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1125678

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Rural Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces undertook a rural proofing review of policies adopted in 2018-2019.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	252477
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2019 answer text <p>We recognise that certain crimes may disproportionately or predominantly affect rural areas. That is why we welcome the Rural Affairs Strategy published by the National Police Chiefs’ Council in July 2018. The Strategy sets out operational and organisational policing priorities in respect of tackling rural crime and can be found at: <a href="https://www.nwcu.police.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NPCC-Rural-affairs-Strategy-2018-2021.pdf." target="_blank">https://www.nwcu.police.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NPCC-Rural-affairs-Strategy-2018-2021.pdf.</a></p><p><br>Through the election of Police and Crime Commissioners we have ensured that communities, including those in rural areas, have a strong voice in determining how police resources are allocated to tackle the crimes that matter most to them.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 14/05/2019 13:26:49 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1125237

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2019
	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, which animals have been licensed for animal experimentation in the UK for any of the last three years figures which are available.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	251889
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>All animal species that were used in regulated procedures in Great Britain can be found in Table 1 of the data tables published within the ‘Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals’ statistical reports.<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals</a></p><p>There is a further breakdown, for the 2017 year only, of those included within the ‘other’ species categories. This can be found within Table 12 of the data tables published in the 2017 statistical report.<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals-great-britain-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals-great-britain-2017</a></p><p>In 2017, the majority of experimental procedures used mice, fish and rats. Together these three species accounted for 87% of experimental procedures in Great Britain</p><p><br>For Northern Ireland, the Department of Health separately collects and publishes information on regulated procedures under devolved arrangements</p><p>The animal species used in regulated procedures in Northern Ireland can also be found in Table 1 of the data tables published within the ‘Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals in Northern Ireland’ reports. <a href="https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/publications/statistics-scientific-procedures-living-animals-northern-ireland" target="_blank">https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/publications/statistics-scientific-procedures-living-animals-northern-ireland</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 13/05/2019 16:27:41 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1125033

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Firearms: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with police forces on potential changes to the firearms licensing policy to require a medical declaration; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	251211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>Following the introduction of new medical arrangements for firearms licensing in 2016 we have been in discussions with the police, the relevant medical bodies and representatives of shooting organisations about improving the arrangements, and how greater consistency can be achieved across England and Wales.</p><p>The Policing and Crime Act 2017 introduced a power to enable the Secretary of State to issue statutory guidance to the police on their firearms licensing functions, and this guidance will include the relevant medical arrangements. Before issuing the statutory guidance, the Secretary of State must consult the National Police Chiefs Council and the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Scotland, and we will also consult publicly on the guidance before it is finalised. The Government intends to launch the consultation on the statutory guidance before the summer recess.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 13/05/2019 15:56:23 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1125039

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Animal Experiments: Primates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what primates were used in animal experimentation; and from which countries in each of the last three years figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	251212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2019 answer text <p>Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals in Great Britain are published on an annual basis. The reports for the last three years are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals.</a></p><p>The number of non-human primates used for the first time in procedures in that year is given in Table 1a of the data tables published in each of the last three statistical reports.</p><p>The place of birth of non-human primates used for the first time in experimental procedures by species in that year is given in Table 2.2 of the data tables published in each of the last three statistical reports. Place of birth is presented by whether the animals were born in the UK, EU, Asia, America, Africa or elsewhere. Data are not collected on the specific country of birth.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 13/05/2019 15:15:13 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1123709

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Speed Limits: Automatic Number Plate Recognition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to enable local communities in cooperation with the police to use information accrued from ANPR to prosecute drivers who regularly break the speed limit.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	248574
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2019 answer text <p>Speeding offences can only be enforced by speed cameras using laser or radar that have met the requirements of Home Office Type Approval. There are, therefore, no plans to develop ANPR cameras to detect speeding offences.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 02/05/2019 15:32:22 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1082233

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Motorways: Speed Limits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been issued speeding fines on the (a) M1, (b) M2, (c) M3, (d) M4, (e) M5 and (f) M6 in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	228554
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested centrally.</p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of fixed penalty notices (FPNs) issued for speed limit offences. An FPN is a prescribed financial penalty issued to a motorist following a range of motoring offences, such as speed limit offences. Detailed information on the location where the offence took place is not collected or held by the Home Office.</p><p>Data on FPNs for speed limit offences can be found in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which can be accessed here:</p><p><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales </a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 11/03/2019 16:19:21 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1058902

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: Iran
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for Leave to Remain from citizens of Iran were (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful; and how many of those unsuccessful applications were as a result of not being able to prove Christian faith for each year since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	219274
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it, in accordance with our obligations under the Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).</p><p><br>The number of Iranians who have claimed asylum in the UK up to Quarter 3 2018 (year ending Sept 18) and those who have been granted leave (Asylum/HP/ELR/other) can be found at the published Immigration Statistics, Asylum Data Tables Volume 1, table as_01_q:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables#asylum" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables#asylum</a></p><p><br>We cannot provide data on the reasons why the asylum claims were made i.e. the Convention reason, as the basis of a person’s asylum claim is recorded on their individual Home Office file, but not in a way that can be easily aggregated, so we cannot provide figures on how many claims were unsuccessful as a result of not being able to prove Christian faith. As such, this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost, because it would require a manual search through individual records.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 14/02/2019 14:02:44 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1038505

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Sudan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what dates representatives from his Department visited Sudan as part of the ongoing country guidance case into the risk of return for failed asylum seekers in Darfur and the Nuba Mountains.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	206728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Officials from the Home Office undertook a fact finding mission to Khartoum only between 10 and 17 August 2018 to obtain information about the treatment of non-Arab Darfuris in particular and returnees more generally.</p><p>Background to the mission and its findings are set out in a report published in November 2018, which is available on the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sudan-country-policy-and-information-notes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sudan-country-policy-and-information-notes</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 206729 question first answered 14/01/2019 15:19:24 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1038506

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Sudan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which areas of Sudan representatives of his Department visited as part of the ongoing country guidance case into the risk of return for failed asylum seekers in Darfur and the Nuba Mountains.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	206729
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Officials from the Home Office undertook a fact finding mission to Khartoum only between 10 and 17 August 2018 to obtain information about the treatment of non-Arab Darfuris in particular and returnees more generally.</p><p>Background to the mission and its findings are set out in a report published in November 2018, which is available on the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sudan-country-policy-and-information-notes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sudan-country-policy-and-information-notes</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 206728 question first answered 14/01/2019 15:19:24 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1035123

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Veterinary Medicine
	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 include veterinary surgeons in his Department's proposals to remove the cap on the number of non-UK skilled workers.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	205157
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2019 answer text <p>On 19 December, the Government set out its proposals for future skills-based immigration system. Paragraph 6.13 of the White Paper indicates that the Government accepts the Migration Advisory Committee’s recommendation that the skilled migration route in the future system, which will encompass veterinary surgeons, should not be subject to a cap.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 09/01/2019 16:15:44 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew