Speeches by Cox.

“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…”

“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.”

“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?”

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

“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?”

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

“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.”

“Is 2,000 at the upper end?”

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

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

“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…”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.…”

“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—…”