Speeches by Mullane.

“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?”

“Following on from what my colleague said, I represent an outer London borough, and the shoplifting is prolific in my seat. I am very pleased that the BCU borough commander has really stepped up and done a lot of work. I asked the Home Secretary about this, and I think we ran out of time. Neighbourhood policing means ev…”

“I am hearing in your responses a theme of fairness to the country, and that it is an economic argument. The Government have said that settlement should be earned on the basis of what you contribute to public life. That sense of fairness would sit well with our constituents, but how is the contribution of adult social c…”

“My constituents would see the social care workers looking after people with dementia and autism—contributing, as you say—and that ties them into sponsored visas. I mentioned this in a previous session. One of the trade unions brought up the workers. There is still some very bad practice with sponsored visas in social c…”

“You mentioned engagement with the Department of Health on the impact of the changes. Will your preference be to increase the pay and conditions or to recruit from overseas? What way do you see this going? Whichever way you go there will be shortages, won’t there?”

“The number of neighbourhood policing roles has gone up 2,383 and the overall police workforce has fallen by 2,050 in the 12 months to September 2025. Are you happy with how the police workforce has changed in the year up to September 2025?”

“I think everybody sitting here is very supportive of neighbourhood policing—who wouldn’t be? My local police force is the Met, so you would have a named officer, but what is not picked up at all—I did notice a mention of it in the White Paper—is abstractions. The low-level crime—shoplifting and that kind of thing—is wh…”

“Parents are on the path and they have turned 18.”

“Lastly, Chrisann, would retaining the current five-year private life path for children and young people be sufficient for you to address your concerns?”

“How could the Government’s mandatory minimum criteria be applied to young people? What are your thoughts? They need to qualify for settlement in their own right.”

“Anna, what would the consequences be for children whose parents are on a longer route to settlement, say 20 or 30 years, than they are?”

“Anna, could these proposals lead to more children and young people moving on to the five-year private life route?”

“Chrisann, following on from what you have said, generally speaking, people come to come to the UK for a better life often for their families or they have a good job or something like that. Following on from what Peter said, the public do not have a huge awareness of this at all in regard to children as well. Do you agr…”

“It is an honour to be here under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Derby South (Baggy Shanker) for securing this debate. Many of my constituents are in regular contact with me about safety in their town centres and local high streets. If criminals are allowed to prevail, law abiding resi…”