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HANSARDPolice Funding FormulaWork to update the funding formula is continuing, and I will update the House as soon as I can. The House should be aware that next year, 2024-25, police and crime commissioners…15 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsI join my hon. Friend in commending Humberside police force on the progress it has made, particularly under recent chief constable Lee Freeman. In terms of improving leadership,…15 Jan 2024HANSARDPolice Funding FormulaI am always happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss these issues. As I say, Bedfordshire Police will receive an extra £10.2 million next year—an increase of about 6.5%—which I am…15 Jan 2024HANSARDPolice Funding FormulaTheft offences are down by 47% since 2010, of course—those are the crime survey figures—but we have recently launched a retail crime action plan, where police are committing to…15 Jan 2024HANSARDReported TheftsI agree that combating rural crime is extremely important, and the national rural crime unit is designed to do exactly that. We have also legislated, of course, and we will…15 Jan 2024HANSARDTen-year Drugs PlanThe commitments in the drugs strategy are being delivered, including investing more than £300 million in additional treatment capacity to create over 50,000 extra treatment…15 Jan 2024HANSARDTen-year Drugs PlanEnforcement is important. Besides closing down those 2,000 county lines, Border Force seized about 19 tonnes of cocaine in the year ending March 2022—the largest amount seized in…15 Jan 2024HANSARDReported TheftsThe Government take domestic burglary very seriously, which is why, just over a year ago, we obtained a commitment from the police to attend every residential burglary. That is…15 Jan 2024HANSARDTen-year Drugs PlanThe hon. Gentleman raises an important point. Of course, one feature of the island of Ireland is that there is essentially no border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern…15 Jan 2024HANSARDPolice Funding FormulaWhat I will commit to, as far as the people of Bedfordshire are concerned, is an increase in funding of £10.2 million for next year, 2024-25. That is an extra 6.5% compared with…15 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifth sitting)Let me respond to one or two of the issues that the shadow Minister quite reasonably raised. Fraud makes up about 40% of all criminal offences—the figure I have in my mind is 41%.…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifth sitting)I will in a moment. When we compare the crime figures since 2016, we see that overall crime has fallen. For example, overall crime including fraud and computer misuse has fallen…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifth sitting)That sort of interception and insertion is not addressed by this clause, which is about SIM farms and the almost industrial-scale transmission of thousands of messages. What the…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifth sitting)It is not reliant on that. It is simply that the data does not exist. The chief inspector of constabulary Andy Cooke said in his state of policing report last June that we are…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifth sitting)In a moment. Bicycle theft is down by 39%, vehicle crime by about 50%, and violent crime by around 50%. It is not the case that some sort of artifice going on and that if we added…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for that very good question. These two offences require a reasonable suspicion that the device will be used in connection with vehicle theft. The judge or…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifth sitting)It’s not my choice!11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 14, in clause 1, page 2, line 1, after “means” insert “— (a) in England and Wales,”. This amendment and amendments 15 to 18 extend the offence under this…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifth sitting)As we have discussed, clauses 1 to 4 introduce new offences to criminalise the importation, manufacture, modification, supply, offer to supply and possession of particular…11 Jan 2024HANSARDCriminal Justice Bill (Fifth sitting)It may be helpful to clarify the two different kinds of provisions that apply; the shadow Minister was conflating the two slightly. The first area, the one that we are debating,…11 Jan 2024