Lord Shinkwin: To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to ensure that concerns about (1) anti-social behaviour, (2) illegal driving, and (3) crime, around Westminster Bridge raised in the Policy Exchange paper A Culture of Impunity: The ongoing erosion of disabled people’s access to Parliament and Westminster, published on 8...
the Earl of Lytton: ...premises through, let us say, planning powers, it will not count as an MCC, regardless of how severe the impacts may be. This provides a perverse incentive to disregard negative effects of sudden policy decisions which, as I say, may be nothing to do with economic choices. I wonder whether when formulating these measures the Government ever considered the growing mistrust of their handling...
Lord Stunell: ...attention to price differentials between similar homes. For instance, similar homes in an outer London borough such as Sutton, where I was born, are a factor of two more expensive than those in the metropolitan borough of Stockport, where I live. So for “affordability” to mean the same in the two boroughs, incomes in Sutton would need to be double those in Stockport to match the ratio...
Sarah Champion: ...serious crime and, at the same time, less likely to receive redress. Migrant victims encounter multiple barriers to protection and safety. The immigration system and the hostile environment policy create structural obstacles to justice. Migrant victims of domestic abuse often face a stark choice: staying in a violent relationship, or deportation and destitution if they leave. Because of...
Paul Scully: ..., healthier, happier lives tomorrow. Our life sciences vision sets a strategy for the sector to solve some of the biggest healthcare problems of our generation. In May, we announced an ambitious policy package in support of the life sciences sector, backed by more than £650 million in funding, including £121 million to improve commercial clinical trials to bring new medicines to patients...
Greg Clark: ...is nevertheless true to say that we are encountering an acceleration in its application and depth of progress. To some extent, the degree of public interest in it, without resolution to some of the policy questions that the hon. Member for Bristol North West alluded to, carries some risks. In fact, the nomenclature “artificial intelligence” is in some ways unhelpful. The word...
Baroness Hoey: ...something about Amendment 31, which I will not be able to support if it goes to a vote on Monday. This amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Hain, and others is, in essence, the alternative legacy policy promoted by the former Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police, Jon Boutcher, head of Kenova, and other former Metropolitan Police officers in your Lordships’ House. Everyone talks about...
...and Wales in the year to March 2022: 31 of them were black; 49 were white; 16 were from other ethnic minority groups; and three victims did not have their ethnicity recorded. It is always bad policy to place unsubstantiated theories ahead of demonstrable fact—in this case, it would be lethal. Stop and search works. Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Commissioner, has said there are ‘countless...
Suella Braverman: As I mentioned in my statement, the Department is trialling a more sophisticated approach to calculating disparity, with a focus on the Metropolitan Police Service. That has produced a useful analysis based on actual suspects of violent crime, rather than the totality of usual residents of an area, as a denominator for calculating the rates of stop and search. It is experimental, but the data...
Lord Shipley: ..., in which locally elected councillors have representative duties extending beyond their own council, such as in the health service and transport. We have experienced in recent years a centralising policy and greater fiscal controls. I can remember the days, when I was a young councillor, when local government had absolute power over the level of the rates and business rates—no more. I...
Suella Braverman: One of the first things I did when I became Home Secretary, along with the Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire and the Prime Minister, was to meet policing leads, in the Metropolitan police and nationwide, to hear about the challenges they have been and are facing in policing protests. They have requested extra powers and extra clarity in the law. I find it surprising and disappointing that...
Bell Ribeiro-Addy: ...such—but I loved my childhood growing up on Brixton Hill in London. Being able to live in this fantastic city as a child made me who I am, and I am really sad that if we do not fix some of these policies, children will not have the wonderful experiences that I had.
David Davis: ...that tape recording; traders and submitters, who could have revealed information about any instructions; and the senior Whitehall officials behind much of the pressure, including Gordon Brown’s policy chief and the second permanent secretary to the Treasury. The response to the scandal was itself scandalous. Every part of that public response—the convictions, parliamentary...
Lord Young of Cookham: ...and Lib Dem-led councils in counties such as Durham and Northumberland, cities such as Newcastle, Manchester and Liverpool, unitary authorities such as Middlesbrough and North Lincolnshire, and metropolitan boroughs such as North Tyneside, South Tyneside and the London Borough of Brent. Therefore, in response to the point about practicality made by the noble Baroness, Lady Taylor,...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the records management policy of police forces following recent revelations that the Metropolitan Police failed to disclose 95 pages of documents relating to the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel Inquiry.
... Wednesday 10 May Until no later than 9.55 am Information Commissioner’s Office Wednesday 10 May Until no later than 10.25 am Hogan Lovells; London Stock Exchange Group; Centre for Information Policy Leadership Wednesday 10 May Until no later than 10.50 am techUK; Data & Marketing Association Wednesday 10 May Until no later than 11.25 am Connected by Data; Institute for the Future of...
Lord Stunell: ..., the very first one signed off was actually in London, so it certainly was not rural. In fact, there are 16 neighbourhood plans within Greater London at the moment, and I know that in my own metropolitan borough there are at least three in progress. On the other hand, I note that nearly every town in Wiltshire, plus the city of Salisbury, which is one of the biggest local councils in the...
Baroness Chakrabarti: My Lords, this Bill was always about political signals, not sensible policy. Finally, even signals must change. I respect the Minister, but others in the Home Office have been slow to respond to the concerns of the British public about abuses of broad police powers. Much has happened and even more has been exposed since this Bill began its passage last May. Last July Wayne Couzens lost an...
Baroness Scott of Bybrook: ...well aware, the harassment of workers remains all too common. The Government’s own experimental survey uncovered completely unacceptable levels of sexual harassment, and the recent review of the Metropolitan Police by the noble Baroness, Lady Casey, shows how harassment and discrimination can be baked into a system. The testimony and the data make it clear that mistreatment of women is a...
Matt Western: ...from our witnesses during Tuesday’s sitting about how the impact of lifelong learning might affect providers. Indeed, when it comes to higher education providers, Professor Press from Manchester Metropolitan University made it clear that there were difficulties for institutions in the “mechanics” of the delivery of lifelong learning, partly due to the additional cost of delivery when...
