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HANSARDIllegal Migrant Returns AgreementsThe noble Lord will be aware that the Government intend to look at a whole range of data. One of the reasons we have deported more than 2,500 people forcibly, including 1,500-plus…03 Dec 2024HANSARDRespect Orders and Anti-social BehaviourI may be going off script here, but I agree with the noble Lord. There is not a day when I come into London that I do not see someone jump a traffic light or ride on a pavement.…03 Dec 2024HANSARDIllegal Migrant Returns AgreementsI take what the noble Baroness has said at face value. I have not had any exposure to that issue—it has not come across my desk—but I will take it away and reflect on it. I assure…03 Dec 2024HANSARDRespect Orders and Anti-social BehaviourThe Government will have plans to deal with those issues, but they are the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice. If my noble friend will allow me, I will draw his comments to…03 Dec 2024HANSARDIllegal Migrant Returns AgreementsI am grateful to the right reverend Prelate for her question and comments. We will certainly keep that under review. It is important that people have both safeguarding properly…03 Dec 2024HANSARDRespect Orders and Anti-social BehaviourHaving finished with off-road biking, I was moving on to the point about drones. The noble Lord makes an extremely valid point, and we will examine that issue and the use of…03 Dec 2024HANSARDRespect Orders and Anti-social BehaviourI am grateful to my noble friend for those points. These issues are consistently under examination by the Home Office. Going back to the potential legislation and the remit of the…03 Dec 2024HANSARDRespect Orders and Anti-social BehaviourThe noble Baroness is absolutely right that it is important that people know who their police officers are, see them visibly and have the trust and confidence to give them…03 Dec 2024HANSARDRespect Orders and Anti-social BehaviourI am grateful to the noble Baroness for that question. She will know that it falls within the purview of the Ministry of Justice, for which I am not the accountable Minister.…03 Dec 2024HANSARDIllegal Migrant Returns AgreementsThe UK utilises a range of returns agreements and operational returns arrangements to facilitate the readmission to home countries of those with no right to remain here. We…03 Dec 2024HANSARDIllegal Migrant Returns AgreementsI am grateful to the noble Lord for his question. As he knows, my right honourable friend the Home Secretary visited Iraq last week and has engaged with the Government of Iraq to…03 Dec 2024HANSARDIllegal Migrant Returns AgreementsMy noble friend— I still call him that from days gone by—will be aware that only last week the Prime Minister announced a potential White Paper on net migration. Early in the new…03 Dec 2024HANSARDIllegal Migrant Returns AgreementsI am very pleased that the noble Lord welcomes that, because it is in fact a 19% increase on when his party was in office before 5 July. The 1,500 foreign national offenders are a…03 Dec 2024HANSARDIllegal Migrant Returns AgreementsI do not know whether it is fashionable to say this, but I do not know the answer to the question about the death penalty in Iraq. I will certainly find out and write to the noble…03 Dec 2024HANSARDIllegal Migrant Returns AgreementsThe Government are obviously continually trying to look at that very issue, and that is a fact of life. Since 5 July, four flights have taken place and they are the four biggest…03 Dec 2024HANSARDRespect Orders and Anti-social BehaviourI am grateful for the contributions of both His Majesty’s Opposition Front Bench and the Liberal Democrat Front Bench. I reassure the House that we will have plenty of opportunity…03 Dec 2024HANSARDRespect Orders and Anti-social BehaviourI do not blame the noble Lord personally. He carries the collective weight of the Conservative Government of the last 14 years on his shoulders. He may not like that, but he is in…03 Dec 2024HANSARDRespect Orders and Anti-social BehaviourFor the benefit of doubt, I will now sit down. Having finished my, I hope, helpful response to the Opposition Front Bench and His Majesty’s loyal Opposition, I will now take…03 Dec 2024HANSARDRespect Orders and Anti-social BehaviourI am grateful to the noble and learned Lord for his question. I want to get to the exact wording correct. With the respect order particularly, it does not have to be criminal…03 Dec 2024HANSARDRespect Orders and Anti-social BehaviourThe policing of rural communities is extremely important. I live in north Wales and I represented a semi-rural community in the House of Commons for 28 years. It is extremely…03 Dec 2024