Public Order Debate

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Department: Home Office
Monday 8th June 2020

(4 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I congratulate her constabulary for the work that it has done, and the chief constable, who I have spoken to recently. Those acts of violence are not acceptable and it is right that those people face the full force of the law.

Kirsty Blackman Portrait Kirsty Blackman (Aberdeen North) (SNP) [V]
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No recourse to public funds is a policy that is in place at the Home Office that disproportionately affects my black constituents, as is the refusal rate of visitor visas. Will the Home Secretary commit to looking at these structurally racist policies within the Home Office, and to reforming them so that they do not disproportionately affect my black constituents?

Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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I refer the hon. Lady to my comments on this issue earlier on.