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HANSARD Policing (England and Wales)As we know, the Labour Mayor is ultimately dependent on funding from the Government. Given the funding available, I am confident that Sadiq Khan has done the very best he can. The…24 Feb 2020HANSARD Policing (England and Wales)My right hon. Friend raises a key point about the precept. Ministers like to claim that by generously allowing PCCs to raise a greater precept, they are somehow doing them a…24 Feb 2020HANSARD Policing (England and Wales)The precept is a regressive tax, and the Government should think twice before making out that their increasing reliance on precept-raised funds is some sort of progressive move.24 Feb 2020HANSARD Policing (England and Wales)What can I say—nice try? The National Audit Office recently said that the Home Office “does not know if the police system is financially sustainable.” That is the National Audit…24 Feb 2020HANSARD Policing (England and Wales)I entirely share my hon. Friend’s concern that the people of Teesside do not appear to be treated fairly. Cuts have consequences—in Cleveland as well as everywhere else. Over the…24 Feb 2020HANSARD Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) BillThere are too many things that remain unclear about the compensation scheme, but I am sure the Minister will respond to my hon. Friend’s comments. In conclusion, the Windrush…10 Feb 2020HANSARD Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) BillI agree with my hon. Friend. Since the previous Government were first obliged to apologise for the scandal, in April 2018, there have been more than 8,000 applications from people…10 Feb 2020HANSARD Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) BillI agree with my hon. Friend that much more needs to be done to reassure people who are, rightly, worried about engaging with the Home Office at all because of previous experiences.10 Feb 2020HANSARD Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) BillThe amounts being paid out are indeed pitiful. They do not compensate for material loss, or for the misery, the fear and the uncertainty under which too many people have laboured…10 Feb 2020HANSARD Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for her intervention. The amount and the quantity of the payments are pitifully small, and do not show that the Government have administered the…10 Feb 2020HANSARD Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for her intervention. I was going to come to the point that although people talk about the Windrush scandal in terms of migrants from the…10 Feb 2020HANSARD Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) BillMy mother, like that of a number of Members, was a member of the Windrush generation, so I know as well as anybody in the House the patriotism of the Windrush cohort, their…10 Feb 2020HANSARD Deportation Flight to JamaicaThe public will note the very dismissive attitude that the Minister has taken to the serious urgent question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy). One…10 Feb 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsDoes the Home Secretary appreciate the widespread concern about the Jamaican deportation flight due tomorrow? Is she aware that Stephen Shaw, in his review of detention, suggested…10 Feb 2020HANSARDRefugees and Asylum Seekers: Family ReunionThe Home Secretary will be aware of the conditions that many refugee children endure in refugee camps all over Europe. She will also be aware that the public do not want us to let…10 Feb 2020HANSARDPolicing and CrimeI agree with my hon. Friend. The figures for so many categories of crime, including knife crime, show how right we were to warn of the consequences of austerity in relation to law…29 Jan 2020HANSARDPolicing and CrimeI have to make progress. The response of the Government, which no doubt we shall hear from Ministers today, is to talk tough on crime—to talk about draconian measures—and to…29 Jan 2020HANSARDPolicing and CrimeI have to make some progress. The Government need to provide funding for police recruitment and police pensions; otherwise, the funds for one will come out of the other. I remind…29 Jan 2020HANSARDPolicing and CrimeI thank my hon. Friend for reminding me of the progress that the Labour Government in Wales has made on this issue. Fewer support staff means that police are doing more of their…29 Jan 2020HANSARDPolicing and CrimeI have to make some progress. During the debate, we will undoubtedly hear Government Members boast about how many police officers they are going to recruit. In their recent…29 Jan 2020