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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 13 December 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness May of Maidenhead. The answering member was Ed Balls.
Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill. Second reading debate. Amendment debated and negatived on division (230 votes to 321). Original motion agreed to on question. Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, on Report, Third Reading and any other proceedings agreed to on division (320 votes to 230). Queen's recommendation signified. Money resolution agreed to on division (304 votes to 225).
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
520 c707-85 
Session
2010-12
Department
Home Office
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Money resolutions
Queen's recommendation
Reasoned amendments
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill. Explanatory notes also published (Bill 116-EN).
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Bills
House of Commons
Policing - Police and Crime Commissioners. Home Affairs Select Committee second report with formal minutes.
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 520 c728 (Link to this contribution) Order. Due to the number of speakers, I am introducing a 10-minute limit on speeches.
Speaker | 520 c745 (Link to this contribution) Order. Because so many Members wish to take part in this debate, the time limit is being reduced to ...

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Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c713-4 (Link to this contribution) I have just checked with my right hon. Friend and he is absolutely clear that he did not say that. I...
Lord Blunkett | 520 c715-6 (Link to this contribution) I confess that I was responsible for the original clause in what became the 2005 Act. I would like t...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c715 (Link to this contribution) May I pay tribute to the Home Affairs Committee's work on the issue? I shall finish talking about wh...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c714 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some progress; I have been very generous in giving way to Opposition Front Benche...
Mark Tami | 520 c714 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary give way?
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c716 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the right hon. Gentleman's point. I think it is fair to say that the whole of Parl...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c717 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for making that point. It is certainly clear that the current process for app...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c716-7 (Link to this contribution) We are not changing the law because a foreign country has put pressure on us. In relation to this la...
David Winnick | 520 c716 (Link to this contribution) Does the Home Secretary accept that there are already adequate safeguards in this respect? It is not...
Ed Balls | 520 c711 (Link to this contribution) On consultation with the Association of Police Authorities, there is a letter in The Guardian today—...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c711 (Link to this contribution) Comments about turkeys and Christmas might be appropriate at this point, and I suggest that the righ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c710 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my hon. Friend, who is exactly right: this is not an untried method of dealing...
Charlie Elphicke | 520 c710 (Link to this contribution) On accountability, is it not the case that London has an elected Mayor, covering 6 million people? T...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c710 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to be tempted down the route of saying that he is too blond. [Interruption.] You can ...
Mark Tami | 520 c712 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Lord Coaker | 520 c713 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the Home Secretary for intervening again, but this is an extremely important point. W...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c713 (Link to this contribution) Our intention is absolutely clear: the police and crime commissioners will not be able to appoint fr...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c712 (Link to this contribution) No, I am going to make some progress. Commissioners will not manage police forces, and they will no...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c717 (Link to this contribution) I will not take any more interventions because I am about to finish my speech. I am sure that the ho...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c717-8 (Link to this contribution) As I said, I am about to finish my speech. The Bill is focused on cutting crime and putting power b...
Ed Balls | 520 c718 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Police Reform and Social Res...
Ann Clwyd | 520 c717 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Home Secretary. May I ask her what test the DPP will be expected to apply befor...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c709 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased to hear the right hon. Gentleman echoing the very words that I have used to the As...
Chris Bryant | 520 c709 (Link to this contribution) I shall not echo what the Home Secretary has been saying. One of my big anxieties is that she talks ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c709 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will bear with me, I will shortly deal with part of the point that he makes. ...
Hazel Blears | 520 c709 (Link to this contribution) I share the concerns of my hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) about the ability of a ...
Hazel Blears | 520 c710 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the Home Secretary, because those issues have obviously tested many Home Secre...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c708 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to take up the point made by the right hon. Gentleman. Jan Berry did a very good job in l...
Steve McCabe | 520 c733 (Link to this contribution) Is the action that the hon. Gentleman has in mind the legal action mounted by the Liberal Democrats ...
Tom Brake | 520 c733 (Link to this contribution) I should like to use this opportunity to thank the police for performing the difficult role of polic...
Speaker | 520 c734 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am not sure that Oldham has much to do with this debate. We all know the way to Oldham now....
Tom Brake | 520 c734 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that the Liberal Democrats went to the courts because allegations were made...
Duncan Hames | 520 c735 (Link to this contribution) It is essential that the role is conducted in a timely fashion. However, does my hon. Friend agree t...
Tom Brake | 520 c734-5 (Link to this contribution) I regret being led astray by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Steve McCabe). I was saying...
Karl Turner | 520 c736 (Link to this contribution) I would like to focus on part 1 of the Bill—on the proposals for directly elected police and crime c...
Tom Brake | 520 c735-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my hon. Friend. I can assure him that the previous DPP whom I was talking to w...
Gerald Kaufman | 520 c733 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may wish to behave like a creep to his Front Benchers—I was elected to Parliament...
Andrew Percy | 520 c736 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Andrew Percy | 520 c737 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way again?
Karl Turner | 520 c737 (Link to this contribution) Not at the moment. I would like to make some progress. Any change to police force operations must e...
Aidan Burley | 520 c737 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Karl Turner | 520 c737 (Link to this contribution) It is convenient for the hon. Gentleman to suggest such a thing, but the reality of this Government'...
Aidan Burley | 520 c739-40 (Link to this contribution) I share the concerns of my hon. Friend, who makes a good point about the timing of this legislation ...
Michael Ellis | 520 c738-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way so early in his remarks. Is he concerned, as I am, th...
Aidan Burley | 520 c738 (Link to this contribution) Thus far in today's debate, we have heard some interesting comments about a wide-ranging Bill that c...
Karl Turner | 520 c737-8 (Link to this contribution) Not at the moment. The Government's proposals inevitably restrict the range of candidates to either...
Andrew Percy | 520 c736 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about police numbers. Will he remind us what happened to police numbers in ...
Karl Turner | 520 c736 (Link to this contribution) I am always happy to give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Ann Clwyd | 520 c743 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for reinforcing that point, on which I attempted to extract more inf...
Andy Slaughter | 520 c743 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend clearly knows what she is talking about. I do not know whether she was as disma...
Michael Ellis | 520 c744 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Lady not accept that many countries with similar legal systems to our own—Canada...
Ann Clwyd | 520 c742 (Link to this contribution) Certainly. It appears that the hon. Gentleman has already changed his mind.
Tom Brake | 520 c742 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Ann Clwyd | 520 c742-3 (Link to this contribution) I hope to, if I am able to develop my thoughts. Much of our criminal law is territorial, applying t...
Tom Brake | 520 c742 (Link to this contribution) I think that if the Director of Public Prosecutions, having taken on this responsibility, is given r...
Matthew Offord | 520 c740-1 (Link to this contribution) Although my hon. Friend is right to mention the influence of the former Prime Minister Tony Blair in...
Aidan Burley | 520 c741-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree. Operational independence is about, for example, decisions to arrest people. No one is sugge...
Ed Balls | 520 c728 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it, though, the drafting of the Bill has not taken into account the fact that fundin...
Justin Tomlinson | 520 c729 (Link to this contribution) Scenes such as those my hon. Friend has just described are all too typical and do much damage to the...
Caroline Dinenage | 520 c728-9 (Link to this contribution) As we saw in the ugly scenes outside this building last Thursday, the police deal with people at the...
Ed Balls | 520 c727 (Link to this contribution) Of course the hon. Gentleman is right: Prime Ministers should take an interest in these matters, and...
Robert Halfon | 520 c727 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman mentioned three organisations that support the proposals for elected police...
Ed Balls | 520 c728 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, we are looking carefully at this proposal. We have investigated it in detail, and we...
Chris Bryant | 520 c728 (Link to this contribution) Is not the absolute proof that the Government know that these are to be politicised posts the fact t...
Ed Balls | 520 c726-7 (Link to this contribution) I fully agree about the importance of that middle tier of political accountability for chief constab...
Aidan Burley | 520 c727 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has been talking about operational independence for the past five minutes. ...
Mark Reckless | 520 c726 (Link to this contribution) I should first declare that I am a member of the Kent police authority and that I support our abolit...
Ed Balls | 520 c725-6 (Link to this contribution) He did say that, and I am glad to receive my right hon. Friend's praise for reading the evidence giv...
Ed Balls | 520 c724 (Link to this contribution) The shadow policing Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Gedling (Vernon Coaker), read out to me ...
Aidan Burley | 520 c724 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has just said that a single elected individual could rip apart the policing...
Hazel Blears | 520 c724 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that visibility and accountability have to be balanced with the inte...
Ed Balls | 520 c724 (Link to this contribution) I agree, and effective accountability really ought to happen in the main in the basic command unit. ...
Charlie Elphicke | 520 c723-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his patience with me. In Kent, the police authority's idea of a...
Ed Balls | 520 c724 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the Library report quotes the Conservative chair of the police authority in Ke...
David Burrowes | 520 c733 (Link to this contribution) Is it not a fact that the right hon. Gentleman is at the extreme in his views on Israel? Many of us ...
Gerald Kaufman | 520 c732-3 (Link to this contribution) I am well aware what they said, because week after week, I sat in the Chamber at business questions,...
Gerald Kaufman | 520 c731 (Link to this contribution) Without the change in the law she would not dare come here. The Israeli Administration are one of t...
Robert Halfon | 520 c731 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Gerald Kaufman | 520 c731 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way in a moment. Israel breaches international law and the Geneva convention—[Interrupt...
Speaker | 520 c731 (Link to this contribution) Order. Hon. Members should know better. I do not want a debate going on across the Chamber from sede...
Gerald Kaufman | 520 c731 (Link to this contribution) The fact is that Israel breaches international law and the Geneva convention every single day. It ha...
Robert Halfon | 520 c731 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, but I must say that his hatred for Israel knows no ...
Gerald Kaufman | 520 c731-2 (Link to this contribution) There would have been no proposal to change the universal jurisdiction law if Tzipi Livni had not be...
Chris Bryant | 520 c732 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend referred to what people said during the general election. Does he recall what p...
Gerald Kaufman | 520 c731 (Link to this contribution) Of course not. Tzipi Livni is a war criminal and, what is more, she issued a vocal and extreme state...
Chris Bryant | 520 c730 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Lady really suggesting that police officers should not do any preparation because they t...
Caroline Dinenage | 520 c730 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that far too much police time is spent preparing for an inevitable guilty plea.
Caroline Dinenage | 520 c729-30 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. It is important that the levies are imposed only on venues that s...
Gerald Kaufman | 520 c730-1 (Link to this contribution) What my right hon. Friend the Member for Morley and Outwood (Ed Balls) has said about the attacks on...
Matthew Offord | 520 c731 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman specifically identifies Tzipi Livni and talks about the accusations that ha...
Caroline Dinenage | 520 c730 (Link to this contribution) Well, in some cases it is an inevitable guilty plea. It is thousands of police hours—not in every ca...
Mark Tami | 520 c720 (Link to this contribution) I am reliably informed that I was wrong. The figure is not £50 million, but £136 million, despite wh...
Matt Hancock | 520 c720 (Link to this contribution) Before the election, when the then Home Secretary was asked whether he could promise that police num...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c719 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman raised the Olympic security budget in his response to my statement earlier....
Ed Balls | 520 c719 (Link to this contribution) I merely draw the hon. Gentleman's attention to the excellent House of Commons research report on th...
Ed Balls | 520 c723 (Link to this contribution) What the hon. Gentleman will not hear from us is support for a reform that a former Met commissioner...
Madeleine Moon | 520 c723 (Link to this contribution) South Wales police currently have a police authority that contains cross-party representation from t...
Ed Balls | 520 c723 (Link to this contribution) I do not know, and that is one of the flaws in the Bill that we will need to investigate in Committe...
Paul Maynard | 520 c723 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has described the current situation as ““non-optimal””. May I ask him what ...
Ed Balls | 520 c723 (Link to this contribution) As I said at the beginning, we will propose amendments in Committee to strengthen accountability at ...
Charlie Elphicke | 520 c723 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hanson of Flint | 520 c722 (Link to this contribution) I hope to help my right hon. Friend. As he knows, I was the Minister with responsibility for policin...
Charlie Elphicke | 520 c722 (Link to this contribution) I have been listening to the right hon. Gentleman for the past 10 minutes, and I have yet to hear a ...
Ed Balls | 520 c722 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is making the point that the previous Home Secretary would have fought his corn...
