Speeches by Morden.

“6. What steps her Department is taking to help tackle crime in city centres.”

“I was pleased to see Newport city council announce last week £300,000 for new CCTV in our city centre, and I commend the work of trading standards, whose efforts have seized almost £2 million of illegal cigarettes and vapes. While trading standards and the police are working really hard to tackle this issue, the time-l…”

“Welcome to Talitha, and congratulations on your new job, Minister. We recently heard evidence from Ofcom and, in the three days you have had to look at things, we wondered whether you were satisfied with their interpretation of their powers under the Online Safety Act, and what impact you thought it would have on platf…”

“Do you think Ofcom will have the resources to do this properly, given the huge disparity between the resources of the huge tech companies and Ofcom itself?”

“Like others, I very much appreciate the support being given today and the wider work being done on energy prices, procurement and more. By complete contrast, the Conservative party had no steel strategy, as my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough (Gill Furniss) said, and had a woeful record …”

“After visiting businesses in Newport East this summer, I know that there is a high demand for companies—including Thames Valley Construction, which I visited—to train more construction workers locally, and I was pleased to see the Government make the announcement in the summer on training 40,000 more people. Can Minist…”

“On Friday, the UN reported that 800 people had been killed near aid sites in Gaza over the past six weeks. Over the weekend, yet again, 100 people died just seeking food and water. I want to ask the Foreign Secretary a question he has been asked twice before. This month he told the Foreign Affairs Committee that he wou…”

“Patrícia, would you like to comment on that?”

“May I ask Claire that question? Then, Patrícia, I would be grateful if you would comment on what they have said.”

“I have heard all that; however, when we did a survey of MPs, it was clear by quite a long way that they thought that they had more abuse on X and Facebook than on other social media such as Instagram, for instance. Of the people who responded to the survey, 80% had experienced abuse or threatening behaviour on X, and 7…”

“He’s a lawyer!”

“But there are ways—each case is treated differently, obviously.”

“Or kind of having known that you have seen what has been said about you—I think that is what I am trying to say.”

“You covered some of this in Clive’s question earlier on, but we were talking about how much effort is involved for MPs and their staff in pursuing prosecution. Are there any requirements, such as “active victim”, or any others, that you think could possibly be lifted to make it a less arduous process in these cases?”

“He’s a lawyer!”

“We would be very grateful if you could write to the Committee with an idea of how you think a slightly more centralised process would work; that would be really helpful for us. Do you think that there is scope for combining elections policing with Operation Bridger? Chief Constable Stephens: It is important to recognis…”

“We would be very grateful if you could write to the Committee with an idea of how you think a slightly more centralised process would work; that would be really helpful for us. Do you think that there is scope for combining elections policing with Operation Bridger? Chief Constable Stephens: It is important to recognis…”

“Thank you for coming. My first question is to you, Chief Constable—you get the joy of answering first. For our first report, we heard lots of evidence, came to the conclusion that there was an inconsistency in the way that the abuse of MPs was dealt with by different police forces, and called for a centralisation of th…”

“Or kind of having known that you have seen what has been said about you—I think that is what I am trying to say.”

“You covered some of this in Clive’s question earlier on, but we were talking about how much effort is involved for MPs and their staff in pursuing prosecution. Are there any requirements, such as “active victim”, or any others, that you think could possibly be lifted to make it a less arduous process in these cases?”