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595899

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date	07/10/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Heroin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with police forces and police and crime commissioners on heroin distributed in their areas in line with her Department's policy set out on page 31 of the Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, published by her predecessor in March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	47472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text The Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, which highlighted the value of supervised injectable diamorphine/heroin in reducing crime, was launched by Home Office Ministers at the International Crime and Policing Conference on 23 March whose attendance included a large number of representatives from the criminal justice system. Police and Crime Commissioners and police forces wishing to explore issues relating to heroin assisted treatment are encouraged to engage with the relevant local authorities which commission drug and alcohol treatment in their areas. answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 17/10/2016 12:07:57 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

595900

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Heroin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on providing heroin to heroin addicts in line with his Department's policy set out on page 31 of the Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, published by his predecessor in March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	47475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>As outlined in the Government’s Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, the use of injectable diamorphine as part of treatment for a small cohort of entrenched, long-term opiate users can be effective.</p><p> </p><p>On behalf of the Department, Public Health England managed a pilot programme of supervised injectable diamorphine prescribing at a cost of £2 million per annum. The pilot ran from 2012 to 2015 at: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in Southwark, London; Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Brighton; and Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust in Easington, County Durham.</p><p> </p><p>Information about expenditure on diamorphine prescribing for the treatment of dependence, sites where it is available outside this pilot, and how much diamorphine has been prescribed to heroin addicts is not collected centrally. The decision to commission and fund the local provision of diamorphine prescribing is for local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 47474 47476 question first answered 17/10/2016 15:28:33 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

595901

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Heroin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria are used when deciding to give heroin to heroin addicts in line with his Department's policy set out on page 31 of the Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, published by his predecessor in March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	47473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The prescribing of injectable opioids, such as methadone or diamorphine (pharmaceutical heroin) as substitutes for illicit heroin, as outlined in the Government’s Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, published in March by the then Home Secretary, has been an option for many years but since the late 1960s, prescribing of diamorphine for the management of addiction has been restricted to licensed addiction specialists.</p><p>The decision to prescribe injectable diamorphine for the treatment of dependence is a clinical matter, for a clinician to take in conjunction with the patient. Advice to guide these decisions is contained in Chapter 5 and Annex 8 of the 2007 UK Guidelines on the Clinical Management of Drug Misuse and Dependence. The guidelines advise that:</p><p>- “injectable opioid treatment may be suitable for a small minority of patients who have failed in optimised oral treatment.”;</p><p>- “clinicians providing injectable opioid treatment should encourage patients not to regard it as a lifelong treatment option and should regularly review their patients and the continuing necessity for this unusual and expensive treatment”; and</p><p>- The use of diamorphine “alone does not constitute drug treatment…it should be seen as on element or pathway within wider packages of planned and integrated drug treatment”.</p><p>The guidelines are currently being reviewed by an Expert Working Group, to take into account developments in the evidence base. In July 2016, the Expert Working Group published their draft update for consultation. The consultation has closed and the responses are being considered by the Expert Working Group.</p><p>Diamorphine is licensed as a medicine by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Clinicians wishing to legally prescribe it for the treatment of dependence need to obtain a licence for that purpose from the Home Office and to comply with all other legislation relevant to the safe management, use and supply of medicines which are controlled drugs.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 47471 47544 47629 question first answered 17/10/2016 15:31:03 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

595902

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Heroin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish a list of the areas in which heroin has been given to heroin addicts in line with his Department's policy set out on page 31 of the Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, published by his predecessor in March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	47474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>As outlined in the Government’s Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, the use of injectable diamorphine as part of treatment for a small cohort of entrenched, long-term opiate users can be effective.</p><p> </p><p>On behalf of the Department, Public Health England managed a pilot programme of supervised injectable diamorphine prescribing at a cost of £2 million per annum. The pilot ran from 2012 to 2015 at: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in Southwark, London; Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Brighton; and Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust in Easington, County Durham.</p><p> </p><p>Information about expenditure on diamorphine prescribing for the treatment of dependence, sites where it is available outside this pilot, and how much diamorphine has been prescribed to heroin addicts is not collected centrally. The decision to commission and fund the local provision of diamorphine prescribing is for local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 47475 47476 question first answered 17/10/2016 15:28:33 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

595903

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Heroin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much heroin has been given to heroin addicts in line with his Department's policy set out on page 31 of the Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, published by his predecessor in March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	47476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>As outlined in the Government’s Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, the use of injectable diamorphine as part of treatment for a small cohort of entrenched, long-term opiate users can be effective.</p><p> </p><p>On behalf of the Department, Public Health England managed a pilot programme of supervised injectable diamorphine prescribing at a cost of £2 million per annum. The pilot ran from 2012 to 2015 at: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in Southwark, London; Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Brighton; and Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust in Easington, County Durham.</p><p> </p><p>Information about expenditure on diamorphine prescribing for the treatment of dependence, sites where it is available outside this pilot, and how much diamorphine has been prescribed to heroin addicts is not collected centrally. The decision to commission and fund the local provision of diamorphine prescribing is for local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 47474 47475 question first answered 17/10/2016 15:28:33 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

