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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Sep 2019
Legal Advice: Prorogation

"On a point of order, Mr Speaker...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Sep 2019
Legal Advice: Prorogation

"During the urgent question, the Attorney General made a joke about the phrase, “When did you stop beating your wife?” Part of the reason people are so upset about Prorogation is that the Domestic Abuse Bill has fallen, as my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham North (Alex Norris) just …..."
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Written Question
Hate Crime: Social Networking
Thursday 14th September 2017

Asked by: Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the Crown Prosecution Service has adequate resources to tackle social media hate crime.

Answered by Robert Buckland

The CPS prosecutes cases where they meet the test for prosecution. It allocates its resources accordingly and will continue to do so.

I welcome the CPS’s commitment to treat hate crimes using social media as seriously as other sorts of hate crime.