Lord Paddick: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Snape, for the opportunity to debate these issues. It has been an interesting debate, with much of the focus being on policing and resources. When I joined the Metropolitan Police, in 1976, sometimes it was very busy, you were rushing from one call to another, and it was difficult to empathise with the third burglary victim you visited that day. At other...
Lord Paddick: ...me about it—I have been trying to open a bank account for the last two weeks. I have shown my passport and I have gone to the bank; it wants to know where my income comes from—most of it is a Metropolitan Police pension. Yet, apparently, we need identity cards as well, to try and control things. I think things are difficult enough as it is. But we digress, widely. The Minister may...
Bell Ribeiro-Addy: ...homophobia were badly mishandled. These are “patterns of unacceptable discrimination that clearly amount to systemic bias”, and they cannot continue. Those are not my words but those of the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley. We know that our criminal justice system continues to be held back by institutional racism—well, at least Opposition Members know that. We...
Gavin Williamson: ...moment there is a real lack of clarity in the Government’s approach to the duty to co-operate. That puts enormous pressure on many local authorities, especially ones that neighbour large urban, metropolitan areas. The Government have said that there will be changes to the duty to co-operate, but they have not come up with the clarification that authorities need to be in the best position...
Thomas Tugendhat: The Online Safety Bill will give the power to Ofcom to hold social media companies to account and ensure they abide by their own terms of service to keep users safe, including any policies relating to images shared after a major incident such as a terrorist attack. This will mean companies must be clear about the legal content that they allow on their platforms and apply this rigorously and...
Caroline Russell: ...recently accepted recommendations about the diversity of interview panels proposed in a February 2022 report, Independent Review of Ethnic Minority experiences at GLA, by The Equal Group. Does the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have a similar rule or policy about the diversity of interview panels?
Matthew Offord: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the implications for her policies on the number of teenage homicides in the Metropolitan Police Service area.
Sadiq Khan: ...East (Hackney & Tower Hamlets) BCU, 19 officers from public protection command received training in Adultification bias. This is alongside the normal safeguarding training they receive – the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) implemented additional child safeguarding procedures in 2021 as part of Operation Aegis, an initiative to build officer capability. Recommendation 5 of the CHSCP...
Sadiq Khan: All police drivers in London are subject to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Roads Policing Policy when responding to calls using emergency equipment. The police station in Peckham is in a residential area, but also on a main road which is busy at all times of the day. The use of emergency equipment, including the use of sirens, is likely to be required in most cases when responding to...
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering: ...and what I would like to focus on is how health services are delivered in rural areas. There are twin challenges which lie at the heart of this debate; there is a rural and urban aspect to health policies, which is often overlooked. We often have a metropolitan elite running the Civil Service at the highest possible level. There is also the challenge of the conflict between primary and...
Barry Sheerman: ...impacted on marginalised people: for example, young, black, working-class men are severely over-represented in convictions under joint enterprise according to a study by Manchester Metropolitan University. JENGbA says that around 80% of the people who contact them are black or minority ethnic, and almost all are working class. Additionally, it is often individuals on the autism spectrum...
Sadiq Khan: ...Environment and Energy Shirley Rodrigues wrote to the East London Waterworks Park in support of the project. It supports my ambitions to increase access to green and natural spaces for Londoners. Policy G3 of my London Plan sets out that boroughs should work with partners to enhance the quality and range of uses of Metropolitan Open Land, and that proposals to enhance access to...
Richard Holden: ...the Exchequer, to whom I spoke in a brief meeting today. I look forward to further fruitful discussions with him in the not-too-distant future. The legislation would drive forward a major change in policy. It is worth a huge amount of money—it will roll in over a long period—to people in lower-paid work, and to people who start work at age 18. It is worth trillions of pounds over the...
Ian Blackford: ...to do his favourite thing: attend yet another party. Another party! That is one thing that we might have thought he would learn. After being caught breaking his own laws and being fined by the Metropolitan police—the only Prime Minister in history to be fined in office—he turns his back on his obligations at a time of emergency over the effect of global warming, and he attends...
Mick Whitley: ...will mean for young people living in her constituency. Like my hon. Friend, I have been deeply moved by the many messages I have received in recent weeks from students studying at Wirral Metropolitan College, urging me to speak in this debate and to stand up and defend the principle of student choice. Many of those young people live in some of the most deprived communities in the country,...
Baroness Thornton: ...Jenkin, and my noble friend Lady Gale that we all have battle scars from trying to make our parties more representative and to get more women elected. That unites us. However, we must ask if the policies and programmes pursued by consecutive Conservative and Conservative-led Governments have substantially challenged the patriarchal nature of our society and whether women and girls are able...
Diana R. Johnson: ...Deputy Speaker. The Home Secretary was due to meet the Home Affairs Committee this morning—we arranged this in April—for an evidence session on, among other things, the new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, problems at the Passport Office, small boat crossings in the channel and the Government’s Rwanda policy, and the lack of progress in prosecuting and convicting those who...
Iain Duncan Smith: ...Torture report entitled UK partnerships with Chinese policing institutions linked to crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, dated 17 May 2022, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of reports of collaboration between the London Policing College, which is a partner of the Metropolitan Police, and Xinjiang Police College, China’s Ministry of Public Security and...
Greg Smith: ...that the clause will seek only to bake and lock into the legislation the ability—no matter the cause or the reason and no matter how strongly a community, neighbourhood, parish, town, borough or metropolitan authority feels—of Whitehall to come down and impose a different will on those neighbourhoods and communities. I give the example of the village of Ickford in my constituency,...
Baroness Williams of Trafford: ...made. I join them in deeply regretting the death of Zara Aleena and all the other people they mentioned—far too many —who have been killed and the examples of poor or bad practice within the Metropolitan Police. This underlines the reason we are here today, which is the “engage” process that has been triggered. I think we probably all agree on that. The noble Lord, Lord Coaker,...
