(3 days, 13 hours ago)
Commons ChamberI assure my hon. Friend and colleagues across the House that we are closing hotels, not opening them.
My constituents hate seeing organised shoplifting taking place with apparent impunity. Norfolk police recognises this and has identified suspects in more than a third of all cases, but what is the point when the Government’s assumption is that any sentence shorter than 12 months will automatically be suspended? What are the Government going to do about it?
(6 months, 3 weeks ago)
Commons ChamberI am afraid that panto season is starting early, Madam Deputy Speaker.
We want to bring forward a whole set of data on this issue that helps people get a picture of what is going on—I am not sure whether the hon. Member for Broadland and Fakenham (Jerome Mayhew) heard me say that, but the hon. Member for Stockton West certainly did. I have made that commitment from this Dispatch Box, and that is what we will do.