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1470253

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour: Newport West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of police responses to reported antisocial behaviour incidents in Newport West constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
	uin	18039
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">There are various offences relating to illegal e-scooter use that the police can enforce with a Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN): uninsured driving can result in a FPN of £300 and 6 penalty points on a driving licence; riding without a driving licence can result in a FPN of £100 and 3-6 penalty points on a driving licence; while riding on the pavement can result in a FPN of £50.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Section 165 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 provides the power to seize privately owned e-scooters for driving without insurance or a driving licence.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Enforcement of road traffic law and deployment of available resources to tackle illegal riding of e-scooters is an operational matter for Chief Officers according to local policing plans.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">I refer the Hon Lady to the answer to her question that I gave on 27 April (UIN 156588)</ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/06/2022 15:54:42 question first ministerially corrected 23/06/2022 07:47:00 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 8230 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1423213

	registered interest
	date	18/02/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Drugs: Impact Assessments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government’s drug strategy, From harm to hope: A 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives, published December 2021, was subject to an equality impact assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	125445
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The UK Government’s drugs strategy, From harm to hope: A 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives, sets out commitments across six departments: the Department of Health and Social Care, Home Office, Ministry of Justice, Department of Work and Pensions, Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the Department for Education. These departments are and will continue to be responsible for considering the Public Sector Equality Duty for each of their policies and developing and maintaining full equality impact assessments for them.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">As the cross-government unit responsible for driving, coordinating and overseeing delivery of the strategy, the Joint Combating Drugs Unit prepared an equality statement that considers the overarching impact of the strategy on groups with protected characteristics.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The UK Government’s drugs strategy, From harm to hope: A 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives, sets out commitments across six departments: the Department of Health and Social Care, Home Office, Ministry of Justice, Department of Work and Pensions, Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the Department for Education. These departments are and will continue to be responsible for considering the Public Sector Equality Duty for each of their policies and developing and maintaining full equality impact assessments for them.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">As the cross-government unit responsible for driving, coordinating and overseeing delivery of the strategy, the Joint Combating Drugs Unit prepared an overarching statement of the collective impact of the strategy on groups with protected characteristics.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 24/02/2022 11:39:55 question first ministerially corrected 24/02/2022 16:09:54 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 52712 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1420698

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Reoffenders: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many serious further offence notifications resulted in a conviction, by each type of offence, in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Steve Reed
	uin	120773
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2022 answer text <p>The table <del class="ministerial">below</del><ins class="ministerial">attached</ins> sets out the total number of notifications – that is, where an offender has been charged with a qualifying offence - followed by the resulting SFO convictions, by SFO offence, for notifications submitted to NOMS/HMPPS between 1 April 2010 and 31 March 2020.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>2010/11</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>2011/12</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>2012/13</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>2013/14</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>2014/15</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>2015/16</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>2016/17</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>2017/18</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>2018/19</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>2019/20</strong></del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>Total SFO notifications</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>485</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>466</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>489</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>507</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>477</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>558</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>685</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>678</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>577</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>536</strong></del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>Total SFO convictions [1]</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>257</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>253</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>270</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>274</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>254</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>301</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>347</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>353</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>339</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>271</strong></del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Murder</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">50</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">67</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">51</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">59</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">46</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">41</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">56</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">80</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">97</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">74</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Attempted murder/ Conspiracy to commit murder</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">12</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">13</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">16</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">15</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">14</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">24</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">15</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">20</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">30</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">18</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Manslaughter</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">18</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">15</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">16</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">23</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">12</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">16</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">34</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">32</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">34</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">25</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Attempted Rape/Rape /Assault by penetration including on a child under 13</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">101</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">77</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">93</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">80</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">89</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">107</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">119</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">101</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">69</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">54</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Arson with intent to endanger life</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">8</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">8</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">7</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">10</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">9</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">12</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">8</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">17</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">11</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">14</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Kidnapping /Abduction/False imprisonment</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">2</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">14</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">16</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">19</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">21</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">9</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">21</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">22</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">14</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">13</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Death involving driving or vehicle taking</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">8</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">6</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">5</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">8</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">5</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">9</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">7</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">11</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">19</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">13</del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial">Other serious sexual/violent offences [2]</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">58</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">53</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">66</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">60</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">58</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">83</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">87</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">70</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">65</del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">60</del></p></td></tr></tbody></table><ol><li><del class="ministerial">Time period for conviction data relates to the date of SFO notification to HMPPS not the date of conviction.</del></li><li><del class="ministerial">“Other serious sexual/violent offences” refer to other serious violent or sexual offences which carry a maximum custodial penalty of more than 10 years.</del></li><li><del class="ministerial">The data only includes convictions for serious further offences that have been notified to the national SFO Team, HMPPS.</del></li><li><del class="ministerial">The data provided are provisional subject to change when any outstanding cases are concluded at court.</del></li><li><del class="ministerial">Conviction data also includes cases where the offender committed suicide or died prior to the trial, where the judicial process concluded that they were responsible.</del></li><li><del class="ministerial">The data for April 2010 to March 2014 has been updated, and may differ to the original publication due to data cleansing, re-categorising and re-grouping.</del></li><li><del class="ministerial">Data Sources and Quality. We have drawn these figures from administrative IT systems which, as with some large-scale recording systems, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</del></li></ol> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/02/2022 10:51:40 question first ministerially corrected 28/03/2022 09:03:37 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse attachment 1 file name 2022-02-21 120773.xlsx title Table previous answer version 51730 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1364664

