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1693579

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Offenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many civil servants in his Department have a criminal conviction.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	16794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>All Home Office staff considered for appointment undergo stringent pre-employment and security checks before taking up post.</p><p>We recognise the contribution that former offenders can make to our workforce, however, in deciding whether to make an appointment we would consider a range of factors, including the nature of the position and the circumstances of the offence. However, to determine those members of staff with a criminal conviction in our current workforce can only be obtained with disproportionate effort.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 12/03/2024 15:56:13 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1674352

registered interest
date	30/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Tobacco: Seized Articles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions the provisions in the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 allowing a constable to seize any tobacco or cigarette papers in the possession of any person apparently under the age of sixteen years whom they find smoking in any street or public place have been used in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	4648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on use of police powers, as part of the ‘Police Powers and Procedures’ statistical bulletin, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales" target="_blank">Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>However, data is not collected on the seizure of tobacco or cigarette papers under the Children and Young Person Act 1933.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 06/12/2023 14:04:44 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1655878

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: 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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July 2023 to Question 192042 on Public Sector: Crimes of Violence, if she will take steps to ensure that information on the number of assaults of other public service workers is separately identifiable in the Police recorded crime and outcomes statistics.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	195755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Currently only assaults on Police and Emergency Workers are captured as a separate classification within the Home Office’s police recorded crime and outcomes statistics.</p><p>There is an ongoing review of the rules governing how crime is recorded by the police in England and Wales and this will consider the case for introducing additional classifications to better understand the impact of crime across other areas such as retail workers and public sector workers.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 11/09/2023 11:56:10 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1649558

registered interest
date	03/07/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: 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, how many incidents of (a) abuse and (b) other hostility towards public service workers were reported in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	192042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of police recorded offences on ‘assaults on a constable’ and the number of ‘assaults on an emergency worker (other than a constable)’ on a quarterly basis and that can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</a></p><p>Information on other public sector workers is not separately identifiable within police recorded crime.</p><p>The Office for National Statistics’ Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and its latest estimates shows that the number of incidences of violence has fallen by 41% since the year ending March 2010, to 1.1 million incidences.</p><p>The Home Office has taken a significant step to introduce a statutory aggravating factor for assault against those who are serving the public, via the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. This means the public facing nature of a victim’s role will be considered an aggravating factor when it comes to sentencing for assault offences. This provision commenced in June 2022.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 11/07/2023 16:12:43 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1579850

registered interest
date	23/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Disciplinary Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what happens to the disciplinary records of police officers when they change (i) gender and (ii) name.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	129777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2023 answer text <p>The maintenance of officers’ disciplinary records are not determined in legislation and would be an operational matter for police forces.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 31/01/2023 14:54:54 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1541461

registered interest
date	11/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the civil service headcount for their Department was on (a) 15 November 2022 and (b) 1 February 2020.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	84845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>Home Office staff data can only be obtained via information retained as of the last day of the month.</p><p>Information on the latest Home Office staff data will be published on 30<sup>th</sup> November and for b) dated 31 January 2020 is published here. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-management-information-2022" target="_blank">Workforce management information, 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 21/11/2022 17:11:35 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1541302

registered interest
date	09/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employees in her Department work on matters related to covid-19.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	83587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office no longer actively monitor staff deployment for Covid-19, the number of staff members where their role is wholly or in part related to Covid-19 can only be retrieved by disproportionate effort.</p><p>However, the Department’s response to the Covid-19 Inquiry has a total of 7 (6.6FTE) employees.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/11/2022 11:51:53 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1472520

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling: Innovation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much money the Gambling Commission has spent on investigating novel products in each of the last 5 years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	23241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission has both regulatory and criminal powers, and its investigation remit covers either regulatory failing by licensees (under LCCP) or criminal offences (under the Gambling Act 2005). The Commission does not record whether an investigation is related to a novel product, but in response to the collapse of BetIndex Limited, the Commission updated how it assesses risk so that novel products are properly considered.</p><p>The Commission often refuses a licence to operators if they are shown to be novel at the licence application stage (e.g. if they use cryptocurrency as a source of funds or intend to offer consumers cryptocurrency as a route to play). It cannot bring a prosecution under the Gambling Act 2005 regarding an aspect of a product which is outside of its remit.</p><p>The Gambling Commission at all times strives to recruit people with the skills, knowledge and diversity required to regulate the fast moving and innovative gambling sector but it does not retain information on where its staff join from and on the scope of their earlier careers. As well as staff with specialisms in areas of gambling such as cryptocurrency and NFTs, the Commission’s market insights specialists help anticipate industry developments.</p><p>All staff in the Commission’s Operations team (around 30% of its workforce) have the technical experience to investigate novel products and new technologies and where content is challenging, call on subject matter experts as appropriate (internal or external). The most recent estimate for the Commission’s overall headcount was around 320.</p><p>In order to help equip the Commission to tackle the rate of technological change, four years ago the Commission established a Digital Advisory Panel to advise on the digital landscape and emerging trends which may impact on how the gambling market operates, how the Commission interacts with operators and how they interact with consumers. The Digital Advisory Panel works with staff to explore the impact of emerging technologies on the Commission’s regulatory and policy work to ensure that they are a future-fit and effective regulator.</p><p>The Commission does not comment on ongoing cases. Each case has its own circumstances, and the length of prosecution depends on the case complexity and the court process.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 23242 23243 23244 question first answered 30/06/2022 16:24:07 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1472521

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling: Innovation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) employees and (b) consultants that are employed by the Gambling Commission with the relevant technical experience to investigate new technologies.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	23242
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission has both regulatory and criminal powers, and its investigation remit covers either regulatory failing by licensees (under LCCP) or criminal offences (under the Gambling Act 2005). The Commission does not record whether an investigation is related to a novel product, but in response to the collapse of BetIndex Limited, the Commission updated how it assesses risk so that novel products are properly considered.</p><p>The Commission often refuses a licence to operators if they are shown to be novel at the licence application stage (e.g. if they use cryptocurrency as a source of funds or intend to offer consumers cryptocurrency as a route to play). It cannot bring a prosecution under the Gambling Act 2005 regarding an aspect of a product which is outside of its remit.</p><p>The Gambling Commission at all times strives to recruit people with the skills, knowledge and diversity required to regulate the fast moving and innovative gambling sector but it does not retain information on where its staff join from and on the scope of their earlier careers. As well as staff with specialisms in areas of gambling such as cryptocurrency and NFTs, the Commission’s market insights specialists help anticipate industry developments.</p><p>All staff in the Commission’s Operations team (around 30% of its workforce) have the technical experience to investigate novel products and new technologies and where content is challenging, call on subject matter experts as appropriate (internal or external). The most recent estimate for the Commission’s overall headcount was around 320.</p><p>In order to help equip the Commission to tackle the rate of technological change, four years ago the Commission established a Digital Advisory Panel to advise on the digital landscape and emerging trends which may impact on how the gambling market operates, how the Commission interacts with operators and how they interact with consumers. The Digital Advisory Panel works with staff to explore the impact of emerging technologies on the Commission’s regulatory and policy work to ensure that they are a future-fit and effective regulator.</p><p>The Commission does not comment on ongoing cases. Each case has its own circumstances, and the length of prosecution depends on the case complexity and the court process.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 23241 23243 23244 question first answered 30/06/2022 16:24:07 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1472522

registered interest
date	22/06/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Gambling Commission: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff who are employed by the Gambling Commission who have previously worked in the (a) technology, (b) digital assets, (c) cryptoassets or (d) NFT sectors.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	23243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>The Gambling Commission has both regulatory and criminal powers, and its investigation remit covers either regulatory failing by licensees (under LCCP) or criminal offences (under the Gambling Act 2005). The Commission does not record whether an investigation is related to a novel product, but in response to the collapse of BetIndex Limited, the Commission updated how it assesses risk so that novel products are properly considered.</p><p>The Commission often refuses a licence to operators if they are shown to be novel at the licence application stage (e.g. if they use cryptocurrency as a source of funds or intend to offer consumers cryptocurrency as a route to play). It cannot bring a prosecution under the Gambling Act 2005 regarding an aspect of a product which is outside of its remit.</p><p>The Gambling Commission at all times strives to recruit people with the skills, knowledge and diversity required to regulate the fast moving and innovative gambling sector but it does not retain information on where its staff join from and on the scope of their earlier careers. As well as staff with specialisms in areas of gambling such as cryptocurrency and NFTs, the Commission’s market insights specialists help anticipate industry developments.</p><p>All staff in the Commission’s Operations team (around 30% of its workforce) have the technical experience to investigate novel products and new technologies and where content is challenging, call on subject matter experts as appropriate (internal or external). The most recent estimate for the Commission’s overall headcount was around 320.</p><p>In order to help equip the Commission to tackle the rate of technological change, four years ago the Commission established a Digital Advisory Panel to advise on the digital landscape and emerging trends which may impact on how the gambling market operates, how the Commission interacts with operators and how they interact with consumers. The Digital Advisory Panel works with staff to explore the impact of emerging technologies on the Commission’s regulatory and policy work to ensure that they are a future-fit and effective regulator.</p><p>The Commission does not comment on ongoing cases. Each case has its own circumstances, and the length of prosecution depends on the case complexity and the court process.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 23241 23242 23244 question first answered 30/06/2022 16:24:07 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies