Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed grouped question UIN question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1422672

	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	10 Downing Street
	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 had any discussions with the Metropolitan Police in relation to Operation Hillman.
	tabling member constituency	Edmonton
	tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
	uin	125348
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>The Home Secretary has regular meetings with serving London Metropolitan Commissioners to discuss matters of strategic interest as part of her duties under her departmental portfolio. However, the Metropolitan Police Service - in common with other police forces - are operationally independent of Government and free from political interference.</p><p>As a result, any decision to issue Fixed Penalty Notices for alleged breaches following the conclusion of Operation Hillman will be for the Metropolitan Police to determine.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/02/2022 13:38:27 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1422673

	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	10 Downing Street
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Metropolitan Police has shared any information with her Department regarding Operation Hillman.
	tabling member constituency	Edmonton
	tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
	uin	125349
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>The Home Secretary has regular meetings with serving London Metropolitan Commissioners to discuss matters of strategic interest as part of her duties under her departmental portfolio.</p><p>However, the Metropolitan Police Service - in common with other police forces - are operationally independent of Government and free from political interference. As a result, any decision to issue Fixed Penalty Notices for alleged breaches following the conclusion of Operation Hillman will be for the Metropolitan Police to determine.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/02/2022 13:01:43 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

1422982

	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	Asylum: Interviews
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many specialist decision-making units are operational in her Department; how many decisions they have made since their introduction; and what their turnaround rate is in comparison to the normal decision making route.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	125269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office currently have several specialist decision-making units, including but not limited to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and older claims.</p><p>We are unable to report how many decisions the specialist decision making units have made since their introduction as this information is not recorded and held in a reportable format, however we can provide the number of asylum decisions, broken down by nationality, and can be found at, Asy_D02 of the published immigration statistics:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2021/list-of-tables#asylum-and-resettlement" target="_blank">List of tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>The decision-making route remains the same for all asylum applications however we have created additional hubs to provide a greater ownership, improved consistency, and management of the cohorts to ensure quick decisions can be made.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/02/2022 13:34:15 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1422729

	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	Civil Nuclear Constabulary: Ferries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to deploy civil nuclear constabulary officers on British cross-Channel ferries.
	tabling member constituency	Halifax
	tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
	uin	125307
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government will always take the strongest possible action to protect our national security. Our priority remains the safety and security of our citizens. A range of measures are currently being explored to further mitigate the risk of terrorism to UK citizens, which will include fully equipping law enforcement and other emergency responders to respond effectively to terrorist incidents, no matter where they occur.</p><p>However, we are not able to comment on specific operational deployments.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/02/2022 12:35:02 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

1421297

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Disease Control
	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 he has made of the effectiveness of the process for imposing fines on people for breaches of covid-19 regulations; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
	tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
	uin	121681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>The Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) scheme was put into law in order to reduce transmission of the virus, and has been an important part of enforcement measures, which allow for quick and appropriate action to be taken against people that are not following the rules. Evidence suggests that the success of measures to date has been founded on broad public support and understanding of the need for adopting safer behaviours to reduce the spread of the virus.</p><p>Police forces across the UK are operationally independent. In their engagement with the public throughout the pandemic they have used the 4Es approach of engaging, explaining and encouraging individuals to comply, before moving on to enforcement action if required. This approach has meant we have not relied on enforcement as the primary driver of behaviour, but as complementary to other measures. This has also included clearer and more consistent communications from Government on the rules.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/02/2022 15:41:22 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1422746

	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	Crime: CCTV and Lighting
	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 adequacy of (a) street lighting and (b) CCTV cameras in areas with a high level of crime.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
	uin	125499
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that improved street lighting and CCTV can make a real difference in cutting crime and helping to deliver the safer streets the public wants.</p><p>That is why we established the Safer Streets Fund (SSF) to support local initiatives designed to reduce crime in areas disproportionately and persistently impacted and prevent it from happening in the first place. We have run three rounds of the SSF, investing £70 million across England and Wales, and have announced there will be £50 million of Government funding for the SSF for each of the next three years.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/02/2022 13:14:00 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1434025

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Drugs: Internet
	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 tackle the illegal supply of drugs purchased on (a) the darkweb and (b) elsewhere on the internet.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Jones
	uin	127514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>Drugs devastate lives, ruin families and damage communities. The Government is committed to driving down drugs supply in the UK through tough law enforcement against the sale of drugs online, including on the dark web.</p><p>We work closely with the National Crime Agency, which in partnership with policing colleagues across the UK and internationally is mapping and targeting key offenders operating online, including the dark net markets themselves. Dedicated teams use a range of tools and techniques generally unavailable to most investigators and we make sure they have the resources and powers they need to keep our country safe.</p><p>We are clear that online companies must not allow their platforms to be used to sell illegal drugs and our Online Safety Bill will force them to remove this content or face large fines, with drugs-related offences to be included as a priority offence within the bill. This will require companies to identify, mitigate and effectively manage the risk of illegal activity on user-to-user services, services that allow user generated content to be shared and search services.</p><p>The Online Safety Bill is expected to be introduced to Parliament later this year.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/02/2022 12:21:51 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones

1422668

	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	Firearms: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are taken to assess whether someone is fit to hold a firearms licence.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	125301
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>Police forces are responsible for issuing firearm and shotgun certificates and a certificate will only be granted after the application has been carefully assessed and a number of checks completed. These include background checks into the applicant’s suitability and their medical fitness.</p><p>New statutory guidance to police on firearms licensing was introduced on 1 November 2021 which will help to ensure greater consistency in firearms licensing. The statutory guidance brought in a new requirement that police must receive medical information about the applicant before a firearm certificate can be granted, and it makes it clear that firearms applicants can be subject to a wide range of checks, including social media, finance or other checks, depending on the individual case.</p><p>The police have a legal duty to consider the statutory guidance when assessing firearms applications.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/02/2022 13:29:51 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1423304

	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	Firearms: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many gun certificates have been issued and are active for pump action (a) shotguns and (b) rifles in England as of 18 February 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	125493
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated as part of the annual statistical publication.</p><p>However, based on management information, as at 18 February 2022, there were 23,955 current certificates for pump-action shotguns and 1,918 current certificates for pump-action rifles on issue in England.</p><p>This data is not quality assured to the standards of the annual statistical publication.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/02/2022 13:27:14 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1423160

	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	Hemp: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many current licences there are for growing Hemp in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
	tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
	uin	125291
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2022 answer text <p>The cannabis plant can be grown for the production of cannabis-based medicinal products and these would be authorised by Home Office controlled drugs licences which could include other controlled drugs depending on the nature of the pharmaceutical manufacturing taking place on any given site.</p><p>There are no licences for growing industrial hemp for the production of medicinal cannabis. This is because Home Office Industrial Hemp licences are only granted for the non-controlled parts of the plant (seeds and fibre/stalk) and these materials would not be used to produce cannabis-based products for medicinal use.</p><p>There are currently 110 extant licences to cultivate low THC cannabis (Industrial Hemp) in the UK. The licences are generally issued for a validity period of three growing seasons and this number therefore will include licences issued in 2020, 2021 and 2022.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 125292 question first answered 25/02/2022 13:36:53 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan