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HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeFirst, let me just thank my right hon. Friend, whose work over a number of years did more than just lay the foundations for this programme: it really got it under way and on the…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeI thank the Select Committee Chair for her question. It is first worth observing that the Metropolitan police have by far the highest per capita funding of any police force in the…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeOf course, I would be delighted to meet my right hon. Friend to discuss police funding in Lincolnshire as soon as possible. It is a topic I discuss with the excellent police and…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeI do not accept that. I have read out twice now—I will not repeat them—the ONS figures in the crime survey for England and Wales showing reductions in crime since 2010. On…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeWith permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement about the Government’s police uplift programme. Today is a significant day for policing. We can officially announce that our…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeYes, I certainly agree. North Wales police has 105 extra officers compared with March 2010. We expect them to be catching criminals. I agree with my hon. Friend that we want to…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeI thank my hon. Friend for his campaigning work for the police and the public in Sussex. Katy Bourne, the police and crime commissioner, does a fantastic job. I have met her many…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeThat is a good note on which to end. Yes, police and crime commissioner Katy Bourne and Chief Constable Jo Shiner, both of whom I have met, have done a fantastic job in Sussex of…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeI concur entirely with my hon. Friend’s remarks about police officer numbers. It is striking that the Labour party has consistently voted against measures to toughen up…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeYes, I entirely agree. It is important that we see more police on the beat and more criminals getting prosecuted. In addition to hiring all those police officers to deliver a…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeI am delighted to say that we now have more female police officers, by a very large margin, than at any time in history. In the most recent recruitment over the last three years,…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeI join my right hon. Friend in calling for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan to reconsider his unwise plans. As I said, the Metropolitan police has by far the highest per capita…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeI agree with my right hon. Friend and join him in paying tribute to the excellent police and crime commissioner in Kent, Matthew Scott. I am delighted to hear that crime is…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeAs I am sure the hon. Lady knows, Bedfordshire police has additional support through the police special grant, giving it extra money particularly to fight organised criminality. I…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeYes, it is. I am delighted to note that Essex has 150 more police officers than under the last Labour Government. The police and crime commissioner Roger Hirst and Chief Constable…26 Apr 2023HANSARDPolice Uplift ProgrammeChief constables and police and crime commissioners are able to decide how to spend their budget and whether they spend it on physical equipment, buildings, police staff or police…26 Apr 2023HANSARD Public Order BillI do not want to rehearse at great length points I have made previously, but I reiterate in response to the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Croydon Central (Sarah Jones),…24 Apr 2023HANSARD Public Order BillI beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendments 6H and 6J. The Public Order Bill is about giving the police the tools they need to tackle the highly disruptive…24 Apr 2023HANSARD Public Order BillWhy do the Opposition object to implementing some of the key elements of the Lords amendments in PACE code A, where most regulations relating to this issue already sit? They can…24 Apr 2023HANSARDIndependent Office for Police Conduct Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22I am today publishing the annual report and accounts of the Independent Office for Police Conduct. The report has been laid before the House and copies will be available in the…20 Apr 2023