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777726

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire Prevention
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 effectiveness of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 in ensuring that (a) adequate fire safety arrangements and (b) appropriate fire drills, including evacuations, are carried out for (i) hospitals, (ii) schools, (iii) care homes and (iv) women's refuges.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	109675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2017 answer text <p>Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, a responsible person (usually the employer or building owner) must carry out regularly a fire risk assessment and ensure effective fire safety arrangements are in place, and maintained, to protect all those using the premises.</p><p>Local fire and rescue authorities are the enforcing authorities in the majority of premises which the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies. Under the National Framework for Fire and Rescue in England, each authority must determine its own risk-based inspection programme and have in place a management strategy for enforcing its provisions.</p><p>It is for competent fire safety officers in each authority to consider, on the basis of their audit and/or inspection findings, whether the general fire precautions in place in any particular premises are sufficient to comply with the requirements of the Order. Where shortcomings are identified, fire and rescue authorities have a range of enforcement powers, up to and including prosecution, to ensure any necessary improvements are made.</p><p>Details of the number and outcome of fire and rescue authority audits under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 in 2016/17 are available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fire-prevention-and-protection-statistics-england-april-2016-to-mach-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fire-prevention-and-protection-statistics-england-april-2016-to-march-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 31/10/2017 15:54:11 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

777837

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	College of Policing: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the interview for the new Chair of the College of Policing took place; and when the successful candidate for that role will be announced.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	109630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>Interviews for the Chair for the College of Policing have recently taken place. A successful candidate will be announced in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 30/10/2017 17:57:36 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

777843

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance she has issued on the proportion of local police budgets that should be devoted to (a) cyber crime and (b) counter-terrorism.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	109766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government provides ring-fenced funding for Counter-Terrorism Policing of £707m in 2017/18. The Government has agreed up to £24m of additional funding for counter-terrorism policing this year to help meet the demands of Counter-terrorism to help fund the demands on Counter- Terrorism.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not direct Police &amp; Crime Commissioners or Chief Constables about the proportion of local funding that should be devoted to different crime types. Decisions on the operational deployment of resources are a matter for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners, who are held to account by the communities they serve.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 03/11/2017 10:03:26 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

777844

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
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 steps her Department has taken to increase BAME representation in the police since May 2016.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	109765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>Police forces that reflect the communities they serve are crucial to cutting crime in a modern diverse society. The police have made real improvements in diversity - there are a greater proportion of women and black and minority ethnic (BME) officers than ever before. However, the Government has been clear that there is more for forces to do.</p><p> </p><p>This Government’s reforms will allow for faster progress on equality and diversity; Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) and the College of Policing will play a key role in this.</p><p> </p><p>Central to our reforms was the establishment of the College of Policing as the professional body for policing, which is charged to set standards for policing.</p><p> </p><p>The College has delivered a major programme of work to address the recruitment, retention and progression of officers from BME and other under-represented groups in policing including sharing what works and publishing advice on the use of lawful positive action.</p><p> </p><p>In addition in August 2016 the College published a review of police initial recruitment containing recommendations designed to address the disproportionality seen in some forces in the outcomes of candidates from BME backgrounds.</p><p> </p><p>Through the use of data visualisations and force by force profiles on police.uk we are making it easier for the public to access the data they need to hold their force and PCC to account on how representative their force is compared to the local population. In July 2016 these diversity profiles were expanded to include the diversity of police staff, special constables and police community support officers, and also the ethnic and gender diversity of police officers by police rank.</p><p> </p><p>Following the publication of the Government’s Race Disparity Audit on 10 October the Home Secretary wrote to all Police and Crime Commissioners urging them to examine and address the findings, including those on police workforce diversity.</p><p> </p><p>Innovative schemes such as Direct Entry, Fast Track and Police Now are making the police workforce more diverse than ever before; showing that we can attract the brightest and best into policing, whilst introducing new perspectives into policing some of the country’s most challenging neighbourhoods.</p><p> </p><p>Police Now is a flagship police gradate recruitment scheme which started in the Metropolitan Police. With the support of Home Office funding has become an independent organisation, expanding to 19 forces in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on when and how to recruit individuals are for the chief officer of a police force. It is important that they use equalities legislation, including positive action provisions, to make better progress in terms of recruitment of under-represented groups.</p><p> </p><p>While the Government can set expectations around increasing police diversity we are clear that it is local police leaders working with the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council who are best placed to make this a reality. This includes Police and Crime Commissioners holding police chiefs to account and taking an active role in ensuring their force is representation of the communities it serves.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 03/11/2017 10:03:16 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

