Tuesday, 23 April 2019
The Secretary of State was asked—
When the Government plan to undertake a consultation on proposals for a victims law.
What steps he is taking to reduce the number of prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment for public protection.
What steps he is taking to increase access to the criminal justice system.
What recent steps he has taken to tackle violence in prisons.
What assessment he has made of trends in the number of people able to access early legal advice for welfare benefits cases.
What steps he is taking to reform the youth justice system.
What assessment he has made of trends in the number of people able to access early legal advice for housing cases.
What steps the Government plan to take to ensure that the UK legal system operates effectively after the UK leaves the EU.
What assessment he has made of the effect of delays in progressing criminal cases in the courts on access to justice.
What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the regulation of enforcement agents.
If he will make it his policy to pay officials in his Department the living wage.
What progress he has made on improving the safety of prison officers.
What steps he is taking to ensure that the criminal justice system adequately supports victims of child sexual abuse.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
Before I call the right hon. Member for Doncaster North (Edward Miliband) to ask his urgent question, I want, I hope on behalf of all colleagues across the House, to welcome Greta Thunberg, an...
(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on his decision to delay, yet again, the award of the south-eastern rail franchise.
Colleagues, in respectful memory of the 321 people slaughtered in the appalling Easter Sunday terrorist attack in Sri Lanka, including eight British citizens, and of the approximately 500 people...
With permission, Mr Speaker, it is with great sadness that I wish to make a statement on the appalling murder of Lyra McKee in Londonderry on Thursday evening. That evening the Police Service of...
With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the current climate change protests and on our climate change policy. I apologise to Members of the House if we are covering...
I beg to move, That the Northern Ireland (Extension of Period for Executive Formation) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 616), which were laid before this House on 21 March, be approved. The...
I beg to move, That the draft Animal Health, Seed Potatoes and Food (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, which were laid before this House on 3 April, be approved. Let me...
Ordered, That at the sitting on Wednesday 24 April, paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 31 (Questions on amendments) shall apply to the Motions in the name of the Leader of the Opposition as if...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Jo Churchill.)
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