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1271233

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date	15/12/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Recruitment
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 an assessment of the potential merits of allocating funding to fire and rescue services to enable the recruitment of 5,000 additional frontline firefighters.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
uin	130243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that fire and rescue services have the resources and support they need to carry out their vital roles and to keep people safe.</p><p>Overall, fire and rescue authorities will receive around £2.3 billion in 2021/22. Standalone fire and rescue authorities will see an increase in core spending power of 2.6% in cash terms this year compared to 2020/21.</p><p>It is the responsibility of fire and rescue services to ensure that they have they have the appropriate number of firefighters to deliver their core functions across prevention, protection and response. There were 2,845 new firefighters in England in 2019/20, Equivalent to 8% of all firefighters.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 11/01/2021 15:41:41 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1271415

registered interest
date	15/12/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fraud: Coronavirus
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 she has made of trends in the level of covid-19 related fraud; and what steps she is taking to prevent those offences.
tabling member constituency	Bosworth
tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
uin	130238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2020 answer text <p>The Government is aware that criminals are exploiting the pandemic to commit opportunistic crimes such as fraud. Although Covid-19 related fraud represents a small proportion of overall fraud reporting, we understand the devastating impact it can have on individuals. Along with partners, we have been implementing measures to ensure the public has the protection and advice needed to shield themselves from these crimes. We have published guidance for the public to spot potential frauds and the steps they can take to avoid them. This advice can accessed at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-fraud-and-cyber-crime" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-fraud-and-cyber-crime</a></p><p>Our efforts include working alongside the National Cyber Security Centre to establish a new Suspicious Email Reporting Service. This service allows the public to report potential scams safely and effectively. To date, this has led to the removal of over 22000 scams. Members of the public can forward suspicious emails to the dedicated email address: <a href="mailto:report@phishing.gov.uk" target="_blank">report@phishing.gov.uk</a></p><p>We are also working with the Cabinet Office, who lead on the response to public sector fraud, around tracking and mitigating the risk of fraud against the unprecedented levels of stimulus funding including the bounce back loan scheme.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 22/12/2020 12:31:20 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1271454

registered interest
date	15/12/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
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 1 December 2020 to Question 114290 on Home Office: Correspondence and the Answer of 15 December 2020 to Question 126107 on Members: Correspondence, whether her Department has the capability to measure the average time it takes to respond to correspondence from hon. Members.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	130183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>Currently different areas of the Department work on different IT systems for correspondence, which makes calculating average response times more complex. A programme of work is underway to transfer all correspondence onto one system.</p><p>Previous answers have given the link to published data for UKVI against meeting the 20-day service standards, this is published quarterly.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 11/01/2021 12:02:04 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle