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HANSARDPolice Officer NumbersWhat a joy it is to hear a Conservative voice for Darlington once again! You will be interested to know, Mr Speaker, that in my very first general election in 1987, I fought in…08 Feb 2021HANSARDPolice Officer NumbersIn my nearly six years in the House, I have watched with admiration as my hon. Friend, terrier-like, holds the Government to their commitments; he is doing exactly the same today,…08 Feb 2021HANSARDEmergency Services NetworkI share my hon. Friend’s frustration. Representing a large rural constituency myself, I know exactly his experience and therefore his keenness to have his constituents better…08 Feb 2021HANSARDPolice Grant Report (England and Wales)My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has today laid before the House the “Police Grant Report (England and Wales) 2021/22” (HC 1162). The report sets out the Home Secretary’s…04 Feb 2021HANSARDAccredited Financial Investigation Powers: ConsultationI intend to lay a statutory instrument this year which will grant accredited financial investigator powers to an additional five agencies. This will bring the total number of…28 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerIt is often hard to design out human error in a system that interacts with humans, but my hon. Friend is quite right that one of the lessons that we need to learn from this…18 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerI do not know whether I ought to be taking offence at the hon. Gentleman’s suggestion of my obvious lack of suitability to appear before such an esteemed audience as Her Majesty’s…18 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerWe will not know entirely until we have analysed the reports, but early indications were optimistic about recovery, as I say, because data is held elsewhere. If, in some…18 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerIt is very ingenious of my hon. Friend to get the uplift into this particular statement, but I welcome his ingenuity. The uplift is not affected at all. Recruitment is going well…18 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerFirst of all, may I object to the hon. Lady offering such a calumny against the Home Secretary? The Home Secretary is 200%—if that is possible—committed to the job. Throughout the…18 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerWhat a novelty to be asked a question in person! I can confirm what my hon. Friend says. We are working extremely closely with policing partners—the National Police Chiefs’…18 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerWith permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the technical issues that we have experienced with the police national computer over the past week. The records…18 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerMy hon. Friend has a background in technology, so it is quite right that he should raise such pertinent questions. On his first question, no, there is no allegation of wrongdoing…18 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerAs I have said before, I am afraid I cannot, as yet, give the absolute cast-iron guarantee that the hon. Gentleman seeks on the restitution of the data. The early indicators are…18 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerThe hon. Gentleman has given me a long series of questions, which I shall try to answer as efficiently as I possibly can. Once the error became clear to the team, they escalated…18 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right that the initial assessment was some optimism about the ability to recover this data, not least because it is held in a number of areas.…18 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerOn the hon. and learned Lady’s two substantive questions, this had absolutely nothing to do with SIS II—the Schengen information system. These were, as I said earlier, deletions…18 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerThat is absolutely right. I understand that the police were informed, along with the senior levels of the Home Office, on the Monday after the incident occurred, and they are part…18 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerYes. It is the hope of all Government Members that Opposition Members will work constructively with us. I had a very constructive briefing over the weekend with the hon. Member…18 Jan 2021HANSARDPolice National ComputerThe hon. Gentleman again casts aspersions on the Home Secretary, who is one of the hardest-working politicians I have come across in my 20-odd years in politics, and I think it is…18 Jan 2021