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1682996

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2024
	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, what steps he has taken to work with relevant authorities to tackle knife (a) possession and (b) crime among youth in (i) England and (ii) Romford constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	10044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>Tackling knife crime is a priority and the Government is determined to crack down on the scourge of violence devastating our communities.</p><p>We recently consulted on new legislative proposals to tackle knife crime and as a result, in the Criminal Justice Bill, we have introduced provisions to provide more powers for police to seize knives held in private that could be used in crimes, increase the maximum penalty for the offences of selling prohibited weapons and selling knives to under 18s. In the next few weeks, the Government intends to introduce a new ban on zombie-style machetes and knives.</p><p>As a result of the Government’s Police Uplift Programme (PUP) the Metropolitan police service has recruited 3,468 additional uplift officers against a total three-year allocation of 4,557 officers. The Metropolitan Police’s funding will be up to £3,581.1 million for 2024/25, an increase of up to £118.9 million when compared to 2023/24.</p><p>Under this Government, it has never been easier for the police to make legitimate use of stop and search powers. Every knife seized through stop and search is a potential life saved. In 2022-23, stop and search removed over 15,000 weapons and firearms from our streets and resulted over 74,000 arrests across England and Wales. In Essex there were over 2,000 resultant arrests following a stop and search and almost 4,600 searches resulted in a stolen or prohibited article being found in 2022-23.</p><p>The Home Office has invested over £160m since 2019 into the development of 20 Violence Reduction Units across England and Wales with a further £55m made available for 2023/24. Since 2019, we have provided over £43 million to develop and run the London Violence Reduction Unit, which covers Havering. This includes an investment of £9.5m in 2023/24. Violence Reduction Units deter people, particularly young people, from becoming involved in serious violence by bringing together partners from health, probation, policing, housing and beyond and investing in the best evidence-based interventions.</p><p>Through our Grip programme, we are providing additional funding to enable the Metropolitan police to boost patrols in specific streets and neighbourhoods most affected by violence, including Romford High Street. This programme is providing regular, visible patrols to deter violence and provide community reassurance as well as problem-oriented policing.</p><p>Problem-oriented policing is based on an analytical approach that seeks to identify and respond to the specific drivers of violence as they affect the particular location, so that working with partners, the police can take effective preventative action to tackle these. Since 2019, we have provided The Met Police with c.£51.8 million for their delivery of the programme and have awarded them a further c.£8.9 million for this (23/24) financial year.</p><p>Violence Reduction Units, in combination with GRIP, have delivered a statistically significant reduction in hospital admissions for violent injuries since funding began in 2019 (an estimated 3,220 admissions have been prevented in areas where the programmes operate).</p><p>Over 10 years the Home Office is investing £200m in early intervention and prevention initiatives to help children and young people at risk of exploitation and involvement in serious violence, through the Youth Endowment Fund.</p><p>The YEF have funded the SW!TCH Lives project in Romford, which aimed to promote positive actions and emotions and reduce risky behaviour by providing young people with consistent, positive role models, weekly mentoring and positive peer networks. They have also funded ‘You and Me Counselling’ as part of the COVID-19 Learning Project, which aimed to provide targeted support to young people at risk of being involved in violence; and second, to learn fast about the best ways to reach young people during a period of social distancing.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/01/2024 17:35:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1682997

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Retail Trade: 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, what steps he has taken to work with relevant authorities to tackle violent crime against retail workers in (i) England and (ii) Romford constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	10045
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government recognises the significant impact shoplifting has on businesses, communities and consumers. The Crime Survey for England and Wales shows neighbourhood crime is down 51% compared to findings from the year ending March 2010.</p><p>However, Police Recorded Crime figures show shoplifting offences increased by 25% in the 12 months to June 2023. Statistics also show the number of people charged with shoplifting offences has risen by 29% in the year ending June 2023.</p><p>We have recently made significant steps to improve the police response to retail crime, including shoplifting.</p><p>In October, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) published the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.npcc.police.uk%2Fresources%2Fe6e5n-gfsgg-qru39-qjnkc-dbait&amp;data=05%7C02%7CRebecca.Khosla2%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2866bb4a3f554fdf3e4208dc014e95e9%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638386684221640764%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=k3DpuJZSdEOv4zGEcy3P7WC8Cajku%2F9%2BKH6vpSTM2Y4%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Retail Crime Action Plan</a>. Through this Plan, all forces across England and Wales have committed to prioritise police attendance at the scene where violence has been used towards shop staff, where an offender has been detained by store security, and where evidence needs to be secured and can only be done by police personnel. Additionally, where CCTV or other digital images are secured, police will run this through the Police National Database to aid efforts to identify prolific offenders or potentially dangerous individuals.</p><p>This builds on the NPCC commitment that police forces across England and Wales will follow up all crimes where there is actionable evidence and the chance of identifying an offender, including shoplifting.</p><p>October also saw the launch of Pegasus, a unique private-public partnership, which involves retailers providing data, intelligence and evidence to Opal, the national police intelligence unit on organised acquisitive crime, to develop a better strategic picture and help forces crack down on serious offenders.</p><p>The Government is clear that violent and abusive behaviour towards any worker, particularly those who provide a valuable service to the public, is never acceptable.</p><p>In 2022 we took the significant step to introduce a statutory aggravating factor for assault against those who are serving the public. Section 156 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 means the public facing nature of a victim’s role will be considered an aggravating factor when it comes to sentencing for assault offences, allowing the court to give a longer sentence within the statutory maximum for the offence.</p><p>The Government also continues to work closely with retail businesses, security representatives, trade associations and policing through the National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG) to ensure the response to retail crime is as robust as it can be.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 10046 question first answered 25/01/2024 17:36:21 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1682998

