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HANSARDIOPC Report on Metropolitan Police Officers' Conduct: Charing Cross Police StationWe have not refused at all. We have said we will consider it, along with all the other horrendous crimes that, sadly, teem around this country and which we have to deal with. As I…02 Feb 2022HANSARDIOPC Report on Metropolitan Police Officers' Conduct: Charing Cross Police StationGiven the incidents we have seen—I too was appalled by the incident to which the hon. Lady refers—it is hard not to agree with the IOPC conclusions. As I have explained in the…02 Feb 2022HANSARDDraft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2022I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2022. It is a great pleasure to appear before you, Mr Hollobone, albeit a few…27 Jan 2022HANSARDDraft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2022I am grateful to Members from across the Committee—particularly Opposition Members and the incoming Chair of the Select Committee, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull…27 Jan 2022HANSARDBiometrics Commissioner and Forensic Science RegulatorI certainly think it would be a good idea to provide people with that information at as early an opportunity as we can. Whether they would read a notice on the wall at that moment…20 Jan 2022HANSARDBiometrics Commissioner and Forensic Science RegulatorI will come on to that in a moment. I just want to address the question of a legal framework. There is already a comprehensive legal framework around the operation of this…20 Jan 2022HANSARDBiometrics Commissioner and Forensic Science RegulatorIt is a great pleasure to appear before you, Dr Huq. I am grateful to you, and I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Greg Clark) and the hon. Member for…20 Jan 2022HANSARDPolice FundingI will certainly acknowledge that police numbers fell post the 2010 election, but only as long as the hon. Lady acknowledges that her party crashed the economy, causing us to make…17 Jan 2022HANSARDPolice FundingYear on year, last year and the year before, we actually saw a fall in police-recorded incidents of antisocial behaviour, but we have seen fluctuations in that crime type over the…17 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsLike my hon. Friend, I have seen a rise in that kind of offence in my constituency. As the crops are cut and those animals become more apparent, it obviously becomes more of a…17 Jan 2022HANSARDPolice FundingAs I am sure the hon. Gentleman knows, Cambridgeshire police has expanded quite significantly, in terms of pure police numbers, over the past couple of years, but I hope he will…17 Jan 2022HANSARDPolice FundingI am pleased to hear that that substantial award from the safer streets fund is making a difference in my hon. Friend’s constituency, and of course I would be more than happy to…17 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsIt must be hard for everybody to imagine what kind of twisted mind would think it was a good thing to do to break or steal a defibrillator, and I would be more than happy to meet…17 Jan 2022HANSARDPolice FundingI am certainly happy to meet my hon. Friend. We will see future rounds of the safer streets fund, and I hope his police and crime commissioner and his local authority will make a…17 Jan 2022HANSARDPolice Community Support OfficersThe decisions on how to use funding and resources are operational matters for chief constables, working with their democratically elected police and crime commissioners. They are…17 Jan 2022HANSARDPolice Community Support OfficersObviously the Bedfordshire police and crime commissioner is doing a fantastic job. He won a resounding victory in the recent election, and I know he continues to enjoy significant…17 Jan 2022HANSARDPolice Community Support OfficersHilarious. I understand the hon. Lady is playing catch-up on policing, and she may have missed the 11,000 police officers we have recruited so far. She may have missed the…17 Jan 2022HANSARDPolice FundingThe hon. Lady is stretching it a bit to say that crime over the past three or four years was the fault of the previous Mayor, who has not been in office for some time; she may not…17 Jan 2022HANSARDPolice FundingMy hon. Friend will know that there was a passionate Adjournment debate just the other night to discuss issues in west midlands policing. As I said during that debate, it is…17 Jan 2022HANSARDPolice FundingI know this is a matter of concern to the whole House, which I know is to be addressed by the Home Secretary shortly. As I hope my hon. Friend knows, police capacity—that relates…17 Jan 2022