	registered interest
	date	29/10/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crimes of Violence
	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 the data she holds on the number of people reporting offences under the Offences against The Person Act 1861, section 23, and section 24 in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham West and Penge
	tabling member printed	Ellie Reeves
	uin	66256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2021 answer text <p>Information on the number of crimes recorded under the Offences against The Person Act 1861 section 23 and section 24, including the offence subcodes “Administering poison so as to endanger life” and “Administering poison with intent to injure or annoy” for each financial year from 2015/16 to 2020/21 can be found in the attached annex.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/11/2021 13:07:56 question first ministerially corrected 16/11/2021 15:54:42 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse attachment 1 file name 66256 Annex.xlsx title Annex previous answer version 31806 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4620 label Biography information for Ellie Reeves

1342269

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2021
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2021 to Question 14126 and with reference to the findings of the Dame Carol Black review of drugs: phase one report, what assessment has been made of the effect of county line closures and drugs seized on (a) drug availability or rates of drug use, (b) potency, (c) price and (d) new trends including local recruitment of children and children being missing for longer periods in adaption to police activity and covid-19; what Government national leadership and oversight on the implementation of a public health approaches to youth violence has taken place; how the Department for Education is involved with that oversight; what assessment she has made of the ethical implications of state use of children to be used as a covert human intelligence source as detailed in The Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill; and whether a Child Rights impact assessment has been undertaken in relation to that proposed policy.
	tabling member constituency	Reigate
	tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
	uin	24876
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2021 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">In May 2021, the National County Lines Coordination Centre published the latest County Lines strategic assessment. The assessment found that county lines continue to be at the forefront of drug supply nationally and have evolved in response to environmental changes.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The county lines business model remains heavily weighted towards the supply of heroin and crack cocaine. NCLCC’s latest assessment indicates that there has been a reduction in the total number of potentially active deal lines, with numbers reported to have fallen from between 800-1,100 in 2019/20 to 600 in 2020/21.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">We continue to work with partners to address the underlying drivers of exploitation and ensure support and protection is in place for children exploited through county lines criminality. Wehave funded specialist support for victims of county lines exploitation to deliver one-to-one support to under 25s and their families in the three largest county lines exporting force areas</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">This Government is also delivering a range of initiatives to tackle youth violence including investing over £105.5 million from 2019 to 2022, (VRUs). The Home Office also works closely with the Department for Education to tackle youth violence.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">We will continue to use data on rates of drug use to monitor trends and inform the Government’s approach to addressing drugs and drug harms’.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government acknowledges the strength of feeling on juvenile CHIS, however, we must recognise that some juveniles are involved in serious crimes, as perpetrators and victims. In some circumstances a young person may have unique access to information or intelligence that could play a vital part in preventing or detecting serious offences.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Young people are only authorised as CHIS in rare circumstances. Between January 2015 and December 2018, there were only 17 instances where law enforcement bodies deployed those under 18 years old as CHIS, and their participation in criminal conduct is rarer still.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021 includes a commitment on the face of the legislation that young people will only be authorised to undertake criminal conduct in exceptional circumstances.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In May 2021, the National County Lines Coordination Centre published the latest County Lines strategic assessment. The assessment found that county lines continue to be at the forefront of drug supply nationally and have evolved in response to environmental changes. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The county lines business model remains heavily weighted towards the supply of heroin and crack cocaine. NCLCC’s latest assessment indicates that there has been a reduction in the total number of potentially active deal lines, with numbers reported to have fallen from between 800-1,100 in 2019/20 to 600 in 2020/21. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We continue to work with partners to address the underlying drivers of exploitation and ensure support and protection is in place for children exploited through county lines criminality. We have funded specialist support for victims of county lines exploitation to deliver one-to-one support to under 25s and their families in the three largest county lines exporting force areas</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">This Government is also delivering a range of initiatives to tackle youth violence including investing over £105.5 million in Violence Reduction Units from 2019 to 2022. The Home Office works closely with the Department for Education to tackle youth violence.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We will continue to use data on rates of drug use to monitor trends and inform the Government’s approach to addressing drugs and drug harms.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government acknowledges the strength of feeling on juvenile CHIS, however, we must recognise that some juveniles are involved in serious crimes, as perpetrators and victims. In some circumstances a young person may have unique access to information or intelligence that could play a vital part in preventing or detecting serious offences. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Young people are only authorised as CHIS in rare circumstances. Between January 2015 and December 2018, there were only 17 instances where law enforcement bodies deployed those under 18 years old as CHIS, and their participation in criminal conduct is rarer still. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021 includes a commitment on the face of the legislation that young people will only be authorised to undertake criminal conduct in exceptional circumstances. </ins></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/07/2021 08:08:09 question first ministerially corrected 08/07/2021 13:33:52 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 11642 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

1307968

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the letter dated 12 February 2021 from the hon. Member for West Lancashire on weddings, reference ZA55504.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	178954
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2021 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Given the cross cutting nature of the subject matter of the item of correspondence from the member, we are working with colleagues across Government to provide a comprehensive response. We apologise for the delay and will update the member on progress with the response shortly.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">This letter has been transferred to the Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy to respond.</ins></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/04/2021 15:14:18 question first ministerially corrected 28/04/2021 10:47:28 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 98291 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1307065

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Emergency Services Network: Ceredigion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of the Extended Area Services (EAS) mast sites that are located in Ceredigion how many (a) have been designed and have received planning approval, (b) are awaiting physical work to connect the mast to the network and (c) are awaiting final activation.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	179375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>In your constituency of Ceredigion, there are 11 EAS sites, 8 of which have been designed and have completed the planning approval stage. 4 of the sites have completed the passive build stage.</p><p>For reference the key stages are:</p><p>1) building the structure (this is known as ‘passive build’)</p><p>2) connecting the mast to the network, either by a cable link, microwave link or (on occasions) via a satellite connection</p><p>3) activating the mast for operational use for the emergency services</p><p> </p><p>The table attached provides an update on each sites’ progress and shows when power is forecast to be provided along with a forecast for site activation. After the award of the contract to connect to the network in Autumn 2021, we anticipate that a survey of each site will result in activation timelines varying depending on the work involved, therefore the dates forecast for activation may change accordingly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 20/04/2021 15:14:51 question first ministerially corrected 21/04/2021 10:52:47 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse attachment 1 file name Table for PQ 179375.docx title Table for PQ 179375 previous answer version 97771 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1271127

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Suicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department is providing to police forces to prevent suicides amongst (a) serving and (b) retired police officers.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Dehenna Davison
	uin	129111
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The death of any serving or retired police officer is a tragedy. The Government and police leaders take this matter seriously and are working to support the mental and physical wellbeing of all police officers and staff.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">We have invested in programmes which offer help directly to officers and staff. This includes £7.5 to fund the development of the National Police Wellbeing Service, which was launched in 2019. The Service is helping forces to identify where there is most risk of impacts on mental health, and developing work around building resilience, as well as putting in place support for those who need it in response to traumatic events.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government has also accelerated work to introduce a Police Covenant, which will ensure our police get the support and protection they need. We have been clear that the Covenant will also cover those who are retired from policing, to ensure that they are also supported effectively once they leave the service. The Covenant will be enshrined in law, with provisions being brought forward later this session, and the Home Secretary will have a duty to report annually on the work undertaken.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Our focus will be on health and wellbeing, physical protection and support for families. We are in no doubt that an area we must focus on is mental health support. We will continue to work closely with policing partners to ensure the Covenant has a lasting impact on both serving and retired officers and staff.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The death of any serving or retired police officer is a tragedy. The Government and police leaders take this matter seriously and are working to support the mental and physical wellbeing of all police officers and staff.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We have invested in programmes which offer help directly to officers and staff. This includes £7.5 million to fund the development of the National Police Wellbeing Service, which was launched in 2019. The Service is helping forces to identify where there is most risk of impacts on mental health, and developing work around building resilience, as well as putting in place support for those who need it in response to traumatic events.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government has also accelerated work to introduce a Police Covenant, which will ensure our police get the support and protection they need. We have been clear that the Covenant will also cover those who are retired from policing, to ensure that they are also supported effectively once they leave the service. The Covenant will be enshrined in law, with provisions being brought forward later this session, and the Home Secretary will have a duty to report annually on the work undertaken.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Our focus will be on health and wellbeing, physical protection and support for families. We are in no doubt that an area we must focus on is mental health support. We will continue to work closely with policing partners to ensure the Covenant has a lasting impact on both serving and retired officers and staff. </ins></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/12/2020 17:14:33 question first ministerially corrected 11/02/2021 12:11:45 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 70692 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4737 label Biography information for Dehenna Davison

1258275

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Liberal Democrats: Criminal Investigation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the status is of the Metropolitan police investigation into the former chief executive of the Liberal Democrats following a request by the Electoral Commission for a prosecution.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
	uin	124870
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">At the conclusion of the Electoral Commission’s investigation into the Liberal Democrat Party’s 2015 UK Parliamentary General Election campaign spending return, it made a referral to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) for its consideration of possible offences outside its remit. The decision to prosecute or not, following such a referral, is an operational matter for the MPS and it would not be appropriate to comment further.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Hon. Member may wish to ask the same question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, as this information may be held by the Electoral Commission.</ins></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 09/12/2020 17:15:35 question first ministerially corrected 14/12/2020 14:50:53 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 68073 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1248964

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Youth Services
	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 increase youth intervention services in (a) Slough and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	111599
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2020 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">It is vitally important that we prevent young people from being drawn into violent crime, exploitation and abuse. The Government recognises that high quality youth services can transform the lives of young people.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government has invested £70m over two years (19/20 – 20/21) in establishing Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) in the 18 police force areas most affected by serious violence. VRUs bring together police, local government, health and education professionals, community leaders and other key partners to identify the drivers of serious violence and agree a multi-agency response to them. In addition to leading and coordinating local responses, VRUs are also delivering interventions to support those most at risk of involvement in serious violence. In year 1 of their operation, VRUs applied £23.1m to enable delivery of 175 different interventions, which reached over 100,000 young people.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We have awarded Thames Valley PCC, which includes Slough, £2.32m to develop its multi-agency Violence Reduction Unit. We have also invested £3.2m in Thames Valley to ‘surge’ the operational police response to serious violent crimes, which is supporting vital work to identify and disrupt exploitative county lines operations.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government has invested £200 million in a 10-year Youth Endowment (YEF) Fund to tackle the drivers behind serious youth violence. An extra £5million has been awarded to the YEF in 2020 to develop a National Centre of Excellence, which will share knowledge and expertise with those working with vulnerable children and young people at risk of involvement in serious youth violence.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In July 2020, the YEF offered a total of £6.5m to 129 organisations across England and Wales as part of its COVID-19 grant round. The funding will help charities, social enterprises, local authorities and youth organisations to re-connect with young people at-risk of being drawn into violent crime and tackle any problems to emerge because of COVID-19.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We are significantly increasing investment in specialist support for county lines victims this year. With investment of £860k the St Giles Trust will be delivering one-to-one support in London, Merseyside and the West Midlands (the three largest county lines exporting areas) which will aim to help over 200 vulnerable children and young people who are criminally exploited by county lines gangs to exit their involvement.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Home Office is also continuing to fund Missing People’s SafeCall service (c.£200k FY20/21). This specialist 24/7 helpline provides advice and support to children, young people and their parents/carers who are concerned about county lines, criminal exploitation and gangs.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Through the £13.2m Trusted Relationships Fund we are identifying innovative approaches to tackling vulnerability among children and young people at risk of exploitation and abuse. The local authority-led projects, which went live in August 2018, provide support for children and young people identified as at high risk of child sexual exploitation and abuse, criminal exploitation and peer-on-peer abuse.</ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">It is vitally important that we prevent young people from being drawn into violent crime, exploitation and abuse. The Government recognises that high quality youth services can transform the lives of young people.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government has invested £70m over two years (19/20 – 20/21) in establishing Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) in the 18 police force areas most affected by serious violence. VRUs bring together police, local government, health and education professionals, community leaders and other key partners to identify the drivers of serious violence and agree a multi-agency response to them. In addition to leading and coordinating local responses, VRUs are also delivering interventions to support those most at risk of involvement in serious violence. In year 1 of their operation, VRUs applied £23.1m to enable delivery of 175 different interventions, which reached over 100,000 young people.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">We have awarded Thames Valley PCC, which includes Slough, £2.32m to develop its multi-agency Violence Reduction Unit. We have also invested £3.2m in Thames Valley to ‘surge’ the operational police response to serious violent crimes, which is supporting vital work to identify and disrupt exploitative county lines operations.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government has invested £200 million in a 10-year Youth Endowment (YEF) Fund to tackle the drivers behind serious youth violence. An extra £5million has been awarded to the YEF in 2020 to develop a National Centre of Excellence, which will share knowledge and expertise with those working with vulnerable children and young people at risk of involvement in serious youth violence.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In July 2020, the YEF offered a total of £6.5m to 129 organisations across England and Wales as part of its COVID-19 grant round. The funding will help charities, social enterprises, local authorities and youth organisations to re-connect with young people at-risk of being drawn into violent crime and tackle any problems to emerge because of COVID-19.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">We are significantly increasing investment in specialist support for county lines victims this year. With investment of £860k the St Giles Trust will be delivering one-to-one support in London, Merseyside and the West Midlands.</del></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/11/2020 15:08:01 question first ministerially corrected 19/11/2020 11:54:52 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 62194 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi