Speeches by Kohler.

“My colleague on the Home Affairs Committee, the hon. Member for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh (Chris Murray) made an excellent point. The asylum accommodation contract signed under the previous Tory Government gifted scandalously high profits to private providers. Frankly, it is a PPE-type scandal. Clearsprings’ profi…”

“Mr Giannasi said something that reminded me of something I had not asked you, Mr Taylor, about tech companies collaborating with you on illegal content. I assume all the tech companies are the same, but is that correct? Are some better than others?”

“If you could, that would be useful.”

“I fear I know the answer to this question after the last session, but I will ask it anyway. How effective is collaboration between the policing and the tech companies?”

“Can I go back to that again? I am struggling; this is a dilemma for liberal democracy, of course, dealing with extremist ideas that are not illegal, because you are allowed to have extremist ideas. How do we square that with a liberal democracy’s right to believe in strange and wrong things?”

“Is hate crime, which is illegal, proliferating on the internet?”

“Would making these acts of extremism illegal help, or would it drive it deeper into the dark web and make it harder for you to see what is happening?”

“Can we focus on that gap? Can you give some practical examples of that gap and what legislation would fill it?”

“Your remit runs to hate crime, extremism and counter-terrorism. Can you show us how you navigate the threshold between those three?”

“Why is Ofcom not doing anything? Why is it not using the powers that it has?”

“I want to ask a very basic question. Is it the regulator or the regulations that need changing? Is it Ofcom, is it the legislation behind it or is it both?”

“Mr Ahmed, can I push you on something you said then? Is it not utterly predictable that 14 to 17-year-olds would be the most vulnerable group to conspiracy theories? They are young and impressionable, those who will believe simplistic notions they see on the internet. If that is the case, is the Australian example of l…”

“You referenced London and Manchester, which I think is part of your Strong Cities Network. I can see what it is doing. What is the evidence that it is working? As a London MP, I am not aware of this.”

“Well, of course, restorative justice is not right for every victim. I have said to the hon. Member that it is right for many victims, including myself. I do not begin to understand why he finds that a difficult point to understand. As I know from personal experience, when my wife, eldest daughter and I met one of the a…”

“My new clauses 15 and 16 concern restorative justice. They are supported by the charities Why Me?, for whom I am an ambassador, and Calm Mediation, as well as the Restorative Justice Council and others who work every day with victims and offenders. I thank hon. Members from my own party and from the Labour and Conserva…”

“As the Justice Secretary admits, there is a staffing crisis in our prisons that his Government inherited from the brass-necked Tories. Over a third of prison officers now have less than two years’ experience. With too many officers leaving the profession and too few joining, is it any wonder that mistakes like this hap…”

“Government new clause 1 seeks to strengthen the deportation framework by making it available to those given a suspended sentence. I urge the House to pause before we simply nod it through. It may be politically attractive to say that we are toughening deportation powers, but in practice the change risks blurring the di…”

“I say to the right hon. Gentleman and many hon. Members that the prison population is a supply-led industry. If we build more prisons, we will just get more prisoners. It does not address the issue. All history tells us that—look at America. We imprison more people in this country than is done in Europe, yet we have a …”

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“Could the hon. Lady tell us why a judge would suspend the sentence?”