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1018777

	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	Police and Crime Commissioners
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent discussions he has had with Police and Crime Commissioners on the equitable distribution of resources across all communities.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	Damien Moore
	uin	907975
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government believes that Chief Constables, held to account by democratically elected Police and Crime Commissioners, are best placed to decide how to deploy their resources, taking into account local conditions and priorities.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 03/12/2018 16:23:59 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1019418

	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	Police: Mental Health Services
	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 the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the co-ordination of policing and NHS staff on cases involving people with mental health problems.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	198318
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>There are regular discussions between the Home Office and the Department for Health and Social Care on policing and mental health issues.</p><p>In addition, Ministers from both departments jointly attend the Crisis Care Concordat Steering Group and the Emergency Services Collaboration and Interoperability Board, to discuss improved joint approaches between the emergency and health services.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 06/12/2018 16:22:33 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1019419

	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	Police: Mental Health Services
	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 ensure that all police officers are adequately trained to support people in mental health crises.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	198319
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>Training on mental-ill health is integrated throughout the initial police learning programme which all new recruits must complete. The College of Policing sets the standards for training and professional development for police forces in England and Wales.</p><p>The College refreshed its Authorised Professional Practice and accompanying training modules on mental health in 2016. It is the responsibility of Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners, to ensure officers and police staff receive appropri-ate training and that they have regard to the Authorised Professional Practice when discharging their responsibilities.</p><p>Several police forces have, in addition, developed their own mental health training modules in conjunction with local mental health partners</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 06/12/2018 16:17:39 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1017520

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Mental Health
	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 report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services entitled Policing and Mental Health: Picking Up the Pieces, published on 26 November 2018, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of Merseyside Police's estimate that 25 per cent of its officers' time is spent on mental health issues.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	197622
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>Over the last several years police forces have estimated that mental health cases may represent between 20 and 40 percent of total demand. In some such cases, including for example those involving criminality or public safety, police involvement may well be necessary.</p><p>However, the Government has been clear that the police should not be expected to care on an ongoing basis for those who have committed no offence but who require professional healthcare. The Government is working closely with the police and health services to better understand the precise scale and nature of mental health demands, and how these may best be addressed.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 05/12/2018 16:42:11 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

1017224

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Mental Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department made implications for his policies of the report entitled, Policing and Mental Health, published by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services in November 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	197466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The report confirms the Government’s repeated view that the police should not be left, by default, to care for those who have committed no offence but who need professional healthcare, and its determination to enhance mental health services to ensure that those in crisis receive such appropriate care.</p><p>The Government has amended legislation to ban the use of police stations as places of safety for under 18 year-olds, and significantly reduce their use in the case of adults, and invested some £30m in increasing the capacity of health and community based places of safety. NHS England is committing to investing up to a further £250m a year by 2023-24 into new crisis services.</p><p>Home Office Ministers are leading work with health and po-licing partners to continue to identify and reduce unreasonable mental health pressures on the police.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/12/2018 15:43:00 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1016271

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to publish his decision on the renewal of the police transformation fund; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Gedling
	tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
	uin	196681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>Allocation for the 19/20 Police Transformation Fund will form part of the Ministerial decisions in the round on the Police Funding Settlement for 2019/20.</p><p>Announcement of the Provisional Police Funding Settlement for 2019/20 will be made to Parliament in December 2018, with the Final Police Grant Report subject to parliamentary approval in early 2019.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 03/12/2018 17:28:25 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

1016322

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fires: Solar Power
	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 14 November 2018 to Question 191271 on Fires: Solar Power, whether there are processes in place to oblige local fire and rescue authorities to consider firefighter guidance recommendations made by relevant reports.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	196693
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>No. As set out in the Fire and Rescue National Framework for England, it is not for Government to prescribe operational matters, which are best determined locally. It is therefore for individual fire and rescue authorities to determine whether they consider and implement recommendations from such reports.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 03/12/2018 17:29:49 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1015357

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police National Computer
	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 letter from the Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Service to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Ladywood, MIN/0014431/18, for what reason his Department is unable to obtain statistics from the Police National Computer on the number of person records relating to non-charge or conviction action by (a) force and (b) race.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	196141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Police National Computer is over 40 years old and was not designed to create management information of the type sought in this question. It is being replaced by the Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS) which is being designed to provide significantly enhanced management information.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 03/12/2018 17:31:46 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

1015364

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Firearms: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent representations he has received from (a) the National Ballistics Intelligence Service, (b) the National Police Chiefs Council, (c) police forces and (d) the National Crime Agency on the prohibition of .50 calibre rifles; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	tabling member printed	Stuart C. McDonald
	uin	196210
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Home Secretary received advice from law enforcement agencies on the threat and risk to public safety from high energy rifles, including .50 calibre rifles.</p><p>At the Home Secretary’s request, we have received further advice from the National Crime Agency on whether there are alternatives to prohibition which would reduce the risk, in particular more secure storage arrangements. In light of that advice, the Home Secretary has decided that further detailed consideration is required on how best to tighten controls on high energy rifles. We have therefore tabled an amendment to remove the proposed prohibition from the Bill and will undertake a full public consultation to seek as wide a range of views as possible on this important issue.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 03/12/2018 17:34:13 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4393 label Biography information for Stuart C McDonald

1015367

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Injuries
	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 injured while on duty in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017 and (d) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	196213
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold centrally information on the total number of officers injured while on duty. However, statistics are routinely published on the number of recorded offences involving assault with injury on a constable.</p><p>These data are released as an annex to the annual ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical release, 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> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 03/12/2018 17:33:01 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens