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1017273

registered interest
date	07/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Travellers: Caravan Sites
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 is taking to give due consideration to the Public Sector Equality Duty in his response to the consultation on powers for dealing with unauthorised development and encampments, which closed on 15 June 2018.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	197400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Ministry of Justice, and the Home Office carried out a joint consultation on the effectiveness of powers for dealing with unauthorised development and encampments.</p><p>All government departments have an ongoing responsibility to meet the Public Sector Equalities Duty (PSED) under the Equality Act 2010. As such, when formulating any policy changes following the consultation, ministers must have due regard to the three limbs of the PSED: (1) eliminate discrimination, harassment, victimisation and any other conduct prohibited by the Act, (2) advance equality of opportunity between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic and those who do not, and (3) foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 07/12/2018 15:10:55 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

934992

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces use the 18+1 ethnic monitoring system that is inclusive of Gypsies and Irish Travellers; and when forces that do not use that system plan to do so.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	161150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office collects information from police forces in England and Wales though the Annual Data Requirement (ADR) under the Home Secretary’s statutory powers. A number of these data requests require police forces to provide detailed information on ethnicity, for example, the ethnicity of a person being stopped and searched, or arrested.</p><p>The Home Office currently uses the 16+1 ethnic categories, as defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the 2001 Census, in most data collections. For the 2011 Census, the ONS updated ethnicity categories to include ‘Gypsy, Traveller or Irish Traveller’ as a specific group. To reflect these changes and to gain a better understanding of police interactions with other ethnic minorities, work is underway with force IT leads to investigate a move to the newer 18+1 ethnic codes for the 2019/20 data collection period.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested on the police workforce centrally. Data on the ethnicity of police officers and civilian staff are collected at the aggregated 5+1 level (White, Black, Asian, Mixed, Chinese and Other ethnic groups).</p><p>Those from Gypsy, Roma, or Irish Traveller backgrounds will be included in the White totals, but cannot be separately identified. Data on the police workforce, as at 31 March 2017, can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2017</a></p><p>The next instalment, covering the situation as at 31 March 2018, is scheduled for release on Thursday 19<sup>th</sup> July.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 161153 question first answered 12/07/2018 15:10:54 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

934993

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance his Department issues to police forces on their engagement with BAME communities.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	161151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>Equality and diversity are important. People across all communities want the police to fight crime while having confidence that their needs will be understood and respected.</p><p>The Government’s landmark Race Disparity Audit makes it clear that whilst we have made significant progress across a range of measures relating to crime and policing, for many people from black and other minority ethnic backgrounds their experiences and expectations fall well short of what is acceptable. We are committed to reducing and eliminating these disparities through our continued reforms to policing.</p><p>Decisions about frontline policing, how resources are best deployed, and the effective management of the workforce are for Chief Constables and democratically accountable Police and Crime Commissioners. They are best placed to make decisions with their communities based on their local knowledge and experience.</p><p>The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and National Police Chiefs’ Council make it clear in the Policing Vision 2025 that that the link between communities and the police will continue to form the bedrock of British policing. The vision also highlights the increasing diversity and complexity of the communities police serve, and the need for more sophisticated responses to policing challenges.</p><p>The National Police Chief’s Council has agreed a new Diversity, Equality and Inclusion strategy which is expected to be published in July. The strategy will be accompanied by three toolkits; on workforce representation; working with partner agencies; and working with diverse communities, which will provide operational advice to forces.</p><p>The College of Policing, as the professional body, has published the Code of Ethics which includes a clear statement on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for all those working in policing. It also published guidelines on modernising neighbourhood policing in March 2018. This year’s HMICFRS effectiveness report recommended that forces review their approach by October 2018 against these standards.</p><p>The Government takes the issue of police wellbeing very seriously and has invested in programmes which offer help directly to officers. In July 2017, the Home Secretary awarded £7.5 million from the Police Transformation Fund over 3 years to pilot and, if it is successful, fund a dedicated national service to help provide enhanced welfare support.</p><p>We await the publication of the final version of the Traveller Movement report which is expected to follow the summary report published in June and will work with policing partners to consider its findings.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 161152 161154 161155 161156 question first answered 12/07/2018 15:06:09 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

934994

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance his Department issues to police forces on their engagement with (a) Gypsy, (b) Roma and (c) Irish Traveller communities.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	161152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>Equality and diversity are important. People across all communities want the police to fight crime while having confidence that their needs will be understood and respected.</p><p>The Government’s landmark Race Disparity Audit makes it clear that whilst we have made significant progress across a range of measures relating to crime and policing, for many people from black and other minority ethnic backgrounds their experiences and expectations fall well short of what is acceptable. We are committed to reducing and eliminating these disparities through our continued reforms to policing.</p><p>Decisions about frontline policing, how resources are best deployed, and the effective management of the workforce are for Chief Constables and democratically accountable Police and Crime Commissioners. They are best placed to make decisions with their communities based on their local knowledge and experience.</p><p>The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and National Police Chiefs’ Council make it clear in the Policing Vision 2025 that that the link between communities and the police will continue to form the bedrock of British policing. The vision also highlights the increasing diversity and complexity of the communities police serve, and the need for more sophisticated responses to policing challenges.</p><p>The National Police Chief’s Council has agreed a new Diversity, Equality and Inclusion strategy which is expected to be published in July. The strategy will be accompanied by three toolkits; on workforce representation; working with partner agencies; and working with diverse communities, which will provide operational advice to forces.</p><p>The College of Policing, as the professional body, has published the Code of Ethics which includes a clear statement on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for all those working in policing. It also published guidelines on modernising neighbourhood policing in March 2018. This year’s HMICFRS effectiveness report recommended that forces review their approach by October 2018 against these standards.</p><p>The Government takes the issue of police wellbeing very seriously and has invested in programmes which offer help directly to officers. In July 2017, the Home Secretary awarded £7.5 million from the Police Transformation Fund over 3 years to pilot and, if it is successful, fund a dedicated national service to help provide enhanced welfare support.</p><p>We await the publication of the final version of the Traveller Movement report which is expected to follow the summary report published in June and will work with policing partners to consider its findings.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 161151 161154 161155 161156 question first answered 12/07/2018 15:06:09 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

934995

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Travellers
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) Gypsy, (b) Roma and (c) Irish Traveller (i) police officers and (ii) civilian staff are employed in each police force in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	161153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office collects information from police forces in England and Wales though the Annual Data Requirement (ADR) under the Home Secretary’s statutory powers. A number of these data requests require police forces to provide detailed information on ethnicity, for example, the ethnicity of a person being stopped and searched, or arrested.</p><p>The Home Office currently uses the 16+1 ethnic categories, as defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the 2001 Census, in most data collections. For the 2011 Census, the ONS updated ethnicity categories to include ‘Gypsy, Traveller or Irish Traveller’ as a specific group. To reflect these changes and to gain a better understanding of police interactions with other ethnic minorities, work is underway with force IT leads to investigate a move to the newer 18+1 ethnic codes for the 2019/20 data collection period.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested on the police workforce centrally. Data on the ethnicity of police officers and civilian staff are collected at the aggregated 5+1 level (White, Black, Asian, Mixed, Chinese and Other ethnic groups).</p><p>Those from Gypsy, Roma, or Irish Traveller backgrounds will be included in the White totals, but cannot be separately identified. Data on the police workforce, as at 31 March 2017, can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2017</a></p><p>The next instalment, covering the situation as at 31 March 2018, is scheduled for release on Thursday 19<sup>th</sup> July.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 161150 question first answered 12/07/2018 15:10:54 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

934996

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Travellers
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 is taking to ensure a safe working environment for Gypsy, Roma and Irish Traveller police officers and staff.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	161154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>Equality and diversity are important. People across all communities want the police to fight crime while having confidence that their needs will be understood and respected.</p><p>The Government’s landmark Race Disparity Audit makes it clear that whilst we have made significant progress across a range of measures relating to crime and policing, for many people from black and other minority ethnic backgrounds their experiences and expectations fall well short of what is acceptable. We are committed to reducing and eliminating these disparities through our continued reforms to policing.</p><p>Decisions about frontline policing, how resources are best deployed, and the effective management of the workforce are for Chief Constables and democratically accountable Police and Crime Commissioners. They are best placed to make decisions with their communities based on their local knowledge and experience.</p><p>The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and National Police Chiefs’ Council make it clear in the Policing Vision 2025 that that the link between communities and the police will continue to form the bedrock of British policing. The vision also highlights the increasing diversity and complexity of the communities police serve, and the need for more sophisticated responses to policing challenges.</p><p>The National Police Chief’s Council has agreed a new Diversity, Equality and Inclusion strategy which is expected to be published in July. The strategy will be accompanied by three toolkits; on workforce representation; working with partner agencies; and working with diverse communities, which will provide operational advice to forces.</p><p>The College of Policing, as the professional body, has published the Code of Ethics which includes a clear statement on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for all those working in policing. It also published guidelines on modernising neighbourhood policing in March 2018. This year’s HMICFRS effectiveness report recommended that forces review their approach by October 2018 against these standards.</p><p>The Government takes the issue of police wellbeing very seriously and has invested in programmes which offer help directly to officers. In July 2017, the Home Secretary awarded £7.5 million from the Police Transformation Fund over 3 years to pilot and, if it is successful, fund a dedicated national service to help provide enhanced welfare support.</p><p>We await the publication of the final version of the Traveller Movement report which is expected to follow the summary report published in June and will work with policing partners to consider its findings.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 161151 161152 161155 161156 question first answered 12/07/2018 15:06:09 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

934997

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to promote a positive relationship between the police and the Gypsy, Roma and Irish Traveller communities.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	161155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>Equality and diversity are important. People across all communities want the police to fight crime while having confidence that their needs will be understood and respected.</p><p>The Government’s landmark Race Disparity Audit makes it clear that whilst we have made significant progress across a range of measures relating to crime and policing, for many people from black and other minority ethnic backgrounds their experiences and expectations fall well short of what is acceptable. We are committed to reducing and eliminating these disparities through our continued reforms to policing.</p><p>Decisions about frontline policing, how resources are best deployed, and the effective management of the workforce are for Chief Constables and democratically accountable Police and Crime Commissioners. They are best placed to make decisions with their communities based on their local knowledge and experience.</p><p>The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and National Police Chiefs’ Council make it clear in the Policing Vision 2025 that that the link between communities and the police will continue to form the bedrock of British policing. The vision also highlights the increasing diversity and complexity of the communities police serve, and the need for more sophisticated responses to policing challenges.</p><p>The National Police Chief’s Council has agreed a new Diversity, Equality and Inclusion strategy which is expected to be published in July. The strategy will be accompanied by three toolkits; on workforce representation; working with partner agencies; and working with diverse communities, which will provide operational advice to forces.</p><p>The College of Policing, as the professional body, has published the Code of Ethics which includes a clear statement on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for all those working in policing. It also published guidelines on modernising neighbourhood policing in March 2018. This year’s HMICFRS effectiveness report recommended that forces review their approach by October 2018 against these standards.</p><p>The Government takes the issue of police wellbeing very seriously and has invested in programmes which offer help directly to officers. In July 2017, the Home Secretary awarded £7.5 million from the Police Transformation Fund over 3 years to pilot and, if it is successful, fund a dedicated national service to help provide enhanced welfare support.</p><p>We await the publication of the final version of the Traveller Movement report which is expected to follow the summary report published in June and will work with policing partners to consider its findings.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 161151 161152 161154 161156 question first answered 12/07/2018 15:06:09 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

934998

registered interest
date	05/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recommendations in the June 2018 Traveller Movement report, Policing by consent: understanding and improving relations between Gypsies, Roma, Irish Travellers and the police.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	161156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>Equality and diversity are important. People across all communities want the police to fight crime while having confidence that their needs will be understood and respected.</p><p>The Government’s landmark Race Disparity Audit makes it clear that whilst we have made significant progress across a range of measures relating to crime and policing, for many people from black and other minority ethnic backgrounds their experiences and expectations fall well short of what is acceptable. We are committed to reducing and eliminating these disparities through our continued reforms to policing.</p><p>Decisions about frontline policing, how resources are best deployed, and the effective management of the workforce are for Chief Constables and democratically accountable Police and Crime Commissioners. They are best placed to make decisions with their communities based on their local knowledge and experience.</p><p>The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and National Police Chiefs’ Council make it clear in the Policing Vision 2025 that that the link between communities and the police will continue to form the bedrock of British policing. The vision also highlights the increasing diversity and complexity of the communities police serve, and the need for more sophisticated responses to policing challenges.</p><p>The National Police Chief’s Council has agreed a new Diversity, Equality and Inclusion strategy which is expected to be published in July. The strategy will be accompanied by three toolkits; on workforce representation; working with partner agencies; and working with diverse communities, which will provide operational advice to forces.</p><p>The College of Policing, as the professional body, has published the Code of Ethics which includes a clear statement on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for all those working in policing. It also published guidelines on modernising neighbourhood policing in March 2018. This year’s HMICFRS effectiveness report recommended that forces review their approach by October 2018 against these standards.</p><p>The Government takes the issue of police wellbeing very seriously and has invested in programmes which offer help directly to officers. In July 2017, the Home Secretary awarded £7.5 million from the Police Transformation Fund over 3 years to pilot and, if it is successful, fund a dedicated national service to help provide enhanced welfare support.</p><p>We await the publication of the final version of the Traveller Movement report which is expected to follow the summary report published in June and will work with policing partners to consider its findings.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 161151 161152 161154 161155 question first answered 12/07/2018 15:06:09 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

810198

registered interest
date	20/12/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Alternatives to Prosecution: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women were given out-of-court disposals in each of the last five whole reporting years, broken down by nationality of offender and type of disposal for each nationality.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	120664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales resulting in an out of court disposal. It is not possible to tell from these data the number of offenders there were (one crime could have more than one offender) or their gender or nationality of the offender. Information on offenders is the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice. <br>Information on the number of offences recorded by the police resulting in an out of court disposal published by the Home Office and can be found here:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-year-to-june-2017-data-tables%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-year-to-june-2017-data-tables </a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 09/01/2018 15:13:41 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

758225

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013: Sole Traders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 on sole traders.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	9185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 which introduced a regulatory licensing scheme for scrap metal dealers that had seen a significant reduction in metal theft from 62,457 offences in 2012/13 to 16,155 in 2015/16.</p><p>The provisions contained in the legislation have been generally welcomed and supported by industry partners and sole traders and there are tough measures in the legislation to tackle the activities of those who operate outside the law.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 12/09/2017 16:29:00 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green