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HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe police already have to swear an oath on their impartiality and policing without fear or favour. That is the responsibility of every single police officer right across the…31 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is right to raise the issue of town centre crime. We are investing additional funds of more than £1 billion in policing next year, and are providing an additional…31 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe right hon. Member will know that we have increased the return and removal of foreign national offenders significantly since the election. Deportations, returns and removals…31 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe police operate without fear or favour, and they respond to the crimes they face across the country and to the perpetrators of those crimes, whosoever they should be and…31 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is right to raise the issues around the Windrush generation, who were so badly let down and treated by the Home Office over many years. We have increased support…31 Mar 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsI pay tribute to Jayne Ward for the remarkable work that she is doing to support victims of the most appalling and vile crimes, helping them to get justice and helping them as…31 Mar 2025HANSARDViolence against Women and GirlsThe hon. Member raises an important issue about how coercive control can manifest and how abusers can continue their abuse in different ways, including using the civil courts.…31 Mar 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsToday we are hosting in London the first ever international summit on organised immigration crime and border security, bringing together source, transit and destination countries…31 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillI will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Reading Central, and then I will give way to the hon. Member for Huntingdon, but let me just make a couple of other points first.…10 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillMy hon. Friend makes a really important point. We need to prevent people—especially young people—getting access to those dangerous weapons in the first place, but also to make…10 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The Crime and Policing Bill will make our streets safer, put neighbourhood policing back at the heart of communities after…10 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillWe have started with £200 million of funding for the next financial year to kick-start the drive to put 13,000 more neighbourhood police and police community support officers back…10 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillI am really pleased that the hon. Member is ready to give an apology for the deeply damaging legacy of his party in government.10 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillSadly, I did not hear an apology for the previous Conservative Government’s massive cuts to neighbourhood policing, which meant that many towns and cities right across the country…10 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillThe Policing Minister is happy to meet the hon. Member to discuss the detail. It is imperative that all institutions and organisations across communities take responsibility for…10 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillWe have had discussions with Northern Ireland Ministers, and I am happy for them to continue. I am very conscious of the time, and I know that many Members wish to speak, so I…10 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillI will give way first to my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton West (Warinder Juss), and then I will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Reading Central (Matt Rodda).10 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillMy hon. Friend raises an important point, and he has raised the terrible case of the killing of Olly Stephens with me before. I know how incredibly devastating that has been for…10 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillMy hon. Friend is right. This is about the fact of the crime—the disrespect—but also the sense of fear that it can create and the huge frustration among shopworkers about the…10 Mar 2025HANSARD Crime and Policing BillThe hon. Member makes an important point. We know there is an issue with young people being able to get some of these lethal weapons. It becomes part of what they want to do, and…10 Mar 2025