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HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingThe hon. Member is completely right. We have seen changing patterns of crime as criminals make the most of new technology, and the problem is that the police have not been…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingLet me be very clear. I welcome the huge amount of work that police officers do every single day of the week to keep our communities safe—the police officers and police community…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 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 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 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 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 PolicingMy hon. Friend makes an important point because more criminals are getting off under the Tories. As a result of 13 years of Conservative Governments, criminals are not paying the…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingIt did not work, did it? No. That much-vaunted policy that they announced a year ago has ended up with record high levels of dangerous boat crossings. The DLUHC Secretary is also…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 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 2023HANSARDUnaccompanied Asylum-seeking ChildrenThe report from Sussex police is that one in four unaccompanied children in a Home Office hotel have gone missing—one in four—and that around half of them are still missing. It…24 Jan 2023HANSARDPolice Conduct and David CarrickThis is a truly shocking and appalling case, and I welcome the statement today. A serving police officer has admitted to some of the most serious and devastating crimes. I join…17 Jan 2023HANSARD Migration and Economic DevelopmentThe Government have failed to stop criminal gangs putting lives at risk and proliferating along our borders; they have failed to prosecute or convict the gang members; and they…19 Dec 2022HANSARDAsylum SystemIn 2020, the Home Office secured just 12 convictions a month for people smuggling into the UK. In 2021, that fell to eight a month and, in the first half of 2022, it fell to just…19 Dec 2022HANSARDAsylum SystemThe Home Secretary had no response on the total collapse in prosecutions, and she has had 12 years in charge. She says that the asylum system is broken; well, who broke it?…19 Dec 2022HANSARDSmall Boats Incident in the ChannelI thank the Home Secretary for advance sight of her statement. This is truly tragic, deeply distressing news. All our thoughts and prayers are with those who lost their lives, and…14 Dec 2022HANSARDSmall Boats Incident in the ChannelOn a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Home Secretary did not address my question about the accuracy of what the Prime Minister said in the House yesterday. Obviously, it…14 Dec 2022HANSARDManston UpdateThank you, Mr Speaker, and thank you for your words about the difficulty of responding to a statement with just 10 minutes’ notice. I thank the Minister for the information he has…28 Nov 2022HANSARDMigrationTwenty-seven lives were lost in the channel a year ago, and a criminal gang profited from sending people to their deaths. Will the Minister tell the House whether anyone has been…16 Nov 2022