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HANSARDPolice Officers: Protecting CommunitiesMy hon. Friend is right to raise that point about standards in policing and, in particular, the recruitment methods used to increase the forces. That is why we need to improve our…06 Feb 2023HANSARDPolice Officers: Protecting CommunitiesI will tell the House why the hon. Gentleman is absolutely wrong in his analysis. We are on track to recruit 20,000 police officers. That is the highest number of police officers…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am going to make a short topical statement. It is very important that our passport system runs as efficiently as possible. This is an issue that matters a great deal to our…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsWest Yorkshire police have recruited 837 additional police officers to December, against their total allocation of 852. This is an unprecedented recruitment drive and it gives…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are going through an overhaul of our processes when it comes to disciplinary procedures applying to those officers who are under investigation. That is why I have announced a…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI think the right hon. Lady needs to keep up, because we have the College of Policing already strengthening the statutory code of practice for police vetting; we have tasked the…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsTackling antisocial behaviour is a priority of mine, and my hon. Friend is right to mention this issue. When it comes to retail staff—people who are on the frontline of our public…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI am sorry, but the hon. Gentleman is living on another planet if he thinks that everybody who is coming to this country on a small boat—breaking our laws, putting themselves at…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman is talking about industrial action, and there were instances of that by Border Force officers in the run-up to the new year. I was very grateful for the…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend puts it incredibly well. The tragedy is that Labour Members have opposed every measure that we have proposed. They voted against our Bill, which would have provided…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe very much welcome the best and the brightest students from all over the world to our world-leading universities. Our points-based system was designed to enable graduates and…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy right hon. Friend puts it very well. Let me put on record my thanks and appreciation to him for all that he has done to try to fix this incredibly difficult problem. He is…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsI join my hon. Friend in paying tribute to Chief Constable Lee Freeman for his rightly deserved award for excellence and leadership in policing. Humberside police force is a great…06 Feb 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingI could not have put it better myself. My hon. Friend makes the point very powerfully. This is about empowering our police and crime commissioners around the country so that they…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingI will address that in my response to the right hon. Lady.31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingI beg to move amendment (a), to leave out from “House” to end and add: “welcomes the Government’s efforts to increase police numbers, with 16,743 so far recruited and on track to…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingI pay tribute to the indefatigable work by the campaigners, who have worked for many years to ensure that the truth is known and that justice is done. I am supportive of all work…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingI want to make some progress, and I will take some interventions later. The first fact—achievement No. 1—is that this Government are on track to deliver the most police officers…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingMy hon. Friend makes a good point, and I join her in paying tribute to the police leadership in her county and her force. It is thanks to strong leaders in her police force that…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingI disagree with the right hon. Lady’s characterisation, but it is obviously helpful for her to play with the figures. If we look at how we are classifying roles in policing, we…31 Jan 2023