Baroness Thornton: ...to the rules in place for the gender pay gap, to apply to all large employers. Commenting on the Government’s decision not to adopt mandatory reporting at this stage, Ben Willmott, head of public policy at the CIPD, said: “The Government has missed an opportunity to tackle racial discrimination and inequality in the workplace by failing to introduce mandatory ethnicity pay reporting....
Sarah Jones: ...Review published last week, compiled by the extremely highly regarded Jim Gamble, into the case of Child Q was deeply disturbing. The details of the strip-search of a black schoolgirl by the Metropolitan police at a Hackney secondary school in 2020 have horrified us all in a society where we police by consent. The review concluded that the search was unjustified and that racism was likely...
Lord Randall of Uxbridge: ...to hear these words and it may give them some reassurance before we go further. I want to give an overview of the cross-compliance scheme, which currently sits under the EU common agricultural policy. Cross compliance is a system linking CAP payments to regulatory compliance, because the major vehicle for enforcement of standards on farms and its application of payment deduction is widely...
Sadiq Khan: As I said in my response to 2021/4378, work is underway with the Metropolitan Police to enable the sharing of data from the new Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) cameras, in compliance with data protection legislation and where this would be necessary and proportionate. Road user charging schemes such as the ULEZ, Low Emission Zone and the Congestion Charge are enforced using a network of...
Jess Phillips: ...with the shadow Justice Minister, my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham West and Penge (Ellie Reeves), I spend a huge amount of time with victims and setting out what we think the Labour party policy needs to be, and I endorse absolutely everything that she said. There are a number of things that I feel the Government are not currently addressing and on which there does not seem to be...
Sarah Jones: ...of the police, such as having specialist rape and sexual assault units in each police force, so that the force is more expert. We need to look at the number of women in policing. Only a third of Metropolitan police officers are women, and that changes the culture. As we know, and as hon. Members have said today, having more women in Parliament means that we have better debates, better...
Duncan Baker: ...already filling tables. A collection from Blakeney, a beautiful village in North Norfolk, is driving to Lviv today, and a van is going from Cley on Saturday. The point is that I do not represent a metropolitan constituency, with a large population in a city centre; these are small rural villages, where there is an outpouring of people who want to lend their support. Mr Deputy Speaker, you...
Munira Wilson: ...are already in public ownership, can and should be sold for a good return to the public purse while also being repurposed for important community uses and much-needed affordable housing. National policy legislation and guidance are apparently forcing the hand of London’s Deputy Mayor for Policing to sell for best value, interpreted as the best offer available on the open market. I very...
Sadiq Khan: As Mayor I have called for the Government to review my Vision Zero Action Plan report developed by City Hall, Transport for London and the Metropolitan Police Service to ensure that the health and wellbeing of Londoners is at the heart of how we think about road safety in London. My Vision Zero Action Plan proposes the use of mobile evidential breath testing equipment for roadside testing and...
Neil Garratt: ...situation where legitimate political disagreement became a police matter, and where people felt coerced by the police not to express perfectly legal, legitimate political views. How does the Metropolitan Police’s approach to NCHIs balance the competing policy objectives of tackling hate crime and protecting the Article 10 right to free speech?
Caroline Russell: What is your response as Police and Crime Commissioner for London about the Good Law Project’s view that the policy of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) not to retrospectively investigate breaches is likely to be unlawful, a failure to publish the policy is likely to be unlawful, and a decision not to investigate based on an absence of evidence is also arguably unlawful? What...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: ...and reasonable points of political debate. The hon. Lady then came on to issues concerning the police, which are deeply concerning and there was an urgent question on this yesterday. We expect the Metropolitan police and the Mayor of London to implement the recommendations of the Independent Office for Police Conduct report as soon as is practically possible. What came out over the past...
Lord Reay: ...of water fluoridation throughout the UK. In case the House should decide that they remain, I will also speak to Amendments 259B and 259D in my name, which would make the implementation of the policy conditional on an environmental impact assessment and the analysis of recent US Government-funded, peer-reviewed studies. My noble friend Lady McIntosh apologises for not being present in the...
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...
Boris Johnson: ...well as some other Whitehall Departments that may have constituted potential breaches of the covid regulations. That process has, quite properly, involved sharing information continuously with the Metropolitan police, so I welcome the Met’s decision to conduct its own investigation because I believe that will help to give the public the clarity they need and help to draw a line under...
Baroness Meacher: ...the impact of coercion in relationships experienced by many young women drawn into the criminal justice system or at risk of criminal exploitation. Ministers need to take account of a study by Metropolitan University and JENGbA which examined 109 joint enterprise cases involving women and girls, the majority of whom had convictions for serious violent offences. The study found that none of...
the Earl of Courtown: .... I will need to clarify that point. The noble Lord, Lord Shipley, was basically saying that the regulations were a regressive change. This amendment to the regulations simply maintains the current policy intent: to allow those entitled to personal independence payments or disability living allowance who are already assessed as having limited capability for work to take up or continue in...
Lord Paddick: ..., for example? What evidence is there from other parts of the world? Did the Minister see, for example, the documentary authored by the noble Lord, Lord Hogan-Howe, the former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, whom the Government often rely upon to support their position, where his conclusion from looking at how such a policy operates in the United States called for a feasibility...
Viscount Trenchard: ...for that outcome. Therefore, I believe it might take some time before stage 2 is eventually implemented. With respect to the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, with many of whose opinions on other important policies I entirely agree, if he really thinks that the reputation of this House would be improved if it were comprised entirely of appointed Peers, I believe he is plain wrong. The removal,...
Nichola Mallon: ...train station that will provide cleaner, greener, sustainable transport for locals. I am aware of requests for better street lighting along Station Road. While the requests do not meet current policy, we are, within the blue-green fund, doing what we can on the issue. I am conscious that there is a case to be made. I recognise, however, the point that Mr Butler made. The park-and-ride...
