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858568

registered interest
date	09/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Liverpool Walton
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 effect of the reduction in neighbourhood policing on the police’s ability to counter violent crime in Liverpool, Walton constituency; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	131823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>It is for operationally independent Chief Constables to decide how to best deploy officers in their force area to effectively counter violent crime. Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) are elected by the public to hold Chief Constables and the force to account; making the police answerable to the communities they serve.</p><p>The PCC for Merseyside has chosen to use precept flexibility to increase the force’s direct funding by around £5.2m in 2018/19. She has set out her intention to use this funding to protect front line policing and enhance the force’s armed capability to help combat serious violence.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 15/03/2018 18:50:16 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

858569

registered interest
date	09/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Fires
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 the adequacy of specialist firefighting equipment available to the fire services as a result of the Grenfell Tower fire.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	131824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of each fire and rescue authority to allocate their resources, including equipment, across prevention, protection and operational response to prevent and mitigate effectively the fire related risks facing their communities.</p><p>Home Office also supports specialist National Resilience capabilities to respond to large scale incidents. These capabilities are discussed quarterly at the National Fire Chief Council’s National Resilience Board and the Home Office Strategic Resilience Board to ensure that the agreed capabilities are in place, well maintained and remain fit for purpose.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 15/03/2018 18:52:18 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

858570

registered interest
date	09/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Knives: Liverpool Walton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the trends in the level of knife crime in Liverpool, Walton constituency since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	131825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office collects data on the number of selected offences involving a knife or a sharp instrument recorded by the police in England and Wales at the police force area level.</p><p>Data on knife offences at the police force area level can be found in the Home Office Knife Crime Open Data Tables, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 15/03/2018 18:48:14 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

858571

registered interest
date	09/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of changes in the level of crimes involving firearms in (a) England and (b) Liverpool Walton constituency in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	131826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2018 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics publishes offences recorded by the police involving firearms at the police force area level. Offences involving firearms includes any notifiable offence recorded by the police where a firearm has been fired, used as a blunt instrument or been used as a threat. Figures for England and Wales are in Table 12 of Offences involving the use of weapons: data tables, year ending March 2017 available here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/offencesinvolvingtheuseofweaponsdatatables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/offencesinvolvingtheuseofweaponsdatatables</a></p><p>Data are not available at a lower geographical level than police force area.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 15/03/2018 18:44:30 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

786418

registered interest
date	07/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 9634, on asylum, (a) when and (b) where the information on the number of people claiming asylum on the basis of sexuality or gender identity in each year since 2011 will be published.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	112122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office remains committed to publishing information on the number of people claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation. Work is ongoing to assure the quality of the data for publication in line with reporting standards.</p><p>The Home Office is also considering the most suitable vehicle for publishing the data.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 15/11/2017 10:43:46 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

783158

registered interest
date	03/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Organised Crime: Merseyside
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 trends in the level of child exploitation by criminal gangs across Merseyside.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	111303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2017 answer text <p>Intelligence and information on child criminal exploitation is collected at individual force level and Merseyside Police will hold the relevant information. At a national level, the National Crime Agency (NCA) is responsible for producing a national threat assessment on county lines based on information provided by individual forces and Regional Organised Crime Units and this includes child criminal exploitation. The next national threat assessment by the NCA is due to be published very shortly.</p><p> </p><p>We are taking firm action to tackle the issue of child criminal exploitation and county lines this includes: publishing new guidance for practitioners on identifying county lines and helping those being exploited; funding a pilot service for exploited young people caught up in county lines drugs running; match-funding local reviews to build resilience in areas where there are concerns about county lines; and we will be shortly implementing new powers to enable the police to close down mobile phone numbers that are being used to deal drugs as part of the county lines model.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/11/2017 17:29:02 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

758991

registered interest
date	08/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims have included reference to sexuality or gender identity in each year since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	9634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office remains committed to publishing information on the number of people claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation. Work is ongoing to assure the quality of the data for publication in line with reporting standards</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 12/09/2017 16:43:39 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

