Policing and Crime Bill

Will the Secretary of State give way?

I have just indicated to the right hon. Gentleman’s colleague that I would not give way. However,...

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way, and I appreciate that she is coming to a ...

The statement that I made about crime falling is based on the independent crime survey of England...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

I am virtually on my last sentence. The Bill will continue the Government’s commitment to reform ...

The Opposition welcome most of the measures in the Bill. Indeed, we have led calls for some of th...

On the theme of changes, Labour’s First Minister of Wales has today aligned with Plaid Cymru in c...

That is an interesting proposal, but it is the view of the Labour party in Wales. It is not yet t...

We all know that savings have to be made, but no one will be impressed by the Home Secretary’s co...

My hon. Friend makes precisely the point I was coming on to make. Whatever Ministers claim, 36 of...

Surely the question that really prompts is: why does crime continue to come down? Why does the ri...

I do not think that the hon. Gentleman can have been paying attention. We have just had an exchan...

Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us why he did not advocate adding the figures for fraud and cy...

There is a simple answer: because the current practice was recommended by the independent Office ...

I believe we would all accept that the right hon. Gentleman is right that crime is changing, but ...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman that cybercrime or online crime is one of the biggest challenges ...

As a former chairman of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority, I ask the right hon. Ge...

Again, I urge Government Members not to be so complacent. The hon. Gentleman may have seen that t...

My right hon. Friend talked about leaky buckets a few seconds ago. This country has faced tremend...

What I have heard from my fire services in the north-west is that they did not have enough resour...

I am sure my right hon. Friend welcomes the fact that the Independent Police Complaints Commissio...

I will come to that point in a moment, but I agree with my hon. Friend and I will demonstrate why...

The right hon. Gentleman said that it is still early days for police and crime commissioners, but...

I have been very clear about that. With the election things have changed, and we do not oppose po...

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that: police and crime commissioners do not have operational re...

Of course the PCC works with the chief constable to set budgets and priorities, and of course tha...

The shadow Home Secretary is right to raise this important point and case, which the Select Commi...

Absolutely. People would expect that terror suspects would be placed on watch lists immediately —...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that one omission is that this information is not kept nationally...

That is the problem. Professionals searching for a bed are in a desperate position because of the...

Would the right hon. Gentleman apply the same rules to volunteer firefighters, who operate with a...

I say to all Government Members that an increased reliance on volunteers is no way to backfill cu...

Will the right hon. Gentleman take this opportunity to correct what I can only assume to be an in...

Clearly the hon. Gentleman was not listening because I praised the role of police specials and sa...

Putting aside the fact that we consulted on collaboration between the police and fire services, t...

I am afraid that the Home Secretary needs to be corrected on a lot of that. First, although, yes,...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I give way one last time.

As the right hon. Gentleman knows, we have worked together on many matters. I respect his opinion...

Crime has fallen—that is absolutely correct—but the risk of a major incident has risen lately, an...

I am aware that some Bills are driven by the civil service and some are driven by No. 10, but thi...

My hon. Friend is making a great speech. Would he advocate the introduction of interim places of ...

My hon. Friend is genuinely trying to be constructive and to find a way forward, but I just do no...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that someone having a heart attack is in crisis and in a life-threa...

My hon. Friend—for that is what I call him—knows that I do not think that the two should be treat...

I have huge respect for the hon. Gentleman and for his campaigning on these issues over many year...

I do agree that we need more beds. It cannot be right that children and adults at a point of cris...

I welcome the opportunity to speak in today’s debate and share the sentiments of the Secretary of...

I call James Morris.

5.55 pm

Thank you, Madam—[Interruption.] I mean Mr Deputy Speaker; I am sorry. All the flattery from my h...

What did he say to you?

We have a very close relationship.

As my hon. Friend the Member for Broxbourne has pointed ...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way, and particularly commend the speech by my hon. Friend the ...

I thank the Minister for that intervention. He makes a powerful point. I have been a strong advoc...

I apologise for further delaying the House. Where it has not been possible for whatever reason to...

The Minister makes an excellent point. We need greater integration between policing and health. I...

Street triage sounds ideal and superb. Am I correct in assuming that the psychiatric nurse and th...

Such teams find themselves in extremely difficult and often dangerous situations, in which they h...

This has been an interesting and encouraging debate where there seems to be camaraderie across th...

When I took over the policing responsibility 18 months ago, I asked for the previous reports by t...

I thank the Minister, and I say to him that he should carry on cherry-picking if that results in ...

My right hon. Friend is right that the intention is, quite rightly, not to have under-18s in poli...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is why these things have to be done in partnership with ...

I wonder whether the Home Affairs Committee Chairman would agree that that does not need to be in...

What the Minister has said today is extremely powerful and important, and it will give great comf...

Because the college was absolutely brand new, we first had to get it established, bedded down and...

I hope that we will look at some of these issues when we come to review the work of the college i...

It is a pleasure to have the opportunity, relatively quickly, to speak again in a debate about po...

It is an honour to follow the considered speech of the hon. Member for Rossendale and Darwen (Jak...

I thought it might be useful to say at this point that the Under-Secretary of State and I, having...

I thank the Minister for intervening now, rather than waiting until his summation. What he has sa...

I am sure that the hon. Gentleman has consulted the police conduct regulations and will know that...

The sanction would not be more extreme because there is no chance of any workplace sanction after...

One of my very sad but important duties is to remove a pension from an officer because they have ...

But what if they have retired?

I am getting into the rather unusual situation of wanting to...

I hope I can clarify the situation. I have served on the professional standards sub-committee of ...

That is helpful. I must say that I was not confusing the two of them, but I am grateful to the Mi...

I am listening very carefully to my hon. Friend’s speech and I understand his frustration, but do...

I understand that there are clearly practical difficulties. At the moment, there would not be suc...

It is a real pleasure to take part in today’s debate, and I am incredibly grateful for the opport...

Forgive me, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I had to leave the Chamber for 30 minutes earlier. Does my ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Co-responding would bring better responses to certain inciden...

Does the hon. Lady not recognise that many of those savings have already been made through collab...

Although I recognise that there is some collaboration within services, I believe we could go an a...

I broadly welcome this Bill, and I will touch first on its proposals for mental health services a...

I thank the hon. Gentleman, who is a friend, for giving way. Not only does the police officer hav...

I agree, and as has been mentioned, there is good practice in co-locating police officers and oth...

The hon. Gentleman is talking about short-term crisis houses, which tend to be run by the third s...

Yes. It is time to consider that proposal irrespective of whether such houses are provided by the...

I understand the sentiment the hon. Gentleman expresses, but does he agree that there are circums...

Yes, but the hon. Gentleman does the police and firefighters a disservice by giving an anecdotal ...

That is the point I am making.

Well, yes, but that is not about blurring their roles. I do not think that that is what the publi...

Just to clarify, I was talking not about voting against the Bill per se—as I said, it is a good B...

I apologise to my right hon. Friend for the misunderstanding. I thought he told the House he woul...

I will limit my speech to part 1 of the Bill, which deals with collaborative working, and specifi...

I am listening carefully to what the hon. Gentleman is saying, but will not the Bill make things ...

I do not believe that it will be. Ultimately, the Bill will result in a gravitational pull to cle...

The Bill legislates to deliver some of the Tory manifesto’s policing commitments. The people of E...

It is a great pleasure to come so far down the batting order because we get to hear what everyone...

As I listen to my hon. Friend’s description, I am thinking of an incident on the ground. I am ref...

My hon. Friend is exactly right. As he knows, a gold commander will be appointed, and more often ...

One of the privileges of being the Minister for Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice is being par...

I welcome the Minister’s support. He has been a great proponent of the use of such bracelets, and...

The Conservative Government were elected on a manifesto commitment to finish the job of police re...

On this specific issue, does my hon. Friend think it is worth exploring extending the slightly ar...

On this issue, the Berrys are ad idem.

My second point relates to developing the role of po...

I have had the privilege of hearing everybody speak in this debate, and I am delighted that I, to...

From the start, I want to make it clear that we welcome many of the proposals in the Bill. There ...

I am a little concerned that we seem to be going down the route of accepting that physical crime ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. If one looks at the profoundly worrying trends in violent cri...

I say genuinely that this has been a really good and sensible debate, and it has been conducted i...

Will the Minister give way?

No; I am going to conclude. On that point, in a debate that has been particularly important, let ...