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HANSARDManchester Terrorism AttackIt is natural after a terror attack that we might focus on the actions of those who still wish to cause pain and do damage to our communities, but my hon. Friend is right. Since…13 Oct 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingI am very sorry to hear about those issues with the police and crime commissioner in my hon. Friend’s local area. It is important that those concerns are listened to. I would be…15 Sept 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe horror of a sexual assault motivated by race or ethnicity is absolutely appalling. I am sure that the whole House will join me in condemning such crimes in the strongest…15 Sept 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsOn the subject of brass neck, I will have to buy the shadow Home Secretary a mirror, so that he can stare at one. As I said, I will not take any lessons from him or any…15 Sept 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingAs a fellow west midlands Member of Parliament, I of course hear my hon. Friend’s concerns, but she will understand that, as with previous years, decisions on police force funding…15 Sept 2025HANSARDChannel CrossingsUnder this Government, the National Crime Agency has led 347 disruptions of immigration crime networks—its highest level on record, and a 40% increase on the previous year. We are…15 Sept 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingThis Government are focusing on delivering neighbourhood policing. We are going to have 3,000 neighbourhood police officers by April 2026, with 13,000—as we committed in our…15 Sept 2025HANSARDChannel CrossingsI welcome the tone of the first part of the right hon. Gentleman’s question. It is in our collective national interest that we secure our borders, and I look forward to working…15 Sept 2025HANSARDChannel CrossingsI think the hon. Member has just admitted to having a hotline to a bunch of people smugglers. Perhaps he would like to contact the National Crime Agency and tell it that he is in…15 Sept 2025HANSARDChannel CrossingsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that international co-operation is the key to us securing our borders here at home and assisting our international partners to do the same with…15 Sept 2025HANSARDChannel CrossingsLet me be very clear: I understand the strength of feeling across communities in this country about the use of hotels, in particular—the right to protest is an ancient right in…15 Sept 2025HANSARDChannel CrossingsComing from one of the Conservative Members who, frankly, did nothing across their period in office and who are responsible for the mess I am having to clear up, I think that is a…15 Sept 2025HANSARDChannel CrossingsI say to the hon. Lady that we are following what is working. Rather than having an arbitrary time period, we are working with local authorities to make sure we have the…15 Sept 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingEvery day the police make us safer, but the public are rightly concerned that there are crimes that blight their communities and too often go unpunished. We are focusing police on…15 Sept 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingOn the first part of my hon. Friend’s question, he is absolutely right about strengthening neighbourhood policing to deal with the concerns he raises. That is why we have brought…15 Sept 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingMore than 500 town centres across England and Wales have seen the benefits of that summer initiative. I will ask my officials questions about the hon. Gentleman’s area in…15 Sept 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingThe neighbourhood policing guarantee is absolutely critical to dealing with the issues that my hon. Friend raises and to raising confidence more generally. The guarantee will…15 Sept 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingThe right hon. Gentleman is asking me a question relating to my previous brief, but he will be pleased to know that I expect the new Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor to set…15 Sept 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingFreedom of conscience, religion and belief is a protected freedom in this country; it is part of the rights and responsibilities that we have as citizens of this great nation, and…15 Sept 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingThe Government’s policy position is to ensure that the policing resource that we have focuses on neighbourhood policing, because we know that visible neighbourhood policing…15 Sept 2025