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HANSARDKnife CrimeI will convey my right hon. Friend’s request to the Chancellor, and I put on record my thanks for his tireless campaigning and that of other Dorset MPs for resources for that…26 Feb 2024HANSARDDraft West Midlands Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions) Order 2024We have discussed it extensively already. We very carefully considered all the responses, and only after considering them very carefully was a decision reached. In terms of local…26 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am sure that is a question the hon. Lady will be posing to London’s police and crime commissioner, Sadiq Khan, in the course of the upcoming mayoral election. Thanks to…26 Feb 2024HANSARDDraft West Midlands Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions) Order 2024There were more negative responses than just the copy-and-paste ones. I would like to make it clear for the record that the Government carefully considered all the responses,…26 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsChanges of this nature are generally not applied retrospectively. I will look at that matter again. Normally, when a length-of-service period has changed it applies prospectively…26 Feb 2024HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingStaffordshire constabulary will receive an extra £16 million next year compared with the current financial year, which is a significant increase. They now have more than 2,000…26 Feb 2024HANSARDPolicing Homelessness and Rough SleepingThe powers in the pieces of legislation my hon. Friend lists are not precisely the same as those in the Criminal Justice Bill. The Bill does not criminalise rough sleeping in…26 Feb 2024HANSARDPolice Bail Curfew ConditionsDecisions on bail conditions are set, enforced and monitored locally, but it is very important that where police bail conditions are set down, they are adhered to, in order to…26 Feb 2024HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingThe previous Home Secretary, my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Fareham (Suella Braverman) was successful in securing a commitment from police to ensure that every…26 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsPerhaps I have not said often enough in this Chamber that we now have record numbers of police officers across England and Wales, including in the Metropolitan police area, which…26 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for her work in helping the community: her service has been exemplary. The police will of course help when there is a threat to life or safety or when…26 Feb 2024HANSARDPolicing Homelessness and Rough SleepingAs I said, my colleagues in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities are providing extremely comprehensive packages of support. Rough sleeping is down by 35% since…26 Feb 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am sure that all Members were horrified when those political statements, one of which, by implication, called for the destruction of Israel, were beamed on to the Big Ben tower.…26 Feb 2024HANSARDDraft West Midlands Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions) Order 2024My hon. Friend is quite right. Let me turn to some of those questions. The consultation period ran from 20 December to 31 January. It will not escape eagle-eyed Committee members…26 Feb 2024HANSARDDraft West Midlands Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions) Order 2024I am glad that the right hon. Lady, from a sedentary position, has clarified that. So when she referred to a referendum in her intervention a moment or two ago, she was in fact…26 Feb 2024HANSARDDraft West Midlands Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions) Order 2024Indeed. The copy-and-paste responses were on the negative side. Of course, if one discounted those, the balance of replies would have been different, wouldn’t it? It is important…26 Feb 2024HANSARDLocal PolicingOf course, we have the Independent Office for Police Conduct to make sure that there is an independent body available to investigate serious allegations about police forces or…26 Feb 2024HANSARDDraft West Midlands Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions) Order 2024I give way to my hon. Friend.26 Feb 2024HANSARDDraft West Midlands Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions) Order 2024I will. Perhaps the hon. Member is going to suggest that we transfer the PCC powers exercised by the Mayor of Greater Manchester and the Mayor of London back to a PCC. Perhaps…26 Feb 2024HANSARDKnife CrimeAs we have said often in debates this House, knife crime is a terrible crime; it tears families apart and all too often takes young people from us. As the House will know, violent…26 Feb 2024