Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 16 Apr 2018
Windrush Children (Immigration Status)
"May I say to the Home Secretary that the way this trailblazing generation and their families have been treated in this year, the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush on our shores, is a complete and utter disgrace? So many are my constituents. She has talked about …..."Chuka Umunna - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 Dec 2017
Harassment in Public Life
"I believe something very dangerous is going on in our country. As the hon. Member for Eddisbury (Antoinette Sandbach) said, it is being perpetrated, unfortunately, by some Members, certainly by members of other bodies and definitely by elements of our media. What they do is to imply to varying degrees …..."Chuka Umunna - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Nov 2016
Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
"It is not just my constituents who are members of the largest survivors group, Shirley Oaks, whose more than 600 members have said that they no longer have confidence in the chair of the inquiry. White Flowers Alba, Minister and Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors and lawyers representing numerous other survivors …..."Chuka Umunna - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 13th September 2016
Asked by:
Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many citizens of other EU countries work in her Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The Home Office undertakes checks to confirm that potential candidates meet the eligibility requirements to work in the UK. However, the Home Office does not record the nationality of employees on our IT systems and is unable to provide this information.
Written Question
Monday 13th June 2016
Asked by:
Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the budget has been for the Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation Peer Review Network for each of the last eight years.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme, of which the peer review network was a part of, was introduced in 2012.
By year, the EGYV programme budget was:
• 2012/13 £734,000
• 2013/14 £700,000
• 2014/15 £500,000
• 2015/16 £425,000
The EGYV programme budget included funding to pay peer reviewers’ fees and expenses when they undertook work on peer reviews in local areas.
We have now completed the stage of work aimed at building local resilience and also have a much better understanding of the problem. Ending gang violence and exploitation remains a priority for the Government and on 13 January 2016 we published a paper setting out our new Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation (EGVE) approach. We are now mainstreaming what we have achieved with local authorities and other partners, and are working in partnership on the new EGVE priorities to reduce violence and gang related exploitation.
Written Question
Thursday 28th April 2016
Asked by:
Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what role her Department had in the selection of appointed local authority heads of social services departments from 1985 to 2015.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The Home Secretary has not had any involvement in appointing local authority heads of social services departments.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 03 Mar 2016
Gangs and Serious Youth Violence
"I beg to move,
That this House calls on the Government to establish an independent, all-party commission, involving a wide-ranging consultation, to identify the root causes, effect of, and solutions to, serious youth violence, including knife crime, its links to gang culture and the sale of illegal drugs.
At the …..."Chuka Umunna - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 03 Mar 2016
Gangs and Serious Youth Violence
"I entirely agree. When I was a trustee of a youth charity in Brixton called the 409 Project, I wrote an article in 2007 about the availability of guns and knives, and I did a kind of focus group with some of the young people in our area. What shocked …..."Chuka Umunna - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 03 Mar 2016
Gangs and Serious Youth Violence
"I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, which highlights the suite of issues, including the drug trade, which hang heavy over this debate and will come through as our dialogue progresses.
I want to say something about the title of this debate. I put in for it …..."Chuka Umunna - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 03 Mar 2016
Gangs and Serious Youth Violence
"I am grateful to my hon. Friend for referring to Harriet Sergeant’s work. Hopefully, those using the hashtag for this debate can post a link on Twitter so that those watching can read more of her work.
Part of the reason why I am not sure how helpful it is …..."Chuka Umunna - View Speech
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