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752120

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department have responsibilities relating to the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	5027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK’s exit from the EU is a cross-government operation. The Department for Exiting the European Union is doing detailed work with departments to prepare for the upcoming negotiations by understanding the risks and opportunities of leaving the EU and coordinating planning.</p><p> </p><p>Staff within the Home Office Europe Directorate and the Border Immigration and Citizenship System Policy and Strategy Group lead on providing advice to Ministers on EU exit and exit related issues. Members of staff across the Department also provide advice and analysis on EU exit issues as required.</p><p> </p><p>Given the interactions between EU exit work and the Department’s other priorities, it would not be possible to give an accurate figure on how many staff in the Home Office have responsibilities relating to exiting the EU.</p> answering member constituency Hastings and Rye answering member printed Amber Rudd question first answered 24/07/2017 15:59:58 answering member 3983 label Biography information for Amber Rudd
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

752159

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Metropolitan Police
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 reduce the number of police officers in the Metropolitan Police Force during the course of the current Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	4995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>The 2015 Spending Review protected overall police spending in real terms, and the 2017/18 police funding settlement maintained that protection.</p><p>It is a local decision for Police and Crime Commissioners, working with Chief Constables, to determine the composition and size of their workforce.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/07/2017 12:22:05 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

752160

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Metropolitan Police: Safer Neighbourhood Teams
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many metropolitan police officers there were serving in Greater London in Safer Neighbourhood Teams in (a) 2011 and (b) 2016.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	4997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of officers primarily employed in Neighbourhood Policing/Safer Neighbourhood roles by police force area.</p><p> </p><p>The number of full time equivalent police officers in the Metropolitan Police,</p><p>primarily employed in Neighbourhood Policing/Safer Neighbourhood roles, can be found in the data tables published alongside the annual ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins, which can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a></p><p> </p><p>Data as at 31 March 2016 can be found in Table F4 of the police workforce statistics published in July 2016: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/544954/police-workforce-tabs-jul16.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/544954/police-workforce-tabs-jul16.ods</a></p><p> </p><p>Previous data were collected under a different framework, with different definitions. Therefore, data prior to 31 March 2015 are not directly comparable with later years. Although some functions may appear to be similar between the two, there are often differences in definitions, and so any attempts to compare across the two frameworks should be done with caution. Data under the old framework have been published since 2012, and can be found in the supplementary data tables of the relevant police workforce publications via the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a></p><p> </p><p>Officers with multiple responsibilities or designations are recorded under their primary function. The data do not therefore provide a complete picture of all officers assigned to neighbourhood policing functions. A more reliable measure is the number of officers employed in ‘Local policing’ roles, which includes both neighbourhood and response functions. This measure is available for 2015 and 2016, but not for previous years where a different framework was used.</p><p> </p><p>Any comparisons at force level should be made with care due to collaboration arrangements between forces for particular functions. Additionally, police functions data are often affected by re-structuring within police forces. Therefore comparisons over time for specific functions should be made with care.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/07/2017 12:24:43 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

752161

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: Police
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers were assigned to counter-terrorism duties in (a) 2011 and (b) 2016.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	4996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes police workforce data annually on the number of officers primarily employed in Counter Terrorism/Special Branch roles as part of the <em>Police workforce, England and Wales </em>statistical bulletin. This can be accessed at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Data as at 31 March 2016 can be found in Table F4 of the police workforce statistics published in July 2016 at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/544954/police-workforce-tabs-jul16.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/544954/police-workforce-tabs-jul16.ods</a> and record that 3,888 officers were designated as primarily involved in counter-terrorism or Special Branch.</p><p> </p><p>This figure does not include all officers supporting counter-terrorism work and excludes many of those posts funded separately by the Counter-Terrorism Policing Grant and those in some national counter-terrorism functions. For reasons of national security, we do not publish the number or location of posts funded by the Counter-Terrorism Policing Grant. The published figures do not, therefore, reflect the total number of officers assigned to counter-terrorism policing.</p><p> </p><p>Previous data were collected under a different framework, with different definitions. Therefore, data prior to 31 March 2015 are not directly comparable with later years. Although some functions may appear to be similar between the two frameworks, there are often differences in definitions, and so any attempts to compare across the two should be done with caution. Data under the old framework have been published since 2012, and can be found in the supplementary data tables of the relevant police workforce publications via the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a></p><p> </p><p>Any comparisons at force level should be made with care due to collaboration arrangements between forces for particular functions. Additionally, police functions data are often affected by re-structuring within police forces. Therefore comparisons over time for specific functions should be made with care.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/07/2017 12:23:41 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

