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1677419

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments: Cosmetics
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 29 November 2023 to Question 2844 on Animal Experiments: Cosmetics, whether animal testing of chemicals used exclusively as cosmetics ingredients is being conducted in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	6486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>The regulation of animals in science under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 is a transferred matter under the Northern Ireland devolution settlement.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 19/12/2023 16:46:57 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1671781

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Dog Fighting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help ensure that police forces have the resources to tackle illegal dog fighting.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	2842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office remains committed to ensuring that the police have the resources they need. However, it is for Chief Constables and directly elected PCCs, and Mayors with PCC functions to make operational decisions based on their local knowledge and experience, including how to allocate resources.</p><p>The police now have record ever numbers across England &amp; Wales, and that Police funding is £550m higher this year than last year.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 29/11/2023 16:46:49 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1671801

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments: Cosmetics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to revoke licences for testing cosmetics ingredients on animals issued between 2019 and 2022.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	2844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>The Home Secretary’s written statement of 17 May 2023 announced a ban on new licences for animal testing of chemicals used exclusively as cosmetics ingredients, carried out under chemicals (REACH) regulations for the purpose of worker and environmental safety.</p><p>The Home Office has completed its review of existing ‘legacy’ licences and has engaged with the relevant companies. I can confirm that, in Great Britain, no animal testing is being conducted, nor will any testing be authorised, of chemicals that are exclusively intended to be used as ingredients in cosmetics products.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 29/11/2023 15:32:40 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1641316

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments: Cosmetics
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 plans to revoke existing licences for testing cosmetics ingredients on animals issued between 2019 and 2022.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	187145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government is engaging with the relevant companies to urgently determine a way forward on legacy licences.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 12/06/2023 14:58:34 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1609146

registered interest
date	30/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Bolton South East
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 estimate of how many (a) outstanding asylum claims there are from people in and (b) refugees there are in Bolton South East constituency as of 30 March 2023.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	177758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Whilst the Home Office holds data on the address of asylum claimants and those granted asylum, this information is not held in a reportable format and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Therefore, the Home Office is unable to provide the number of (a) outstanding asylum claims from claimants and (b) the number of refugees currently residing in Bolton South East constituency as of 30 March 2023.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The requested information is not held in a reportable format and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Whilst the Home Office holds information on the addresses of asylum claimants and those seeking further leave to remain, the number <em>residing in Bolton South East constituency as of </em>30 March 2023 is not held in a reportable format and would require a manual search through individual records. </ins></p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/04/2023 13:52:54 question first ministerially corrected 24/04/2023 11:04:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 69545 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1552159

registered interest
date	15/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism and Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what impact assessments her Department has conducted in relation to data protection measures and the Prevent duty; and whether her Department requires external agencies to conduct assessments in line with the Data Protection Act 2018 in relation to them adhering to that Duty.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	111567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>To protect individuals against radicalisation, information may need to be shared with other statutory partners, such as the local authority or police. The Prevent duty guidance makes it clear that this must be assessed on a case-by-case basis.</p><p>The Home Office has policies and procedures in place to ensure impacts are thoroughly considered on a case-by-case basis, undertaking its statutory duties including Equality Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessments. The majority of Home Office data is processed under Part 2, General Processing, of the Data Protection Act 2018; however, this can vary.</p><p>The Prevent duty training offer has recently been updated and is available on gov.uk. Information sharing principles and data protection form a key element of the training courses. This also includes a good practice video and links to other government resources for further advice. Data protection will also feature in our new training offer that will replace the Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent. This is currently in development.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat grouped question UIN 111569 question first answered 22/12/2022 11:41:27 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1552164

registered interest
date	15/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism and Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether data protection is covered in her Department's training on the Prevent Duty as part of its Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	111569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>To protect individuals against radicalisation, information may need to be shared with other statutory partners, such as the local authority or police. The Prevent duty guidance makes it clear that this must be assessed on a case-by-case basis.</p><p>The Home Office has policies and procedures in place to ensure impacts are thoroughly considered on a case-by-case basis, undertaking its statutory duties including Equality Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessments. The majority of Home Office data is processed under Part 2, General Processing, of the Data Protection Act 2018; however, this can vary.</p><p>The Prevent duty training offer has recently been updated and is available on gov.uk. Information sharing principles and data protection form a key element of the training courses. This also includes a good practice video and links to other government resources for further advice. Data protection will also feature in our new training offer that will replace the Workshop to Raise Awareness of Prevent. This is currently in development.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat grouped question UIN 111567 question first answered 22/12/2022 11:41:27 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1551088

registered interest
date	13/12/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
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 it her Department's policy to ban animal testing where it causes animals severe suffering; and whether she is taking steps to promote New Approach Methodologies to replace animal testing.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	109510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The use of animals in science supports the development of new medicines and the safety of our environment, for the benefit of humans and animals.</p><p>The Home Office assures appropriate protection of the use of animals in science through licensing and compliance assurance under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. This legal framework, implemented by the Home Office Regulator, requires that animals are only ever used in science where there are no alternatives, where the number of animals used is the minimum needed to achieve the scientific benefit, and where the potential harm to animals is limited to that needed to achieve the scientific benefit.</p><p>The Government actively supports and funds the development and dissemination of the 3Rs. This is achieved through funding UK Research and Investment who fund the National Centre for the 3Rs and research through Innovate UK, the Medical Research Council and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council into the development of alternatives.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 20/12/2022 15:51:28 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1473246

registered interest
date	24/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Bolton
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 based in (a) Bolton South East constituency and (b) the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	24570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>These data are collected by Police Force Area only, and lower levels of geography, such as Parliamentary Constituencies or Metropolitan Boroughs are not collected. Data on the number of police officers in Greater Manchester Police, on both a full-time equivalent (FTE) and a headcount basis, as at 31 March each year since 2007 are available in the Open Data Tables that accompany the release here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005761/open-data-table-police-workforce-280721.ods</p><p>The next release of ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’, which will cover the situation as at March 2022, is scheduled for release on Wednesday 27<sup>th</sup> July.</p><p>While the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, throughout the duration of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office also publishes a quarterly update on the number of officers (headcount only) in England and Wales by Police Force Area. The latest release contains provisional headcount figures for 31 March 2022, which are available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-officer-uplift-statistics" target="_blank">Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 29/06/2022 16:39:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1473247

registered interest
date	24/06/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Per Capita Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the average spending, per head, on police in (a) Bolton South East constituency, (b) the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, (c) the North West and (d) England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	24571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold figures below the level of Police Force Area.</p><p>On the 2<sup>nd</sup> February 2022, the Government published a total police funding settlement of up to £16.9 billion in 2022/23, an increase of up to £1.1 billion when compared to 2021/22.</p><p>Lancashire’s funding will be up to £343.7m in 2022/23, an increase of up to £17.9m when compared to 2021/22.</p><p>Operational decisions, including those on local priorities, remain the responsibility of Chief Constables and directly elected Police and Crime Commissioner’s.</p><p>We recognise that the current police funding formula is out of date and no longer accurately reflects demand on policing. We are committed to introducing a new formula that fairly and transparently distributes the circa £8.6bn of annual core grant funding to the 43 police forces in England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 29/06/2022 15:52:58 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi