Extract from Commons committee stage of the European Union
(Withdrawal Agreement) Bill Nick Thomas-Symonds (Torfaen)
(Lab):...Let me give some specific examples. Things such as the
European arrest warrant, Eurojust and Europol are critical to the
successful investigation and extradition of wanted suspects or
criminals. National Crime Agency statistics show how
important this is. In the period from 2010 to 2016, the UK made
1,773 requests to member states for extradition under the...Request free trial
Extract from Commons
committee stage of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement)
Bill
(Torfaen) (Lab):...Let
me give some specific examples. Things such as the European arrest
warrant, Eurojust and Europol are critical to the successful
investigation and extradition of wanted suspects or
criminals. National Crime Agency statistics show how
important this is. In the period from 2010 to 2016, the UK made
1,773 requests to member states for extradition under the European
arrest warrant and received 48,776 requests from member states for
extradition. Not only can the UK currently bring people to these
shores to face justice, but we can send dangerous people to other
countries to face legal proceedings...
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adjournment debate on SPAC Nation
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture,
Media and Sport ():...I wish to talk a bit more
about the important role of safeguarding in charities. It is
important because it should prevent the exploitation of vulnerable
people or enable a rapid and effective response if exploitation
does happen. I want to make clear how seriously the Government take
this; since 2018, we have invested more than £1 million in the
domestic charity safeguarding programme. We have been working with
charities and other partners, including the National Crime Agency to raise awareness
of safeguarding; to ensure that charities, whatever their size,
whether large or small, know their responsibilities, know how to
handle concerns quickly and can easily access advice. The Charity
Commission has also launched a whistleblowing helpline to help
people report safeguarding concerns, and I encourage anyone who has
experienced or witnessed wrongdoing, or are concerned about it, to
use that as a means of reporting it. Obviously, Members here can
refer people to do that...
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on the Queen's Speech
(LD):...The issues I
have mentioned are in one policy area in one of the topics of
today’s debate, so I will allow myself one point on each of those
topics to pick up some threads from the debate. Regarding a royal
commission on criminal justice, we have had some mention of the
proposals which the Government have already announced through the
manifesto. Is that not rather pre-empting a part of the work of a
royal commission? What is the basis for thinking that
more years added to a long sentence will deter or reduce the
risk of terrorism? There are too many dog whistles and too much
that is simplistic. On home affairs, the National Crime Agency is to be strengthened
but I have not heard what that actually means. I appreciate that
the Minister will not have time to go into this tonight but should
our priority not be to ensure that we are involved as possible—as
we currently are—in contributions to and benefits from Europol,
Eurojust, ECRIS, Prüm, Schengen and European arrest warrants? On
the constitution, references have rightly been made to the rule of
law. I just say: yes, along with and part of that are human
rights...
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