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Shoplifting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to work with relevant authorities to tackle shoplifting in (a) England and (b) Romford constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	10046
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government recognises the significant impact shoplifting has on businesses, communities and consumers. The Crime Survey for England and Wales shows neighbourhood crime is down 51% compared to findings from the year ending March 2010.</p><p>However, Police Recorded Crime figures show shoplifting offences increased by 25% in the 12 months to June 2023. Statistics also show the number of people charged with shoplifting offences has risen by 29% in the year ending June 2023.</p><p>We have recently made significant steps to improve the police response to retail crime, including shoplifting.</p><p>In October, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) published the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.npcc.police.uk%2Fresources%2Fe6e5n-gfsgg-qru39-qjnkc-dbait&amp;data=05%7C02%7CRebecca.Khosla2%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2866bb4a3f554fdf3e4208dc014e95e9%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638386684221640764%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=k3DpuJZSdEOv4zGEcy3P7WC8Cajku%2F9%2BKH6vpSTM2Y4%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Retail Crime Action Plan</a>. Through this Plan, all forces across England and Wales have committed to prioritise police attendance at the scene where violence has been used towards shop staff, where an offender has been detained by store security, and where evidence needs to be secured and can only be done by police personnel. Additionally, where CCTV or other digital images are secured, police will run this through the Police National Database to aid efforts to identify prolific offenders or potentially dangerous individuals.</p><p>This builds on the NPCC commitment that police forces across England and Wales will follow up all crimes where there is actionable evidence and the chance of identifying an offender, including shoplifting.</p><p>October also saw the launch of Pegasus, a unique private-public partnership, which involves retailers providing data, intelligence and evidence to Opal, the national police intelligence unit on organised acquisitive crime, to develop a better strategic picture and help forces crack down on serious offenders.</p><p>The Government is clear that violent and abusive behaviour towards any worker, particularly those who provide a valuable service to the public, is never acceptable.</p><p>In 2022 we took the significant step to introduce a statutory aggravating factor for assault against those who are serving the public. Section 156 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 means the public facing nature of a victim’s role will be considered an aggravating factor when it comes to sentencing for assault offences, allowing the court to give a longer sentence within the statutory maximum for the offence.</p><p>The Government also continues to work closely with retail businesses, security representatives, trade associations and policing through the National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG) to ensure the response to retail crime is as robust as it can be.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 10045 question first answered 25/01/2024 17:36:21 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1242590

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Islam
	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 the growing (a) influence and (b) networks of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party in (i) United Kingdom and (ii) the European Union on Islamist activity.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	101987
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">We are aware that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkey has offices in the UK and certain EU member states. All foreign political parties with representation in the UK must act in accordance with UK law in relation to their activities in the UK.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office has not undertaken an assessment of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) influence on extremist Islamist activity.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We are aware that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkey has offices in the UK and certain EU member states. All foreign political parties with representation in the UK must act in accordance with UK law in relation to their activities in the UK.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 08/12/2020 18:16:26 question first ministerially corrected 10/12/2020 17:16:15 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 67793 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1683317

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hong Kong: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will hold discussions with (a) HSBC and (b) Standard Chartered on taking steps to publish all communications between their organisations and the Hong Kong Mandatory Provident Fund Authority in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	10409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>The publication of such communications is ultimately a decision for Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) trustees, who are regulated by the MPF Authority in Hong Kong. The Government firmly opposes the MPF’s discrimination against British National (Overseas) status holders (BN(O)s) and we will continue to urge the Hong Kong authorities and all relevant bodies to facilitate early drawdown of funds for BN(O)s as is the case for other Hong Kong residents who move overseas permanently. The conduct of UK banking institutions is not a matter for the Home Office, but I have asked my officials to raise this matter with HM Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 25/01/2024 14:36:18 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

