Latest Parliamentary Activity by Cambridge's MP:
- Written Answers — Home Department: Immigrants: Detainees - Tuesday Mar 4 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people have been detained in immigration removal centres for the purpose of age assessment in the last 12 months ... - Written Answers — Home Department: Crime - Monday Mar 3 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment her Department has made of the use of the Self Evident app to facilitate crime reporting by victims and evidence submissions by witnesses to the police ... - Written Answers — Justice: Prisoners - Monday Mar 3 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what review he intends to carry out on the use of (a) open prisons and (b) the system of release on temporary licence and escorted absences from prisons. ... - Written Answers — Justice: Communications Act 2003 - Friday Feb 28 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many convictions there have been under section 127 of the Digital Communications Act 2003 since 2011; and how many such convictions have related to communications (a) s ... - Business of the House: Backbench Business — Welfare Reform (Sick and Disabled People) - Thursday Feb 27 2014
The hon. Gentleman is making some interesting comments. I have been very concerned about the effect of the WCA on people with mental health problems, which are particularly badly assessed, and have taken people to see the Minister. Did ... - Written Answers — Home Department: Public Houses: Opening Hours - Thursday Feb 27 2014
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what evidence her Department collected before the announcement of a consultation on extended pub opening hours on 14 June 2014. ... - Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: John Downey - Wednesday Feb 26 2014
This was a horrible and brutal murder, and the outcome is clearly grossly unsatisfactory. If the Attorney-General is sure that nothing further can be done in this case, I accept that, and I hope that he has exhausted all possibilities. ... - Oral Answers to Questions — Health: General Practice Extraction Service - Tuesday Feb 25 2014
There are of course huge benefits from using properly anonymised data for research, but it is difficult to anonymise the data properly and, given how the scheme has progressed so far, there is a huge risk to public confidence. Will the ... - Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Topical Questions - Tuesday Feb 25 2014
Papworth hospital is a world-renowned heart and lung hospital. For years, it has wanted to move to Cambridge, supported by Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge university, the British Heart Foundation, AstraZeneca and m ... - New Member: Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Monday Feb 24 2014
We heard earlier that such charges would be the lowest priority of claim. The Justice Secretary was clear on that. Surely, if only 80% of the higher priority claims are collected and some people run out of money when they have paid the ... - New Member: Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Monday Feb 24 2014
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me in this important debate. For far too many years we have had a tradition of Governments—Conservative and Labour—trying to talk tough on crime and repeatedly aiming for the tabl ... - New Member: Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Monday Feb 24 2014
No. We heard enough from the hon. Gentleman in his rather long speech earlier. I know he disagrees with Churchill. He probably finds Churchill far too liberal for his own tastes, as he probably was when he criticised road tax. ... - New Member: Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Monday Feb 24 2014
The hon. Gentleman talks about road tax evasion; he is presumably aware that road tax was scrapped in the 1930s. ... - New Member: Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Monday Feb 24 2014
No, they do not. ... - New Member: Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Monday Feb 24 2014
rose— ... - New Member: Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Monday Feb 24 2014
The right hon. Gentleman, as ever, is making some interesting points, but is he really saying that the test of a Government is the number of pieces of legislation they pass? I would have thought that he, like me, thinks that Parliament h ... - New Member: Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Monday Feb 24 2014
While the right hon. Gentleman is in the mood to do mathematics, will he advise us of the extra cost to the public purse of the extra 30,000 people in prison between the beginning of the last Labour Government and the end of the last Lab ... - New Member: Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Monday Feb 24 2014
Will the Secretary of State say what the cost of that programme will be and how successful prosecutions have been in the courts against people who have broken tags? I understand that there have been a lot of problems with tags not being ... - New Member: Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Monday Feb 24 2014
The Justice Secretary is absolutely right that there are other powers. The latest figure I could find is that £1.3 billion of debt is owed as a result of these orders. What fraction of the charges does he think will actually be paid ... - New Member: Criminal Justice and Courts Bill - Monday Feb 24 2014
Perhaps I have misunderstood clause 53, but it seems to suggest that interveners will have to pay not only their own way but the costs of everyone else involved. That seems rather harsh. The courts have said that they welcome interventio ...