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HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI, too, am anxious not to engage in ping-pong with my hon. Friend the Member for North East Bedfordshire (Richard Fuller) through my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton West (Chris…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillMy hon. Friend is making an extremely important point, and nowhere is it more pertinent than in the area of digital forensics, as he said, which is developing very fast. One of…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillAlthough the hon. Lady is right that the Forensic Science Service was closed, and that part of the argument for its closure was the cost, because it was losing significant amounts…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillThe hon. Lady refers to the history of forensics and fingerprinting. I want to share a small anecdote with the House. In the early days of fingerprinting, the Metropolitan police…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy Billrose—25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI thank hon. Members for their words of condolence, sorrow and support following the awful crime that was committed last night against not only a police officer but all of us. Mr…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI just want to put on the record that the overall spend on forensics across policing is actually about half a billion pounds.25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI hesitate to intervene on my hon. Friend, but I think that in the early days of the Cameron Government, Francis Maude, then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, undertook a…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for making, in a charming and agrarian way, a very important point about our having confidence in the forensic system. Forensic science is…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillMy hon. Friend is giving a fascinating tour de force on the history of forensics. She is quite right about the history, and it goes even further back. I know she will…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI am more than happy to give my hon. Friend that reassurance. I come, I guess, from the point of view of the Thomas More philosophy. I think it was Thomas More who said: “This…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI understand the issue that the hon. Gentleman is raising, but he surely cannot believe that faulty or non-standard forensic evidence should be tolerated within the judicial…25 Sept 2020HANSARDPoint of OrderOn a point of order, Mr Speaker. I want to bring the House’s attention to the fact that a police officer was sadly shot and killed overnight in Croydon. The details are still…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI wish to acknowledge the hon. Gentleman’s strong point that technology is moving at great speed in crime, as it is in all our lives, and to draw his attention to the fact that we…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillMy hon. Friend is raising an important point, but there are two things to say. Part of the complication is obviously the operational independence of chief constables, in that the…25 Sept 2020HANSARDForensic Science Regulator and Biometrics Strategy BillI think my hon. Friend has missed his calling: his forensic examination of these documents is to be admired. In the debate I will seek an answer to the question that he raises; I…25 Sept 2020HANSARDDraft Surrender of Offensive Weapons (Compensation) Regulations 2020I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Surrender of Offensive Weapons (Compensation) Regulations 2020. It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship,…23 Sept 2020HANSARDDraft Surrender of Offensive Weapons (Compensation) Regulations 2020I thank hon. Members for their contributions. I will deal first with the questions from the hon. Member for Croydon Central, who speaks for the Opposition. I hope that she will be…23 Sept 2020HANSARDDraft Surrender of Offensive Weapons (Compensation) Regulations 2020As far as I am aware, the intention of the scheme—I am happy to write to the hon. Gentleman to clarify matters, because, as he says, the arrangements in Northern Ireland are…23 Sept 2020HANSARDSerious Violence Reduction OrdersEvery knife crime is a tragedy, and any victim is one too many. The Government are taking action on every level to cut crime and make our streets safer, but we know there is much…14 Sept 2020