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524774

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Emergency Calls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential effect on the number of police call-outs of reductions in staffing in (a) mental health units, (b) hospitals and (c) social care services.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	40429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>Decisions on the deployment of a police force’s workforce in relation to local requirements are operational matters for individual chief constables, working with their Police and Crime Commissioners. However, a range of initiatives at both local and national level including the Crisis Care Concordat partnership arrangements and street triage scheme have already helped to reduce inappropriate mental health demands on the police.</p><p>The use of police cells in England as places of safety under the Mental Health Act, for example, reduced from 8,667 instances in 2011/12 to 3,996 in 2014/15. Legislative changes being introduced in the Policing and Crime Bill currently before Parliament, to prohibit the use of cells as places of safety for children and further limit their use for adults, as well as reductions in detention periods, will ensure progress in maintained.</p><p>In addition, the Government has committed to invest an additional £1 billion in mental health services by 2020 to ensure improved mental health support in the community and for people in Accident and Emergency, as well as crisis response provision and treatment options for both adults and children. In the last Autumn Statement, the Government also gave local authorities access to up to £3.5 billion of ne support for social care per year by 2019/20.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 27/06/2016 12:22:57 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

524637

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has been made of the adequacy of staffing levels in Police Public Protection Units at (a) UK and (b) force level.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	40272
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>Decisions on the size, composition and deployment of a police force's workforce are operational matters for individual chief constables, working with their Police and Crime Commissioners.</p><p>HMIC's progress report on the police response to domestic abuse, published in December 2015, found that forces have continued largely to protect their dedicated teams or other resources that focus on public protection work.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 27/06/2016 12:32:39 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

524776

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of provision of frontline police officers to ensure public safety; what steps she is taking to monitor that provision; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	40430
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>Decisions on the size, composition and deployment of a police force’s workforce are operational matters for individual chief constables, taking account of local needs and circumstances.</p><p>Overall, the Government delivered a good settlement for policing through last year’s Spending Review, protecting overall police spending in real terms over the course of the Spending Review period, when local income is taken into account – an increase of up to £900 million in cash terms by 2019/20.</p><p>The public should therefore be in no doubt that the police will have the resources they need to keep the public safe and to respond to new threats rapidly and effectively.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 27/06/2016 12:30:14 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

524636

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police
	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 (a) attract, recruit and retain high-quality police officers and (b) offer such officers career development.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	40271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government?s reforms to policing are designed to create a more capable, flexible and professional workforce. Central to these reforms was the establishment of the College of Policing as the professional body for policing, charged with setting standards and further professionalising the police.</p><p>Recruitment to the police is managed within a national application, assessment and selection framework maintained by the College. Within this remit the College is delivering a number of major pieces of work including a review of initial police recruitment, proposals for a new police educational qualification framework and implementing the recommendations of its 2014 Leadership Review.</p><p>These reforms, along with innovative schemes such as Direct Entry and Police Now, focus on recognising and developing the skills of existing officers, as well as ensuring that policing can continue to attract the brightest and best new recruits.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 27/06/2016 12:35:24 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

524635

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Job Satisfaction
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the morale of police officers (a) nationally and (b) at force level; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	40270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold data centrally on the morale of police officers. It is the responsibility of chief officers - supported by the College of Policing - to ensure good management systems are in place to support officers in their work. It is ultimately a matter for chief constables and police and crime commissioners to monitor the morale and engagement levels of their workforce.</p><p>The Government recognises the importance of police welfare- in October 2014 we allocated £10m to help support emergency services personnel and volunteers, focused on mental health, physical recuperation and bereavement support for those who need it.</p><p>£4m was allocated to the charity Mind specifically for mental health issues to cover financial years 2014/15 and 2015/16.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 27/06/2016 12:01:31 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

529841

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Cameras
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress the Metropolitan Police Service has made on piloting and evaluating the use by police officers of body-worn cameras; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	41479
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2016 answer text <p>The Metropolitan Police Service, working with the College of Policing and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime conducted a trial last year.</p><p>The published study ‘Police Camera Evidence: London’s cluster randomised control trials of 'Body Worn Video’ can be found on the College of Policing’s website at: http://www.college.police.uk/News/College-news/Documents/BWV%20report%20Nov%202015.pdf</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 05/07/2016 16:49:23 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

529843

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Bureaucracy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of changes in the number of back office staff on the time spent on administrative duties by frontline police officers in (a) Avon and Somerset and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	41489
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2016 answer text <p>Ultimately decisions on the size, composition and deployment of a police force’s workforce are operational matters for individual chief constables, working with their democratically elected Police and Crime Commissioners.</p><p>The proportion of police officers in frontline roles in England and Wales increased from 89% in March 2010 to 92% in March 2015 and from 90% to 93% in Avon and Somerset in the same period. At the same time, the Government has slashed bureaucracy – worth up to 4.5 million hours a year – equivalent to over 2,100 police officers.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 05/07/2016 16:39:39 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 5703 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

536295

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Loans
	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 policy to allow people who have recently been granted refugee status and have not yet received a refugee integration loan to remain in asylum accommodation.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	42662
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>We are working towards achieving more integrated communities and creating the conditions for everyone to live and work successfully alongside each other.</p><p>Those who are granted refugee status are given access to the labour market, mainstream benefits and housing assistance from their local authority. There are therefore no plans to allow refugees to stay in asylum support accommodation.</p><p>The Home Office offers integration loans to recognised refugees. The loan is designed to help refugees integrate into UK society by offering financial support towards housing costs, employment and training.</p><p>The Home Office also funds strategic migration partnerships which provide coordination and support services for those organisations working with migrants and refugees in local communities.</p><p>Earlier this year the Government announced that £20 million of additional funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses would be introduced in October 2016. This funding will reach the most isolated communities in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 42666 42667 42727 question first answered 18/07/2016 09:15:16 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

536296

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: English Language
	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 publish a strategy for ensuring that classes in English are provided for refugees as soon as possible after refugee status has been granted.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	42666
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>We are working towards achieving more integrated communities and creating the conditions for everyone to live and work successfully alongside each other.</p><p>Those who are granted refugee status are given access to the labour market, mainstream benefits and housing assistance from their local authority. There are therefore no plans to allow refugees to stay in asylum support accommodation.</p><p>The Home Office offers integration loans to recognised refugees. The loan is designed to help refugees integrate into UK society by offering financial support towards housing costs, employment and training.</p><p>The Home Office also funds strategic migration partnerships which provide coordination and support services for those organisations working with migrants and refugees in local communities.</p><p>Earlier this year the Government announced that £20 million of additional funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses would be introduced in October 2016. This funding will reach the most isolated communities in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 42662 42667 42727 question first answered 18/07/2016 09:15:16 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

536297

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: English Language
	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 ensure that English classes are provided for refugees as soon as possible after refugee status has been granted.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol West
	tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
	uin	42667
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>We are working towards achieving more integrated communities and creating the conditions for everyone to live and work successfully alongside each other.</p><p>Those who are granted refugee status are given access to the labour market, mainstream benefits and housing assistance from their local authority. There are therefore no plans to allow refugees to stay in asylum support accommodation.</p><p>The Home Office offers integration loans to recognised refugees. The loan is designed to help refugees integrate into UK society by offering financial support towards housing costs, employment and training.</p><p>The Home Office also funds strategic migration partnerships which provide coordination and support services for those organisations working with migrants and refugees in local communities.</p><p>Earlier this year the Government announced that £20 million of additional funding for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses would be introduced in October 2016. This funding will reach the most isolated communities in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 42662 42666 42727 question first answered 18/07/2016 09:15:16 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire