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HANSARDAsylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal ActivityAgain, that is a matter for each individual Opposition Member to explain to their constituents. I know that this is an issue that people care about. Opposition Members will have…21 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal ActivityI totally disagree with what the hon. Lady said. Violent disorder is not a symptom—it is criminal. It is thuggery; it is attacks on our brave police officers. There is no reason…21 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal ActivityTo the right hon. Gentleman’s specific question, this is about not granting asylum to those who are convicted of a registered sexual offence, so it is not recognising that they…21 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal ActivityThe hon. Gentleman may know that a great deal of work has been undertaken since the disorder of last summer to ensure that intelligence is gathered from the online space, as well…21 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal ActivityThe right hon. Lady says that there is no plan. First, we are working with source and transit companies to stop dangerous journeys before they begin. Secondly, we are stepping up…21 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal ActivityMy hon. Friend raises a really important point. After the disorder last summer we did see communities spontaneously coming together and wanting to say that what had happened in…21 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal ActivityAs I understand it—obviously, I am the Policing Minister, but I will get the Minister with responsibility for immigration to write to the right hon. Gentleman about this—the…21 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal ActivityThe hon. Lady raises an important point. Over the past few years, the online space in particular has been used for misinformation and downright lies. It is important that we all…21 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal ActivityAs I just said to the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Sarah Olney), who speaks for the Liberal Democrats, peaceful protest is completely acceptable. We understand that there are…21 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal ActivityYes. My hon. Friend puts it very well. Within this, there are people fleeing persecution in other parts of the world. This country, as we all know and have heard many times in the…21 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal ActivityI have absolutely no idea; it is for the shadow Home Secretary to explain that one. Clearly, I would expect all hon. and right hon. Members in the House to want to do everything…21 Jul 2025HANSARDOff-road BikesYes, I am very happy to look into that issue and to meet my hon. Friend to discuss it. He may want to know that the 60 additional officers that are going to be available in his…07 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the Home Secretary just pointed out, we have provided an additional £200 million this year to support new neighbourhood police officers and PCSOs for all our communities. I am…07 Jul 2025HANSARDCommunity Policing and Neighbourhood Health TeamsWith the recently launched 10-year health plan, we are moving away from those siloed services towards a more joined-up approach, including the preventive model of care. That…07 Jul 2025HANSARDCommunity Policing and Neighbourhood Health TeamsMy hon. Friend speaks with a great deal of experience in health matters. There are regular discussions between ministerial colleagues about how we can best join up public…07 Jul 2025HANSARDOff-road BikesOur Crime and Policing Bill, which Opposition Members voted against on Third Reading, is giving the police greater powers to clamp down on off-road bikes and other nuisance…07 Jul 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising this issue; I know he has experience as a police officer. I regularly meet the Police Federation and its officers and chief executive.…07 Jul 2025HANSARDAntisocial BehaviourFirst, I am very pleased to hear about the work of Northumbria police with Operation Shield, which I think is to be commended. We want to work collectively with forces to focus on…07 Jul 2025HANSARDAntisocial BehaviourWe will of course learn lessons over the summer from our initiative and our blitz on town centres, and I am willing to share that with SNP Ministers, which I think would be very…07 Jul 2025HANSARDAntisocial BehaviourI am, of course, very happy to meet the hon. Lady. That is why neighbourhood policing is important, and why the Government made a commitment to put 13,000 additional police…07 Jul 2025