Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his early remarks, and for the work of the Home Affairs Comm...

Before my right hon. Friend moves on, will she take this opportunity to congratulate the retiring...

I am grateful—[Interruption.] I suspect there might be one or two more sedentary interventions; i...

I cannot top Alfred Hitchcock, but will the Home Secretary join me in congratulating another emin...

I note the hon. Gentleman’s remarks, and I also note the efforts of the CWU on this matter. Sadly...

Will my right hon. Friend explain that this is the first opportunity the House has had seriously ...

Many comments are made about the dangerous dogs legislation and its impact. It is right that we h...

I think that the Home Secretary has started to make this point already, but does she agree that w...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his remarks. I will come on to explain the various new powers...

Will the Home Secretary give way?

I shall indulge the hon. Gentleman.

The right hon. Lady is indeed indulging me with her generosity. How will she seek to balance the ...

I do not see that being a problem as a result either of the public spaces protection order when d...

The Home Secretary is right that ASBOs did not have the desired effect, but I am concerned about ...

We think it is right that the power should be available, but of course we would expect it to be u...

Will the Home Secretary confirm that in the areas where the community trigger was piloted there w...

The whole point about our approach is that we expect the police and other relevant agencies to ac...

If the Home Secretary is right that the trigger will guarantee a more rapid response, why does th...

The reason is simple: the Government believe in local discretion in some areas. There is a fundam...

Does my right hon. Friend accept that in some instances severe antisocial behaviour leads almost ...

I understand the point my hon. Friend is making. The point about the community trigger is that it...

When we were in opposition there was a clear understanding that antisocial behaviour orders were ...

What I am trying to explain to the House is that the new orders and powers we are introducing in ...

I thank the Home Secretary for kindly giving way. I share the sentiment expressed by many Members...

I do not believe that the proposal to extend the offence of having a dog that is dangerously out ...

I thank the Home Secretary for giving way yet again. My question is about resourcing for such ord...

I realise that the hon. Lady had a very sad case in her constituency in relation to dogs acting i...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is incredibly important for the wider public—and, indeed,...

My hon. Friend makes an important and valid point. All of us who talk about this issue should be ...

I am most grateful to the Home Secretary for giving way a second time. Is she as concerned as I a...

The right hon. Gentleman has cited a figure concerning the work being done by the College of Poli...

I very much welcome the extension of the IPCC’s powers to include private contractors. That will ...

I will need to come back to my hon. Friend on that point. I do not think that we go into quite th...

Will the Home Secretary confirm that about 900 suspected foreign criminals were deported under th...

It is important that we have the powers that we need to deal with criminality. I am on record as ...

We have another parliamentary Session and another Home Office Christmas tree Bill. Last year’s Bi...

I thank the right hon. Lady for giving way, but I really wish she would not keep undermining the ...

Police officers certainly are working extremely hard in very difficult circumstances. Many of the...

It is always very tempting to offer to spend more money to fix all sorts of problems. Is the righ...

We have said very clearly that we would have reduced the policing budget by around 12% rather tha...

On that point, when I talk to police officers in Stoke-on-Trent, who are doing a fine job in extr...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Looked at across the board—whether it be what is happeni...

Does my right hon. Friend share my pride in the fact that City Watch in Liverpool does such a for...

My hon. Friend is right. We have seen the impact in a whole series of areas—as I said, during the...

The right hon. Lady is talking about the views of the police, so let me quote what ACPO said:

I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that ACPO, like chief constables across the country, will make ...

Does it not send a worrying message to the families of the, on average, two women who die every s...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Community resolutions and the purpose of the restorative...

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Order. May I suggest that Back Benchers speak for about 12 minutes? I do not intend to enforce th...

I welcome the Bill, and congratulate the Home Secretary on her introduction of it.

Let me b...

As my hon. Friend will know, during the grooming inquiry the Home Affairs Committee has heard som...

I entirely agree. I know from my hon. Friend’s work on the Committee, and from the terrible issue...

My hon. Friend is being incredibly generous in giving way again. I strongly endorse his proposals...

I thank my hon. Friend for her comments. I have asked my local police officers whether there are ...

My hon. Friend is making a powerful contribution. Certainly I am happy for the Home Office to tak...

To that end, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak and I look forward to working with the Ho...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Keighley (Kris Hopkins) in this important debate. ...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for mentioning the IPCC, because it enables me, if he w...

I am delighted that the Home Secretary has got that on the record, and I know that the hon. Membe...

I suspect that the Home Secretary has recently become used to me standing here criticising things...

I visited Glastonbury post office, which has been doing some fairly visionary work on what happen...

I thank my hon. Friend for that comment; I am sure that the Home Secretary heard it. What my hon....

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cambridge (Dr Huppert). I should like to associate...

On HMOs and antisocial behaviour, including in alleyways, are there not already powers available ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman and I do not disagree with him on the powers, which are alrea...

I am enjoying my hon. Friend’s speech immensely. Does he agree that there is a need for a much wi...

I hear what my hon. Friend says. In an ideal world he would be correct, but unfortunately we hear...

I am delighted to contribute to this Second Reading debate, primarily because, as a number of spe...

On restorative justice, the hon. Lady will know from the all-party victims and witnesses of crime...

There is no doubt that restorative justice can mean a range of different things, and there should...

I am glad to have the opportunity to contribute to this important debate, particularly as it touc...

I want to add my tribute to the family of John Paul Massey, because they have also been supportin...

I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. I know that those words will have been heard by Ange...

On that point, one thing that really concerns me is that not only has it taken that time to get t...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. He has been working hard with the Union of Shop, Di...

I commend my hon. Friend for her speech. I have met a father whose young child was playing on a l...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. He tells a story that I have heard too many times. W...

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Order. Before I call the next speaker, it might be helpful if I inform Members that eight Members...

The hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Luciana Berger) spoke very powerfully about emotive and...

It is a pleasure to follow the powerful speeches of my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Wave...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Clwyd South (Susan Elan Jones). I recognise some o...

As you and the House will be aware, Madam Deputy Speaker, my constituent 14-year-old Jade Lomas A...

It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Bolton West (Julie Hilling). I congratulate her and...

As always, it is a great privilege to follow the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Miss McIntosh...

It is an enormous pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Ogmore (Huw Irranca-Davies), who made an...

I am delighted to follow my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (St...

Order. I would not like the hon. Lady to feel that she has to curtail her comments. She has appro...

I am now even more grateful. Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I shall not speak at 90 mph, then. ...

Will my hon. Friend quickly outline what real, practical measures could be taken to help families...

I have certainly mentioned some of the specific measures. One of the big problems at the moment, ...

I welcome the fact that we have had a wide-ranging debate. There have been some significant and m...

The shadow Minister will be well aware of Northern Ireland’s dangerous dogs legislation, which is...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. The model in Northern Ireland could certainly b...

The right hon. Gentleman listed a number of things that the Labour Government introduced that som...

From memory, about 25,000 such people—according to Home Office modelling, not mine—could go on to...

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to conclude this thoughtful and extensive de...

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I will give way once, but I have a couple of concluding points I wish to make before the end of t...

Will the Minister tell us briefly why, after three years of repeated consultations by the Departm...

What I am telling the hon. Gentleman is that we believe the dog control notices provide the right...