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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 8 February 2010.

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Photo of Phil Woolas Phil Woolas Minister of State (the North West), Home Office, Minister of State (the North West), HM Treasury, Minister of State (the North West), Regional Affairs 2:30, 8 February 2010

I am glad the hon. Gentleman was reading such a document on the train. I suggest he reads the Daily Mirror in future. He will see in that newspaper this morning that the crime figures are down. Part of the reason for that is the success that we have had in removing foreign national prisoners. We are doing so at record levels. My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary reminds me that the hon. Gentleman's party opposed the measures by which we are doing that, so I hope the hon. Gentleman changes his reading habits.