Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Esther McVey Excerpts
Monday 2nd June 2025

(4 days ago)

Commons Chamber
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Angela Eagle Portrait Dame Angela Eagle
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There is an amendment to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill that extends the requirement to check illegal working to the gig economy, the zero-hours economy and all those areas that have non-traditional employer-employee relationships. I look forward to being able to operationalise that when the Bill becomes law.

Esther McVey Portrait Esther McVey (Tatton) (Con)
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Regarding non-crime hate incidents and the amount of police time taken to investigate them, does the Minister agree that the clue is in the name? They are “non-crime”. Does she also agree that already stretched police should focus their efforts on tackling real crime, rather than being the virtue-signalling thought police?

Diana Johnson Portrait Dame Diana Johnson
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The Home Secretary has been very clear about the priorities that police forces should actually focus on. As agreed with the Home Secretary, the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College of Policing are conducting a review of non-crime hate incidents. We will update Parliament in due course on the findings of that review and any changes that may be required to the code of practice introduced by the shadow Home Secretary in March 2023.