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1685224

registered interest
date	25/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Forensic Science
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an assessment of the impact of the standard of forensic science available to police officers on prosecution rates.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	901313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office has made no direct assessment of its own, but we have worked with the National Police Chief’s Council and the Forensic Science Regulator to monitor the accreditation rates of forensic science providers.</p><p>The government also put the Forensic Science Regulator on a statutory footing through the Forensic Science Regulator Act (2021) and he has the necessary powers to enforce quality standards.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 01/02/2024 12:11:23 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1663362

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Forensic Science
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) membership and (b) terms of reference is for the forensic science reform programme board.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	201216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The membership of the Forensic Reform Programme Board, in addition to officials from the Home Office and Ministry of Justice, includes:</p><p>Association of Forensic Science Providers</p><p>Association of Police and Crime Commissioners</p><p>Attorney General’s Office</p><p>Bar Council</p><p>BlueLight Commercial</p><p>Chartered Society of Forensic Scientists</p><p>Crown Prosecution Service</p><p>First Forensic Forum</p><p>Forensics Archive</p><p>Forensic Capability Network</p><p>Forensic Science Northern Ireland</p><p>Forensic Science Regulator</p><p>Judicial Office</p><p>Law society</p><p>National Crime Agency</p><p>National Police Chiefs’ Council</p><p>Police Digital Service</p><p>Scottish Police Authority Forensic Service</p><p>University of Lausanne</p><p>United Kingdom Accreditation Service</p><p>Victims' Commissioner</p><p>The Terms of Reference of the Forensic Science Programme Board are as follows:</p><p>The Board, which brings together stakeholders from across policing and the criminal justice system, steers and scrutinises reform to ensure that the forensics model that serves England and Wales is working for the whole of the CJS.</p><p>The Board oversees completion of the Forensic Reform Programme and ensures that the programme’s interventions deliver the improvements needed. These interventions are intended to strengthen the forensics model and win back the confidence of stakeholders and partners who depend on it, in their service to justice and the public.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 23/10/2023 14:25:52 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1660411

registered interest
date	13/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Forensic Science: Impact Assessment
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 has produced an impact assessment on the use of streamlined forensic reports.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	199279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has not conducted any such impact assessment and does not hold this data.</p><p>The Home Office funded Forensic Capability Network (FCN) manages and oversees the Streamlined Forensic Reporting (SFR) process on behalf of policing and the criminal justice system. The FCN last published guidance on SFR in January 2023, which can be read here:</p><p><a href="https://www.fcn.police.uk/news/2023-01/streamlined-forensic-reporting-sfr-update-winter-2023" target="_blank">https://www.fcn.police.uk/news/2023-01/streamlined-forensic-reporting-sfr-update-winter-2023</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 199280 question first answered 20/09/2023 11:47:27 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1660412

registered interest
date	13/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Forensic Science
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 holds data on the total number of streamlined forensic reports produced since they were introduced.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	199280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office has not conducted any such impact assessment and does not hold this data.</p><p>The Home Office funded Forensic Capability Network (FCN) manages and oversees the Streamlined Forensic Reporting (SFR) process on behalf of policing and the criminal justice system. The FCN last published guidance on SFR in January 2023, which can be read here:</p><p><a href="https://www.fcn.police.uk/news/2023-01/streamlined-forensic-reporting-sfr-update-winter-2023" target="_blank">https://www.fcn.police.uk/news/2023-01/streamlined-forensic-reporting-sfr-update-winter-2023</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 199279 question first answered 20/09/2023 11:47:27 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1626536

registered interest
date	10/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Greenways Project: Motorcycles
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 impact of the illegal use of greenways by motorbike users on other users.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	184289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p>The Government recognises that any form of anti-social, dangerous or inconsiderate behaviour involving vehicles, including the illegal use of motorbikes on greenways, is a serious issue.</p><p>No assessment has been made of the impact of the illegal use of greenways by motorbike users on other users.</p><p>Enforcement of road traffic law, including in West Yorkshire, is an operational matter for individual Chief Officers in conjunction with local Police and Crime Commissioners to determine based on local policing priorities.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 184290 question first answered 18/05/2023 13:47:56 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1626537

registered interest
date	10/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Greenways Project: West Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to combat the use of Greenways in West Yorkshire by motorbike users.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	184290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p>The Government recognises that any form of anti-social, dangerous or inconsiderate behaviour involving vehicles, including the illegal use of motorbikes on greenways, is a serious issue.</p><p>No assessment has been made of the impact of the illegal use of greenways by motorbike users on other users.</p><p>Enforcement of road traffic law, including in West Yorkshire, is an operational matter for individual Chief Officers in conjunction with local Police and Crime Commissioners to determine based on local policing priorities.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 184289 question first answered 18/05/2023 13:47:56 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1605604

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Forensic Science: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of recent trends in the financial sustainability of major forensic science providers in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	169208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>BlueLight Commercial works with the National Police Chief’s Council and the Forensics Capability Network to manages forensic science contracts and other commercial functions in England and Wales.</p><p>The Home Office is providing funding to BlueLight Commercial and the Forensic Capability Network in 2022/23, and we fully support them in their role.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 23/03/2023 16:09:16 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1582806

registered interest
date	01/02/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime: Huddersfield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with West Yorkshire Police on knife crime in Huddersfield constituency in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	137725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2023 answer text <p>Ministers regularly engage with policing leaders across the country on these issues, including colleagues in the West Yorkshire Police. On 16 June, 2022, the former Home Secretary met West Yorkshire Police in Leeds to discuss operational matters across the region, including knife crime.</p><p>The Government is determined to drive down serious violence by combining tough enforcement action with support for those most at risk. This includes direct funding and activity in West Yorkshire. Since 2019, the West Yorkshire VRU has received c.£16m for violence reduction activity, including £5.9m in this financial year. The VRU was also successful in bidding for an additional £450k to work alongside the police to deliver targeted youth work to high-risk young people at the point of arrest.</p><p>We have also invested over £10m in West Yorkshire through our serious violence police enforcement programmes (including a £1.6m investment through our ‘Grip’ programme this financial year). Grip uses a highly data-driven process to deliver and track additional visible patrols in the streets and neighbourhoods most affected by these devastating crimes.</p><p>In 2019, the Home Office established the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) with a 10-year endowment of £200m to build an evidence base around what works in preventing youth violence and make this accessible to practitioners. To date, the YEF has granted around £1.2m in funding across 11 intervention projects in West Yorkshire.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 09/02/2023 14:30:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1581958

registered interest
date	30/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Forensic Science: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department has provided to the Transforming Forensics programme in each year since 2019.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	135161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>Since 2019, the Home Office has provided the Transforming Forensics Programme with the following funding in each year since Financial Year 2019/20:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Amount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£16.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>£9.1m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>£19.8m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/23</p></td><td><p>£10m allocation – final spend to be confirmed</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/02/2023 16:14:50 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

1581961

registered interest
date	30/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Forensic Science: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress has been made on the Transforming Forensics Programme; and whether she plans to provide further funding to the programme.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	135162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>The Transforming Forensics Programme supports the modernisation of forensic services through the development of new services, tools and applications.</p><p>Since its inception, achievements have included setting up the Forensics Capability Network which supports forensics practitioners nationally, supporting the government response to the Rape Review by rolling out specialist digital forensics equipment to 24 forces, and developing an end-to-end digitised fingerprinting app which is available to forces for adoption.</p><p>The programme will close at the end of this financial year, having transitioned its ongoing activities into the Police Digital Service.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 07/02/2023 16:18:53 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman