Speeches by Mullane.

“I know what you are going to say, but I am going to ask anyway. We are just wondering what the key issues are in your end-to-end review of Prevent, Lord Anderson, and if you can tell us anything about what you would like to see happen next?”

“There are now 33 primary and secondary ARPs in the borough, compared with just 14 a decade ago. Over that period, the number of children who rely on the services has increased from around 180 to 450. Despite the creation of 230 specialist places over a four-year period, with 90 more planned by September this year, ther…”

“I have secured this Adjournment debate to discuss the provision of special educational needs and disabilities in the London borough of Barking and Dagenham, an area that I am honoured to partially represent alongside my hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Nesil Caliskan). The backdrop to this debate is multifaceted, bu…”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman. My seat covers two councils, and I always want the best outcome for my constituents. I agree with him and would be happy to do that. Councils are on the frontline of service delivery in Britain and although this debate is not about broader service funding, I must take this opportunity to tha…”

“The hon. Gentleman makes some very good points. The Minister was discussing that issue this afternoon and tomorrow my hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Nesil Caliskan) will have a debate on that very point. Alongside that, the growing pressures in the health system and the shortages of educational psychologists, spee…”

“I thank the hon. Gentleman for his points. That is happening against a backdrop of 14 years with no investment for councils and they are really struggling. On behalf of the local authority, I urge the Department for Education to invest more in the development of truly inclusive schools, well-funded and resourced, so th…”

“Would you like to? Caroline O’Connor: We have no contractual authority to hold people to task. The Home Office has access to our computer systems and a large analytical team that can generate reports and see patterns of behaviour. If we are concerned because we see a vast number of issues in a certain area or certain t…”

“You quoted 337 staff on your phone lines. I get that you are speaking to very vulnerable people in very difficult situations, who often might be in hotels and they are ringing in. You are not going to be able to speed through that call. However, surely if there is that many staff and, for instance, Clearsprings, whethe…”

“Within the model that you have set up you are not responsible for pursuing or monitoring issues raised with you. Do you think there should be an advice and issue reporting service separate to you?”

“Do you not think that them marking their own homework and self-reporting is not ideal? Caroline O’Connor: That is why they took issue reporting away from the accommodation providers. They used to have call centres and handle their own initial reporting. It was one of the issues when the contract was let that the volume…”

“Do you think you should?”

“Would you say that the Home Office’s asylum team is responsive? When you have those conversations, where does that lead? Your organisation cannot actually deal with that, but you must be important to the Home Office, so if you come along and say, “Clearsprings is not performing well,” the Home Office would say what? Ho…”

“We had the accommodation providers come in. I do not know whether you saw it. Clearsprings was highlighted as not performing well in certain aspects. How do you think it responds to you? When you are looking back at your data, if there is a big swell of Clearsprings accommodation complaints, what do you do about that?”

“On the asylum accommodation providers, when serious issues are raised on safeguarding or urgent requests for assistance, how often do you hear that that has not been resolved and urgent assistance is not being responded to? Bearing in mind you were saying the calls are recorded, you would be able to spot a pattern, wou…”

“Q7. Will the Prime Minister join me in condemning decisions taken by the Transport Minister of the previous Government, who turned their back on promises to deliver a new train station at Beam Park, which derailed growth in my constituency of Dagenham and Rainham? Will he also agree that the Grampian condition on the B…”

“Home Secretary, you mentioned in a previous meeting with us the increases in neighbourhood policing teams, which we all welcome, but the Metropolitan police have indicated that their financial settlement will mean, in their terms, officer and staff cuts. What forecast have you made of how this will it happen?”

“That is good news, but how will you ensure that the neighbourhood policing guarantee does not lead to performance management problems and problems with abstractions?”

“Home Secretary, one of the Government’s priorities—and rightly so—is to halve violence against women and girls. In the short term, would you view higher reporting rates of violence against women and girls as a sign of things not going so well, or do you see it in a different way?”

“Bearing in mind it has been said that some accommodation is not habitable and not fit for purpose, who are you comparing yourselves with when you are saying that?”

“Claudia made a point earlier about there being no light bulb and trying to fix that, or going to get a microwave. That is one thing, but to turn up somewhere and it is not habitable and fit for purpose is much more serious. I am back to the question again: why Mears?”