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	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	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 officials in his Department have been seconded away from their normal duties to work on the UK's withdrawal from the EU; and what effect that secondment of staff has had on the effectiveness of his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	256196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2019 answer text <p>The department has been continually assessing the resourcing levels required to prepare for EU Exit across all possible scenarios, developing contingency plans in line with government policy. It is not possible to provide the number of staff who have been moved from normal duties. This is because staff are generally engaged across a range of workstreams, which will include business as usual activity as well as EU Exit preparations, across all scenarios.</p><p>To release existing capacity on to specialist roles to support the UK’s exit from the EU in an orderly manner, the Home Office took a number of reprioritisation choices in early 2019 to release capacity on to critical EU Exit roles. This was undertaken as part of a cross-government reprioritisation exercise.</p><p>As a general principle, reprioritisation decisions within the Home Office focussed on areas of its domestic work which could be scaled back or slowed, thus alleviating the need to halt these areas of work in their entirety whilst fulfilling the need to release the required numbers of specialist resource on to critical EU Exit roles.</p><p>To minimise the overall demand for internal reprioritisation, the Home Office also sought to secure resource through the Cabinet Office clearing hub, a government-wide initiative set up to meet the demands of EU Exit through cross-departmental redeployment of resource across policy and operational delivery roles.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/06/2019 13:33:23 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

798002

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	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 reduce knife crime
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	116909
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2017 answer text <p>Our work to tackle knife crime is centred on four key strands: working with the police on operations and enforcement; work on the legislative framework; to work with retailers on responsible sales of knives; and early intervention and prevention.</p><p> </p><p>We are encouraging police forces to undertake a series of coordinated national weeks of action to tackle knife crime under Operation Sceptre. It includes targeted stop and searches, weapon sweeps, test purchases of knives from retailers, the use of surrender bins, and educational activities. A record thirty-two police forces took part in the week of action in July.</p><p> </p><p>We have agreed a set of commitments with major retailers to prevent the underage sales of knives in their stores and online. The agreement also covers staff training and displays and packaging.</p><p> </p><p>We are keeping the legislative framework under review and we have taken action to ban zombie knives in August 2016. In addition on 14 October we launched a consultation on new legislation on offensive weapons. The proposals include placing restrictions on the online sale of knives, creating a new offence of possession of an offensive or dangerous weapon in a private place, and updating existing legislation. We have launched a community fund to support local communities to tackle knife crime.</p><p> </p><p>We are also supporting youth violence intervention and prevention work in hospital emergency departments including supporting the voluntary sector organisation, Redthread, undertake work in London hospitals and pilots its approach shortly in Nottingham and Birmingham.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/12/2017 12:25:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

798004

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Drugs: Organised Crime
	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 tackle the (a) organised crime, (b) gang activity and (c) drug dealing across county operating across county boundaries.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	116911
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office is leading a cross-Government programme of work to tackle the issue of county lines working with partners including the police and the National Crime Agency.</p><p> </p><p>We are taking a range of actions including: raising awareness in key sectors of the threat of county lines; legislating to enable police to shut down the mobile phone lines used to facilitate drug deals (the Drug Dealing Telecommunication Restriction Orders); supporting local and strategic reviews to strengthen resilience in areas at risk of county lines; and working with the police and the Crown Prosecution Service to take full advantage of powers in the Modern Slavery Act when making charging decisions against county line gang members.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office provides support to tackle county lines in various ways; including Publication of guidance for frontline professionals on how to identify potential victims of county lines and appropriate referral routes; match funding reviews for local areas facing new gang related threats including county lines; funding a pilot support service for exploited young victims caught up in county lines drugs running between London and Kent; funding through the EGVE Local Projects Fund delivering legislation to provide police and the NCA with the power to go to court to seek closure of phone numbers involved in county lines drug dealing.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/12/2017 12:22:51 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy