Metropolitan Police Service

Order. I interrupt the hon. Lady to say that this is unusual. I also have a slightly different st...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Many of us will have heard this morning and last night the...

Madam Deputy Speaker, it is the case that I made amendments to the statement, and I apologise tha...

The Government introduced the role of police and crime commissioners to be the voice of the peopl...

My hon. Friend reflects in his remarks the seriousness of the situation. He is right to point to ...

I call the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, Dame Diana Johnson.

The catalogue of failings at the Met is rightly a serious concern for the Home Secretary and the ...

I am grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee for her question. As she will know, we are in ...

I pay tribute to the thousands of police officers who do a great job in providing service to Lond...

The creation of police and crime commissioners was designed to provide a focused point of account...

The Minister will be aware of the seriousness of the issues set out in the inspectorate’s report....

Let me be clear: I am not playing politics; I am telling the truth, and every Londoner knows it. ...

Order. This is obviously an extremely important statement. We have the main business to move on t...

One of the principal problems, bluntly, with the Metropolitan police is the quality of leadership...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right to recognise the importance of leadership. I am sure he ...

The accountability of the Met is complex because, among other things, the appointment of the comm...

I have to confess that I am not entirely sure what the arrangements are between them, but I am su...

May I place on the record my thanks to the Under-Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Corby (...

I am very sorry to hear about my hon. Friend’s constituent. One of the failings that is reportedl...

Rarely have I heard a more complacent and partisan statement by a Government Minister. He has bee...

It is the inspectors sent in by the Home Secretary under an inspection regime influenced and desi...

The Mayor of London, supported by his deputy mayor for policing and crime, is the police and crim...

As I have said, I profoundly hope that the Mayor will do his best to get a grip of this situation...

We all knew that when PCCs were created, it was about putting clear blue water between accountabi...

The hon. Lady is quite right, and she has been working hard on county lines. As she will know, we...

In 1829, the Metropolitan police was formed and London had a population of 1.8 million. Now it ha...

My hon. Friend raises some interesting questions, but I believe that the Metropolitan police as c...

Policing confidence is at an all-time low under this Government. The Minister may say that the Ma...

I am absolutely willing to accept responsibility for systemic failures across the whole of polici...

Thousands of police officers in the Met put their lives on the line every day not knowing whether...

First, I am happy to hear my hon. Friend celebrate the work of the many thousands of men and wome...

This decision is long overdue, but I pay tribute to rank and file police officers and local polic...

As I said earlier, this is not partisan; it is the truth. The process for appointing the commissi...

The Met police has been strip-searching teenage girls and telling women worried about being attac...

My hon. Friend makes a strong point. Although, as I am sure she will accept, on occasion police o...

The Minister was deputy mayor for policing in London when the worst cuts were imposed by this Gov...

Obviously the decision on the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is for the Home Secretary, ...

This week, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan made a statement about the malaise that the Metropolita...

My hon. Friend and I were London Assembly Members together, although he continued under the Labou...

It is 50 years since the Confait case of 1972, when a transvestite was murdered and burned alive ...

The hon. Lady is right that a strip-search should not take place without the presence of an appro...

A significant number of Metropolitan police officers live in my constituency and I pay tribute to...

My hon. Friend makes a strong point about our shared responsibility to support not only the polic...

The Minister’s statement was unworthy of this House, and even of the Minister. The danger is that...

Obviously, the murder of the Smallman sisters was an appalling act that shocked the entire nation...

In 2020, Greater Manchester police was put into special measures in part, certainly, due to a lac...

My hon. Friend is right that, sadly, the issues that we saw in Greater Manchester police have bee...

As a proud south Londoner—I have lived in Brixton all my life—I know that if the Minister thinks ...

I am sorry that the hon. Lady feels that way. Certainly, when I was at the Met police, we did a l...

I am grateful for the Minister’s statement on the worrying underperformance of the Metropolitan p...

I have seen both those stories; I cannot comment on the first one. On the second one, we are look...

Labour has called for a complete overhaul of police vetting, training, whistleblowing policies an...

We are doing significant work in all those areas.

Restoring trust in the police force can sometimes seem insurmountable, but does the Minister not ...

Well, bravo to the hon. Gentleman—bravo! That is exactly the right sentiment. There are thousands...

There are some moments when I feel ashamed of being an MP, and to be honest, the last 50 minutes ...

I will give the hon. Gentleman one thing, but I understand, and this seems to be a tactic by Oppo...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister for Crime and Policing told the House tha...

I thank the right hon. Lady for her point of order. As I said previously, it is the usual courtes...

Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is certainly the case that the statement...

Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. To provide reassurance to the House, will t...

I think the right hon. Lady is now having an exchange with the Minister as opposed to Chair, but ...

Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Would you have a word with Mr Speaker about...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point of order. The Minister has just given an assurance that...

As the House can see, we have 10 Bills to be presented today. To save time and to get on with the...