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HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Stockton West, for his extensive speech in this short debate, setting out in great detail the background and history of how we…03 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Third sitting)A number of the points that the shadow Minister has raised were discussed earlier. We have set out very clearly why we believe that the respect orders should only apply to adults,…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Third sitting)Clause 2 introduces schedule 1, which makes consequential amendments to part 1 of the 2014 Act to provide for youth and housing injunctions. The purpose of the amendments in this…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Third sitting)Clause 3 provides for extensions to the maximum timeframes for dispersal directions and closure orders under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, and I will…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Third sitting)We are retaining the existing provisions for civil injunctions. As I set out previously, the balance of probabilities, the test and the categorisation of the antisocial behaviour…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Third sitting)I am very pleased to hear that the shadow Minister supports the 72-hour limit, because it was in the Criminal Justice Bill that her Government brought forward and that, because of…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Fourth sitting)As I set out in my opening remarks, there will be statutory guidance on the use of the powers. I hope that provides some reassurance about how they will be used. I also set out…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Fourth sitting)Clause 4 serves two purposes. First, it extends the remit of the community safety accreditation scheme, to enable accredited officers to issue fixed penalty notices to tackle…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Fourth sitting)It is slightly warmer in the room this afternoon. The point I was making before the break was that a number of the measures in this Bill were in the Criminal Justice Bill, as the…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Fourth sitting)I am very pleased that the shadow Minister agrees. Question put and agreed to. Clause 5 accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. Schedule 2 agreed to. Clause 6 Reviews of…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Fourth sitting)Clause 5 and schedule 2 provide registered social housing providers with the power to issue closure notices and closure orders, to enable them to quickly close premises that they…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Fourth sitting)An additional £1.2 billion is going into policing—from today, actually—for this financial year. So there is a clear commitment from the Government to fund police forces. I…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Fourth sitting)The shadow Minister and other members of the Committee have set out clearly how concerned we are about the antisocial use of vehicles and the real problems they are causing…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Fourth sitting)We all accept that antisocial behaviour is unacceptable, which is why the Government are undertaking this ambitious programme of work to tackle it, including the proposals that we…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Third sitting)I beg to move amendment 6, in clause 2, page 10, line 36, leave out “Schedule 1 amends Part 1 of” and insert “Part 1 of Schedule 1 amends”. This amendment is consequential on…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Fourth sitting)I listened carefully to what the shadow Minister said, and in my remarks I also indicated that we wanted to be proportionate in the information we will request. It is clear that…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Fourth sitting)The shadow Minister makes an important point. This must be about intelligence-led policing, but there will be circumstances in which police officers find themselves having to…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Fourth sitting)This has been a really useful debate. It has highlighted the problems that society is facing with the epidemic levels of knife crime that we have seen in recent times. It was…01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Fourth sitting)The Committee benefits from that information.01 Apr 2025HANSARDCrime and Policing Bill (Fourth sitting)We have obviously been working closely with the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners on how these provisions will work, to ensure that PCCs feel comfortable about what is…01 Apr 2025