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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Jul 2016
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"Only a matter of time...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Jul 2016
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"I welcome my right hon. Friend to her post. She is there on merit and the Conservative party has shown that women can get to the very top on merit. Can she give me an assurance that merit will always be the deciding factor on whether people are promoted to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 21 Jul 2016
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"The Minister for Women and Equalities said a moment ago that she and the Government were committed to stamping out inequality wherever it happened. One of the starkest areas of inequality is sentencing: in every single category of offence, a man is more likely to be sent to prison than …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 May 2016
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"3. What assessment the Government have made of reasons for gender differences in prison sentencing for people found guilty of child neglect and abuse...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 May 2016
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"Despite what the Minister says, according to the Ministry of Justice’s figures for the last available period 33% of men convicted of cruelty and neglect of children were sent to prison, but only 15% of women were. That does not sound gender-neutral to me. Notwithstanding the fact that those figures …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Apr 2016
European Convention on Human Rights: UK Membership

"In the European Court of Human Rights there are pseudo-judges, many of them political appointees rather than proper judges, over-reaching their remit under the convention with ridiculous decisions such as votes for prisoners. Why should this House vote for something we do not believe in, which our constituents do not …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Apr 2016
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"In the Witney Gazette, the Prime Minister was quoted as saying about the European arrest warrant:

“Some other countries in Europe do not have our rights and safeguards. People can languish in jail for weeks without even being charged. I am not sure that the British people realise what …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Jan 2016
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"The Minister will know that I voted with the Opposition on this issue. He is a good man and I am sure he is doing his very best to battle away on this issue, but is it not the case that those who want a zero rate on sanitary products …..."
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Written Question
Prosecutions
Monday 7th December 2015

Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of prosecutions involved more than one perpetrator in the latest year for which information is available.

Answered by Robert Buckland

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of prosecutions involving more than one defendant. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 Nov 2015
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"The Attorney General may say it is not necessary, but does he think it would be better if a chapter 7 resolution explicitly endorsing military action against ISIS was passed at the United Nations? Have the Government made any attempts to achieve such a resolution, and which countries do the …..."
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