Michael Ellis | 520 c721 (Link to this contribution) Am I correct that the shadow Home Secretary admitted that £1 billion of police budget cuts had to be...
Matt Hancock | 520 c721 (Link to this contribution) I do not mind being held to account for sorting out the nation's finances. The right hon. Gentleman ...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 520 c722 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has admitted that he would have cut police funding by £1 billion a year, wh...
Chris Bryant | 520 c721 (Link to this contribution) Will the cuts not be more savage in particular areas? In police forces such as South Wales, the work...
Ed Balls | 520 c722 (Link to this contribution) I hope that that will not be the case. The chief constable of West Yorkshire police has said the opp...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 520 c771-2 (Link to this contribution) Labour Members say that the constituencies will be too big, yet the largest constituency outside Lon...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 520 c771 (Link to this contribution) On point after point, Labour Members get it wrong. They say that the constituencies—[Hon. Members: “...
Speaker | 520 c771 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Minister is clearly not giving way.
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 520 c771 (Link to this contribution) For all Labour's objections, one could be forgiven for forgetting that the previous Government twice...
Ed Balls | 520 c770 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to get into personal invective or to drag the important issue of policing down to the ...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 520 c771 (Link to this contribution) Labour's manifesto at the last election proposed referendums five times over—on AV, on reform of the...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 520 c768-9 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the House for the fact that I had briefly to leave the debate. I was attending and ad...
Mark Reckless | 520 c769 (Link to this contribution) On the question of operational independence, one could get the impression from Opposition Members th...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 520 c769-70 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree and the Home Secretary said exactly the same thing today. Such tactics are a matter...
Lord Coaker | 520 c768 (Link to this contribution) I cannot; I have not got time. I have dealt with subject of the wrong level of accountability, and ...
Mark Reckless | 520 c768 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Coaker | 520 c768 (Link to this contribution) I cannot. I would normally, but I have not got time. I apologise to the hon. Gentleman. As we have ...
Robert Halfon | 520 c767 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Coaker | 520 c767 (Link to this contribution) Because I did not think they were a very good idea then. The hon. Gentleman has to deal with this: t...
Lord Coaker | 520 c767 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give way as I have to finish in four or five minutes. Those Members wishing to intervene ca...
Lord Coaker | 520 c767 (Link to this contribution) I am going to take one intervention. As some of the Members on their feet have already been granted ...
Matthew Offord | 520 c767 (Link to this contribution) A central tenet of the Local Government Act 2000 was the introduction of greater accountability and ...
Lord Coaker | 520 c767 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way at present, as I want to make a point about an issue the hon. Member for Eastbou...
Lord Coaker | 520 c767 (Link to this contribution) Let me finish this point. That highlights the importance of having somebody at the local or neighbou...
Karl Turner | 520 c765 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Karl Turner | 520 c765 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that the proposal politicises the police?
Michael Ellis | 520 c765-6 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that at all. I remind the hon. Gentleman that the last Prime Minister but one, Tony ...
Lord Coaker | 520 c766-7 (Link to this contribution) We have had an interesting and wide-ranging debate to which many Members on both sides of the House ...
Michael Ellis | 520 c764 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. There have been literally dozens of examples ...
Michael Ellis | 520 c765 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree. Of course we all recognise and cherish the right of people to protest in this cou...
Claire O'Neill | 520 c764 (Link to this contribution) I thought my hon. Friend was going to say that he had been moved on under the terms of the Act, so I...
Michael Ellis | 520 c765 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It has been quite strange to observe Opposition members baulking...
Andrew Bridgen | 520 c765 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that in this country we police with consent—the consent of the people—and ...
Henry Smith | 520 c762-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. Not so long ago, I went on patrol with my local police in Cra...
Stephen Lloyd | 520 c763 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I thank him for his intervention. The overall statistics sho...
Robert Halfon | 520 c761 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is exactly right. The problem is that the current arrangements have been used as a po...
Stephen Lloyd | 520 c761-2 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to many who have spoken this evening, including my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (...
Michael Ellis | 520 c763-4 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the speakers who have recently been addressing the House. I completely supp...
Henry Smith | 520 c764 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. Ironically, universal jurisdiction is getting in the way of...