751814

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Finance
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 Answer of 13 March 2017 to Question 3658, how many requests for special grants from which police forces HM Inspectorate of Constabulary is considering (a) now and (b) for 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	4910
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Ministers receive a number of applications throughout the year, which are typically referred to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary to review before a final decision. Special Grant is a discretionary budget and the number of applications that will be received throughout the year is unknown. The Home Office publishes the applications and decisions taken on Special Grant at the end of the financial year. This can be found at the link below. Data relating to 2016/17 will be published shortly.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-funding-special-grant-applications" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-funding-special-grant-applications</a></p><p> </p><p>Applications for Special Grant from 2007 to 2014 can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/special-grants-paid-to-the-police-forces-in-england-and-wales-from-2007-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/special-grants-paid-to-the-police-forces-in-england-and-wales-from-2007-to-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 19/07/2017 12:55:42 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

751816

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Cameras
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure that all on-duty uniformed and armed officers wear body-worn cameras.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	4840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The decision to procure and deploy body worn video (BWV) cameras is one for Police and Crime Commissioner and chief officers.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 19/07/2017 12:53:47 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

751817

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: EEA Nationals
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 effect of the UK leaving the EU on the prevention of trafficking of EEA nationals.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	4824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK continues to work with EU partners to tackle modern slavery and already has well-established rights and protections for victims of modern slavery and human trafficking, including through the National Referral Mechanism and the Modern Slavery Act 2015.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 21/07/2017 11:07:18 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

751966

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Railway Line: Hillingdon
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government to what timescale they aim to issue decisions on applications from asylum seekers for section 95 accommodation and subsistence support.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>Asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute can apply for free accommodation and cash support to cover their essential living needs whilst their cases are considered.</p><p>If they have an emergency need for accommodation they can ask to be put in initial accommodation whilst their support applications are being processed and the vast majority of such requests are processed on the same day. We aim to resolve Section 95 applications received from people in Initial Accommodation within 3 days and other applications from people staying in private accommodation within 10 days. All cases are considered on their own merits, in some cases applicants are asked to provide further information before a decision on eligibility can reached. Information on the average length of time between asylum support application and payment is not routinely collected and could only be provided by examination of individual case records, which would result in disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 20/07/2017 10:44:01 question first ministerially corrected 20/07/2017 14:36:50 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford previous answer version 6009 answering member printed Lord Lee of Trafford answering member 1132
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

751967

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Nationality: British Overseas Territories
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government to what timescale they aim to issue decisions on applications from asylum seekers for section 95 subsistence only support.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>Asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute can apply for free accommodation and cash support to cover their essential living needs whilst their cases are considered.</p><p>If they have an emergency need for accommodation they can ask to be put in initial accommodation whilst their support applications are being processed and the vast majority of such requests are processed on the same day. We aim to resolve Section 95 applications received from people in Initial Accommodation within 3 days and other applications from people staying in private accommodation within 10 days. All cases are considered on their own merits, in some cases applicants are asked to provide further information before a decision on eligibility can reached. Information on the average length of time between asylum support application and payment is not routinely collected and could only be provided by examination of individual case records, which would result in disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 20/07/2017 10:44:01 question first ministerially corrected 20/07/2017 15:14:18 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford previous answer version 6010 answering member printed Lord Lee of Trafford answering member 1132
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

751968

registered interest
date	13/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Financial Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what is the average time taken over the past 12 months for issuing decisions on applications from asylum seekers for section 95 accommodation and subsistence support.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL803
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>Asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute can apply for free accommodation and cash support to cover their essential living needs whilst their cases are considered.</p><p>If they have an emergency need for accommodation they can ask to be put in initial accommodation whilst their support applications are being processed and the vast majority of such requests are processed on the same day. We aim to resolve Section 95 applications received from people in Initial Accommodation within 3 days and other applications from people staying in private accommodation within 10 days. All cases are considered on their own merits, in some cases applicants are asked to provide further information before a decision on eligibility can reached. Information on the average length of time between asylum support application and payment is not routinely collected and could only be provided by examination of individual case records, which would result in disproportionate cost.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 20/07/2017 10:44:02 question first ministerially corrected 20/07/2017 15:16:52 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford previous answer version 6011 answering member printed Lord Lee of Trafford answering member 1132
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham