Today I welcomed the Sentencing White Paper, particularly the extension of minimum terms for sexual and violent offences, and the power to end automatic early release.
This week, Baroness Cumberlege concluded her two year review into the hormone pregnancy test Primodos, the anti-epilepsy drug sodium valproate and pelvic mesh.
As part of yesterday’s debate on the economy, I highlighted how the Government support packages have helped specifically to protect women’s jobs – something I feel has been overlooked in the narrative to date.
Yesterday evening I spoke in the Report Stage of the Domestic Abuse Bill. This is an incredibly important piece of legislation, and a topic which I feel strongly about.
As we begin planning our economic recovery, it is essential we have a strategy that is focused on getting people back to work. We must create jobs that are skilled and sustainable, and in sectors we want to grow.
Across Kent we have some brilliant community rehabilitation providers. Following the Justice Secretary’s statement yesterday that the probation services in England and Wales will be fully restored to public ownership and control,