James Clappison | 520 c761 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern that there is evidence that the current process was abused in t...
Robert Halfon | 520 c759-61 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill and the debate. I have four substantial points to make: where there is direct dem...
Steve McCabe | 520 c757-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Nigel Mills), which is becoming a regul...
Keith Vaz | 520 c754-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman, who is the resident scientist on the Home Affairs Committee, is right to point t...
Nigel Mills | 520 c756 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak in this important debate on a Bill that will fulfil many Conservative mani...
Keith Vaz | 520 c753-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) was absolutely right in saying that the hon. Member for S...
Keith Vaz | 520 c754 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, although some may say that drinking Coca-Cola is almost as b...
Julian Huppert | 520 c754 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of drugs, does the right hon. Gentleman share my concern that the Bill has some sugge...
Neil Carmichael | 520 c753 (Link to this contribution) Funnily enough, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. When one considers the number of regulations and...
Richard Fuller | 520 c753 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making some very important points about the balance of responsibility for binge dr...
Neil Carmichael | 520 c752 (Link to this contribution) That is why I am sympathetic to dealing with the problems in supermarkets. My hon. Friend is right: ...
Neil Carmichael | 520 c751-2 (Link to this contribution) I begin by paying tribute to the police in my constituency, who have been helping to deal with the p...
Andrew Griffiths | 520 c752 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows that 70% of all alcohol sold in this country is sold through supermarkets. Is n...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 520 c749 (Link to this contribution) Is not the right hon. Lady effectively making the case for an elected official for each basic comman...
Hazel Blears | 520 c749-51 (Link to this contribution) It is a difficult circle to square and I shall suggest how we might address some of those issues. Th...
Louise Mensch | 520 c749 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Lady agree that the call for elected police commissioners came precisely because...
Hazel Blears | 520 c749 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, and I am about to put forward an idea that would meet many of those concerns. One way of ach...
Hazel Blears | 520 c748-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this Second Reading debate on what I believe to be a very...
Paul Maynard | 520 c747-8 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I will not, because of the lack of time. I have given way twice a...
Ann Clwyd | 520 c744 (Link to this contribution) I hope the hon. Gentleman will seek to catch Mr Speaker's eye, as he obviously has a speech in the m...
Paul Maynard | 520 c745-6 (Link to this contribution) In the eight minutes available to me, I hope to cover two key issues that are of the utmost importan...
Ann Clwyd | 520 c744-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's expert knowledge of this issue. Senior district judges are trust...
Andy Slaughter | 520 c744 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the difference between what is being proposed and what happens ...
Paul Maynard | 520 c746 (Link to this contribution) That is certainly an interesting point, and I hope that it will be explored more thoroughly in Commi...
Andrew Percy | 520 c746 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the implementation of the late-night levy will be incredibly effectiv...
Paul Maynard | 520 c746 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely. The importance of the night-time economy is much misunderstood. It is not just abo...
Justin Tomlinson | 520 c746 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that if he could get a safer night-time economy, that would be a real boos...
Ed Balls | 520 c713 (Link to this contribution) It is very important to be clear when we make statements in the House. It is not the case that Oppos...
Michael Ellis | 520 c716 (Link to this contribution) The Bill must go through the relevant parliamentary procedures and will probably not receive Royal A...
Ed Balls | 520 c711 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Lady really calling Mr Rob Garnham, the highly respected chair of a police authori...
Lord Herbert of South Downs | 520 c770 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is wrong and our intention is clear—we keep repeating it: we do not want po...
Michael Ellis | 520 c765 (Link to this contribution) By all means. I have a minute left.
Robert Halfon | 520 c752 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, but following the previous intervention does he not ag...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c710 (Link to this contribution) Yes. Indeed, the right hon. Lady's own Government looked at the possibility of electing police autho...
Ann Clwyd | 520 c742 (Link to this contribution) I oppose clause 151, which is entitled ““Restriction on issue of arrest warrants in private prosecut...
Alun Michael | 520 c724 (Link to this contribution) I am interested that my right hon. Friend has read the evidence given by Mr Bratton, who went on to ...
Ed Balls | 520 c722 (Link to this contribution) I fear that we may be wasting time by going over the same point, but I will explain it again. HMIC s...