595904

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of the staff employed by her Department are non-UK nationals.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	47417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.</p><p>Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.</p><p>More broadly, the Government will be consulting in due course on how we work with business to ensure that workers in this country have the skills that they need to get a job. But there are no proposals to publish lists of the number or proportion of foreign workers.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 17/10/2016 18:56:03 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

595905

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Spit Guards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of spit hoods; and what assessment she has made of the extent of use of such hoods by police forces.
tabling member constituency	Derby North
tabling member printed	Amanda Solloway
uin	47542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2016 answer text <p>The use of ‘spit hoods’, as with any other use of restraint or force, is an operational matter for Chief Officers. The Home Office is clear that all uses of force or restraint must be necessary and proportionate.</p><p>In recognition of the importance of ensuring transparency in how police forces use various means of restraint, the former Home Secretary asked Chief Constable David Shaw to review what data should be collected and published. The review recommended that forces record a range of data in all instances when significant force is used, including restraint techniques and the use of spit hoods.</p><p>The data to be collected includes the age, gender, ethnicity and sex of the subject, the type of force used, reason for the use of force, and the outcome of the incident.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 20/10/2016 14:19:32 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway

595906

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Heroin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when and by whom the decision was taken to give heroin to heroin addicts in line with his Department's policy set out on page 31 of Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, published by his predecessor in March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	47544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The prescribing of injectable opioids, such as methadone or diamorphine (pharmaceutical heroin) as substitutes for illicit heroin, as outlined in the Government’s Modern Crime Prevention Strategy, published in March by the then Home Secretary, has been an option for many years but since the late 1960s, prescribing of diamorphine for the management of addiction has been restricted to licensed addiction specialists.</p><p>The decision to prescribe injectable diamorphine for the treatment of dependence is a clinical matter, for a clinician to take in conjunction with the patient. Advice to guide these decisions is contained in Chapter 5 and Annex 8 of the 2007 UK Guidelines on the Clinical Management of Drug Misuse and Dependence. The guidelines advise that:</p><p>- “injectable opioid treatment may be suitable for a small minority of patients who have failed in optimised oral treatment.”;</p><p>- “clinicians providing injectable opioid treatment should encourage patients not to regard it as a lifelong treatment option and should regularly review their patients and the continuing necessity for this unusual and expensive treatment”; and</p><p>- The use of diamorphine “alone does not constitute drug treatment…it should be seen as on element or pathway within wider packages of planned and integrated drug treatment”.</p><p>The guidelines are currently being reviewed by an Expert Working Group, to take into account developments in the evidence base. In July 2016, the Expert Working Group published their draft update for consultation. The consultation has closed and the responses are being considered by the Expert Working Group.</p><p>Diamorphine is licensed as a medicine by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Clinicians wishing to legally prescribe it for the treatment of dependence need to obtain a licence for that purpose from the Home Office and to comply with all other legislation relevant to the safe management, use and supply of medicines which are controlled drugs.</p> answering member constituency Oxford West and Abingdon answering member printed Nicola Blackwood grouped question UIN 47471 47473 47629 question first answered 17/10/2016 15:31:03 answering member 4019 label Biography information for Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

595907

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the correlation between people who commit crimes against animals and go on to commit crimes against the person.
tabling member constituency	Aberavon
tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
uin	47519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office has made no specific assessment of the correlation between people who commit crimes against animals and go on to commit crimes against the person.</p><p>In March this year the Government published the Modern Crime Prevention Strategy. The strategy sets out the evidence that points to six key drivers of crime: drugs; alcohol; the effectiveness of the Criminal Justice System; character (or an individual’s propensity to offend); opportunity; and profit. The strategy can be accessed at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/509831/6.1770_Modern_Crime_Prevention_Strategy_final_WEB_version.pd" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/509831/6.1770_Modern_Crime_Prevention_Strategy_final_WEB_version.pd</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 20/10/2016 14:21:31 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock

595911

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has received any legal challenge regarding delayed acceptance of child refugees in Calais with a legal right to residence in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	47554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The UK has received a number of legal challenges regarding alleged delays in accepting asylum seeking children in Calais who assert that they have a legal right to residence in the UK.</p><p>A number of these challenges include cases where the child is yet to seek asylum in France. We are clear that individuals must claim asylum before the UK can consider a transfer request. The recent case of ZAT demonstrates that due process must be followed.</p><p>We are working to improve the operation of the Dublin Regulation and transfer requests are now generally processed within 10 days.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 17/10/2016 19:46:32 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake