Coroners

30 Jun 2022

Ministry of Justice

Sarah Jones received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he is taking to steps to (a) minimise costs faced by claimants during an inquest when admissions of liability result in reasonable costs no...

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Legionnaires Disease: Hospitals

30 Jun 2022

Department of Health and Social Care

Sarah Jones received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Legionnaires Disease (a) cases and (b) deaths in hospitals there have been since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic; what...

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Metropolitan Police Service

29 Jun 2022

Commons debates

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Many of us will have heard this morning and last night the dignified and gracious interviews with Mina Smallman following the announcement that Her Majesty's...

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Metropolitan Police Service

29 Jun 2022

Commons debates

May I add my condolences to the family of Zara Aleena after her horrific murder? I am deeply disappointed with the Minister, who shared with us a statement that included none of the political...

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New Clause 13 - Injunction to prevent serious disruption to effective movement of essential goods or services

21 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I am grateful to the Minister for saying that he is exploring what more can be done and for accepting that injunctions have a role to play. I suspect that members of the other place may want to...

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New Clause 13 - Injunction to prevent serious disruption to effective movement of essential goods or services

21 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move, That the Clause be read a Second time.

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New Clause 12 - National monitoring tool

21 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

It is slightly alarming that the Minister fails to understand the concept of checks and balances to ensure that such a serious and significant piece of legislation is properly implemented, but I...

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New Clause 12 - National monitoring tool

21 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move, That the Clause be read a Second time. The new clause would require the Secretary of State to develop a consistent monitoring tool that is accessible by all police forces to...

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New Clause 11 - Consolidated protest guidance

21 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Although we will not press the new clause to a vote, I hope that I have put on the record the Labour party’s concern and our expectation that the Minister will come back to discuss with us...

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New Clause 11 - Consolidated protest guidance

21 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The new clause makes provision for consolidated protest guidance, bringing together the College of Policing’s public order authorised...

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New Clause 10 - Guidance on locking on

21 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I thank the Minister for his comments. We suggest that the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council would develop the detail—we do not suggest that us legislators...

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New Clause 10 - Guidance on locking on

21 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. New clauses 10, 11 and 12 are in similar vein, and are about checks and balances to go alongside the legislation about which we have...

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New Clause 8 - Publication of data about use of stop and search powers

21 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I want to make the point that we do not actually know what causes the disproportionality. That is why the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College of Policing are going to do a lot...

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New Clause 8 - Publication of data about use of stop and search powers

21 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I rise to support my hon. Friends the Members for Ealing Central and Acton and for Battersea on the sensibleness of the new clauses. Requiring the Secretary of State to publish data, and...

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New Clause 3 - Offences impeding emergency workers

21 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I will keep my comments very brief. As the hon. Lady has said, the new clause would create an aggravated offence when someone in the course of locking on or obstructing major transport works...

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New Clause 1 - Offence of interference with access to or provision of abortion services

21 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Forgive me, Mr Dowd. That was wrong of me. I am going off script, which is why I did that. We heard in evidence from Liberty that it is supportive of this new clause, because these behaviours are...

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New Clause 1 - Offence of interference with access to or provision of abortion services

21 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Given the contributions so far, I will be brief. I want to add to what the hon. Lady has just said and to try to explain that this different, because it stops people getting the medical support...

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Knife Crime and Serious Violence

20 Jun 2022

Home Department

Sarah Jones made a speech in the House of Commons

The National Crime Agency is responsible for tackling the organised crime gangs who drive up so much of the knife crime, violence and drug abuse that we see on our streets. Why, then, has the...

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New Clause 7 - Offence of being equipped for tunnelling etc

16 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

This new clause creates a new offence committed by a person who has an object with them in a place, other than a dwelling, with the intention that it might be used in the course of, or in...

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Clause 28 - Extent, commencement and short title

16 Jun 2022

Public Order Bill

Sarah Jones made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I thank the hon. Lady for her speech. She covered a wide range of challenges the police have before them. It is not unreasonable to expect the Government to ensure that there is capacity within...

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