Contributions
320 recent contributions in Hansard
HANSARD Police Grant ReportI certainly join my hon. Friend in congratulating the Government of Wales, particularly on their emphasis on community policing. The real record of the UK Government is this:…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportMy hon. Friend makes an important point. Later in my remarks, I will come to how the Home Office manages resources in general. Ministers seem to remain in denial about the…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportI agree. The precept is a tax, and Ministers know perfectly well that urban forces tend to be able to raise less per head from council tax than those in more rural areas. Urban…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportI would never accuse the Home Secretary of being so petty. This is what the West Midlands police and crime commissioner said: “This government funding does not come anywhere near…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportI am afraid that I have to make progress. The precept is a tax; it is paid for by increasing charges on residents.05 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportThere can be no question but that the biggest indictment of this Government’s record on law and order is their long-standing failure to fund the police properly. Sadly, that is as…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportMy hon. Friend makes a very important point. Having spoken about what policing professionals think about this settlement, I have to stress that it does not take policing…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportThe precept is a regressive tax that bears down disproportionately— [ Interruption. ] Had the hon. Lady waited, I might have given way. The precept is a regressive tax that bears…05 Feb 2019HANSARD Police Grant ReportMy right hon. Friend makes an important point. The precept is not a progressive tax.05 Feb 2019HANSARDKnife Crime Prevention OrdersDoes the Minister accept that with knife crime at record levels, the public at home will be very disappointed that the Home Secretary could not find the time to be in the Chamber…04 Feb 2019HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillThis is an important debate, not least because issues around migration lay at the heart of much of the debate on Brexit. I would make the following point to Ministers. To the…28 Jan 2019HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillI can only thank my hon. Friend for her helpful intervention. She will have to wait for me to complete my remarks. Let me quote: “The new immigration system must command public…28 Jan 2019HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillI am grateful to my hon. Friend for quoting from my article in the Morning Star . I am not sure if that is the first time he has read that paper, but I will expand further on that…28 Jan 2019HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillI remind Members that I have spent almost all my political career trying to help individuals deal with the excesses of an unfair immigration system. They would not be amused by…28 Jan 2019HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillI am loth to disagree with the Father of the House, but he will be aware—more than any other Member, because he has been here longer—that this is not the end of our deliberations…28 Jan 2019HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillRather than trying to score the political points, the public would want the Home Secretary to move much faster in sorting out the Windrush scandal and to look further into its…28 Jan 2019HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillAbove all, the consequence of the Windrush scandal was that a whole generation of people who came here after the war to what they thought of as the mother country, to rebuild that…28 Jan 2019HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillFinally, let me say this. Migration has been a question for heated debate in this country over the decades. The Bill represented an opportunity for us to start to build a fairer…28 Jan 2019HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillWe will wait to see how the Bill emerges from Committee, but I say to Ministers who are sitting there smirking that literally millions of people in this country have been…28 Jan 2019HANSARD Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillThe Home Secretary knows perfectly well that I never voted for those aspects of Labour policy, and I made the point that some of the aspects of the hostile environment,…28 Jan 2019