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HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife CrimeI am delighted to hear about the activity in the hon. Lady’s constituency. She is absolutely right: what is so worrying about the growth of county lines is that criminal gangs…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife CrimeThe demographics of victims and perpetrators will be examined not just at the knife crime summit; we think about them carefully and try to reflect them in our policies. I urge a…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife CrimeThe hon. Lady will know that decisions about how her borough is policed lie at the feet of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and the Mayor of London, because the Mayor of…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife CrimeThis is another example of the use of the PCCs meeting last week. Alison Hernandez, the police and crime commissioner covering my hon. Friend’s constituency, explained to us that…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife CrimeWe are working through the details of how the £100 million is to be spent and sent out. Last week, we listened to police and crime commissioners, who put forward some interesting…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife CrimeThis is a really interesting idea. There has been success in rolling up these powers—for example, in the cases of the Mayor of Greater Manchester and of course the Mayor of…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife CrimeI will happily look at that suggestion. Only last week, the Minister for Policing and I held a roundtable with police and crime commissioners from across the country. It was a…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife CrimeI thank my hon. Friend for his question. Stop and search is a vital tool in the police’s armoury in keeping people safe on our streets. We want to give confidence to our officers…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife CrimeI am so grateful to the hon. Lady for her question. Her experience in the magistrates court will help, I hope, to give her comfort as to how these orders are drafted. These are…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife CrimeIt will—very much so. I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. I think that everyone agrees that there is no single solution to this matter; it is about short, medium and…22 Mar 2019HANSARD Emergency Summit on Knife CrimeThank you, Mr Speaker. The urgent question is the gift that keeps giving. Before I start my reply, may I, on behalf of the Home Office, reflect on the very sad anniversary that we…22 Mar 2019HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation Victims: Criminal RecordsMy hon. Friend feels—and, in fairness, has campaigned—strongly on this subject. I have read the report. She will appreciate that given the timing, I am constrained in what I can…19 Mar 2019HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation Victims: Criminal RecordsI thank the hon. Lady for her urgent question. She knows, because we have discussed the issue behind the scenes on many occasions, the concerns, feelings and sympathy that the…19 Mar 2019HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation Victims: Criminal RecordsI am conscious that, as you outlined, Mr Speaker, this question relates to an ongoing legal case, and that as such it would not be appropriate to comment on the specific case or…19 Mar 2019HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation Victims: Criminal RecordsI remember being incredibly moved, but also impressed, by the work of the hon. Lady’s local police and safeguarding teams when I visited her constituency last year. The fact that…19 Mar 2019HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation Victims: Criminal RecordsI know that the right hon. Gentleman has a long history of campaigning on this matter, and he asked me about the system recently in Home Office questions. I remind him gently that…19 Mar 2019HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation Victims: Criminal RecordsThe police transformation fund helps to fund innovative projects such as the child house, but also wider work across policing. The College of Policing has updated its guidance to…19 Mar 2019HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation Victims: Criminal RecordsThe hon. Lady may be aware that we have set up the centre of expertise on child sexual abuse, which is undertaking groundbreaking work on the various typologies of child sexual…19 Mar 2019HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation Victims: Criminal RecordsI thank the hon. and learned Lady for her question. As she knows, we are very keen to work with colleagues across the United Kingdom, and to learn from best practice. I am pleased…19 Mar 2019HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation Victims: Criminal RecordsThe hon. Lady has raised this with me, and the project that she mentions is doing great work in the north-east. We do have a stream of funding mechanisms, which I am very happy to…19 Mar 2019