Michael Howard: The Metropolitan Police Committee met on 27 February, 21 March, 25 April, 25 May, 22 June, 19 July, 21 September and 6 October. Its sub-committees, on remuneration matters and performance indicators, have met separately on several occasions. The duty of the Metropolitan Police Committee is to advise Ministers on policy and the minutes of its meetings are therefore confidential. I expect the...
Home Affairs: Female Genital Mutilation.
Witnesses: Commander Mak Chishty, Association of Chief Police Officers; Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, Metropolitan Police and Detective Chief Superintendent Keith Niven, Metropolitan Police; Saria Khalifa, Youth Programme Lead, Forward UK and Lisa Harker, Director of Strategy, Policy and Evidence, NSPCC; Norman Baker MP, Minister for Crime Prevention, Jane Ellison MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary...
Elliot Morley: Defra and the Environment Agency have received policy statements from 219 of the 354 local authorities expected to produce them. We have received 12 statements since the report on High Level Target 1 was compiled in April 2002; however there are still 135 outstanding statements. The following local authorities have produced policy statements: Adur District Council Allerdale Borough...
John Martin McDonnell: It is important to get the record straight. The GLC was the collector of the Metropolitan police precept. At that point in time, the setting up of a police committee allowed Londoners the opportunity to debate how the precept could be spent and to inform the Metropolitan police of their views. Many of the views expressed then have been taken on board as key policies in the development of the...
John Horam: ...priority to the journey-to-work problems that the hon. Gentleman outlined whether in urban areas where there is congestion or in rural areas —whether these rural areas are technically part of a metropolitan districts or counties or deeply rural areas in shire counties. I wish to say something about the general level of Government expenditure. It seems rather remote in many ways when one...
Sadiq Khan: The maintenance of the local highway in Wirral is the responsibility of Wirral metropolitan borough council. This Department has published guidance on its emergency capital highway maintenance funding scheme. If Wirral metropolitan borough council wishes to submit a claim for this funding, in connection with damage caused by this winter's severe weather, the Department will arrange for its...
Mr Robert Kilroy-Silk: As the report of the Policy Studies Institute on the Metropolitan police is, as the right hon. Gentleman has just said, immensely important, and contains severe strictures on the work of some members of the Metropolitan police force, and clear lessons for political accountability and democratic control of our police forces, may I reinforce the point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for...
Mr Patrick Jenkin: ...lop off a number of outer London boroughs so as to give the resulting body a permanent and undefeatable Labour majority. We need to know whether the Opposition support those proposals. As for the metropolitan counties, we were interested to see the press notice referring to a letter from the Leader of the Opposition to the leader of West Yorkshire county council, Councillor John Gunnell....
Angela Smith: As part of the preparation of the Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan the Department of the Environment has appointed consultants to assess the potential need for additional retail floor space within the Plan Area up to 2015. The terms of reference also require the consultants to advise on where any additional floorspace should be located, and if it should be phased, how it should be phased and...
Mr Thomas Naylor: I beg to second the Amendment. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman consulted the boards of guardians represented on the Metropolitan Asylums Board with a view to ascertaining whether or not they agree with this new-found principle of auditing accounts, before he came to the decision to introduce Clause 2. This particular Clause is entirely new so far as London administration is...
Charlotte Atkins: Our latest statistics, as at 31 March 2004, show that 26 metropolitan authorities place a limit on the number of taxis they license. Those authorities, together with their respective limits, are listed as follows: Authority Number Newcastle on Tyne 2,000 South Tyneside 224 Sunderland 306 Knowsley 240 Liverpool 1,417 Sefton 271 St Helens 63 Bolton 104 ...
Mr Chris Smith: I support new clause 9 because I have been extremely anxious for some time about the apparent practice of entrapment in the Metropolitan police, especially in the Earls court area of London. My first worry concerns the enticement of an offence. The police rightly deny that they are acting as agents provocateurs, but the line between the entrapment techniques that appear to have been used and...
Mr John Powley: If I remember my words correctly, I said that I was unhappy with the GLC and the six metropolitan counties when they were first set up, and that I became increasingly concerned about their activities as the years went by. I am not arguing that the GLC and the six metropolitan counties should be abolished because of their present policies. I said that I had misgivings about them when they...
Mr William Waldegrave: I shall not give way. The hon. Gentleman made a long and I must say rather boring speech, and I think that we have had enough of him today. The policy is perfectly sensible and reasonable. The policy of moving towards single tier administration in the metropolitan counties and in London is supported, behind their hands, by many on the Labour side and in local government, as well as by the...
Graham Stringer: The clause takes away the rights of local authorities in an integrated transport authority to be involved in or consulted on the drawing up and development of transport policies by the ITA. The purpose of these three probing amendments is to ask why. I am grateful to the Clerk for helping me to draw up amendment No. 6—it is immediately incomprehensible to anyone who reads it—which, in...
Mr Allan Roberts: We are aware of the Government's paranoia about the GLC and Mr. Livingstone, but there are six metropolitan counties as well as the GLC. What justification is there for taking such draconian powers over the spending policies of the metropolitan counties when there is no evidence that they intend to take any of the actions which the Minister accuses the GLC of wanting to take? The powers that...
Lord Mendelsohn: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the cost of the legal advice gained by the Metropolitan Police Service and Crown Prosecution Service which led to the policy of investigating the chant of “yids” by Tottenham Hotspur supporters by the Metropolitan Police Service prior to the Prime Minister’s comments on the matter on 16 September 2013; and what was the cost of the advice gained...
Mr Geoffrey Rippon: I have dealt with this question in recent speeches at some length. I expressed the view, which I think is right, that there are at present in certain green belt areas—the Metropolitan green belt, in particular—certain areas which are marginal and which make little or no contribution to amenity and on which it would be right to build houses. However, I do not want that to be construed as...
David Hanson: ...does not hold a central record of the number of applications for employment that have not passed beyond vetting procedures and it would be of disproportionate cost to assemble such a record. The Metropolitan Police is responsible for its own vetting, I understand that the Metropolitan Police do not hold a central record and that it would be of disproportionate cost to assemble such a...
Christopher Chope: ...your views about the issues currently confronting the Government that relate directly to the separation of powers. I thought that it was this House that held the Government to account for their policies, not the Metropolitan Police. As I made clear earlier, there is no reason for the Metropolitan Police to require Sue Gray not to issue her report in an unamended way for the benefit of the...