760921

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Motorcycles: Helmets
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 14 September 2017 to Question 9627, on motorcycles: helmets, for what reasons there is no reference to the safety of suspects on mopeds and motorcycles as influencing the decision as to whether police pursue the suspects.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	105367
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>All decisions by police officers as to whether to initiate or continue any pursuit will balance the public interest in apprehending suspected criminals against the need to avoid the death or serious injury of any road users.</p><p>The category of ‘any road users’ includes the suspect(s) being pursued, the officer(s) carrying out the pursuit and all other road users and pedestrians not involved in the pursuit.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 09/10/2017 09:07:14 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1683675

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal migrants are due to be rehoused from hotels to other forms of accommodation in (a) the United Kingdom and (b) Romford constituency by the end of February 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	10606
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office has always been clear that use of hotels as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers was a short-term measure to ensure that we met our statutory obligation to accommodate asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute during a period of unprecedented numbers of small boat arrivals.</p><p>We are making significant progress in closing hotels, with 50 due to be closed by the end of January and many more in the coming months.</p><p>The programme of closures will be managed carefully to ensure all supported asylum seekers are provided with suitable alternative accommodation elsewhere in the estate. Dispersal accommodation and large disused military sites are cheaper for the taxpayer and less impactful on communities.</p><p>Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation (including in contingency hotels and other contingency accommodation) is published in table Asy_D11 here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fasylum-and-resettlement-datasets&amp;data=05%7C02%7CASRA-briefingcorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cd2df3a57dab94cd2d13f08dc1bf4ff28%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638415986287318822%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ECRQjiqN%2FE5Woiqbg0wWqaEp1%2FKszAbsiGQG3p9r%2BsA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)(opens in a new tab)</a><strong>. </strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 29/01/2024 15:11:15 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1549937

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gangs: Greater London
	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 help reduce gang-related activity in London.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	106372
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling the harm caused by gang-related activity, including preventing serious violence and drug-related activity.</p><p>On serious violence, we are taking a twin-track approach; combining tough enforcement to get dangerous weapons off the streets – including through stop and search methods – with programmes that steer young people away from crime.</p><p>Since 2019, we have allocated the London Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) £33.7m, including £12.6m this financial year (2022/23). The London VRU delivers a range of interventions that support young people at risk of involvement in serious violence and gangs, which requires close work with those local communities affected.</p><p>We are also continuing to provide funding to the Metropolitan Police to increase enforcement activity in areas where the most violence occurs, through our Grip hotspot policing programme. The Government has allocated approximately £52.6m over the last three years to the Grip programme in London, including £7.9m for this financial year (2022/23). Through this programme, the Metropolitan Police are delivering data-driven, targeted visible patrols to suppress violence where it is most concentrated.</p><p>On tackling drug-related activity, we are investing up to £145m over the next three years to bolster our flagship County Lines Programme, which has already resulted in over 2,900 lines closed, over 8,000 arrests and in the engagement of over 9,500 individuals through safeguarding interventions. As part of this programme, we are funding the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Orochi, to support activity to disrupt and close lines originating in London.</p><p>We are also funding Catch22 to provide a specialist support and rescue service for under 25’s from the major exporting force areas (London, the West Midlands, Merseyside and Greater Manchester), and their families, who are criminally exploited through county lines, to help them safely reduce and exit their involvement.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 16/12/2022 14:20:39 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1549939

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Firearms: Seized Articles
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firearms were seized by the police in each the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	106373
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office does not routinely collect data on the number of firearms seized by police forces as part of their operations to tackle illegally held weapons and associated crime. However, figures provided by the National Ballistics Intelligence Service for numbers of firearms seized in each of the last five years are as follows:</p><p>2017/18 – 1,458;</p><p>2018/19 – 1,321;</p><p>2019/20 – 1,190;</p><p>2020/21 – 1,187;</p><p>2021/22 – 1070.</p><p>The UK has some of the toughest firearms controls in the world which include tackling the threat posed by the trafficking and misuse of illicit firearms.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 15/12/2022 17:06:37 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1549940

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Smuggling: Firearms
	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 help reduce firearm smuggling into the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	106374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling the threat posed by trafficking of illicit firearms into the UK.</p><p>The high harm nature of firearms means that the potential threat from criminals and terrorists gaining access to and using firearms poses a significant risk to public safety.</p><p>To tackle the flow of illicit firearms being trafficked into the UK, Border Force and its partners ensure that we have the right intelligence, detection and enforcement capabilities at the border. Alongside this, the National Crime Agency and our international partners tackle the threat upstream by engaging with source and nexus countries.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 19/12/2022 16:22:44 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell