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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 13 Jul 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Chloe Smith (CON - Norwich North) Government with employers and partners to address inequalities relating to the labour market. - Speech Link
2: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) We have been able to increase universal credit by £1,000, and from tomorrow we are putting £326 into - Speech Link
3: Sam Tarry (LAB - Ilford South) Will the Prime Minister commit to a greater allocation of policing funding targeted on specialist knife - Speech Link
4: Boris Johnson (CON - Uxbridge and South Ruislip) Knife crime is a scourge, and I believe there are many different solutions, but one of them unquestionably - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
National Security Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Thu 07 Jul 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Scott Mann (CON - North Cornwall) take a knife to whichever problems they would like.The Bill does not do certain things that other countries - Speech Link
2: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) This might sound strange for a think-tanker to say, but we need to increase cyber-offensive activity - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (CON - East Hampshire) It cannot be used to further a crime—because of the so-called “crime-fraud exception” or the “iniquity - Speech Link
4: Sally-Ann Hart (CON - Hastings and Rye) The provisions relating to that include the ability to delay access to a solicitor and delay notifying - Speech Link
5: Holly Lynch (LAB - Halifax) Act 2007 relating to encouraging or assisting the commission of a crime—specifically, schedule 4, which - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House (day 2) - Mon 04 Jul 2022
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) The Government must act to deal with the hurt that victims have been caused, not increase that hurt in - Speech Link
2: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) sue the perpetrator of their crime. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Farry (Alliance - North Down) the six months, nine months or a year before the knife falls and said that people can get on with it - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime, Reoffending and Rehabilitation - Thu 30 Jun 2022
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (CB - Life peer) Knife crime has increased in our society, but for every such offence there are 15 violent crimes in which - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) Last year it was raised from £46 to £76—the first increase in 26 years. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (LAB - Life peer) I return to community sentences. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellamy (CON - Life peer) increase the number of prison officers. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Order Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Thu 16 Jun 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) are mirroring laws that currently exist for serious violence and knife crime.”He went on to say that - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) Rightly, it is designed to be used to prevent the most serious crimeknife crime, or drug dealing—and - Speech Link
3: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) Just because most victims of knife crime murders happen to be young black men in London, that does not - Speech Link
4: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) knife crime, terrorism, serious organised crime or other situations in which people are stopped and - Speech Link
5: Marco Longhi (CON - Dudley North) die because of knife crime do so as a result of the knife they have brought themselves. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Public Order Bill
2nd reading - Mon 23 May 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, relating to proposed Government amendments to Part 3 of - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (LAB - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) increase prosecution rates or to cut crime. - Speech Link
3: Yvette Cooper (LAB - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) Rightly, they are designed to be used to prevent the most serious crimeknife crime and drug dealing—and - Speech Link
4: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) at its work on knife crime. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Thu 12 May 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Dholakia (LDEM - Life peer) These short sentences do little to reduce crime. - Speech Link
2: Lord Farmer (CON - Life peer) Numbers of victims will continue to increase and streets will not be safer unless crime is prevented, - Speech Link
3: Baroness Henig (LAB - Life peer) , and in particular to those relating to private security. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Preventing Crime and Delivering Justice - Wed 11 May 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) the police, but to have tougher sentences for the worst offenders and to modernise the criminal justice - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) to tackle serious violence and knife crime. - Speech Link
3: Kit Malthouse (CON - North West Hampshire) by the Office for National Statistics, violence was down 8%, knife crime was down 4%, theft was down - Speech Link
4: Jamie Stone (LDEM - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) Some of the definitions involved, such as those relating to freedom of speech, are so fundamental that - Speech Link
5: Steve Reed (LAB - Croydon North) Custodial sentences for knife offenders have fallen to the lowest level for seven years. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Debate on the Address - Tue 10 May 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) They would strengthen protection for victims of crime and antisocial behaviour and increase the number - Speech Link
2: Paul Girvan (DUP - South Antrim) I want to mention the technology relating to passive housing. - Speech Link
3: Matt Western (LAB - Warwick and Leamington) It was clear what was going to happen on our streets—hence the rise in knife crime in constituencies - Speech Link
4: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) to face justice, and the Government were forced to exclude fraud from their crime statistics to try - Speech Link
5: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) should because jails are so overcrowded, or giving people shorter sentences, there are a whole variety - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Drug Crime - Wed 20 Apr 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) During the lockdowns, partners identified a big increase in the use of social media to groom children - Speech Link
2: Holly Lynch (LAB - Halifax) neighbourhood policing teams who primarily do the legwork on intelligence gathering and executing warrants relating - Speech Link
3: Ronnie Cowan (SNP - Inverclyde) a criminal record—even for those who receive non-custodial sentences, including formal cautions—can - Speech Link
4: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) If a young boy loses his life to knife crime, there will be a homicide review to learn the lessons. - Speech Link