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2017-19
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Civilian Enforcement Privatisation
Liz Saville Roberts
2017-07-12
That this House believes that work currently undertaken by civilian enforcement officers employed by HM Courts and Tribunals Service should remain in the public sector where they consistently outperform bailiffs employed by authorised enforcement agents in the private sector; notes that the majority of financial penalties enforced by such staff relate to motoring issues, failure to obtain a television licence and other similar matters often involving defaulters who are among the most vulnerable in society; is concerned that the report Taking control: the need for fundamental bailiff reform, published in March 2017, concluded that in the absence of an independent bailiff regulator, the Government's reforms have had a negligible impact on protecting the public from overzealous and aggressive bailiffs; is aware that civilian enforcement officers are invested with the authority to enter and search premises, to arrest and search often vulnerable defaulters and place them in custody before the court; is further concerned by Government plans to give such powers to poorly-regulated private bailiffs who are not subject to the Civil Service Code; deeply regrets that a previous attempt to privatise the enforcement of financial penalties was abandoned at an extraordinary cost to the public purse; and therefore urges the Government to retain the effective, safe and fair enforcement of criminal fines within the public sector rather than risk the safety and finances of the public through privatisation.
Civil law
Security industry
Liz Saville Roberts
2017-07-12
Proposed
Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Plaid Cymru
Jonathan Edwards
2017-07-12
Seconded
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
Plaid Cymru
Hywel Williams
2017-07-12
Seconded
Arfon
Plaid Cymru
Ben Lake
2017-07-12
Seconded
Ceredigion
Plaid Cymru
Martyn Day
2017-07-13
Seconded
Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Scottish National Party
Jim Shannon
2017-07-13
Seconded
Strangford
DUP
Mike Hill
2017-07-13
Signed
Hartlepool
Labour
David Linden
2017-07-13
Signed
Glasgow East
Scottish National Party
Jim Cunningham
2017-07-17
Signed
Coventry South
Labour
Chris Stephens
2017-07-17
Signed
Glasgow South West
Scottish National Party
Kelvin Hopkins
2017-07-18
Signed
Luton North
Labour
Albert Owen
2017-07-18
Signed
Ynys M
Labour
Vincent Cable
2017-07-20
Signed
Twickenham
Liberal Democrat
Thelma Walker
2017-09-05
Signed
Colne Valley
Labour
Stephen Lloyd
2017-09-05
Signed
Eastbourne
Liberal Democrat
Roger Godsiff
2017-09-05
Signed
Birmingham, Hall Green
Labour
Bambos Charalambous
2017-09-11
Signed
Enfield, Southgate
Labour
Tim Farron
2017-09-12
Signed
Westmorland and Lonsdale
Liberal Democrat
Sandy Martin
2017-10-17
Signed
Ipswich
Labour
Ellie Reeves
2017-10-18
Signed
Lewisham West and Penge
Labour
Jared O'Mara
2017-11-07
Signed
Sheffield, Hallam
Independent
Mary Glindon
2018-01-24
Signed
North Tyneside
Labour
Ian Lucas
2018-04-16
Signed
Wrexham
Labour
Stephen Kinnock
2018-04-30
Signed
Aberavon
Labour