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HANSARDISIS Members Returning to the UKIs the hon. Gentleman aware that it is illegal under international law to strip away someone’s nationality if thereby they are left completely stateless?18 Mar 2019HANSARDShamima Begum and Other Cases(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department to make a statement on Shamima Begum, the death of her son Jarrah and other cases.11 Mar 2019HANSARDShamima Begum and Other CasesWhen she was 15, Shamima Begum made a very bad decision, and it is arguable that much of the tragedy that has engulfed her since then flows from it. It is also the case that she…11 Mar 2019HANSARDShamima Begum and Other CasesThis is a very serious matter and it is unfortunate that Members on the Treasury Bench do not seem to take it with the seriousness it deserves. I say to the Home Secretary that no…11 Mar 2019HANSARD Windrush Generation and the Home OfficeI congratulate the Public Accounts Committee on this important report. Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the most important sentences in the report is the one that says that…07 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeWe have had several days of newspaper headlines on knife crime, but does the Minister accept that for families and communities up and down the country this is not just a few days…07 Mar 2019HANSARDKnife Crime(Urgent Question): To ask the Home Secretary to make a statement on the crisis of knife crime.07 Mar 2019HANSARDMacpherson Report: 20th AnniversaryI agree that there is more work to be done. Chief Constable Jon Boutcher also said that race was continually at the heart of the biggest issues facing policing. He spoke about the…25 Feb 2019HANSARDMacpherson Report: 20th AnniversaryI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham North (Alex Norris) on securing this very important debate. There is no question but that the Macpherson inquiry changed…25 Feb 2019HANSARDPolice FundingMinisters will remember that last Monday the Home Secretary said: “We must, of course, observe international law, and we cannot strip someone of their British citizenship if doing…25 Feb 2019HANSARDMacpherson Report: 20th AnniversaryDoes my hon. Friend agree that sometimes people talk about the use of the phrase “institutional racism” as if people are saying every single person in the institution in question…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Deprivation of Citizenship StatusOn the general question of returning foreign fighters and ISIS supporters, the President of the United States said: “The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other…20 Feb 2019HANSARD Serious ViolenceThe idea that the answer to knife crime is a simplistic multiplication of the sentence mistakes the drivers behind knife crime, which I will come to later in my remarks. The new…18 Feb 2019HANSARD Serious ViolenceFew aspects of crime frighten our constituents more than violent crime. The sad truth is that, under this Government, violent crime continues to spiral. I begin by declaring a…18 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportMy hon. Friend makes an important point on behalf of her constituents in Derbyshire. The West Midlands police and crime commissioner says publicly what many PCCs say…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportI am trying to make some progress. Maybe the chair of the UK Statistics Authority should have spoken to Ministers. Ministers want to claim that allowing an increase in the precept…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportMy hon. Friend is right to raise the issue of knife crime prevention orders. One problem is that the issue is not the state of the law, but policing capacity. The National Audit…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportI agree with my hon. Friend on the question of unfairness, particularly in relation to the precept, but I will come to that issue in a few minutes. The Home Secretary needs to…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportI agree with my hon. Friend. Of course, on Merseyside we have also seen an alarming rise in knife crime. Part of the problem is the new demands on policing to which the Home…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportI draw the hon. Gentleman’s attention to the fact that the Labour party is under new management now. This may be, as Ministers say, the largest funding increase since 2010, but it…05 Feb 2019