Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Anna Firth Excerpts
Monday 5th September 2022

(2 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. I need to step in now. We have to get through some topical questions: at this rate, we will not get any further. Can we get back to what topicals are meant to be—short and quick, both asking and answering? Anna Firth is going to give us a good example.

Anna Firth Portrait Anna Firth (Southend West) (Con)
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T3. Under this Home Secretary since 2019, our police have removed over 50,000 knives and offensive weapons from our streets, keeping us all safe. But in Southend, knife crime, including this summer—

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. You have missed the point—[Interruption.] You have to sit down. It was meant to be a short question, not continuing. Who is answering?