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1665748

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date	18/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Agricultural Machinery: Theft
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 with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce instances of theft of farm equipment and machinery.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	203259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>This Government is committed to driving down rural crime including theft of farm equipment and machinery.</p><p>To help prevent the theft of agricultural machinery, the Government has introduced the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act which will require immobilisers and forensic marking to be fitted as standard to all new All-Terrain Vehicles and quad bikes.</p><p>The Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023 gained Royal Assent on 20 July 2023. The Home Office issued a Call for Evidence to inform the necessary secondary legislation regulations, which closed on 13 July and responses are currently being considered.</p><p>There are currently no plans to include all agricultural vehicles. However, the provisions could be extended in the future, through secondary legislation, where evidence shows this is necessary.</p><p>I also welcome the recent commitment by chief constables across England and Wales, to pursue any available evidence where there is a reasonable chance it could lead them to catching a perpetrator and solving a crime. This relates to all crimes, no matter where they are committed.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/10/2023 11:52:09 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1356835

registered interest
date	20/09/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Supermarkets: Slavery
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 supermarket supply chains do not support modern slavery through third party suppliers.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	51658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/09/2021 answer text <p>Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires businesses, including supermarkets, with a turnover of £36m or more to report annually on the steps they have taken to prevent modern slavery in their operations and supply chains.</p><p>The prevalence of modern slavery and complexity of global supply chains means that it is highly unlikely that any sector or company is immune from the risks of modern slavery. The Home Office’s statutory guidance on producing modern slavery statements suggests that statements should include the risk assessment and due diligence organisations undertook to prevent and tackle modern slavery. The Government encourages companies to report transparently about how they are identifying and mitigating modern slavery risks in their operations and supply chains, and to use their modern slavery statements to demonstrate year on year progress.</p><p>To enhance the impact of transparency and accelerate action to prevent modern slavery, the Government announced an ambitious package of changes to strengthen the reporting requirements on businesses and has committed to introduce financial penalties for those that fail to meet their obligations to publish statements under section 54. To further enhance transparency, in March 2021, the Government launched a digital registry for modern slavery statements to make statements available in one place. The registry will make it easier for investors, consumers and civil society to scrutinise the action being taken by different organisations and monitor progress.</p><p>The Government is currently reviewing its Modern Slavery Strategy and will consider whether there are further opportunities to enhance our approach to transparency in supply chains.</p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 27/09/2021 11:30:18 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1236016

registered interest
date	22/09/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Magnet Fishing
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 bring forward legislation proposals to regulate magnet fishing to make it mandatory to declare all finds of (a) barrelled weapons, (b) bladed instruments above three inches and (c) munitions.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	92641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2020 answer text <p>It is already the case that anybody who finds a firearm or ammunition under any circumstances, including whilst magnet fishing, must notify the police. They are likely otherwise to be committing an offence by being in unlawful possession, given that most of these items are subject to strict licensing controls under firearms legislation.</p><p>Similar considerations apply for bladed articles which are found. These may be prohibited under the Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959 or the Criminal Justice Act 1988. In addition, it is an offence to carry an article with blade or point in public without good reason, under section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988. The Offensive Weapons Act 2019 strengthens the law further in respect of knives and bladed articles and will make it an offence to possess prohibited weapons in private.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 29/09/2020 09:09:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

1198464

registered interest
date	26/05/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Aviation: Passengers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Office, if she will publish the number of passengers that arrived at UK airports from abroad (a) from 11 May 2020 to 18 May 2020 and (b) from 19 May 2020 to 26 May 2020.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	51776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on passenger arrivals to the UK in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of arrivals can be found in the admissions tables. Information on passenger arrivals up to the end of June 2020 will be published in the August 2020 release.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Home Office published Statistics relating to Covid-19 and the immigration system, May 2020, which includes information on the impact of COVID-19 on passenger arrivals.</p><p> </p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 09/06/2020 13:01:17 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

451548

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Smoke Alarms: Hearing Impaired
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 take steps to ensure that local fire authorities install deaf awareness alternative smoke alarms in homes which make use of warning lights rather than sound as a warning system when requested.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	26463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2016 answer text <p>We expect local fire and rescue authorities to determine how to allocate their resources to best protect their communities from the risks from fire. Although each authority delivers a range of community fire safety interventions designed to prevent and reduce the risk from accidental dwelling fires, all also carry out a programme of home fire safety visits. In some cases, these visits, which offered tailored fire safety advice in the home, are focussed specifically on those who may be particularly vulnerable, including older people and those with disabilities. Fire and rescue authorities will, in certain circumstances, offer to provide and install free smoke alarms to households without them. This will include alarms designed specifically for those who may be deaf or have other hearing difficulties. How fire and rescue authorities decide where best to target their home fire safety visits and what fire safety equipment, if any, would reduce most effectively the risk to the household is a local matter based on a local assessment of risk.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 19/02/2016 09:30:11 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

427771

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Demonstrations: Clothing
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 bring forward legislative proposals to ban the wearing of masks at demonstrations in public spaces.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	15775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>Face coverings can be worn in public places for a variety of legitimate reasons and there are no plans to introduce a blanket ban at demonstrations or other public events. The police already have powers in relation to the wearing of face masks in public order situations under existing legislation.</p><p>Section 60AA of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 allows a police officer in uniform, following an authorisation relating to a specified area for a specified time (up to 24 hours initially), to remove or seize anything that he or she considers is being, or could be, worn wholly or mainly for the purposes of concealing identity. This would include all types of face coverings.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 16/11/2015 17:02:03 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

65328

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what system is in place to regularly review the number of Syrian resettlement places in the UK as part of the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme in order to ensure the scheme is responsive to need.
tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
uin	203565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We launched the Vulnerable Persons Relocation (VPR) scheme to help particularly <br>vulnerable displaced Syrians, for whom resettlement to the UK is the only <br>option. In particular, the programme prioritises survivors of torture and <br>violence, women and children at risk and those in need of medical care. We are <br>working closely with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) <br>in the region to identify the exceptional cases whose needs are so profound <br>that they need to be resettled to a country like the UK. The scheme is <br>therefore based on need, rather than designed to meet set arrival projections. <br>However, we will continue to bring groups here on a regular basis, and envisage <br>that several hundred people will be helped over the next three years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/07/2014 12:35:04 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard