Christopher Pincher: ...and more sensible, including the coalition Government of which the hon. Lady’s party was a part with the Conservatives. That Government contributed to the creation of the national planning policy framework some 10 years ago. It is England’s planning system, not the Government’s. However, the hon. Lady is right to raise the issue of the green belt. Our commitment to the green belt is...
Lord Paddick: ...Lord will very well know, in a coalition there have to be compromises on both sides. You cannot get through the things you think are absolutely important unless you give way on others. However, the policy of this party now is to oppose police and crime commissioners. I am very grateful to the noble Lord for allowing me to clarify the position of the party on that. It is very difficult for...
Caroline Russell: Who is the operational lead within the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) for Vision Zero, accountable for delivery across the service on your policy?
Holly Lynch: ...found. Despite what has been suggested, the commissioner has no plans to scale back stop and search, nor does he wish to abandon it entirely. Instead, he is thinking to create a more efficient policy. An effective policy will focus on taking more weapons off our streets, while we build in the community policing that became so difficult thanks to 10 years of austerity under this Government....
Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe: ...superintendent of police for Nottinghamshire, Sue Fish—a pioneer of this approach —and Stuart Henderson, North Yorkshire Police’s hate crime co-ordinator, who is currently delivering this policy. It was absolutely fascinating to learn how much of a difference can be made when the leadership of the force is committed to driving a policy forward. A number of other forces are doing the...
Kate Green: ...that we will not oppose the Bill, as amended and improved by the noble Lords, this evening. After a decade of Conservative damage to the sector, I desperately want the Government to get skills policy right. Labour believes in a high-skill economy that delivers the opportunity for workers to train and retrain, and to gain and sustain fulfilling, rewarding jobs in which they take great...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston: ...of how this unacceptable anomaly occurred. Nearly 20 years ago—lawyers here will be able to expand on this—pedicabs were defined in case law as stage carriages in Greater London under the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869, so do not fall under Transport for London’s licensing powers. This is not the case elsewhere in England and Wales, where they are defined as hackney carriages...
Lord Paddick: ...with amendments concerning the new violent crime prevention orders, as these, too, relate to police stop and search. As well as being a police officer rising to the most senior levels in the Metropolitan Police over the course of more than 30 years, I worked in Brixton in south London between 1980 and 1982, in the 1990s, and again in the early 2000s. I was a police sergeant during the...
Kit Malthouse: ...increased disruption on the rail networks through the British Transport Police’s dedicated County Lines Taskforce and directly fund police intensification in the top three exporting areas (the Metropolitan Police Service, Merseyside Police, and West Midlands Police). In addition, this year we have established a dedicated fund to help local police forces tackle the scourge of county...
Baroness Chakrabarti: ...Amendment 123 potentially risks breaching Articles 5 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights when read with the non-discrimination provision of Article 14, and for no obvious practical policy justification. Indeed, the requirement that the second officer must be a woman may at times be impractical and of no particular benefit. The protection from abuse in my simpler proposal comes...
Lord Paddick: My Lords, two weeks ago, Policy Exchange criticised the Metropolitan Police for its “unusual and unjustified strategy” of using stop and search in the face of the spike in knife crime. Compared with other metropolitan forces, such as Merseyside, it had the highest rate of stop and search and the lowest rate for apprehending drug dealers. Crucially, the Met also had the second lowest rate...
James Daly: ...person I represent in Bury. Three or four days ago it was announced that Greater Manchester will receive more than £1 billion of funding to transform our transport infrastructure. Today the metropolitan borough of Bury, which is made up of two parliamentary constituencies, was successful with two levelling-up fund applications. Both were for £20 million, one to transform Radcliffe, a...
Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...so ably by the noble Lord, Lord Young, and the noble Baroness, Lady Blake. This has been an example of how good this House is at certain things, with two noble Lords with huge experience in the policy area under consideration—and I understand, in the noble Baroness’s case, a deep understanding of the housing situation in one of our major metropolitan cities, Leeds. We should listen to...
Lord Paddick: ...trained for and practised in some police forces but not in others. To be clear about what I mean, the police driver knocks the criminal off the motorbike by colliding with it—a tactic used by the Metropolitan Police Service. This could result in a police driver, who was driving in exactly the same way as another police driver in a different police force, being prosecuted and potentially...
Lord Coaker: ...many other colleagues across this House. I am particularly moved to speak on the policing part of the Bill and to open this discussion, since, as some of your Lordships will know, my father was a Metropolitan Police officer for 30 years. He retired fairly recently—over 30 years ago—and is still alive at the age of 95, so it is a great privilege and an honour to speak. One or two...
Dean Russell: ...—more than I am expected to understand as an MP. I hope Members will bear with me as I share these points. As I understand it—I would appreciate confirmation of this—the national planning policy framework provides the framework against which local planning authorities draw up their local plans and determine applications for planning permission. Chapter 13 of the framework, the NPPF,...
Neil Coyle: ...North East mentioned. That philanthropic support means that there are many organisations and individuals out there who are aware of the deep disadvantage and even destitution that these Home Office policies cause, which the Bill could have addressed. There is also an issue about numbers, which perhaps the Minister can address when he speaks. It is unclear whether the Bill will require the...
Sadiq Khan: ...guidance. All schemes within LLDC’s boundary are required to demonstrate that they meet the LLDC Inclusive Design Standard. Inclusive Design is one of LLDC’s core Priority Themes, and the policy can be found here: Policies | Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park . In support of this, LLDC has a permanent Accessibility and Inclusivity Design Principal advising on all building projects...
Sadiq Khan: The majority of golf courses across London are either within the Green Belt (GB) or Metropolitan Open Land (MOL) which enjoys the same statutory protections. Golf courses that are not subject to these designations may be designated at a local level as an open space. The London Plan 2021 sets out clear policy objectives around increasing housing supply, but also requires boroughs to take...
Lord Liddle: ...degrees and beyond. The decline of the north has been with us for a century or more, following the horrors of the great depression of the 1930s. There was some success after the war, with the policies that Hugh Dalton introduced in wartime. But, since the 1980s, the regions—which now include large parts of the Midlands as well as the north—have had their economic heart torn out. In...
