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HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanI can definitely give my hon. Friend that assurance—she is absolutely right, and I thank her for the work she is doing as chair of the all-party parliamentary group against…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanThe right hon. Member is right to say that confidence in policing is incredibly important. We need that confidence across all our communities, and we know that there is a lot of…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanI think not, but there we are. He is my constituency neighbour in Croydon, so best wishes to him always. The 2 October was the point at which the Home Office asked officials in…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanThere were a series of different interactions and communications between the different groups in that period, as Members would expect. There is a balance to be struck with the…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanI agree entirely with the shadow Home Secretary that we should not allow the threat of mob violence to stop matches going ahead. With respect, I think that he is jumping the gun a…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanOf course we want to ensure that as much information as possible is in the public domain. We do not yet know the truth about some of the statements in yesterday’s article and we…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanThe hon. Gentleman is right to say that there are Jews in this country who do not feel safe. In Croydon we have a small community who visit a synagogue very close to my house, and…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanI thank my hon. Friend for the work that he did supporting colleagues and his constituents after the Manchester attack. He is right to point to the 1980s, when we had a completely…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanThe right hon. Member is right. I am very familiar with Sutton Coldfield—and my husband is a Villa season ticket holder, as are my twin boys. It is in some ways the bane of my…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanI congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this urgent question. Let me begin by acknowledging the concern and disappointment felt by supporters affected by the decision…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanI thank the hon. Gentleman for his questions. At this point, I cannot give him the answers he wants about intelligence—the root of it and the truth of it. We are responding simply…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanI would very much like to talk to Lord Mann about the work that he has done, which was prior to me being in post. I will pick that up.24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanWe were not fully briefed in advance of the decision; we were told when the decision was made. As we have already said, we knew that options were being considered. This is the way…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanI am not going to make a slightly political point about the right hon. Lady’s decision to attack the police and crime commissioner; I think that he does a good job and has served…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanI thank the hon. Gentleman for his questions. I know that he understands the principle of police operational independence, and that we need to ensure that we reflect that…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanThe right hon. Gentleman is right to talk about political impartiality. It is absolutely crucial that our police are not making decisions based on politics. We ask them every day…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanTo the right hon. Gentleman’s first point, the Prime Minister’s view was very clear: the wrong decision was made. That is our position. We believe that the decision made was the…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanThe hon. Member raises a good question. Of course, we need to work with the Jewish community to make sure that relationships with police are strong. The Community Security Trust…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanI agree with the premise of the hon. Gentleman’s question. Where we can, we want to ensure that intelligence is correct, that decisions are made on the basis of a wide range of…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Maccabi Tel Aviv FC: Away Fans BanOf course, we want to ensure that all fans from all parts of the world are welcome in this country. The hon. Member is absolutely right to say that the problem of football…24 Nov 2025