Speeches by Mullane.

“If that behaviour comes out, the £65 million will not be enough, will it? And you will need more time.”

“How confident are the three of you that when the final report is written, it will be implemented by the Home Office?”

“How confident are you in the Met’s and other police forces’ capacity to tackle antisemitism?”

“Dave Rich, have you been able to use the £10 million in additional funding effectively, and is it enough?”

“I suppose that this is a difficult question, but what conditions do you see that would lead to the level of security being reduced?”

“On the training, have you raised that with the police? You make a good point. My local police team went and did some work when something terrible had happened as well. You wonder: are they trained and is it the right response? I mean that in a positive way.”

“You heard the previous panel. Why do you think antisemitism has risen to the levels it has?”

“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…”

“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…”

“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?”

“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…”

“Sarah, do you want to add anything?”

“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?”

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

“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.”