Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Ruth Cadbury Excerpts
Monday 17th January 2022

(2 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kit Malthouse Portrait The Minister for Crime and Policing (Kit Malthouse)
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Like my hon. Friend, I have seen a rise in that kind of offence in my constituency. As the crops are cut and those animals become more apparent, it obviously becomes more of a problem. As I said earlier, I hope that he will see that in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which I hope the whole House will support, we are introducing a range of offences to deal with that crime which, for the first time, will attract a prison sentence of up to six months.

Ruth Cadbury Portrait Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth) (Lab)
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T2. To return to the Home Secretary’s answers to my right hon. Friend the shadow Home Secretary, in September 2020, she said that she would “call the police” if she saw her neighbours having a party in their garden. Is she confident that the Chancellor was aware of that advice?