Speeches by Ribeiro-Addy.

“What is your view of the Government’s planned policing reforms, including the new national standards for policing and the set of national strategic policing priorities, which have been developed by the Home Office? Do you see any challenges and opportunities that those will create for the inspectorate?”

“Going back to the reforms and reduction in police forces, your predecessor, Sir Andy Cooke, raised concerns about the integration of IT systems if the number of police forces in England and Wales were to be reduced overall. Can you foresee any other problems coming from this?”

“And there is no worry that the power to do this politicises the role of chief constable?”

“So there is no concern that the reforms could overlap with your work.”

“What impact do you expect the reduction in police forces to have on the inspectorate’s overall inspection regime? Would you be looking to do fewer, more in-depth inspections of the larger forces, or would you also be inspecting the proposed local policing areas that sit within those forces?”

“The hon. Member will know that, with the extreme heat and reduced rainfall, a lot of water companies are introducing hosepipe bans to mitigate the risk of drought. Does he agree that that seems a bit redundant, given that artificial intelligence data centres use between 11 million and 19 million litres of water a day? …”

“What do you think about the plans to give the Home Secretary new powers to sack chief constables who do not perform? Do you think that any such decision should be subject to consultation with the inspectorate, as a check on the Home Secretary’s power?”

“This Bill seems inspired by the belief that hostility towards asylum seekers will deter them, whereas hostility towards migrants will not deter those we need economically, but we cannot have it both ways. There is a deeper problem with the Bill’s logic on citizenship provisions. The only way to make this approach work …”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. First, I will acknowledge that although I disagree with the premise of this petition, I recognise the strength of feeling among the hundreds of thousands of people who signed it. However, I cannot support calls for offshore detention or processing centres, an…”

“Unfortunately, race has always been used synonymously with immigration in public discourse, and I know that has certainly been displayed in the racist violence against people who are lawfully meant to be in the UK or against black British citizens. I note that Neil Basu, the former police national lead for counter-terr…”

“I want to get into some questions about your roles and structures, but before I do, I want to address the scale of the issue. According to the NISRA’s own data, net migration to Northern Ireland was about 5,800 people in the year up to mid-2024. Of everyone who came to live there, 34% came for work, 35% came to join fa…”

“Does anybody else on the panel want to comment on whether or not there is a particular illegal migration crisis?”

“Can you briefly summarise what your respective roles were in addressing irregular migration in Northern Ireland?”

“In presenting some of the data that I have to yourselves and listening to your response, it seems like there is not a lot of data on the scale of the crisis. I am unsure about how you share data between enforcement bodies to tackle irregular migration if there is not that much data to begin with. Can you outline what t…”

“That’s easy enough. Duncan, what role specifically does border security command play in addressing abuse of the CTA? Does the CTA form part of the command’s holistic strategy to secure UK borders?”

“How do you all work together? How do you co-ordinate effectively?”

“I know that we do not have a verified estimate of the undocumented population in Northern Ireland—presumably because it is so small, just like the number of migrants in Northern Ireland overall—but we do have some data for enforcement activity. I think you had 1,284 arrests, over 900 of which were from Operation Gull. …”

“I thank my hon. Friend and constituency neighbour the Member for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green (Florence Eshalomi) for securing this important debate. Leasehold has become the ultimate con. Given the sheer quantity of leaseholder issues and complaints about the behaviour of property managing agents that my team and I c…”

“I want to ask about some of the policing strategies that have been put in place to combat this, so the impact, let’s say, of the disrupting county lines policing strategy and the intensification weeks and neighbourhood policing. How have those had an impact, or have they had an impact?”

“I want to find out a bit more about how the county lines operation has changed over the last five years. I know you began touching on that already. In particular, have there been any changes in trends about where the young people are being caught up, whether from a particular area or average age?”