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HANSARDRetail Crime PreventionBefore the Minister moves on, is it his gut instinct that, if he were returned, as opposed to my hon. Friend the Member for Swansea East (Carolyn Harris), he would legislate for a…05 Nov 2019HANSARD Intelligence and Security Committee Report on RussiaThank you, Mr Speaker—and congratulations. As a Labour member of the ISC, I support the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve), the Chair of the Committee, and…05 Nov 2019HANSARDRetail Crime PreventionI beg to move, That this House has considered prevention of retail crime. Welcome to the Chair, Mr Betts, for the final day of activity in this Parliament. I wanted to raise the…05 Nov 2019HANSARDRetail Crime PreventionMy hon. Friend makes a valuable point. I am starting with the financial cost of crime, but I will come in a moment to the key issue, of which the Minister will be aware, of the…05 Nov 2019HANSARDRetail Crime PreventionI am not a Front Bencher. My Front-Bench days are over by choice. I did the Minister’s job at one point. We had 21,000 more police officers, at that stage, who helped to protect…05 Nov 2019HANSARDRetail Crime PreventionThey are, and as the hon. Member for Henley (John Howell) said earlier, the additional costs of CCTV, head cameras, recording equipment or protective measures such as shutters…05 Nov 2019HANSARDRetail Crime PreventionThat is another knock-on consequence of retail crime and emphasises the point I want to make to the Minister. This is not an inconsequential or victim-free crime. The victims of…05 Nov 2019HANSARDRetail Crime PreventionMy hon. Friend has put an important issue on the table for the Minister to respond to. In June, 50 senior retail figures, chief executives of the UK’s most recognisable retailers,…05 Nov 2019HANSARDRetail Crime PreventionI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Everybody who runs a shop wants their staff to be protected. Large multinational retailers such as Tesco, the Co-op, Sainsbury’s and Asda are…05 Nov 2019HANSARDRetail Crime PreventionI absolutely agree, and I pay tribute to my hon. Friend’s efforts in this area. It is right that the Government should do that. I am looking to the Minister to show political…05 Nov 2019HANSARDMajor Incident in EssexThe Home Secretary will know that three years ago the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration produced a report on the east coast ports that raised a number of concerns about…28 Oct 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsIs it still the Government’s aspiration for the UK to be a member of Europol?28 Oct 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseI just want to be clear: is the Leader of the House’s motion on Monday under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011?24 Oct 2019HANSARDMajor Incident in EssexThis was an act of unconscionable criminality organised by gangs across Europe. Has the Home Secretary approached Europol? We are still a member of Europol, which has, at its…23 Oct 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillHas my right hon. Friend noticed that clause 36(1) says “It is recognised that the Parliament of the United Kingdom is sovereign”? Yet the Prime Minister will not give this…22 Oct 2019HANSARDExecutive Pay2. What recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of executive pay.22 Oct 2019HANSARDExecutive PayThe Government’s Green Paper on corporate responsibility was published more than two years ago, and since that time we have seen corporate pay issues in Carillion and only last…22 Oct 2019HANSARDNorthern Ireland: Restoring DevolutionGiven that the creation of a new border down the Irish sea will impact on services and businesses in Ireland, north Wales and the rest of the United Kingdom, what impact…21 Oct 2019HANSARD Prime Minister’s StatementNorth Wales is a major artery to Northern Ireland by road and by boat, and to the Irish Republic by road and by boat, but also to the Irish Republic through Northern Ireland by…19 Oct 2019HANSARD European Union (Withdrawal) ActsWill my right hon. and learned Friend explore further the customs checks issue? If a lorry leaves Dumfries or north Wales for Northern Ireland, and its ultimate destination is the…19 Oct 2019