Speeches by Butler.

“I beg to move, That this House has considered the matter of mobile phone theft. I thank the Backbench Business Committee for ensuring that we could have this important debate today. I know that there are many MPs who would have loved to be here today and who have suffered mobile phone thefts. Ten years ago my bag was s…”

“I thank the hon. Member for that important intervention; he is absolutely right. A mobile phone is not just for making a phone call anymore; it is an integral part of most people’s lives. It holds data on it, as well as pictures that its owner will never be able to take again. It holds voicemails from loved ones. My fr…”

“I was in the middle of writing, “We all know what the issues and problems are,” and then the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Weald of Kent (Katie Lam), started speaking. I thank the hon. Member for Dewsbury and Batley (Iqbal Mohamed) for his contribution, including his mention of universal credit. We have started …”

“I am impressed that my right hon. Friend has the all the Cabinet’s phone numbers. He is absolutely right; the knock-on effect of this crime is huge. Whether it is the house insurance, the personal stuff or the global crime syndicate, it is huge. I watched a documentary by Dave Fishwick, known through “Bank of Dave”. He…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for that important intervention. That is the thing: until we ensure that our streets are safe, we must ensure that people are acutely aware of what is happening. I find myself sometimes tapping people on the shoulder and saying, “Excuse me, can you move your phone from your back pocket? You might…”

“Order. I would also like to give Brian Leishman two minutes to wind up.”

“Order. I remind hon. Members that they should bob if they wish to speak.”

“I will call Clive Jones to move the motion and then call the Minister to respond. I remind other Members—one Member—that they may make a speech only with prior permission from the Member in charge of the debate and the Minister. There will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up, as is the convention …”

“For a two-minute wind-up, I call Mike Wood.”

“I remind Members that they should bob if they would like to contribute to the debate. Informally, speech times should be around four minutes.”

“Thank you very much. Jas Athwal and Gurinder Singh Josan made representations.”

“Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Committee. Our high streets are really important to our health and wellbeing. You should be able to pop down to the high street, get something to eat and do some shopping, but we are finding an overwhelming number of gambling establishments. In Brent, we have 10 within 10 minutes’ walk.…”

“The one on the north circular?”

“But we could always have start-up businesses and pop-up businesses on the high street. It is about how we make our high streets like they used to be, rather than just having them full of gambling shops that fuel addiction, make people poorer and create problems not only on the street but in the home. We saw how importa…”

“I think it comes under DCMS. We are looking at where we can make a quick change in legislation and change the Gambling Act or the new planning Bill that is coming through. We want to have the debate, and then we want the Government to think about where they can make this change quickly. It is a hangover from 2005, when…”

“I would like to have a change in legislation. That is the ultimate end game here. I have written to the Minister, and the Minister has actually come to Brent to have a look at the short walk to the number of gambling establishments—we have a huge one that is going to be open soon. Ultimately, I would like to see a chan…”

“It is a mixture of both. The betting shops are more closely regulated, but you have the fixed-odds betting terminals, for instance, which the Government did actually change from the 80:20 rule. They wanted to change that so that more of the most expensive ones could be put in, where you just see people putting money in…”

“It would be DCMS.”

“I call Liz Saville Roberts.”

“I am sorry to interrupt such a magnificent speech. The first Pride march in London was in 1972, and I have met many people who were on that first Pride march who thought that they would never need to march again, but they still need to march now. Does my hon. Friend feel sorry that Pride organisations have now said tha…”