Speeches by Cooper.

“Police misconduct and vetting, yes—the wider work around the response to the Angiolini and Casey reviews includes putting a statutory underpinning to the vetting system so that we have national vetting standards. It includes stronger requirements around action to be taken, for example, suspensions in cases where police…”

“I know that the Committee is holding an inquiry on the disorder and will be looking into further into it. In any of these issues around the violent disorder, we must always start by thinking about the three little girls who lost their lives in Southport, and whose families will still be grieving, and all the families w…”

“I had meetings with Police and Crime Commissioners during that process. I think that they were also involved in the work, first by supporting the police chiefs in making sure that they had sufficient public order police ready. In early stages of the disorder, there were not enough public order police in the right locat…”

“You are right that it is very ambitious. I do not think any Governments, international or domestic, have tried to do this before. However everybody has talked about tackling violence against women and girls for a long time, but we have only had incremental change and what we need in many areas is almost a system overha…”

“The work is underway. As part of the strategy, we will set out which measures we are going to use. We have been doing some provisional work but we will confirm it as part of the strategy. The issue with the ONS will be timetables, not just to identify the measures but also the timetable to be able to conduct those meas…”

“That is what we are still working through at the moment. This will partly depend on the work that the ONS has underway. The reason behind halving is that we think that we need that scale of ambition to try to get everybody away from just thinking about the incremental change. If you want to really transform things in a…”

“You are right that the system has become a bit stuck and we have ended up with very long delays in the national referral mechanism. One of the things that we have done is to recruit 200 additional staff members to clear the backlog for the national referral mechanism. We are looking at future support services for victi…”

“This was important. There have been a series of these investigations. There was the work that was commissioned by the Mayor in Greater Manchester, there has been some by IICSA, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse as well. Some of the issues go back to the point about how you identify the most dangerous offe…”

“Stop and search is an important policing tool. Of course, it has to be used appropriately, but it is an important tool for policing, including for things like preventing knife crime. A review was carried out by the inspectorate a few years ago about how to make sure that all police forces have the right standards and s…”

“We should frame it as we are consulting on our intention to ban the ninja swords. There is a process that we go through but we will want to implement a ban as soon as possible. However, we do go through a consultation first.”

“We just confirmed today the continuing funding for the violence reduction units next year. We want to work more closely with the violence reduction units on the focus particularly on the ambition to halve knife crime over the next 10 years alongside halving violence against women and girls. To take a step back for a se…”

“Yes, I have spoken to him and we have announced, as part of the police settlement that we announced today, a £65 million increase in the national capital city grant. That reflects two things, first the existing grant for the capital cities because they obviously do have lots of national events that will take place in t…”

“Yes, and this also links into your question, Chair, about how you make sure that you can encourage innovation and make sure that innovation is not penalised, but also make sure that you get take-up of successful innovation in other police forces right across the country. We do not currently have a strong enough framewo…”

“We are keen to do a major programme of policing reform but we want to do this with the Home Office working with policing to be able to do this. We are working at the moment on establishing joint teams to be able to work together to draw up proposals for a White Paper sometime next year on policing reform. Some of the c…”

“It is a fundamental principle of British policing that they are operationally independent. That principle is rooted right through the heart of British policing and remains immensely important. There will always be operational independence in terms of particular investigations, in terms of local priorities and in terms …”

“The mayor has described it as the biggest increase for Met Police funding for many years. We know that police forces right across the country have faced very significant financial pressures in recent years, and we recognise that. Overall, this is a 6% increase in the cash funding for police forces, a 3.5% real increase…”

“The number does change week by week because of the numbers of people whose permits run out, new ones are granted and so on. Also people leave the country so the numbers are fluid. Overall, however, it is estimated that around 4 million people have biometric permits and need to switch to e-visas. More than 3 million peo…”

“Seema Malhotra, our Minister for Migration and Citizenship, has spent a lot of time working through the detail on this. I think the intention behind the e-visa system is absolutely the right one. Having a digital approach to borders and visas means that you can have a much more streamlined approach to people travelling…”

“A lot of the work on tackling retail crime has been very much linked to the discussions with retailers and with USDAW as one of the main trade unions representing shop workers. USDAW has been heavily involved in the work to get a new offence around assaults on shop workers.”

“I am not sure it makes that much odds, if you know what I mean. The numbers are there, they are real, and you can add them up in different ways.”