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HANSARDSouthport AttackMy hon. Friend makes an important point. I do not think anyone would suggest that Ministers are in a position to make decisions on individual cases, but what we need is the right…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackThe hon. Member will know that investigation is carried out by the police. The Crown Prosecution Service decides what charges to bring, and how and when to bring them, based on…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackMy hon. Friend is right: the perpetrator should never have been able to buy a knife online. It is really disturbing that despite all the cases we have seen in the past, it is…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackThe right hon. Member refers to the attack on Sir David Amess, who I regard as a friend, as I know he does—Sir David was a great loss to this House. The Government did not publish…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackThe shadow Home Secretary raised a series of points, which is obviously a substantial shift in position for him and his party from the one they took in government. He asked about…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackThe right hon. Member makes an important point. Those referrals were three to four years before the attack, and multiple different agencies had contact with Rudakubana, but there…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackMy hon. Friend is right that we seem to have cases where there is extreme violence, or where obsession grows around extreme violence, and then young people cast around to consume…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackMy hon. Friend raises an important point. We are raising with the companies some of the particular dangerous material that this terrible offender accessed online, and the police…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackMy hon. Friend makes an important point. The families and all the people across Southport and the country need the truth. They need answers about what happened and what went so…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackWe will certainly look at any recommendations that come from this important inquiry. We need to look at what went wrong in this case. This is particularly about the interactions…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackMy hon. Friend has been an important voice for the people in his community throughout this unimaginably difficult time and has spoken for them with great dignity and passion,…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackThe decision about the application of the Terrorism Act 2000 is one for the police and, ultimately, the CPS when it lays charges based on the operational information that it has.…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackThe hon. Member is right to raise the important issue of trust. The police and criminal justice system are rightly independent of Government and of politics, but there needs to be…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackWe will certainly ensure that that issue is clearly in the scope of the inquiry, which must consider why so many young people are drawn into an obsession with violence and…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackWe have announced two important things today. The first is the inquiry, which needs to go to the heart of what went wrong in this case—why so many agencies knew about this…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackI point out that the violent disorder stopped when people realised that they would face consequences for it, and when there was a clear police and criminal justice system…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackIn the world of social media, there can be all sorts of information online, but as the hon. Member rightly says, we have to make sure that justice is done. We have to make sure…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackThe hon. Member’s question gets to the heart of the problem. He is right that the responsibility for this appalling and barbaric attack lies with the attacker, and he needs to…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackThe hon. Member is right that the Prevent learning review identified that in this case, the focus on ideology may have meant that some of the vulnerabilities to radicalisation…21 Jan 2025HANSARDSouthport AttackThe hon. Member is right to raise that issue. The director of MI5 has talked about how the security services are seeing far too many cases of very young people being drawn into…21 Jan 2025