Speeches by Cox.

“T1. If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”

“Thank you very much, Sir Brian. I would like to talk about the removal of the right to elect, if I may. Your recommendations of removal of the right to elect a Crown court trial and reclassification of certain offences as summary-only would substantially increase the volume of cases going through the magistrates court.…”

“Yes, indeed. Can I move on to a question around data for committals for trial in the Crown court, which show that for 2024-25 around 6% of those cases resulted from defendants electing trial, whereas 57% were directed by magistrates. So, are magistrates currently allocating either-way offences to the Crown court when t…”

“I think my colleague Linsey was going to come in with a supplementary.”

“In the early 2000s, I lived in Hanoi alongside my husband who was reporting on Vietnam for the BBC, and I saw for myself how he and the BBC worked very hard for truth. He then spent a year in Myanmar, working alongside extraordinarily brave local journalists who sought to expand public broadcasting under a military dic…”

“It is an honour to pay tribute in this debate to the men and women of our armed forces, past and present, whose courage and service secured our freedoms. In Colchester, we gathered for our traditional Remembrance Sunday service at the war memorial, against the backdrop of our castle and the remains of our Roman temple—…”

“Good afternoon: Pam Cox, the Member for Colchester, with interests as declared on the register. In addition, I am the chair of the APPG on penal affairs.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Mundell. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for South Norfolk (Ben Goldsborough) for securing this important debate, which shines a light on the growing disconnect between video game consumers and the companies that profit from them. The e-petition received nearly 190,0…”

“I will see what I can do, Madam Deputy Speaker. Property service charges and the behaviour of the companies that levy them are causing real distress across the country. I thank the hon. Member for Reigate (Rebecca Paul) for her speech setting out those challenges. In Colchester, I have heard from residents in Orchard G…”

“I am advised not to, so that we can keep to time. Lord Best, chair of the Regulation of Property Agents Working Group, said in his recent evidence to the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee that this “is an unregulated sector”, and his group has called for proper regulation. If property agents cannot be…”

“Does my hon. Friend agree that offering clear incentives for earned release is a key way of offering certain offenders clear chances to change, thereby reducing the risk of reoffending and enhancing public protection?”

“We were talking about the relaunch of the Public Law Outline; I remember the first one. Is there a space in any further iteration of the Public Law Outline to include a requirement for an offer of post-proceedings engagement to be made to parents, or is that not the place to do it?”

“That was going to be the last of my three questions, but since you have led us into that, thank you, Sarah.”

“No, you are quite right, breaking the cycle of recurrent care proceedings is vital. It falls between every crack in the system, and it is not a measurable KPI. I was personally involved in designing measures that could capture the effectiveness of efforts to break this recurrence in my previous career as an academic. W…”

“I remember over a decade ago when the hope was that when pre-proceedings came in and every family had a right to pre-proceedings, it would follow that every family would have a right to post-proceedings of some kind, which became known as measures to avoid recurrence. So are we no further along, 10 years on, in develop…”

“And a third of the cases are recurrent cases, so this is something that MOJ and DFE really need to look at again I would say. I see a lot of people are nodding.”

“And a third of the cases are recurrent cases, so this is something that MOJ and DFE really need to look at again I would say. I see a lot of people are nodding.”

“Then it stopped, yes. With the Chair’s permission we might write and follow up on that, just to check where we are at nationally. I have two other brief questions. One is around Pathfinder courts: from your perspective are they making a difference to families experiencing domestic abuse and to the children involved in …”

“I remember over a decade ago when the hope was that when pre-proceedings came in and every family had a right to pre-proceedings, it would follow that every family would have a right to post-proceedings of some kind, which became known as measures to avoid recurrence. So are we no further along, 10 years on, in develop…”

“The family drug and alcohol Court problem-solving court has very robust data, to my mind, showing its effectiveness. Where are we at with plans to roll out FDAC more generally?”