Speeches by Dixon.

“And that should hopefully reduce the costs to any claimant of accessing the transcripts, because at the moment it can stretch into the tens of thousands if it is a long case.”

“I am sorry, but can I just probe that? The point is about having access to a record of proceedings, particularly in the case of employment tribunals where there has been a reliance on judges’ notes and difficulty in getting transcripts of the proceedings in a timely way so that people can make appeals to the JCIO. It i…”

“Okay. We are going to come on to the cyber-attack now, aren’t we, Chair?”

“Thank you, Chair, and welcome witnesses. I will allow you to choose who answers this question, but I think it may be most relevant to Ms Hewison. I have been made aware of an employment tribunal case in which the claimant has requested access to the court record in order to pursue an appeal on the basis of judicial mis…”

“Can I follow up? Thank you for that very comprehensive answer. In terms of the provider market, it sounds like you have identified some of the inefficiencies and wasted bureaucracy in the process, and it is good that you have got more flexible procurement in place. How is that actually translating into net capacity to …”

“Before I move on to my substantive question, I want to pick up the point about litigation in person, if I have understood it correctly, and some of the points about identification of vulnerable persons. I know we were talking about that in the context of legal aid, but it is also relevant at the stage of court proceedi…”

“It would be extremely helpful, in due course, to get more information about how many of those gaps still exist and what your mitigations are, as well as the progress you are making on closing those gaps in access to legal aid.”

“Have you identified other areas where you think fees also need reviewing?”

“Jane, you mentioned that you are doing what sounds like an internal redesign and review of legal aid that is just getting started. What is the timescale for that to deliver some benefits and proposals for restructure? Do you think some of them will require changes to legislation?”

“In that case, it could change from in-person to remote hearings partway through. That application can be made at any stage.”

“No, I have not just walked in. This is the third speech I have listened to.”

“I welcome my right hon. Friend’s clarification that charities would still be able to provide these placements. I have a fantastic charity in my constituency, upCYCLE, which teaches bike maintenance skills to help rehabilitate people. Currently, that is done in prisons, but when there are more community sentences, that …”

“A lot of drug users are repeat offenders, as my hon. Friend was saying about those with a gambling addiction. Does she agree that a shift to community provision might enable people to get the rehabilitation they need for their addiction, whether it be drugs, alcohol or gambling?”

“Referring to my earlier comments, the data show that one in four prisoners are drug users and have a drug and alcohol problem, and they constitute many of the reoffenders. Given that data, does the right hon. Member not agree with me that we should be rehabilitating and medically treating those addictions, so that they…”

“My hon. Friend is making a very strong argument, drawing parallels between gambling addiction and drug and alcohol abuse. Earlier this year, as a member of the Public Accounts Committee, I questioned Government officials about the endemic use of drugs in prisons. The Carol Black report looked at this back in 2020—”

“The right hon. Gentleman is making a passionate and principled speech about punishment, but we are dealing here with practicalities. The Public Accounts Committee, of which I am a member, has looked at the prison estate capacity. There was a pledge under the previous Government for 20,000 additional prison places; just…”

“It was just a follow-up to Conrad’s point about the NHS and service line accounting. This issue is decades long. I remember when Monitor was first introduced to get NHS trusts to have the basic information to benchmark costs. Could you give a use case of how, when that data is available, as it is in the NHS, it has res…”

“I did not think I was down to ask any questions in this session.”

“We could have two hypotheticals. If there was a policy objective to try to recoup some of the costs of gambling harm for gambling addiction services in the NHS, would it be possible, for example, to levy that on to gambling licences, or on, for example, driving licence fees to ameliorate some of the enforcement costs o…”

“In terms of where we were going in relation to perhaps removing some of the decision-making from Parliament, it is very clear from your response that, where there is an additional fee over and above cost recovery for another policy objective, that should still be subject to a parliamentary oversight process, whereas in…”