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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Domestic Abuse: Children

"Order. I am confident that we will get everybody in if speakers can keep themselves to five or six minutes...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Domestic Abuse: Children

"I remind Members that if we are going to get everyone in, please keep to five minutes...."
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Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Recruitment
Friday 24th February 2023

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department spent on recruitment consultants in each of the last three years.

Answered by Mike Freer

I can confirm the MoJ has no spend on recruitment consultants in the last three years.

Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Recruitment
Wednesday 8th February 2023

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has spent on head-hunters in each of the last three years.

Answered by Mike Freer

The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 28 Nov 2022
Legal Rights to Access Abortion

"The hon. Member is making an important and powerful speech. Does she agree that it is extremely worrying that a member of public should feel that our rights are so under threat, and there is such a danger of us going down the same route as America, that they felt …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 28 Nov 2022
Legal Rights to Access Abortion

"For many women it is not about what happens anywhere else in the world. It is about protecting not a right for us personally—because I do not think that many of us would have an abortion—but the ability of other women, young women, to make that decision if necessary and …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 28 Nov 2022
Legal Rights to Access Abortion

"The right hon. Member mentions the 1967 Act. From what my mother told me at the time—I was too young to know about it—the Act sparked a huge feeling of social revolution in this country and a belief in the rights of women, which many women now feel are under …..."
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Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Redundancy Pay
Tuesday 22nd November 2022

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse has been of Ministerial severance pay in his Department in each year since 1 January 2016.

Answered by Mike Freer

Under the Ministerial and Other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991, eligible Ministers who leave office are entitled to a one-off payment equivalent to one quarter of their annual salary at the point at which they leave Government.

This applies only where a Minister is under 65 and is not appointed to a ministerial office within three weeks of leaving government.

Details of such payments are published in departmental annual reports and accounts, and ministerial salaries are published on GOV.UK at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-salary-data.

Written Question
Criminal Records: Rehabilitation
Thursday 21st July 2022

Asked by: Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrat - Edinburgh West)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the reforms to criminal record rehabilitation periods introduced in Part 11 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, when he expects to implement those reforms.

Answered by Stuart Andrew - Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

The measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 concerning criminal record rehabilitation periods will require further secondary legislation before the policy can be implemented.

The Home Office have commissioned the Disclosure and Barring Service to make required changes to its IT systems to ensure that DBS certificates fully reflect the provisions within the Act with regard to rehabilitation periods. We expect the work to be completed before the end of 2023. The Ministry of Justice and Home Office will then lay the Statutory Instrument to bring the measures into force, once a specific date of implementation can be confirmed

Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 04 Jul 2022
Assisted Dying

"The hon. Member is making a number of points. Like the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Kevin Hollinrake), I am on the other side of the debate. Is it not the case that many of the people who are being characterised as wanting granny or grandpa to hurry up …..."
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