At the end of last week, the government announced that Surrey police will receive up to an extra £17.6 million next year to support local policing. This includes an extra £3.9 million from central government, and the potential of a further £13.8 million from the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) precept. It would represent an […]
Read MoreLast week, the Conservative-led Elmbridge Borough Council (EBC) secured an extension to the protective injunction banning the setting up of unauthorised encampments and fly-tipping in our local parks and open spaces. The injunction prevents people from entering or occupying the borough’s parks, open spaces and car parks for the purposes of living there (including caravans, […]
Read MoreThis month many residents have contacted me regarding illegal traveller incursions across Elmbridge, in particular in Cobham, Claygate, Long Ditton, Esher and Walton-on-Thames. I share the acute frustration many residents feel at these illegal encampments, and I am taking action at every level to tackle the issue. First, locally, I met with Elmbridge’s new Neighbourhood […]
Read MoreOn Friday, I met with Dallas McDermott, the new neighbourhood inspector for Elmbridge. Dallas took over from Sarah Milligan at the beginning of June. Insp McDermott and I discussed a range of issues, including burglaries across the Borough, which have substantially decreased since last year. Next, Dallas explained the enforcement action the police have taken […]
Read MoreToday, I announced a Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) consultation on the enforcement powers available to councils and the police to address unauthorised traveller encampments. The latest data shows 84% of caravans are located on sites authorised for travellers, so the vast majority of the traveller community are behaving lawfully, decently and […]
Read MoreLast week, I welcomed Home Secretary Amber Rudd and Surrey Police Commissioner David Munro to Elmbridge so that I could raise residents’ concerns, in particular regarding some localised increases in burglaries and anti-social behaviour. The Home Secretary also met with candidates for the local Council elections in May, Steve Bax, Ruth Mitchell and Simon Waugh […]
Read MoreToday, I announced the extension of the Unduly Lenient Scheme - a mechanism for challenging light prison sentences - to nine further terrorism offences. You can read more about the detail of the specific announcement here. You can also read my column for the Daily Telegraph on this government’s wider counter-terrorism strategy here.
Read MoreLast week, I was honoured to attend the Sergei Magnitsky Human Rights Awards in London, where I was presented with the Political Campaigner Award. Sergei Magnitsky was a Russian lawyer who was tortured and murdered in 2009, whilst in state detention, for disclosing the biggest tax fraud in Russian history. Last year, as a backbench […]
Read MoreOn Friday, I announced two new Courts and Tribunals Service Centres to be opened in The Midlands, as part of the £1 billion modernisation reforms to our courts and justice system. The centres, based in Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent, will transform the way we manage court and tribunal cases by transforming from traditional paper-based systems to […]
Read MoreToday, I have written a column for the i Newspaper announcing two key changes to the law on dangerous driving. First, we will be introducing a maximum life sentence for offenders who kill someone as a result of driving dangerously, or carelessly while under the influence of drink of drugs. Second, we will create a […]
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