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Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill [ Lords]: Antisocial Behaviour (2 Nov 2009) has video

James Brokenshire: It is fairly typical of the right hon. Lady to come up with a point like that, when she well knows that there are plenty of savings to be made in the Home Office's budget—on ID cards and all sorts of other things, but not on front-line services. That, I think, is the key part of where we are today in ensuring that we deliver those front-line services for the benefit of our communities...

[Sir John Butterfill in the Chair] — A Surveillance Society? (19 Mar 2009)

James Brokenshire: Again, I am grateful to the Minister for providing that clarity. Some of the statements in the annexe to the information memorandum on the EU data retention directive on telecoms and internet data suggest that there will be no change in policy. Clearly, there has been a change in policy this afternoon. We welcome that approach to the review of RIPA. The review is essential. Greater confidence...

[Sir John Butterfill in the Chair] — A Surveillance Society? (19 Mar 2009)

James Brokenshire: I am grateful for the Minister's statement, but he will recognise that there is not unreasonable concern—this was discussed when the Identity Cards Act 2006 was being considered—that we are looking at an incremental change and a steady direction of travel that is leading to that end result. I referred to compulsory ID cards not to suggest that the Government's position is...

Points of Order: Fighting Crime (Public Engagement) (6 Nov 2008) has video

James Brokenshire: ...are an essential part in the fight against crime—the public—have been left out of the loop. In his nine points of policing, Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the modern police service, said: "Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police...