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1142003

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Children: Exploitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her Department's policies of the findings of the Children’s Society report entitled Counting lives, published in July 2019.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	282355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>Criminal exploitation in the form of county lines has a devastating impact on those affected and we must work together to identify and safeguard the victims and potential victims of this form of exploitation as early as possible.</p><p>Our Serious Violence Strategy sets out our approach to tackling county lines and its related exploitation and through this we have delivered a range of action to enhance our approach to tackling this issue.</p><p>This includes providing £3.6m for a new National County Lines Co-ordination Centre. Launched in September 2018 the NCLCC has already led three separate weeks of law enforcement ‘intensification’ leading to 1600 arrests and safeguarding of over 2100 individuals. Through the Early Intervention Youth Fund we are also funding 10 projects with a specific county lines focus to support victims and potential victims of this exploitation. We have also worked to increase awareness of county lines exploitation amongst those best placed to spot it and have published guidance for frontline professionals on how to identify potential victims of county lines and appropriate referral routes.</p><p>We welcome the report published by the Children’s Society and will consider its findings carefully as we continue to develop and strengthen our response to county lines.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2019 13:37:32 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1142079

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Prime Minister's statement of 24 July 2019, what the timescale is for the recruitment of 20,000 police officers.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	282443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>The Prime Minister has said that 20,000 extra police officers will be recruited over the next three years.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2019 13:28:37 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1142110

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to review the restrictions that prevent asylum seekers from working.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	282458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>Asylum seekers are allowed to work in the UK if their claim has been outstanding for 12 months, through no fault of their own. Those permitted to work are restricted to jobs on the shortage occupation list published by the Home Office. The Home Office is currently reviewing this matter.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/09/2019 13:31:43 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1142142

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to allocate the funding for 20,000 extra police officers to local forces according to how many police officers each force has lost since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham P Jones
uin	282303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>We recognise that demand on the police is changing and we are acting. We are committed to recruiting 20,000 additional police officers over the next three years to tackle the rise in crime. This is the start of a new relationship between the Government and the police, and we will work even more closely together to protect the public.</p><p>The National Policing Board has been set up to provide strong leadership and deliver on our commitment to recruit 20,000 more police officers. Following the first meeting, the government and police will move at pace to drive forward our plans to bolster the police’s ranks.</p><p>All force-level funding allocations will be set out in the usual way at the pro-visional police funding settlement in December. The Government is working with the sector through a number of important details, including on allocating officers between different functions and activities to ensure maximum value from this additional resource.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2019 14:00:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

1142150

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it remains her Department's policy to reduce immigration to the UK; and what her policy is on international students coming to the UK to study.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	282386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>We strongly believe in the benefits of migration and we will continue to ensure that we attract the best and brightest talent to the UK. We will deliver a system that welcomes to this country the people who want to contribute, but that enables us to control migration.</p><p><br>We want to attract international students to study in the UK and study at our world class institutions.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 06/09/2019 14:45:16 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1142157

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Stone: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to re-establish the Metal Theft Taskforce with an extended remit to include stone theft.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham P Jones
uin	282304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>We provided over £6 million of funding for the police-led Metal Theft Taskforce to help ensure the reforms to tackle metal theft introduced by the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 were embedded within the normal business of police forces and local authorities.</p><p>The Taskforce was not intended to be a long-term arrangement and disbanded in 2014 following the successful implementation of the 2013 Act. <br>The most recent statistics show that recorded levels of metal theft offences in March 2018 are still 73% lower compared with March 2013.</p><p>We continue to work with the police, industry, local authorities and others on this issue and on acquisitive crime more generally.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2019 13:20:45 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

1142191

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Criminal Investigation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of police capacity to adequately investigate low-level crimes.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	282486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>We recognise that demand on policing is changing and becoming more complex. That is why we provided an additional £1 billion of funding for policing in 2019/20 and PCCs announced plans to recruit an additional 3000 police officers and over 700 police staff.</p><p>The Government is now going even further – the Prime Minister announced on 26 July our commitment to recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers in England and Wales over the next three years.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2019 13:14:51 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1142192

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of low-level crimes that were reported but not investigated in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	282487
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and routinely publishes information on how notifiable crimes that have been reported to and recorded by the police in England and Wales have been resolved.</p><p><br>Since April 2013, when the Home Office introduced a new outcomes framework, greater transparency has been provided on how all notifiable crimes recorded by the police have been resolved.</p><p><br>Prior to this information on how notifiable crimes recorded by the police were resolved was limited to those cases resulting in a formal or informal criminal justice outcome.</p><p><br>Published data can be found here:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics%20 https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crimes-detected-in-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics</a></p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics%20 https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crimes-detected-in-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crimes-detected-in-england-and-wales </a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2019 13:55:19 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1142193

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Emergency Calls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of police response time to emergency calls.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	282488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>The handling of 999/101 calls, including response times and performance targets is an operational matter for the police.</p><p>The Home Office does not collect data on the 999 emergency service.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 282489 question first answered 06/09/2019 13:49:27 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1142194

registered interest
date	25/07/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Emergency Calls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of emergency calls that did not receive a police response within one hour in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
uin	282489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2019 answer text <p>The handling of 999/101 calls, including response times and performance targets is an operational matter for the police.</p><p>The Home Office does not collect data on the 999 emergency service.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 282488 question first answered 06/09/2019 13:49:27 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves