Labour Party MP for Croydon West since (elected). An MP continuously since .
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| Labour | MP | Croydon West | – present | elected | — | Party history |
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Abuse and violence against retail workers ballooned under the last Government. The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers and others campaigned for action. We promised to take action, and we have: the Crime and Policing Act 2026 introduces a new offence of assaulting a retail worker, punishable by up to six months’ imprisonment, an unlimited fine, or both.
My hon. Friend is absolutely right that alongside legislation, we need to ensure that we have the police in our communities and neighbourhoods to tackle crime. We have put 3,800 new police—extra police—in our neighbourhoods since we came to power. The collaboration between police and shop workers is having really good results in a lot of our town centres, and I encourage the Scottish National party Government to look at ensuring the same in Scotland.
We all recognise the concern about the illegal use of e-bikes and e-scooters. We have taken action through the Crime and Policing Act 2026. Police no longer need to issue a warning before seizing vehicles that are being used antisocially. We have also reduced vehicle disposal timeframes to seven days, so we are taking action, but we are very much in the market for seeing what else we can do.
I thank the hon. Member for her thoughtful question. We hear what she says about e-bikes. We are having conversations with the College of Policing and others about how we can ensure that the police can respond in the way that they want to. In a big operation last month, the Met arrested 187 people and seized 157 vehicles in a crackdown on e-bikes, and Met police are using Sur-Ron bikes in that operation, so we are very much having conversations with colleagues to see what more we can do.
I thank my hon. Friend for her work on this issue. We are talking to the Department for Transport about exactly what we need to do to tackle the scourge of e-bikes and e-scooters. Every MP in this place will be facing the same challenge, and I hope that everybody <span id="9" class="column-number" data-column-number="9"></span>would agree that we cannot allow this kind of behaviour to continue. We are looking at what else can be done. We have changed the powers in the Bill to move us in the right direction. I am talking to the police about what more support they need, and we will continue to have those conversations across Government.
This Government are determined to tackle antisocial behaviour across England and Wales. From today, we are calling time on persistent offenders of ASB with the introduction of respect orders, honouring our manifesto commitment and cracking down on ASB.
I am very happy to work with anybody who is committed to tackling antisocial behaviour. The Government have introduced not just respect orders, but extended dispersal directions. We have raised the maximum fixed penalties for public spaces protection orders from £100 to £500. We are passing legislation, putting neighbourhood police into our neighbourhoods and tackling antisocial behaviour.
My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I suspect that a lot of similar conversations are happening on Pride in Place boards across England and Wales. In north Wales we have seen an increase of some 60 officers in neighbourhoods since 2015, which will make a very big difference. I have talked to every police force across the country, written to all the chief constables and met all the different agencies that are part of respect orders, and everyone is lined up to do this work. Guidance has been published, and I look forward to seeing the first court cases—hopefully this week.
I went last week to Newcastle-under-Lyme, Southall and Hemel Hempstead, and I have been talking to all the police forces across the country. I expect my hon. Friend’s police force to take these powers in the manner in which they are intended—as a useful tool to help the police, local authorities, housing associations and other agents to tackle antisocial behaviour and introduce respect orders. We are increasing funding across the country. Importantly, we are also reforming policing to put local policing at the heart of everything we do, so that the public get the service they expect.
I am happy to look into whether respect orders might cover the crimes that the right hon. Member talks about and help in this space. Of course we need to ensure that we have more police in our communities, and we will always look at the legislation to see whether there is more that we can do to come down hard on these kinds of behaviours, which make our constituents and our communities really not feel safe in their own environment. We will continue to work on that.
Held . Recorded result: Lab Hold. Majority 14,226. 38,122 votes cast from an electorate of 77,891. Parties are as each candidate stood at the time.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Jones | Labour | 20,612 | 54.1% |
| Simon Fox | Conservative | 6,386 | 16.8% |
| Ria Patel | Green Party | 3,851 | 10.1% |
| Jahir Hussain | Liberal Democrat | 3,667 | 9.6% |
| Vinayak Malhotra | Reform UK | 2,148 | 5.6% |
| Ahsan Ullah | Workers Party of Britain | 708 | 1.9% |
| Donna Murray-Turner | Taking The Initiative Party | 503 | 1.3% |
| April Ashley | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 247 | 0.6% |
| Seat | Dates |
|---|---|
| Croydon WestElected 1 time | – present |
| Croydon CentralElected 2 times | – |
| Post | Dates |
|---|---|
| Minister of State (Home Office)Home Office | – present |
| Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)Department for Business and Trade | – |
| Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)Department for Energy Security and Net Zero | – |
| Post | Dates |
|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Industry and Decarbonisation)Department for Business and Trade | – |
| Shadow Minister (Home Office)Home Office | – |
| Shadow Minister (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Housing)Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | – |
| Committee | Dates |
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| Public Order Bill | – |
| Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | – |
| Home Affairs Committee | – |
| Constituency | Date |
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| Croydon Central |
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