777846

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Emergency Services Network
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which organisations will contribute financially to the Emergency Services Network programme.
tabling member constituency	Dewsbury
tabling member printed	Paula Sherriff
uin	109695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>This information is available on Gov.UK here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-emergency-services-mobile-communications-programme/emergency-services-network" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-emergency-services-mobile-communications-programme/emergency-services-network</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 02/11/2017 16:47:49 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4426 label Biography information for Paula Sherriff

777853

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gun Sports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any civilian target shooting club in the UK is approved by her Department to use armour piercing or explosive ammunition.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	109587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">A small number of shooting clubs are approved to use firearms which use armour-piercing ammunition.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The possession of armour-piercing or explosive ammunition is prohibited under section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968 and can only be used with the</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">authority of the Secretary of State. No such authority has been granted for the use of such ammunition by civilian target shooting clubs.</ins></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 01/11/2017 13:26:14 question first ministerially corrected 17/11/2017 16:44:26 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd previous answer version 19267 answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

776905

registered interest
date	24/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Stun Guns
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the use of tasers in mental health units; and whether this information will be collected as part of her Department's new requirement for police forces to record and publish data on their officers' use of force.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	109215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>In recognition of the importance of ensuring transparency in how police forces use force, particularly against vulnerable people, the Government asked the police to lead the Use of Force Data Review, which recommended that police forces record and publish a range of data each time force is used, including the reason force was used, injury data, the gender, ethnicity and age of the subject involved, and the location and outcome of the incident. This includes the use of Taser, and use of force in mental health settings.</p><p>These recommendations were welcomed by the former Home Secretary, and the former Minister for Policing and the Fire Service made a Written Ministerial Statement on 2 March 2017 announcing the implementation of the recommendations, with police forces commencing recording in April this year. Police forces are now publishing their data locally, and a subset of the data will be provided to the Home Office as part of the Annual Data Requirement 2017/18. The Home Office will publish an annual report on this data in summer 2018.</p><p>As well as the national use of force recording system, the former Minister for Policing and the Fire Service wrote to each Police and Crime Commissioner, Chief Constable and Chair of local Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat Partnerships on 1 November 2016 to ask them to make arrangements for the joint identification and scrutiny of any use of Taser in a mental health setting in their areas. It is a matter for local partnerships to determine the most appropriate arrangements for doing so and this information is not held centrally by the Home Office.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 109216 question first answered 30/10/2017 17:45:32 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

776906

registered interest
date	24/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Stun Guns
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to ensure that appropriate local mechanisms have been implemented to scrutinise the use of tasers in mental health settings; and if she will set out the arrangements in each local area.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	109216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>In recognition of the importance of ensuring transparency in how police forces use force, particularly against vulnerable people, the Government asked the police to lead the Use of Force Data Review, which recommended that police forces record and publish a range of data each time force is used, including the reason force was used, injury data, the gender, ethnicity and age of the subject involved, and the location and outcome of the incident. This includes the use of Taser, and use of force in mental health settings.</p><p>These recommendations were welcomed by the former Home Secretary, and the former Minister for Policing and the Fire Service made a Written Ministerial Statement on 2 March 2017 announcing the implementation of the recommendations, with police forces commencing recording in April this year. Police forces are now publishing their data locally, and a subset of the data will be provided to the Home Office as part of the Annual Data Requirement 2017/18. The Home Office will publish an annual report on this data in summer 2018.</p><p>As well as the national use of force recording system, the former Minister for Policing and the Fire Service wrote to each Police and Crime Commissioner, Chief Constable and Chair of local Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat Partnerships on 1 November 2016 to ask them to make arrangements for the joint identification and scrutiny of any use of Taser in a mental health setting in their areas. It is a matter for local partnerships to determine the most appropriate arrangements for doing so and this information is not held centrally by the Home Office.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 109215 question first answered 30/10/2017 17:45:32 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

776914

registered interest
date	24/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Antisocial Behaviour
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to support the police in tackling street drinking and anti-social behaviour.
tabling member constituency	Aldershot
tabling member printed	Leo Docherty
uin	109272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office contributed to guidance on tackling street drinking that was published by the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners last year. That guidance advocates a multi-agency, multi-component approach to dealing with individuals who often have complex needs.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Local Alcohol Action Areas programme, the Home Office is supporting more than thirty areas across England and Wales to tackle alcohol harms, including those associated with street drinking.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, in appropriate circumstances, the powers provided by the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 can be used to tackle or prevent alcohol-related anti-social behaviour.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 01/11/2017 17:05:14 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty

776999

registered interest
date	24/10/2017
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 9 October 2017 to Question 105367, on motorcycles: helmets, what discussions she has had with the police on whether suspects being pursued should be included in the category of any road users.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	109470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2017 answer text <p>On 25 September, I announced a review into the law, guidance and practice on police pursuits following concerns raised by the police. In taking forward this review, we will be consulting the police and others with an interest.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 31/10/2017 15:21:59 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell