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	registered interest
	date	31/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Offences against Children
	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 16 October 2018 to Question 176432 on Offences against Children, whether any funding requests from police forces for investigations into child sexual exploitation have been rejected by the Government in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	186384
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p /><p /><p>No applications for Special Grant funding in respect of investigations into Child Sexual Exploitation have been declined in the last three years.</p><p>Applications declined are published alongside successful applications on the Gov.uk website</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> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 05/11/2018 18:06:48 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

802757

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	101 Calls
	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 make the non-emergency police phone number 101 free to call from landlines and mobiles.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	118306
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>101 is the single non-emergency number for contacting the police. It was launched in December 2011 to provide a memorable and accessible number for contact with the police. It is shared with Police Scotland and Police Service Northern Ireland.</p><p>The number was rolled out nationally in 2011 with Vodafone as the single supplier for the service. Calls from mobile devices and landline telephones cost 15p regardless of call duration.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 118307 118308 118309 118313 question first answered 14/12/2017 16:51:17 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

802758

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	101 Calls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to publicise the cost to the caller of the non-emergency police telephone number 101.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	118307
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>101 is the single non-emergency number for contacting the police. It was launched in December 2011 to provide a memorable and accessible number for contact with the police. It is shared with Police Scotland and Police Service Northern Ireland.</p><p>The number was rolled out nationally in 2011 with Vodafone as the single supplier for the service. Calls from mobile devices and landline telephones cost 15p regardless of call duration.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 118306 118308 118309 118313 question first answered 14/12/2017 16:51:17 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

802759

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	101 Calls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many calls were made to the non-emergency police phone number 101 in (a) the UK and (b) Wales in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	118308
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>101 is the single non-emergency number for contacting the police. It was launched in December 2011 to provide a memorable and accessible number for contact with the police. It is shared with Police Scotland and Police Service Northern Ireland.</p><p>The number was rolled out nationally in 2011 with Vodafone as the single supplier for the service. Calls from mobile devices and landline telephones cost 15p regardless of call duration.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 118306 118307 118309 118313 question first answered 14/12/2017 16:51:17 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

802760

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	101 Calls
	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 duration of calls made to the non-emergency police phone number 101 in (a) the UK and (b) Wales in each of the last twelve months.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	118309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>101 is the single non-emergency number for contacting the police. It was launched in December 2011 to provide a memorable and accessible number for contact with the police. It is shared with Police Scotland and Police Service Northern Ireland.</p><p>The number was rolled out nationally in 2011 with Vodafone as the single supplier for the service. Calls from mobile devices and landline telephones cost 15p regardless of call duration.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 118306 118307 118308 118313 question first answered 14/12/2017 16:51:17 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

802764

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	101 Calls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost to callers of the non-emergency police phone number 101 in (a) the UK and (b) Wales in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	118313
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>101 is the single non-emergency number for contacting the police. It was launched in December 2011 to provide a memorable and accessible number for contact with the police. It is shared with Police Scotland and Police Service Northern Ireland.</p><p>The number was rolled out nationally in 2011 with Vodafone as the single supplier for the service. Calls from mobile devices and landline telephones cost 15p regardless of call duration.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 118306 118307 118308 118309 question first answered 14/12/2017 16:51:17 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1027305

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Pensions
	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 oral statement of 13 December 2018 on Police Funding Settlement, Official Report, column 431, for what reason the resource provided to cover unexpected increases in the contribution to public sector pensions will match the £165m identified by police chiefs as being the liability in 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	202836
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p><br /><del class="ministerial">The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These figures present a picture of the workforce as at the 31 March and as at 30 September each year. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical publication, 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></del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Data on the number of officers per 100,000 of the resident population, by police force area, are published on an annual basis. The latest available data on the number of police officers per 100,000 of the population can be found in Table_H4 of the data tables accompanying the main release, the latest of which can be accessed here:</del><br /><del class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2018</a></del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Data on the number of police officers are collected at Police Force Area level only, and cannot be broken at local authority level.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office does not hold information on response times of the police.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In his Budget, the Chancellor committed to providing funding for the police in 2019/20 to cover additional pensions costs beyond the £165m which was expected at Budget 2016. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The pensions grant announced at the settlement covers the additional pension costs above £165m for the police officer scheme, and the additional pension costs above £11m for police staff. This reflects revised costings following technical changes to how the actuarial estimate of the increase in costs for officers is assessed. Total expected cost pressures arising from the valuations are now £302m for the police officer scheme and £27m for police staff.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government is enabling an overall increase in funding of up to £970m in police funding including precept and national priorities. This pensions funding, taken together with the additional grant funding and local precept, provides sufficient means for the police to meet cost increases, while continuing to recruit and invest in the capabilities they need.</ins></p><p><br /><ins class="ministerial">Cost pressures, including pensions, beyond 2019/20 will be considered as part of the next Spending Review where decisions on longer term police funding will be made in the round.</ins></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 21/12/2018 16:00:34 question first ministerially corrected 04/01/2019 10:46:34 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd previous answer version 93551 answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1081933

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2019
	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 assessment he has made of trends in the level of knife offences in Havering in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	227986
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p><br>Data published by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime in London shows that offences involving knives in Havering have increased over the last five years, and at a faster rate than for the Metropolitan Police Service overall.</p><p><br><strong>Havering</strong></p><p>2014 155<br>2015 182<br>2016 179<br>2017 336<br>2018 339</p><p><br><strong>MPS overall</strong></p><p>Year ending September 2014 9508<br>Year ending September 2015 10024<br>Year ending September 2016 10513<br>Year ending September 2017 13723<br>Year ending September 2018 14788</p><p> </p><p>The Government is very concerned about recent increases in knife crime and its impact on victims, families and communities. The action we are taking is set out in our Serious Violence Strategy and includes new legislation in the Offensive Weapons Bill, currently in Parliament, and continuing police action on knife crime under Operation Sceptre.</p><p>We have amended the Bill to introduce Knife Crime Prevention Orders, which will help prevent young people from carrying knives. The Strategy includes a strong focus on prevention and early intervention to stop young people being drawn into violent crime.</p><p>We are supporting early intervention and prevention with children and young people through the Early Intervention Youth Fund of £22 million, which is already supporting 29 projects across England and Wales. Over £17 million has already been allocated to projects delivering interventions to young people at risk of criminal involvement, gang exploitation and county lines. We are also supporting 68 small community projects this year through £1.5 million from the anti-knife crime Community Fund, one of which is working in local schools in Romford, Barking, Dagenham, Ilford and Redbridge.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 12/03/2019 16:34:50 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1019537

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Europol
	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 ensure the maintenance of the UK's leading status in Europol after the implementation period of the Withdrawal Agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	198270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p><br>The Government has put forward proposals for an ambitious agreement with the EU that provides a comprehensive framework for our future security, law enforcement and criminal justice cooperation that and delivers the capabilities our operational partners need to keep our people safe.</p><p>These proposals cover Europol and are set out in full in the White Paper on “The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union” published in July 2018.</p><p>As part of the Political Declaration, the UK and EU have agreed to continue cooperating through Europol in the future. The exact terms of that relationship will be for negotiation.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 11/12/2018 15:38:02 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1023934

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Lambeth
	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 have served in Lambeth in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
	uin	201636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p><br>The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These figures present a picture of the workforce as at the 31 March and as at 30 September each year. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical publication, 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>Data on the number of officers per 100,000 of the resident population, by police force area, are published on an annual basis. The latest available data on the number of police officers per 100,000 of the population can be found in Table_H4 of the data tables accompanying the main release, the latest of which can be accessed here:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2018</a></p><p>Data on the number of police officers are collected at Police Force Area level only, and cannot be broken at local authority level.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold information on response times of the police.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 201637 201638 question first answered 21/12/2018 15:55:00 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna