Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Chi Onwurah Excerpts
Monday 2nd June 2025

(4 days ago)

Commons Chamber
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Angela Eagle Portrait Dame Angela Eagle
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To tackle illegal migration, we must work across borders in co-operation with other jurisdictions. Were we to leave the European convention on human rights, we could not work with those that sign up to it.

Chi Onwurah Portrait Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West) (Lab)
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T5. On Saturday, residents in Westerhope told me how nuisance vehicles, illegal and modified e-bikes, off-road bikes and speeding cars are making their lives an absolute misery, and I have had similar complaints from residents in Slatyford and Newbiggin. The chief constable of Northumbria tells me that his force has already tripled the number of vehicles impounded over the past few years, so it is keen to enforce the laws, such as they are. Will the Minister set out how her new proposals will make life better for residents in Newcastle?

Diana Johnson Portrait The Minister for Policing and Crime Prevention (Dame Diana Johnson)
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I welcome what my hon. Friend has said; this is a problem up and down the land. At the moment, police forces are doing their best, but the Crime and Policing Bill will allow them to seize vehicles that are being used in an antisocial way, without having to give any warnings, and then to destroy them. That is the way forward, but I pay tribute to the work that is already ongoing with police forces.