Nigel Mills | 520 c756-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, time is too limited. Police commissioners, as the hon. Member for Blackpool North and C...
Andrew Griffiths | 520 c754 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that when one can go to a supermarket and buy a can of strong la...
Neil Carmichael | 520 c752 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend and appreciate all the interventions—the two of them, at least—that I have ha...
Ed Balls | 520 c720 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, the Association of Police Authorities estimates that 600 officers' jobs cou...
Ed Balls | 520 c720 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to accept my hon. Friend's clarification on that point. The context for this legislation...
Ed Balls | 520 c719-20 (Link to this contribution) I do not know the answer to that. When I spoke to my right hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich and We...
Mark Tami | 520 c720 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is talking about massive cuts across the piece. Does he agree that the £50 mill...
Ed Balls | 520 c721 (Link to this contribution) If, rather than framing his intervention, the hon. Gentleman had listened to the previous one, he wo...
Ed Balls | 520 c721 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows the answer to his own question. He can wave his arms around in a histrionic...
Ed Balls | 520 c720-1 (Link to this contribution) I will answer the hon. Gentleman's previous erroneous intervention before I give him a second go to ...
Ed Balls | 520 c720 (Link to this contribution) No. I know that the hon. Gentleman knows about Treasury matters, but he ought to read his brief a li...
Keith Vaz | 520 c715 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome what the Home Secretary has said today, which is in keeping with the recommendation...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c714-5 (Link to this contribution) No, I shall make some progress. Let me make this point clear: the money will not come from funds tha...
Chris Bryant | 520 c714 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary give way?
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c716 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that issue. The Prime Minister made it clear at Prime Mi...
Charlie Elphicke | 520 c717 (Link to this contribution) The measures on universal jurisdiction are one of the more important aspects of the Bill, because wh...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c710 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress, but I see that a former Policing Minister wishes to intervene, so I wi...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c711 (Link to this contribution) I am about to come on to exactly that point. The right hon. Gentleman asks whether it is appropriate...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 520 c711 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary clarify one point? Under current legislation, it is illegal for a police off...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c713 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to confirm—this is at the heart of the matter, and I know that Opposition Front Benchers ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c712 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not. Had the right hon. Gentleman been listening, he would have heard me say already how gr...
Ed Balls | 520 c712 (Link to this contribution) Turkeys voting for Christmas? May I quote Sir Hugh Orde, of the Association of Chief Police Officers...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c711 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman—[Interruption.] His hon. Friend the Member for Vale of Clwyd can even do th...
Lord Coaker | 520 c713 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary clarify that point? My right hon. Friend the Member for Morley and Outwood (...
Andrew Bridgen | 520 c718-9 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman cast his mind back to the cuckoo months of the previous Prime Minister...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c717 (Link to this contribution) I am about to come to the end of my speech, but I will give way to the right hon. Member for Cynon V...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c717 (Link to this contribution) The key issue that the DPP will look at is the basis for the request for the arrest warrant and the ...
Alun Michael | 520 c709 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady mentions a number of functions and areas of accountability. Does she agree that ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c709-10 (Link to this contribution) No. I shall come on to describe some of the powers of the police and crime panels. That democratical...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c710 (Link to this contribution) I see that the right hon. Lady is eager to jump up again. I will take this intervention, then I will...
Keith Vaz | 520 c708 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady join me in commending the work of Jan Berry, who was appointed by the previ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 520 c707-8 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. From the very start of British policing, Si...
Speaker | 520 c707 (Link to this contribution) Before I call the Home Secretary, I inform the House that Mr Speaker has selected the amendment in t...
Ed Balls | 520 c719 (Link to this contribution) I will do no such thing, and I will tell the House exactly why. We are consistently told by the Home...
Steve McCabe | 520 c719 (Link to this contribution) I note that the policing Minister's letter says that he hopes to make savings and not to use the £60...
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Accountability
Crime
Alcoholic drinks
Demonstrations
Arrest warrants
Elections
Drugs
Police
Parliament Square
Misuse
Licensing laws
Police authorities
Young people
Reform
War crimes
Police and crime commissioners
Legislation
Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill 2010-12
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