...

I agree. That is why such sentences exist and have been used for the past 30, 40 or 50 years. Sin...

I will try to be brief, and will pass quickly over clause 1 of the Bill, other than to welcome it...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will not. I am so sorry, but I have only a couple of minutes.

The quote gets to the nub o...

I will be relatively brief. As a member of the magistracy who spends time sentencing—in fact, I w...

I call the Opposition Front Bencher.

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We have had a good debate on the Bill, started by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for ...

As this is the first time I have faced the hon. Member for Cardiff West (Kevin Brennan) across th...

Order. There are a lot of Members entering the Chamber, for reasons that are apparent, who have n...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I will respond to Members I do not mention individually either in w...