Rachel Maclean: ...this point. It is an independent body and must be allowed to carry out its work free of political influence. The Government’s role, however, is to consider any recommendations for legislation or policy change carefully. I think I can say, without prejudicing anything, that, in the case of child Q, the IOPC has served four officers of the Metropolitan police with notices of gross...
Sadiq Khan: The first Operation Sweep took place in March 2022. This entailed a three-week Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) led audit of all buildings to identify and secure any exhibits which were not stored in a compliant way. Similar to HMICFRS, the MPS encountered locations where policy was not being followed. However, some locations were in very good order with high levels of compliance. Audit of...
Sadiq Khan: Improving trust and confidence in the police is an absolute priority for me and I have been clear that the incoming Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) must have a clear plan to tackle the serious cultural issues within the Met Police and to regain the trust of Londoners. The MPS consults regularly with the Disability Independent Advisory Group on projects and policy...
Sadiq Khan: Since the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Field Impairment Training was rolled out in 2005, approximately 2,300 Met police officers have completed this training. This training includes the use of ‘drug wipe’ kits. ‘Drug wipe’ kits only test for cocaine and cannabis. Therefore, as per MPS policy, where a driver is suspected of being under the influence of drugs it is expected an...
Viscount Colville of Culross: ...denigrated. The resulting fractures in our society are deeper than ever and make the democratic process more scratchy and less open to compromise. I fear that the arenas for a proper discussion of policy, in which people actually listen to others’ points of view and engage with their concerns to build a national conversation, are diminishing. This conversation cannot take place if not...
Matt Western: ...greater protection than that afforded to them under the Equality Act, especially in instances of reprehensible but lawful speech, such as holocaust denial. Professor Stephen Whittle from Manchester Metropolitan University acknowledged as much in the Bill Committee, recognising that the Equality Act would afford protection only if the speech were directly addressed to the complainant. That...
Neil O'Brien: ...the Greater London Authority, and district councils and unitary authorities elsewhere. The West Midlands Combined Authority is the lead authority for the strategic geography covering the Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council and will be responsible for delivering UKSPF. Its UKSPF allocation amounts to £105 million over the three years (including the Multiply programme). The allocations...
Lord Newby: ...is that, until the general election comes, we will be stuck with this morally bankrupt and rudderless Government. But if the Prime Minister comes badly out of this saga, so too, I fear, do the Metropolitan Police. They turned a blind eye to the parties when they first happened. Under intense public pressure, they initiated an investigation, but the fines which they imposed, concentrated as...
Sadiq Khan: .... Ongoing stressors including the current cost of living crisis will only make this worse, with a knock-on impact on our emergency services. London’s NHS is working with partners including the Metropolitan Police to improve response times and joint approaches to mental health-related call outs. However, this comes at a time when crucial public services, including mental health, have had...
Diane Abbott: ...a few examples. It is Government Ministers who were responsible for attempting to prorogue Parliament in breach of the law. It is Government Ministers who have introduced a disgraceful refugee policy that is almost certainly in breach of international law on the rights of refugees. At the same time, Ministers are embarked on a course that seems to lead to abrogating an international treaty...
Sadiq Khan: My London Plan requires green and open spaces to be protected and enhanced. Policy G3 sets out criteria for the assessment of proposals on Metropolitan Open Land, a designation that applies to Tooting Common. Boroughs, as the Local Planning Authority, are required to consider these policies in their determination of planning applications. Unless a proposal meets the thresholds for referral to...
Lord Mendelsohn: ...part of an important negotiation being led by the United States for a new treaty. There are many voices pressing caution. I draw particular attention to an article in March’s edition of Foreign Policy by Hussein Agha, one of the most astute and brilliant commentators on the region and an active and widely respected peace negotiator. His article is a brutal assessment of where we could be...
Baroness Thornton: ...effect, and possibly adverse impacts, on victims of crime, particularly of crimes of violence against women and girls and similar offences against men. That seems contrary to the Government’s policy of ending violence against women and girls—the latest strategy is very welcome —and having a justice system that works for victims. What the Government propose at present seems to remove...
Marsha de Cordova: ...and levelling up this country, they would seek to give real power to communities. There is evidence across all areas that levelling up is not happening, as shown if we look at the Government’s policies on Brexit, industrial strategy, employment, housing, education and equality. As for the Brexit freedoms Bill, research and many conversations with my constituents show that Brexit has...
Elizabeth Truss: The hon. Lady is right: this abhorrent policy is being used to terrorise women and children. It is being used to destroy communities and destroy their spirit. It is a deliberate act. We know that; it is what the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe report on what is happening in Ukraine shows. First, we are working to collect the evidence through a number of bodies, including...
Ronnie Cowan: ...reduce public injecting and drug-related litter. They can also provide pathways to treatment and healthcare facilities. The Government’s strategy also fails to address the harms of current drug policy and drug law enforcement, including that police stop and search is racially disparate. Drug laws are imposed most harshly against ethnic minority communities, despite prevalence rates...
Gavin Newlands: ...cheaper bus fares for young people. He might be interested to know that as of the start of this year people under the age of 22 can travel for free on buses in Scotland, which is an excellent new policy, not least because I have two daughters who can take advantage of that scheme and not have to be ferried around by mum and dad so much. I do not plan to highlight too much more of the hon....
Meg Hillier: ...that can be done. Small specialist organisations that work with specific groups—in this case, black women—often find it hard to compete for the contracts that are let by local authorities, the Metropolitan police or the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, due to the funding cuts we have seen in local authorities over many years and the knock-on effect on the services those...
.... “With permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a Statement on the publication of the report of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services into the Metropolitan Police’s counter-corruption arrangements. In June last year, the Home Secretary came to the House to report on the findings of the Daniel Morgan independent panel. The panel’s...
Kit Malthouse: With permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the publication of the report of Her Majesty’s inspectorate of constabulary and fire and rescue services into the Metropolitan police’s counter-corruption arrangements. In June last year, the Home Secretary came to the House to report on the findings of the Daniel Morgan independent panel. The panel’s report...
