Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry Migration and asylum

Witnesses Home Office, Home Office, and Home Office

Inquiry Policing of protests

Witnesses National Police Chiefs' Council, Metropolitan Police Service, Metropolitan Police Service, Commission for Countering Extremism, Dame Sara Khan (Former Lead Commissioner for Countering Extremism and Author of Operating with Impunity (2021)), and House of Lords

Inquiry Policing of protests

Witnesses Stop the War Coalition, Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, Muslim Association of Britain, Community Security Trust, and Campaign Against Antisemitism

Work Work of the Home Office (Regular evidence sessions)

Witnesses Home Office, and Home Office

Inquiry Fraud

Witnesses Cecilie Fjellhøy (Co-Founder at LoveSaid), Anna Rowe (Co-Founder at LoveSaid), John Kamoto (Policy Lead on Scams and Fraud at Age UK), Wayne Stevens (National Fraud Lead at Victim Support), and Louise Baxter MBE (Head at National Trading Standards Scams Team)

Work The work of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (Non-inquiry session)

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

Inquiry Police and Crime Commissioners: 10 years on

Witnesses Sir Thomas Winsor (Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary 2012-2022 at Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary), Chief Constable Gavin Stephens (Chair at National Police Chiefs' Council), Donna Jones (Chair at Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and PCC for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight), Dr Rick Muir (Director at The Police Foundation), and Councillor Sue Woolley (Conservative Lead Member for the Safer and Stronger Communities Board at Local Government Association)

Inquiry Human Trafficking

Witnesses Miss Sarah Dines (Minister for Safeguarding at Home Office), Matthew Bligh (Deputy Director for Policy on Illegal Migration at Home Office), Rebecca Wyse (Director of Tackling Exploitation and Abuse at Home Office), Joanna West (Director of Tackling Exploitation and Abuse at Home Office), and Andrew Patrick (Former UK Migration and Modern Slavery Envoy at Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office)

Inquiry Human Trafficking

Witnesses Assistant Chief Constable Jim Pearce (Lead for Modern Slavery and Organised Immigration Crime at National Police Chiefs' Council), Lynette Woodrow (Lead for Modern Slavery at Crown Prosecution Service), Rob Jones CBE (Director General, National Economic Crime Centre and Director of Threat Leadership, National Crime Agency), Caroline Haughey OBE KC (Barrister at Furnival Chambers), and Stuart Peall (Detective Sergeant at Lancashire Police)

Inquiry Human Trafficking

Witnesses Major Kathy Betteridge (Director of Anti-Trafficking and Modern Slavery at The Salvation Army), James Fookes (Chair at Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group (ATMG)), Elaine Bass (Director, National Returns Progression Command at Home Office), Siobhan Jolliffe (Head of Single Competent Authority at Home Office), Laura Durán (Head of Policy, Advocacy and Research at ECPAT UK), Allyson Davies (Assistant Director of Children’s Services at Barnard's National Counter Trafficking Service), and Danny Bayraktarova (Public Law and Human Rights Solicitor at Wilson Solicitors LLP)

Inquiry Pre-legislative scrutiny of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Draft Bill

Witnesses Jonathan Hall (Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation at Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation), Matt Jukes (Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations at Metropolitan Police Service), Shaun Kennedy (Chief Operating Officer for Central Europe at Securitas), The Rt Hon Tom Tugendhat MBE VR MP (Minister for Security at Home Office), and Shaun Hipgrave (Director Protect and Prepare, Homeland Security Group at Home Office)

Work Work of the Home Secretary (Regular evidence sessions)

Inquiry Human Trafficking

Witnesses Neelam Patankar (Managing Director at Digital Ventures), Professor Teela Sanders (Professor of Criminology at University of Leicester), Dr. Ben Brewster (Research Fellow in Modern Slavery Perpetration at Rights Lab, University of Nottingham), and Rhoda Grant (Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) at Scottish Parliament)

Inquiry Pre-legislative scrutiny of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Draft Bill

Witnesses Figen Murray OBE (Campaigner for Martyn’s Law and mother of Martyn Hett), Nick Aldworth (Director at Risk to Resolution Ltd), Neil Sharpley (Policy Chair at Federation of Small Businesses), Councillor Clive Woodbridge (Mayor of Epsom and Ewell Borough Council and Deputy Chair of the Safer and Stronger Communities Board at Local Government Association), Jane Gratton (Head of People Policy at British Chambers of Commerce), Mark Gardner (Chief Executive at Community Security Trust), and Mike Kill (Chief Executive Officer at Night Time Industries Association)

Work Policing of public protest (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Matt Twist (Temporary Assistant Commissioner, Met Operations at Metropolitan Police Service), Chris Noble (Chief Constable, Protest Lead at National Police Chiefs' Council), Graham Smith (Chief Executive at Republic), Adam Wagner (Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers), and Suzie Melvin (Night Stars Volunteer at Westminster City Council)

Inquiry Human Trafficking

Witnesses Sylvia Walby (Professor of Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London), Tatiana Gren-Jardan (Head at Joint Modern Slavery Policy Unit Justice and Care and Centre for Social Justice), Ruth Breslin (Research Associate at The Sexual Exploitation Research Programme (SERP)), Elysia McCaffrey (Chief Executive at Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority), and Ms Kate Roberts (Head of Policy at Focus on Labour Exploitation)

Inquiry Human Trafficking

Witnesses Andrea Salvoni (Deputy Coordinator for Combatting Human Trafficking at Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), and Dr Katarina Schwarz (Associate Director at The Rights Lab, University of Nottingham)

Inquiry Policing priorities

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

Inquiry Policing priorities

Witnesses Chris Philp (Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire at Home Office), Rachel Watson (Director of Policing at Home Office), Sarah Swinford (Director of Crime Reduction at Home Office), and Lynne Abrams (Deputy Director, Interpersonal Abuse Unit at Home Office)

Inquiry Human Trafficking

Witnesses Baroness Butler-Sloss, and Professor Dame Sara Thornton (Professor of Practice in Modern Slavery Policy, University of Nottingham and Former Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner)