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HANSARDSafeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Amendment) (Provision of Information) Order 2025I think I said—but I will check Hansard again—that all individuals will know that they are barred. Having reflected on this matter, I can confirm that all individuals will know…25 Feb 2025HANSARDImmigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2025I will give my noble friend what I would say is a guarded response: I hope so. It is my intention that that will not happen again. I cannot verbally legislate today to say that…25 Feb 2025HANSARDImmigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2025The driver for some of these issues is to ensure that we have self-sufficiency on costs for this area. Obviously, I am talking today about the potential for maximas. We are not…25 Feb 2025HANSARDImmigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2025There will be an impact assessment. I still say to the noble Lord that people want to come to London: they want to see this building and Buckingham Palace; they want to see…25 Feb 2025HANSARDEmergency Service Network ProgrammeThe noble and gallant Lord is absolutely right. Any future Airwave system has to be resilient to potential hostile actor threats and attacks. That is built into the system, and it…24 Feb 2025HANSARDEmergency Service Network ProgrammeGiven the overspend, I do not know whether the noble Lord was the left hand or the right hand in the previous Government. But whichever he was, I declare an interest: I was the…24 Feb 2025HANSARDEmergency Service Network ProgrammeI am grateful to the noble Lord, who will be aware that I can be responsible only for activity post 4 July 2024. There was significant time and money overspend under the previous…24 Feb 2025HANSARDEmergency Service Network ProgrammePlan B is part of plan A, which is also to provide the 292 4G mobile phone sites that the noble Lord mentioned in his question. We have picked this up. We have made a decision to…24 Feb 2025HANSARDEmergency Service Network ProgrammeThe noble Baroness makes an extremely valid point. There are 44 police forces in total—43 plus the British Transport Police—and they have a range of different technological…24 Feb 2025HANSARDEmergency Service Network ProgrammeLet me give the noble Lord this assurance: I am not sure how we will monitor it, but it will be better than the previous Government’s monitoring. The previous Government’s…24 Feb 2025HANSARDDomestic Abusers: ReoffendingThe domestic abuse and stalking perpetrator intervention fund currently provides funding to 27 police and crime commissioners across England and Wales to commission domestic abuse…24 Feb 2025HANSARDDomestic Abusers: ReoffendingThe right reverend Prelate makes an extremely important point. It is important that we do not just have interventions on perpetrators but also that those individuals who can help,…24 Feb 2025HANSARDDomestic Abusers: ReoffendingMy noble friend hits on an important point. Domestic violence does not just happen when an individual reaches a certain age; it is inbuilt and ingrained over a long period of…24 Feb 2025HANSARDCounty Lines Drug TraffickingThe noble Baroness makes a valid point, and I will start from that premise. The Government have put an extra £1.1 billion into police forces with the police settlement that was…24 Feb 2025HANSARDEmergency Service Network ProgrammeMy Lords, in December 2024, the Home Office awarded the user service contract for the emergency service network to IBM and its partners. The programme’s attention is now on…24 Feb 2025HANSARDDomestic Abusers: ReoffendingWe do need to ensure that the programmes work. I hope I can reassure the noble Baroness that in 2025-26 we in the Home Office are providing an additional £90 million to police and…24 Feb 2025HANSARDDomestic Abusers: ReoffendingI cannot specifically say today that I have that information for my noble friend, but I will certainly investigate. My noble friend Lord Hendy, the Transport Minister, is sat next…24 Feb 2025HANSARDDomestic Abusers: ReoffendingChildren should be central, because they will have witnessed domestic violence and potentially had their outlook on life, towards both their mother and father, impacted by that…24 Feb 2025HANSARDCounty Lines Drug TraffickingIt is right that we should put children at the focus of county line activity. By that, I mean preventing children from being involved in county lines, not criminalising those…24 Feb 2025HANSARDCounty Lines Drug TraffickingThe noble Lord is right that the child should be central, and I will take away what he said today. I hope I can reassure him that the new offence we are introducing tomorrow of…24 Feb 2025