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HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportYes, I can say to my hon. Friend that we accept that recommendation in Baroness Casey’s report and we will commission research into the drivers of child sexual exploitation and,…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportWe must ensure that recommendations are implemented. One conclusion in the Baroness Casey audit states: “The timeline set out above—” that is the history of failed reports in the…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportWe are strengthening the safeguards in the asylum system. The system that we inherited was too weak and not strong enough to ensure not only that the rules are respected and…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportThis is Baroness Casey’s independent report. The whole point about asking somebody like Baroness Casey to do an independent report is that we know that they will come to their own…16 Jun 2025HANSARDChild Sexual Exploitation: Casey ReportI thank my hon. Friend for speaking out about his experiences. To speak out as a victim of child abuse in that way is immensely difficult, and I think everyone should listen to…16 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsGiven that the right hon. Member was a member of the previous Government, her question might be rather more plausible if she apologised for the 100-fold increase in small boat…02 Jun 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingThe shadow Minister is, as he knows, talking nonsense. The police have to police without fear or favour; that is the standard that they apply and sign up to. I am really sorry…02 Jun 2025HANSARDKnife CrimeObviously, police forces have to make their own operational decisions, but we do believe that town centres need to be a particular focus of neighbourhood policing, and when it…02 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Member raises an important point, and we did inherit an unacceptable asylum backlog, including huge and unacceptable bills for asylum accommodation. We have already…02 Jun 2025HANSARDKnife CrimeCan I pass on my thanks, through my hon. Friend, to the team who are doing such good work in his community? We are certainly keen to know more about that, because he is right…02 Jun 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingThe hon. Member makes a really important point about the role of specials. We want them to be able to play a much stronger role, not just in neighbourhood policing but across the…02 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsLet me remind the shadow Home Secretary that when he was Immigration Minister he said: “I will continue to push my French counterparts to look hard at interceptions at sea.” Five…02 Jun 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingI gently remind the hon. Member that thousands of police and PCSOs were taken off our streets under the Conservatives. That is why the number of people who say that they never see…02 Jun 2025HANSARDNeighbourhood PolicingWe are providing £200 million across England and Wales this financial year to increase neighbourhood policing. As part of our neighbourhood policing guarantee, every community…02 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI can tell the hon. Lady that more than 400 additional neighbourhood police officers will be on the streets in London this year as a result of our neighbourhood policing guarantee.02 Jun 2025HANSARDKnife CrimeWe have taken action to ban zombie knives, and the ban on ninja swords will come in this August. We are also bringing forward Ronan’s law, which puts stronger restrictions on…02 Jun 2025HANSARDVehicle NuisanceOff-road bikes careering through estates and communities are dangerous and an antisocial nightmare. We are giving the police stronger powers to seize bikes without the need for…02 Jun 2025HANSARDVehicle NuisanceAs well as strengthening the law, we are working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council on a stronger rural crime strategy. I can tell the hon. Lady that Avon and Somerset…02 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI join my hon. Friend in saying a huge thank you to all the first responders—those who I met last week, but also many more who were involved in a very swift response that…02 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe question comes from a former policing Minister under whose Government charge rates for rape and domestic abuse plummeted, while charge rates for crime dropped substantially.…02 Jun 2025