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HANSARDAntisocial BehaviourI agree that special constables can play an important role. Their numbers have dropped by around two thirds over the past 14 years. I think that is damaging, and we want to…24 Feb 2025HANSARDAntisocial BehaviourWe are working with the Department for Transport. We need to keep communities safe, ensure that proper safety standards are met and tackle antisocial behaviour. I have also seen…24 Feb 2025HANSARDAntisocial BehaviourWe need stronger action against antisocial behaviour, whether that involves havoc in town centres, off-road bikes or nuisance neighbours making the community’s lives a misery.…24 Feb 2025HANSARDAntisocial BehaviourMy hon. Friend is right to raise this issue, which causes havoc and can be really threatening for people in the local community. That is why we will strengthen the law by…24 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsPerhaps the hon. Gentleman missed the discussion on this earlier. We have been clear that the central priority for policing set by this Government is neighbourhood policing, to…24 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is right to raise this matter, for both Basingstoke and towns right across the country. Town centres were blighted by a 60% increase in shop theft in the two years…24 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Gentleman will know that we do not have a blasphemy law in this country, nor will we have one.24 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI can say to the hon. Gentleman that we continue to support the Homes for Ukraine scheme, which remains extremely important—I have a family from Ukraine still living with me in…24 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsNet migration quadrupled during the period when the former Home Secretary was in government, in the space of just four years—the most shocking loss of control of our borders. We…24 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is right to raise this issue. Too often antisocial behaviour is dismissed as a low-level crime, yet it can make people’s lives a complete misery. That is why we…24 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs the Front-Bench spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats knows, that is not our plan, and we are clear that net migration needs to come down. It quadrupled under the previous…24 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe scheme ran for two years, and the Conservatives spent £700 million of taxpayers’ money to return just four people. In the period during which the shadow Home Secretary was in…24 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsExactly! All they managed to do—24 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI just say to the shadow Home Secretary that the Rwanda scheme ran for two years. It was running for two years—24 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI can reassure the hon. Member that dangerous and antisocial behaviour involving e-bikes will be covered by the legislation we are introducing tomorrow to tackle vehicles and…24 Feb 2025HANSARDSecurity Service: Correction of EvidenceThe purpose of this statement is to notify the House that MI5 has corrected previously incorrect evidence that it provided to the High Court and the Investigatory Powers Tribunal,…12 Feb 2025HANSARD Border Security, Asylum and Immigration BillLet me repeat the answer that I have just given: our immigration and asylum system applies right across the UK. I say to the hon. Member that when net migration soared under the…10 Feb 2025HANSARD Border Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe UK must always do its bit to help those who have fled persecution. That is what we have done with Ukraine and Afghanistan, and it will continue to be important, but no one…10 Feb 2025HANSARD Border Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI would just point out to the hon. Member that his party’s previous Government opened 400 hotels. This Government have already cut the cost of asylum accommodation substantially,…10 Feb 2025HANSARD Border Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The purpose of the Bill is to strengthen UK border security, which has been weakened and undermined in recent years; to…10 Feb 2025