Public Disorder Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Public Disorder

Kevin Barron Excerpts
Thursday 11th August 2011

(13 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton Portrait The Prime Minister
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My hon. Friend makes an important point. A lot of those rumours were circulating. Although the use of social media helped gangs to do bad things, it also helped the law-abiding to know what was happening and how to react and stop it.

Kevin Barron Portrait Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley) (Lab)
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Violence against others and theft should clearly be dealt with by the criminal law, but does the Prime Minister accept that removing people from social housing for unacceptable behaviour and putting them in social housing in other communities, taking that unacceptable behaviour with them, does not solve the problem?

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton Portrait The Prime Minister
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It can be part of solving the problem; it says to people in social housing, “If you misbehave, you can be thrown out of your house.”