May 2026

Paul Davies voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Adrian Ramsay voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Sarah Russell voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Sean Woodcock voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

My hon. Friend and neighbour shares with me a keen interest in rail, as we represent a city that is at the centre of the largest cluster of rail companies in Europe. We have launched a new campaign to drive up reporting of harassment on trains, and the new safer railway scheme, under which train operators must show what they are doing to tackle violence against women and girls so that they can travel with confidence. I look forward to working with my hon. Friend on that initiative.

Rosie Wrighting voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Allison Gardner voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Parliamentary appearance by Andrew Cooper

Danny Beales voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Laura Kyrke-Smith voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

John Whitby voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Parliamentary appearance by Richard Quigley

Ian Byrne voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Hannah Spencer voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

David Pinto-Duschinsky voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Neil Duncan-Jordan voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Anna Gelderd voted NO on 'King's Speech Motion for an Address: amendment (i)' (108-323, defeated)

Last year, 6,397 knife criminals were sent to prison, and the average sentence was just over eight months. As the Government scrapped almost all sentences of less than a year, will the Justice Secretary say very clearly whether he expects as many knife criminals to go to jail next year as did last year?

That’s not even true!

What the Justice Secretary just said about the record of the last Government was factually untrue, and he should withdraw it. He does not want to admit it, but it is his policy to send fewer knife criminals to jail. That is why he just said what he did. His White Paper was announced yesterday, and buried in it, on page 46—he can read it again—is his plan to not just go soft on young criminals, but make others, “including vulnerable adults and young adults…subject to a different process”. That is