Speeches by Mullane.

“I have one other question. The previous panel spoke about NHS trusts, and I just want to pick out the example of a Jewish person ending up in hospital and wanting to order a kosher meal, but someone having a Palestinian badge on. From my reading of the paperwork, the emphasis is that they should not really be wearing t…”

“Do the counterfeiters drive the demand for their goods, or has that always been there and since the pandemic they have just been able to target it?”

“Do you think there is a bigger market in the UK—or what has changed in the last five to 10 years?”

“I will start with a question to Phil Lewis. What would you say attracts organised crime groups to the counterfeit goods market in the United Kingdom—what is the draw?”

“My seat has prolific shoplifting. What are the police doing about organised shoplifting? When does shoplifting move from somebody trying to fund their own drug habit to become an organised crime set-up? Also, where the police locally are often abstracted, like in my seat where it is a big thing—we are out of London and…”

“Sarah, do you want to add anything?”

“Wendy, to what extent do you think shoplifting is linked to serious and organised crime?”

“I speak to a lot of the retailers where this is all going on in the retail part of the seat, and the reporting is very different and very varied. Shops are trying to make a profit; I understand that. The reporting is hard, really, because often you will go in and the police will arrive and such incidents are not report…”

“It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Harris. Although the Police Federation serves a purpose by taking an active role in raising issues affecting frontline officers, particularly on pay and workforce issues, I am not sure that it is still fit for purpose as the sole representative body of 140,000 polic…”

“I think that we would be hard pressed to find an MP or member of the public who does not support their local postie. We know their value, and they were considered the fourth emergency service during the pandemic. What a shame that we did not hold on to that mantle for them as, if we had, I suspect that the service woul…”

“Mr Tapp, will the Home Office be leading on the implementation of mandatory digital right to work checks?”

“How are you doing the consultation with the people who are not online, which is a good percentage of the population?”

“Earlier, we touched on people who are excluded online. Some 10% of our citizens do not have a passport. How are you going to support those people who might be excluded in the transition to the digital right to work? You do not want that to worsen.”

“We have had a series of presentations from different people as we have gone through this inquiry. They talked about the digital right to work checks. It seemed to concentrate on the larger employers, and not so much on the small and medium-sized employers. They gave a presentation in which they said that there would be…”

“With that in mind, when do you see it being mandatory for employers to conduct right to work checks digitally? What is the timing?”

“Would you say you were leading?”

“Do you still feel that local forces should deal with phone theft? We had a presentation in Parliament from the Met. It is organised crime that is behind it. Do you not think that should go to national level, or do you still think it should be local?”

“Could it be that you have focused on the west end because of the phone thefts, and that the other parts of London, including the outer London boroughs, do not quite have that presence?”

“What do you think you could do to increase people’s confidence in the Met? I speak to people in my constituency who have been victims of crime, and a lot of them do not bother to report it, so the percentages we are all quoting today might not be a true reflection of the amount of crime. If you have had your car stolen…”

“Forty-six per cent of Londoners feel that the Met does a good job. How successful do you think you have been in tackling neighbourhood crime? I am thinking of shoplifting, car thefts, tool thefts and so on. How do you think you have done?”