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Iran Detainees (16 Mar 2022)

Jeremy Wright: This is a day of great joy and relief, not just for those flying home today but for their families, some of whom it is wonderful to be joined by today, and their wider families, including members of the Zaghari-Ratcliffe family who live in my constituency. I pay huge tribute to all involved, including, of course, my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and the Opposition Members who have...

Legal Aid (15 Mar 2022)

Jeremy Wright: I, too, welcome what my right hon. Friend has announced. He is right to focus on attracting bright young lawyers into criminal defence work. Does he also recognise that it is important to retain more experienced criminal defence lawyers who can take on the complex cases that, as he will appreciate, form a larger and larger proportion of the criminal courts caseload? Specifically in relation...

Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme (14 Mar 2022)

Jeremy Wright: I very much welcome the conduit for the immense generosity of the British public that my right hon. Friend has set out. However, as he has recognised, what a Ukrainian refugee needs is not just a home, but the services that go with a home and, as others have said, local authorities will be providing those. Can I ask him about the very substantial co-ordination challenges not just between his...

Ukraine ( 1 Mar 2022)

Jeremy Wright: As my right hon. Friend said, the Government are operating on the assumption that the vast bulk of Ukrainians who come to the UK will want to go home as swiftly as they can. Given that assumption, which seems entirely right to me, does that not mean that the Government can be more generous in their immigration approach than they would otherwise be, both in terms of immediate family...

Public Bill Committee: Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Disabled Persons) Bill: Clause 1 - Duties of Drivers ( 9 Feb 2022)

Jeremy Wright: With your leave, may I begin by thanking you, Mrs Murray, for shepherding us so efficiently through this process? I also offer my thanks to your Clerk, who has given me some very sage advice throughout the Bill’s passage. I hope that he will not stop now and continue to offer that advice as we move forward to the remaining stages. I thank very much the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside...

Public Bill Committee: Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Disabled Persons) Bill: Clause 1 - Duties of Drivers ( 9 Feb 2022)

Jeremy Wright: It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Murray, and I thank all members of the Committee for their attendance and assistance in scrutinising this Bill today. I hope it will be helpful if I explain what the Bill seeks to achieve, and what its clauses will do. The Bill aims to amend the Equality Act 2010 to do four main things. First, it creates new duties for taxi and...

Public Bill Committee: Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Disabled Persons) Bill: Clause 1 - Duties of Drivers ( 9 Feb 2022)

Jeremy Wright: I agree with my right hon. Friend: London taxis are great. He will be reassured to learn that I spoke to representatives of London taxi drivers about the Bill. He is entirely right: there are many very good drivers of taxis and private hire vehicles who do all the things the Bill is intended to achieve. But as he will recognise, and as I will repeat in a moment, it is important to raise the...

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (27 Jan 2022)

Jeremy Wright: I congratulate my hon. Friend and his entire Committee on this report into what he correctly describes in the report as a very “complex” Bill. Given its complexity, does he agree with me that it is very important that the Government response both to his Committee’s report and, indeed, to the report of the Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill is not just substantive, but...

BBC Funding (17 Jan 2022)

Jeremy Wright: My right hon. Friend must be right that the BBC cannot stand still while the rest of the world moves along, but does she accept that, when we think about the future funding of the BBC, we have to consider both the content that is marketable and is going to be commercially successful, and the content that is not, but will act as the beacon she describes—not just to this country, but to the...

Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Disabled Persons) Bill (14 Jan 2022)

Jeremy Wright: With the leave of the House, I thank all hon. Members who have contributed to the debate, including my hon. Friend the Minister, for what they have said. I thank the Opposition spokesman, the hon. Member for Slough (Mr Dhesi) for what he has said, and for his support. I look forward to working with him as the Bill proceeds. This Bill, as many of my hon. Friends have said, is not an attack on...

Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Disabled Persons) Bill (14 Jan 2022)

Jeremy Wright: I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for all his support. I reassure him that there is nothing wrong with agreeing with the Opposition spokesman when he is right. My hon. Friend should also be reassured that when he does that, it will probably be attributed to a completely different Member of this House and people will not have a problem. On the point that he is making, does he accept that...

Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Disabled Persons) Bill (14 Jan 2022)

Jeremy Wright: I can confirm that. My hon. Friend will have heard me talk about exemption certificates. We wish to refine them in the Bill, but there will still be, within the exemption certificates, an opportunity for drivers who are unable to render mobility assistance not to be obliged to do so.

Taxis and Private Hire Vehicles (Disabled Persons) Bill (14 Jan 2022)

Jeremy Wright: I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. For many of the more than 14 million people in the UK with a disability, taxis and private hire vehicles are a vital means of transport and access to daily freedoms that most of us take for granted. That is particularly true for those who live in rural areas, such as the ones I represent, where public transport can be inaccessible or...

Draft Online Safety Bill Report (13 Jan 2022)

Jeremy Wright: It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Reading East (Matt Rodda), who I think illustrated clearly why this Bill matters. I want to joint the chorus of warm congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Damian Collins) and his entire Committee on their remarkable work in producing such an impressive report on what is a very complex Bill. They have done the...

Draft Online Safety Bill Report (13 Jan 2022)

Jeremy Wright: Sadly, I am familiar with the activity that my hon. Friend describes. Of course, it is quite possible that such activity is unlawful, in which case it may well be covered in that part of the Bill. If it is not, we must ensure that there is sufficient flexibility to cover it elsewhere. The conflict between flexibility and specificity appears elsewhere too. The Committee is right to say, as was...

Prisons Strategy ( 7 Dec 2021)

Jeremy Wright: I welcome what my hon. Friend has said, particularly about digital technology. I know she will agree that one of its benefits will be to enable prisoners to communicate with their families in a safe and secure way. That is good for the prisoners’ rehabilitation and also good for the families, particularly the children. May I ask her one specific question? In relation to league tables, which...

Community Energy Schemes — [Mr Clive Betts in the Chair] (30 Nov 2021)

Jeremy Wright: I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way and for securing this debate. In dealing with the objections to the course of action that she is setting out, she will know that the Government maintain that the right to local energy already exists. Does she agree that the right way to look at that is the way I look at my right to buy a Ferrari, which already exists, but my financial obstacles to...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe — [Sir Charles Walker in the Chair] (16 Nov 2021)

Jeremy Wright: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Charles. I join the tributes to Richard Ratcliffe—it is great to see that he is able to join us—and to his entire family, some of whom live in my constituency, whose resilience and bravery have been truly remarkable during this long period. I also join the tributes to the hon. Member for Hampstead and Kilburn (Tulip Siddiq), whose...


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