Speeches by Cox.

“Yes. Is there a significant difference between women’s experience of this service, would you say?”

“You are the only provider.”

“I am glad to hear that local council elections will go ahead in 2026, and I welcome the significant investment into the six priority new mayoral areas. I also welcome the fact that Greater Essex—my part of the world—will have the opportunity to complete much-needed local government reform before we elect our inaugural …”

“The governance of jury trials has changed considerably over time—dramatically so in the 19th century, and again in the 1970s. In both cases, that was to improve public access to justice. Does the Lord Chancellor agree that if our traditions are to endure, including our legal traditions, they need to adapt?”

“I welcome the work of the Angiolini inquiry into the appalling murder of Sarah Everard. I also welcome the Minister’s update on the Government’s strategy to halve violence against women and girls over the next decade. She knows that representatives from four Select Committees met recently to help to do our bit to advan…”

“In the east of England, we welcome the Government and private sector investment in Sizewell C, and a clean energy supply chain that will stretch from Suffolk through to Essex. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Budget offers tax incentives to start-ups and scale-ups in that sector, which will help that supply cha…”

“In October this year, I was pleased, along with other parliamentarians, to meet a senior member of UNRWA as part of our work with the British group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. He told us how vital it was that UNRWA’s programme of aid be fully restored, given the conditions that my hon. Friend and others have desc…”

“Is there a way of varying the mode in which you invite people to engage, in that case?”

“It is an important part of engagement with the rule of law in this kind of process.”

“You say that you have had a high level of consultation responses. What does “high” look like?”

“Is 2,000 at the upper end?”

“Good afternoon. I am Pam Cox, MP for Colchester, previously an academic criminologist. My interests are as declared on the register. I am also chair of the penal affairs APPG.”

“Your current business plan has an ambition to engage in more public engagement. How is that going?”

“In that vein, is there anything in your terms of reference that would preclude you from collaborating with, say, UK Research and Innovation? That is where academic and practising lawyers sit under the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. There are plenty of high-quality law…”

“By social science standards, that is quite a low number.”

“On special parliamentary procedure and the introduction of Law Commission Bills, you touched on that in a previous answer. Do you think that that procedure should be reviewed?”

“Is there a conversation to be had, because you have a body of academic and practising lawyers who work on the kinds of projects you are describing?”

“Is that mostly to do with commercial law?”

“Today I am hosting pupils from Colchester academy in Greenstead in my constituency. They and their families want a clean River Colne. Will the Secretary of State set out what the Government are doing to hold Anglian Water to account, and whether she is seeing an improvement in its performance?”

“Victims in the criminal justice system deserve to be kept fully informed of developments in their case. Can the Solicitor General set out how she is working with the Crown Prosecution Service to improve those communications for victims? I note again the very valuable work in this space of Baroness Newlove, the former V…”