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HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI give way first to my hon. Friend.13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillA record 45,000 people crossed the channel on dangerous small boats last year, up from just 280 four years ago. In that short time, the Government have allowed criminal gangs to…07 Mar 2023HANSARDManchester Arena Inquiry: Volume 3 ReportOn 22 May 2017, thousands of people, including children and their parents, went to watch a pop concert. Instead, they were faced with the most unimaginable horror, and 22 people…06 Mar 2023HANSARDKnowsley IncidentThe scenes outside the Suites Hotel in Knowsley 10 days ago—violence, intimidation and a police van smashed up and set on fire—were appalling and shameful, and all of us should…20 Feb 2023HANSARD Prevent: Independent ReviewI thank the Home Secretary for advance sight of her statement. May I also say how much all of us welcome and pay tribute to the words of President Zelensky, who spoke in…08 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsBut nothing has changed in two years. Everything the Home Secretary has said is too little and too late, and far, far too weak. I have been contacted by a woman whose police…06 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe whole House’s thoughts will be with Turkey and Syria after the terrible earthquake. Sentencing is under way today for David Carrick’s truly appalling crimes. It is shocking…06 Feb 2023HANSARDHillsborough Families Report: National Police ResponseI thank my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Ian Byrne), and all the other Merseyside MPs, for pursuing this matter, and I thank my hon. Friend for securing this…01 Feb 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingI beg to move, That this House condemns the Government’s destruction of neighbourhood policing, noting a drop in the number of neighbourhood police officers by 6,000 and of Police…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingI will give way to the Minister, if he can defend his Government’s decision not to make specialist rape investigation units mandatory and not to vote for minimum sentences in rape…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood Policingindicated dissent .31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingMy hon. Friend is absolutely right: where is the victims Bill? Where is the opportunity to provide proper support for victims of crime, not just of domestic abuse and sexual…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingI thank the Home Secretary and look forward to her response. She will know how important that is. I turn to neighbourhood policing. The number of people who say that they never…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingThe Labour party voted for minimum sentences for rape—to increase sentencing for rape. It does not matter what the sentencing powers are, however, if nobody is being prosecuted…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingThank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. If the hon. Member for Southend West (Anna Firth) does not see a connection between establishing respect in our communities for the rule of law and…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingI do agree that the police need to have the powers to tackle serious abuse, antisocial behaviour and problems in our town centres. At the moment, there are not police officers…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingMy hon. Friend is right, and these are also the kinds of crimes—for example, homophobic assaults or racist threats—that can be hugely damaging, and these serious crimes also…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingThe Home Secretary is just sort of inventing things there. The police workforce statistics—her own workforce statistics—show that there are 6,000 fewer neighbourhood police…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingOn that point, in London, knife crime is down by 16% over the last four years, whereas on average over the rest of the country it has gone up. Will the Home Secretary withdraw the…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingCan the Minister explain why there are 6,000 fewer neighbourhood police on our streets and 8,000 fewer PCSOs in neighbourhood teams? That is what communities can see, right across…31 Jan 2023