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1402243

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Sales
	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 23 June 2021 to Question 18468 on Knives: Sales, if she will introduce a licensing scheme for the possession of machetes.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	102553
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>The majority of machete owners use them for legitimate reasons such as gardening, camping or agricultural use. It is an offence to sell any machete to a person who is under the age of 18. In addition, possessing a machete in a public place without lawful authority or good reason is also an offence with a maximum penalty of 4 years imprisonment.</p><p>Where a machete is misused as a weapon, there are a range of offences that the offender may be charged with, such as causing grievous bodily harm. These can result in lengthy sentences, including life imprisonment in instances of murder.</p><p>We continue to keep the legislation in this area under review.</p><p>In 2021 we banned a whole range of knives weapons and firearms and existing legislation prohibits possession of any machete or large knife in a public place without good reason. We are always working with police to see what further action is needed to take deadly weapons off the street.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 17/01/2022 16:18:15 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1467247

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Noise: Nuisance
	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 Answer of 26 April 2022 to Question 157275 on Noise: Nuisance, which specific powers that are available to the police in Scotland to deal with noise complaints she plans to introduce in England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	11558
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>The relevant Scottish legislation is Section 54 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 13/06/2022 13:57:25 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1453559

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Noise: Nuisance
	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 plans to expand Police powers to allow noise nuisance to be more effectively tackled.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	145813
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2022 answer text <p>The impact of noise is significant. It can result in children struggling to get a good night’s sleep and disrupt the hard work of businesses and public.</p><p>The police already have a number of powers to tackle anti-social behaviour through the Anti-social behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. These powers are deliberately local in nature. It is for local authorities to work together to determine how best to respond to each individual case. Home Office statutory guidance supports them to do so.</p><p>The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, contains measures which will improve the police's ability to deal with unjustifiably noisy protests that may result in serious disruption to the activities of an organisation or in a significant detrimental impact on members of the public.</p><p>I am disappointed that the House of Lords did not back measures which are supported by the elected House and which would have helped to further reduce this disruption caused by a minority of protesters.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/03/2022 15:27:31 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1455102

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Standards
	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 a duty of candour a legal requirement for all police officers.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	148058
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government takes police integrity and accountability extremely seriously. In February 2020, we introduced a statutory duty of cooperation for serving police officers as part of wider integrity reforms, making it clear that officers have a responsibility to cooperate with investigations, inquiries and formal proceedings when acting as a witness. A failure to cooperate with this duty is a breach of the statutory standards of professional behaviour, by which all officers must abide, and could therefore result in disciplinary sanction.</p><p>The Home Office will continue to assess the impact of this existing duty on police co-operation with inquiries and investigations, and the Home Secretary will set out her conclusions on a specific duty of candour for the police later this year in response to the reports of Bishop James Jones on the experiences of Hillsborough families’, and of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 31/03/2022 10:00:29 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1459306

	registered interest
	date	21/04/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Noise: Nuisance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her Answer of 28 March 2022 to Question 145813, on Noise: Nuisance, and with reference to page 233 of the Government's white paper on Levelling Up in the United Kingdom, when she plans to ensure that police in England and Wales have the same powers to deal with noise complaints as are already available in Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	157275
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling and preventing anti-social behaviour (ASB), including noise nuisance. We know the serious impact that persistent noise nuisance can have on both individuals and communities.</p><p>We have provided the police, local authorities, and other local agencies with a range of tools and powers that they can use to respond quickly and effectively to ASB and noise nuisance through the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.</p><p>Home Office statutory guidance was updated in January 2021. It supports local areas and police to make effective use of the anti-social behaviour powers to tackle ASB and noise nuisance. The guidance highlights the importance of multi-agency approaches.</p><p>The Levelling Up White Paper commits the UK Government to ensuring that police in England and Wales have the same powers to deal with noise complaints as are already available in Scotland. This will be done when Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 26/04/2022 15:15:28 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1338159

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Sales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason it is legal to sell machetes; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	18468
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2021 answer text <p>Keeping people safe is the Government’s top priority, including from violent crime involving the misuse of knives and other offensive weapons.</p><p> </p><p>Under provisions in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 it is unlawful to sell a machete to a person under the age of 18 and it is also an offence to have a machete in a public place without lawful authority or good reason.</p><p> </p><p>Under the provisions of the Offensive Weapons Act 2019 we are introducing further measures to address crime involving bladed items including stopping bladed items being sent to residential addresses after they are bought online, unless the seller has arrangements in place with the delivery company to ensure that the product would not be delivered into the hands of a person under 18.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of machete owners use them for legitimate reasons such as gardening, camping or agricultural use. Where a machete is misused as a weapon, there are a range of offences that the offender may be charged with, such as causing grievous bodily harm. These can result in lengthy sentences, including life imprisonment in instances of murder.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to keep the legislation on bladed articles and offensive weapons under review.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/06/2021 10:27:29 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1338160

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2021
	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, how many people have been (a) arrested for possession of a machete and (b) injured or killed by a machete in England in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	18469
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/06/2021 10:31:42 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1029511

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	High Rise Flats: Insulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Written Statement of 29 November 2018 on Grenfell Update, Official Report HCWS1126, what types of dangerous cladding local authorities are able to remove from high-rise buildings under new measures on enforcement and remedial action.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	204419
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>As highlighted in the written statement, the Housing Health and Safety Rating System operating guidance has been bolstered by an addendum, with specific guidance on the assessment of high-rise residential buildings with unsafe cladding.</p><p>The Housing Act 2004 and secondary legislation which underpin the Housing Health and Safety Rating System provide powers to local housing authorities to identify, assess hazards, and take enforcement action against owners of residential buildings in their area where those owners are not acting responsibly in respect of hazards. This includes unsafe cladding systems of whatever type.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 07/01/2019 15:54:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1055927

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Noise
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) local authorities and (b) housing providers are required to notify the occupant of property A before noise recording equipment is installed in property B in connection with suspected noise nuisance from property A.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	217476
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>DEFRA is responsible for the domestic legislation covering statutory nuisances, although local authority environmental health departments are the main enforcers of the statutory noise regime and associated legislation.</p><p>There is no requirement under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to notify occupants that any recording apparatus has been installed by local authorities in any on-going statutory nuisance cases. There is also no similar requirement on housing providers.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 14/02/2019 14:59:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 101112 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1484799

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2022
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) civil injunctions, (b) criminal behaviour orders, (c) dispersal orders, (d) community protection notices and (e) orders for recovery of possession of dwelling houses were issued for anti-social behaviour in England in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
	tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
	uin	27540
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 provides a range of flexible tools and powers to local agencies to tackle anti-social behaviour. Local areas decide how best to deploy these powers depending on the specific circumstances.</p><p>The Home Office does not collect information on civil injunctions, criminal behaviour orders, dispersal orders, community protection notices and orders for recovery of possession of dwelling houses, but this information will be held by individual police forces.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 04/07/2022 16:14:24 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn