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Written Question
Crime: Rural Areas
Monday 22nd July 2019

Asked by: Kemi Badenoch (Conservative - North West Essex)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a national definition for rural crime.

Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs


Those living in rural areas can be the victim of the same crimes as those living in urban areas. However, we know that certain crimes, such as hare coursing and livestock offences, predominantly affect rural communities and that is why we supported the introduction of the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s Rural
Affairs Strategy, which was published last July.

Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 14 Feb 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Third sitting)

"Q I would like to bring us back to the issue of 28 days and the time-limited detention. I do not think anyone in this room wants to see unnecessarily long detention. You have all talked about how the system is not robust enough. If a case cannot be …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 14 Feb 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Third sitting)

"Q How much of the system not being robust enough do you think is due to the fact that there is such a high volume of immigration cases that need to be dealt with?

Steve Valdez-Symonds: I think the aspects go far and wide. You have made the immigration …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 14 Feb 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Third sitting)

"Q I am sorry to stop you, but I sense there is a lot passion.

Steve Valdez-Symonds: There is a lot of passion, yes...."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 14 Feb 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Third sitting)

"Q But it sounds like you are hectoring me. I would actually like you to take some of the emotion out of your answers and just stick to the facts, please.

Steve Valdez-Symonds: I am sorry to have given that impression. I certainly did not mean to do that. …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 14 Feb 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)

"Q Professor, as part of the3million, you have had frequent meetings with Government in terms of designing the settled status scheme. Can you tell us how effective you think the Government and the Home Office in particular were in engaging with stakeholders?

Professor Smismans: There has been engagement with …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 14 Feb 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)

"Q I hear what you are saying. In answer to previous questions, you talked about the dissatisfaction with the way the rights have transitioned. However, my understanding is that you were consulted extensively on the design of the settled status scheme.

Professor Smismans: The main flaw of the design …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 14 Feb 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fourth sitting)

"Q Thank you for that. You talked about the flaws of the system. There were bits that you had an input in designing or were extensively consulted on, so something in there must be good. Do you think there is anything in there that could be useful as the …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 12 Feb 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Second sitting)

"Q I want to pick up on the point just made by Rosa Crawford about UK citizens not wanting to do undesirable work and the need for migrants to do it. Do you think that sort of rhetoric is appropriate—that certain types of job are not good for UK …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 12 Feb 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Second sitting)

"Q I am going to stop you because you are not answering the question that I asked. I hear you on the discussion on labour market regulation, but that is something completely different. It was about the rhetoric which you just used, and perhaps you did not hear yourself …..."
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