Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Jack Dromey Excerpts
Monday 16th April 2018

(6 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ben Wallace Portrait Mr Wallace
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The biggest challenge in that space is often that when we make a referral to internet companies, the speed at which they take content down is not as rapid as it should be. We often identify it quickly. By working with a technology company, we have managed to produce a system that is 99.95% accurate. Let us see what the internet companies can do, but there is still more to be done.

Jack Dromey Portrait Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington) (Lab)
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Fear stalks many streets in Erdington with gang crime, gun crime, knife crime and attacks with machetes on the rise. The police are doing a magnificent job in very difficult circumstances, but does not the Policing Minister accept that cutting 2,000 police officers from West Midlands police, the hollowing out of neighbourhood policing and huge cuts to youth services are making it so much more difficult for them to keep the public safe?