758628

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Crime
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 the Chancellor of the Exchequer on additional funding to tackle gun crime for (a) Merseyside Police and (b) other police forces.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	9333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>The Home Secretary is in regular discussion with the Chancellor about Home Office funding, including that for the police.</p><p> </p><p>The 2015 Spending Review protected police funding in real terms, assuming Police and Crime Commissioners maximise precept. Since then, police forces have received broadly flat cash direct resource funding and we are increasing investment in transformation and improved communications and technology capabilities. As a result, Merseyside police force received £500,000 more in 2017/18 compared with 2015/16.</p><p>However, the Government recognises that the police have faced significant challenges this year. We have, therefore, set in hand a programme of engagement to understand better the demands they face, and how these can best be managed. As part of this, the Minister for Policing and Fire Minister will be visiting a number of forces, including Merseyside, over the next few months.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 13/09/2017 14:35:22 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

758775

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Merseyside Police
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with Merseyside Police on the effect of (a) funding and (b) the number of police officers on tackling (i) serious and organised and (ii) gun crime across Merseyside.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	9335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The 2015 Spending Review protected police funding in real terms, assuming Police and Crime Commissioners maximise precept. Since then, police forces have received broadly flat cash direct resource funding and we are increasing investment in transformation and improved communications and technology capabilities. As a result, Merseyside police force received £500,000 more in 2017/18 compared with 2015/16. However, the Government recognises that the police have faced significant challenges this year. We have, therefore, set in hand a programme of engagement to understand better the demands they face, and how these can best be managed. As part of this, the Minister for Policing and Fire Minister will be speaking to, and visiting, a number of forces over the next few months.</p><p> </p><p>We are in regular discussion with police forces and the National Ballistics Intelligence Service to monitor gun crime levels. The ONS statistics show that firearms offences are 34% lower than they were a decade ago, though there has been an increase nationally in recent years. The opposite has been the case in Merseyside in recent years, with firearms offences falling. However, we know incidents where a firearm has been discharged have increased over the last year in Merseyside.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to work closely with law enforcement partners to ensure that we have the right intelligence, detection and enforcement capabilities internationally, at the UK border and within the UK. For example, firearms controls have been strengthened through the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and a multi-agency firearms unit has been established. On 5<sup>th</sup> September this unit was awarded £2.4m of Police Transformation Funding. We are also introducing statutory guidance for the police on firearms licensing to ensure that the robust processes in place for assessing an individual’s suitability to own a gun are applied consistently. Last year we initiated a new firearms science and technology programme, committing £2m over two years, to the development of automatic threat detection technology.</p><p> </p><p>Complementary to this work at the national level, the Home Office supports the local and regional response to crime where appropriate, and discussions are ongoing about the support available for Merseyside. The Home Secretary’s letter to Maria Eagle MP of 5th September, copied to you, provides further detail on this.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 09/10/2017 16:34:13 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

758777

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Crime
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 the trends in the level of gun crime in (a) Merseyside and (b) England and the implications of that assessment for any reform of police funding.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	9334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>The UK has some of the toughest gun laws in the world and an excellent record on enforcement. As a result firearm offences make up a small proportion of overall recorded crime.</p><p> </p><p>We are in regular discussion with police forces and the National Ballistics Intelligence Service to monitor gun crime levels. The ONS statistics show that firearms offences are 34% lower than they were a decade ago, though there has been an increase nationally in recent years. The opposite has been the case in Merseyside in recent years, with firearms offences falling. However, we know incidents where a firearm has been discharged have increased over the last year in Merseyside.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to work closely with law enforcement partners to ensure that we have the right intelligence, detection and enforcement capabilities internationally, at the UK border and within the UK. For example, firearms controls have been strengthened through the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and a multi-agency firearms unit has been established. On 5<sup>th</sup> September this unit was awarded £2.4m of Police Transformation Funding. We are also introducing statutory guidance for the police on firearms licensing to ensure that the robust processes in place for assessing an individual’s suitability to own a gun are applied consistently. Last year we initiated a new firearms science and technology programme, committing £2m over two years, to the development of automatic threat detection technology.</p><p> </p><p>The 2015 Spending Review protected police funding in real terms, assuming Police and Crime Commissioners maximise precept. Since then, police forces have received broadly flat cash direct resource funding and we are increasing investment in transformation and improved communications and technology capabilities. As a result, Merseyside police force received £500,000 more in 2017/18 compared with 2015/16. However, the Government recognises that the police have faced significant challenges this year. We have, therefore, set in hand a programme of engagement to understand better the demands they face, and how these can best be managed. As part of this, the Minister for Policing and Fire Minister will be visiting a number of forces, including Merseyside, over the next few months.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 13/09/2017 15:15:31 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden