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Oral evidence transcripts

Home Affairs Committee

Committee documents that were published online before May 2010 are available by session on the Pre-2010 Publications page.

Total results 384 (page 1 of 20)
1 May 2024
Inquiry Fire and Rescue Service
Witnesses Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton (Chief Fire Officer, West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service and Chair of Improvement Committee at National Fire Chiefs Council)
Oral Evidence
16 September 2020
Inquiry Channel crossings, migration and asylum-seeking routes through the EU
Witnesses Beth Gardiner-Smith (Chief Executive Officer at Safe Passage UK), and Maddy Allen (Advocacy Manager at Help Refugees)
Oral Evidence
17 November 2021
Work Afghanistan: safe routes and resettlement (Non-inquiry session)
Witnesses Victoria Atkins (Minister for Afghan Resettlement at Home Office), Emma Haddad (Director General, Asylum and Protection at Home Office), and Catherine Frances (Director General, Local Government, Strategy and Analysis at Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
Oral Evidence
22 May 2024
Work Police pensions and wellbeing (Non-inquiry session)
Witnesses Antony Hope (Administrator at Police Pensions Q&A Facebook Group), David Watkins (Managing Director at XPS Administration), Clair Alcock (Head of Police Pensions at National Police Chiefs' Council), Paul Williams (Wellbeing Co-Lead at Police Federation of England and Wales), Dr Jess Miller (Principal Investigator in Policing Trauma, Department of Sociology at University of Cambridge), and Andy Rhodes (Director at National Police Wellbeing Service)
Oral Evidence
15 May 2024
Work Legal Migration (Non-inquiry session)
Witnesses Professor Brian Bell (Chair at Migration Advisory Committee), Mr Marley Morris (Associate Director at Institute of Public Policy Research), Dr Madeleine Sumption (Director at Migration Observatory), Caroline Coombs (Executive Director at Reunite Families UK), Kate Roberts (Head of Policy at Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX)), and Jonathan Thomas (Senior Fellow, Migration Researcher at Social Market Foundation)
Oral Evidence
1 May 2024
Work One off evidence session: the Brook House Inquiry (Non-inquiry session)
Witnesses Kate Eves, Chair of the Brook House inquiry, and Anna Pincus (Director at Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group)
Oral Evidence
24 April 2024
Inquiry Non-contact sexual offences
Witnesses Deputy Chief Constable Maggie Blyth (Deputy CEO at College of Policing and National Police Chiefs' Council Lead for tackling Violence Against Women and Girls), Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe (Assistant Commissioner, Frontline Policing at Metropolitan Police Service), Commander Ben Russell (Intelligence & Covert Policing at Metropolitan Police Service), Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Paul Furnell (Contact, Safeguarding, Crime & Justice at British Transport Police), Laura Farris (Minister for Victims and Safeguarding at Home Office), Joanna West (Director of Tackling Exploitation and Abuse at Home Office), and Amy Randall (Director for Victims and Vulnerability Policy at Ministry of Justice)
Oral Evidence
17 April 2024
Inquiry Violence and abuse towards retail workers
Witnesses Joanne Cairns (Head of Research and Policy at Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers), Edward Woodall (Government Relations Director at Association of Convenience Stores), Paul Gerrard (Campaigns, Public Affairs and Board Secretariat Director at The Co-op), Lyndsey Cambridge (Head of Engagement at Federation of Wholesale Distributors), Superintendent Patrick Holdaway (Lead for the National Business Crime Centre at City of London Police), Chief Superintendent Alex Goss (Retail Crime Lead at National Police Chiefs' Council), and Chief Constable Amanda Blakeman (Acquisitive Crime Lead at National Police Chiefs' Council)
Oral Evidence
20 March 2024
Inquiry Fire and Rescue Service
Witnesses Justin Johnston QFSM (Chief Fire Officer at Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, and Vice Chair at National Fire Chiefs Council), Rob MacDougall (Chief Fire Officer at Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, and People Programme Executive at National Fire Chiefs Council), Councillor Rebecca Knox (Chair at Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority), Kathryn Billing (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead at National Fire Chiefs Council and Chief Fire Officer at Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service), Chris Philp (Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire at Home Office), and Sarah Gawley (Director of Fire and Major Events at Home Office)
Oral Evidence
13 March 2024
Inquiry Fraud
Witnesses Mark Cheeseman OBE (Chief Executive at Public Sector Fraud Authority), Simon Fell (Prime Minister's Anti-Fraud Champion at Home Office), Nick Ephgrave QPM (Director of the Serious Fraud Office), Tom Tugendhat (Minister for Security at Home Office), Duncan Tessier (Director of Economic Crime at Home Office), Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Parliamentary Secretary at HM Treasury), and Anna Harvey (Deputy Director (Payments and Fintech) at HM Treasury)
Oral Evidence
12 March 2024
Work Asylum decision-making and conversion to Christianity (Non-inquiry session)
Witnesses The Reverend Matthew Firth (Former Priest at St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington), The Rev Canon Christopher Thomas (General Secretary at Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales and Senior Priest at The Catholic Church), Church of England, Baptist Union of Great Britain, Home Office, Home Office, and Home Office
Oral Evidence
5 March 2024
Inquiry Fire and Rescue Service
Witnesses Andy Cooke QPM DL (Chief Inspector at HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services), Nazir Afzal OBE (Former Chair at Independent Culture Review of London Fire Brigade), Alex Johnson QFSM (Director at Women in the Fire Service), Tristan Ashby (Chief Executive Officer at Fire and Rescue Services Association), and Matt Wrack (General Secretary at Fire Brigades Union)
Oral Evidence
28 February 2024
Inquiry Fraud
Witnesses Chris Bell (Service Delivery Director at City of London Police), James Babbage (Director General of Threats at National Crime Agency), Nik Adams (Assistant Commissioner at City of London Police), DCI Clare Chandler (Head at Regional Economic Crime Unit, North East Region), CCP Andrew Penhale (Head of the Regional and Wales Division at Crown Prosecution Service), Steve Smart OBE (Joint Executive Director of Enforcement & Market Oversight at Financial Conduct Authority), and Richard Las CBE (Director of Fraud Investigation Service at HM Revenue and Customs)
Oral Evidence
27 February 2024
Work One-off session with the former Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (Non-inquiry session)
Witnesses David Neal, former Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
Oral Evidence
21 February 2024
Inquiry Non-contact sexual offences
Witnesses Lisa Squire (Mother of Libby Squire and campaigner), Professor Clare McGlynn (Professor of Law at Durham University), Professor Sarah Kingston (Professor of Criminal Justice and Policing at University of Central Lancashire), and Professor Katrin Hohl (Independent Advisor to the Rape Review at Independent Advisor to the Rape Review)
Oral Evidence
7 February 2024
Inquiry Fraud
Witnesses Paul Davis (Financial Crime Prevention Director at TSB Bank), Woody Malouf (Global Head of Financial Crime at Revolut), Chris Ainsley (Head of Fraud Risk Management at Santander Bank), Philip Milton (Public Policy Manager at Meta), Alex Towers (Director of Policy and Public Affairs at BT Group), and Simon Staffell (Government Affairs Director at Microsoft)
Oral Evidence
6 February 2024
Work Work of the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner (Non-inquiry session)
Oral Evidence
31 January 2024
Work Work of the Home Secretary (Regular evidence sessions)
Witnesses Home Office, Home Office, and Home Office
Oral Evidence
17 January 2024
Inquiry Fraud
Witnesses Mike Haley (Chief Executive at Cifas), Richard Hyde (Senior Researcher at Social Market Foundation), Sophie Davis (Director of Research at Crest Advisory), Professor Nicholas Ryder (Professor in Financial Crime at Cardiff University), Professor Nicholas Lord (Professor of Criminology at The University of Manchester), and James Babbage (Director General of Threats (Economic and Organised Crime) at National Crime Agency)
Oral Evidence
10 January 2024
Inquiry Police and Crime Commissioners: 10 years on
Witnesses Roger Hirst (Association of Police and Crime Commissioners Lead on Funding Formula, CSR and Grants and Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex at Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex), National Fire Chiefs Council, Home Office, Home Office, and Home Office
Oral Evidence
Total results 384 (page 1 of 20)