Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry Policing priorities

Witnesses Andy Cooke QPM DL (His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services at His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services), Harvi Khatkar (Chief Superintendent and Vice President at Police Superintendents' Association), and Steve Hartshorn (National Chair at Police Federation of England and Wales)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Inquiry Policing priorities

Witnesses Sir Mark Rowley QPM (Commissioner at Metropolitan Police Service)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Inquiry Migration and asylum

Witnesses His Excellency Qirjako Qirko (Albanian Ambassador to the UK), Dr Andi Hoxhaj (Lecturer in Law, Faculty of Laws at University College London), Professor Dame Sara Thornton (Professor of Practice in Modern Slavery Policy, Rights Lab at University of Nottingham), Esme Madill (Solicitor at Migrant and Refugee Children's Legal Unit (MiCLU) at Islington Law Centre), and Dr Peter William Walsh (Senior Researcher at Migration Observatory)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Work Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Professor Alexis Jay OBE (Chair at Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse), John O'Brien (Secretary at Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse), and Drusilla Sharpling CBE (Panel Member at Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Work Work of the Home Secretary (Regular evidence sessions)

Witnesses Suella Braverman (Home Secretary at Home Office), Matthew Rycroft CBE (Permanent Secretary at Home Office), and Dan O'Mahoney (Clandestine Channel Threat Commander at Home Office)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Work State of the fire and rescue services (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Mark Hardingham (Chair at National Fire Chiefs Council), Roy Wilsher OBE QFSM (HM Inspector of Constabulary in England and Wales and Inspector of Fire and Rescue Authorities in England), and Matt Wrack (General Secretary at Fire Brigades Union)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Inquiry Policing priorities

Witnesses Dr Rick Muir (Director at The Police Foundation), Andy Marsh QPM (Chief Executive at College of Policing), Martin Hewitt QPM (Chair at National Police Chiefs' Council), and Festus Akinbusoye (Prevention Lead at Association of Police and Crime Commissioners)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Inquiry Channel crossings

Witnesses Dan O'Mahoney (Clandestine Channel Threat Commander at Home Office), Abi Tierney (Director General, Customer Services Capability at Home Office), Dan Hobbs (Director, Asylum, Protection and Enforcement at Home Office), and David Neal (Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Inquiry Violence against women and girls

Witnesses Nicole Jacobs (Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales), Vicky Marsh (Interim Director at Safety4Sisters North West), Roy Wilsher OBE QFSM (HM Inspector of Constabulary), Dr Hannana Siddiqui (Head of Policy and Research at Southall Black Sisters), and Elizabeth Jiménez-Yáñez (Policy and Communications Manager at Latin American Women's Rights Service)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Work Work of the Home Office (Regular evidence sessions)

Witnesses Simon Calder (Travel journalist), Thomas Greig (Director of Passports, Citizenship, and Civil Registration at HM Passport Office), and Edward Clarke (Vice-President, Ground Operations, UK at TNT)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Inquiry Drugs

Witnesses Charlie Doyle (Assistant Chief Constable at British Transport Police), Dr Richard Lewis (Drugs lead for the National Police Chiefs’ Council and Chief Constable of Dyfed-Powys Police), Steve Rodhouse (Director General of Operations at National Crime Agency), Nicky Hill (Head of Services at Abianda), Junior Smart OBE (Business development manager and head of SOS Gangs Project, St Giles Trust), and Dr Jack Spicer (Lecturer in Criminology at University of the West of England)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Inquiry Migration and asylum

Witnesses Theresa Schleicher (Casework Manager at Medical Justice), Enver Solomon (Chief Executive at Refugee Council), Alison Pickup (Director at Asylum Aid), Rhys Clyne (Senior Researcher at Institute for Government), Tony Smith CBE (former Director General of UK Border Force), and David Wood (former Director General of Immigration Enforcement at the Home Office)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Work Work of the Home Office (Regular evidence sessions)

Witnesses Matthew Rycroft CBE (Permanent Secretary at Home Office), and Tricia Hayes CB (Second Permanent Secretary at Home Office)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Inquiry Drugs

Witnesses Serena Kennedy (Chief Constable at Merseyside Police), David Thorne (Assistant Chief Constable at South Wales Police), John Campbell QPM (Chief Constable at Thames Valley Police), Andy Dunbobbin (North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner), Zoe Metcalfe (Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire and the City of York), and David Sidwick (Police and Crime Commissioner for Dorset)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Inquiry Migration and asylum

Witnesses David Neal (Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Inquiry Drugs

Witnesses Councillor Joanne Harding (Local Government Association), Maggie Boreham (City and Hackney Public Health Team at Hackney Council), Professor Jim McManus (President of the Association of Directors of Public Health and Director of Public Health, Hertfordshire County Council), and Professor Dame Carol Black (Independent advisor to the Government on drugs)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Inquiry Drugs

Witnesses Professor Jo Neill (Professor of Psychopharmacology, Manchester Pharmacy School at Manchester University), Professor Ornella Corazza (Professor of Addiction Science at Hertfordshire University), Professor Stuart Reece (Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Western Australia), Professor David Nutt (Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College, London), Dr Owen Bowden-Jones (Chair at Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs), Dr Emily Finch (Co-chair of Recovery Committee at Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs), and Professor Roger Knaggs (Chair of Technical Committee at Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Inquiry Migration and asylum

Witnesses Tom Pursglove (Minister for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration at Home Office), and Dan Hobbs (Director, Asylum, Protection and Enforcement at Home Office)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Inquiry Drugs

Witnesses Niamh Eastwood (Executive Director at Release), Dr Kojo Koram (Lecturer, School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London), Dr Karenza Moore (Lecturer in Sociology of Crime at Newcastle University), Martin Powell (Head of Partnerships at Transform Drug Policy Foundation), Chloe Hartnell (Partner at Hodge Jones and Allen LLP), and Rudi Fortson QC (Barrister at 25 Bedford Row Chambers)

Committees Home Affairs Committee

Work Work of the Metropolitan Police Service (Regular evidence sessions)

Witnesses Sir Stephen House QPM (Acting Commissioner at Metropolitan Police Service), and Louisa Rolfe OBE (Assistant Commissioner at Metropolitan Police Service)

Committees Home Affairs Committee