Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Desmond Swayne and Elizabeth Truss

Tuesday 1st November 2016 Commons Chamber

[Elizabeth Truss]

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. We have put in extra measures—particularly the law on coercive behaviour, which has been very important. What I am determined to do is make sure our courts system treats vulnerable witnesses and victims as well as possible to encourage more people to come forward.

[Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) (Con)]

T3. Can smuggling into prisons by drones be stopped?

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Desmond Swayne and Elizabeth Truss

Tuesday 6th September 2016 Commons Chamber

[Elizabeth Truss]

I, too, welcome the hon. Gentleman to the Dispatch Box. It is great to have somebody who is also from Leeds facing me, although I learned the error of my ways after growing up in a left-wing household in that great city.

[Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) (Con)]

Shocking!

[Elizabeth Truss]

All I can say is that I believe that everyone is capable of reform, even those on the Opposition Benches. I have not yet given up hope on the shadow Secretary of State for Justice.

The whole purpose of the Bill of Rights is to enhance human rights in this country. We have led the world in human rights since Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights that was published in Wales in 1689, and we will continue to do so.