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443307

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	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 has been issued to police forces on monitoring and recording Gypsy and Traveller status as separate ethnic categories.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	21518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The use of Census categories for ethnicity is assessed each year as part of the Home Office’s process of agreeing each year’s Annual Data Requirement (ADR) of mandatory collections of statistical data from the police. This process includes consideration of the need, use, burden and data quality issues for each data collection. The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) have previously advised against the transition to the new Census categories due to the significant burden that this would place on forces to change IT systems and processes.</p><p>The ADR collections currently use the Census 2001 ethnicity framework, and there are no plans at present to move to the Census 2011 framework, which would add a separate category of ‘Gypsy or Irish Traveller’.</p><p>The guidance given to police forces on providing data to the Home Office is based on the Census 2001 ethnicity framework. It is, however, a decision for individual forces as to how they monitor and record ethnicity data for their own purposes.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 14/01/2016 17:56:08 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

443313

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Stoke on Trent
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many jobs in (a) his Department and (b) each of its non-departmental public bodies, executive agencies, non-ministerial departments, advisory bodies and other accountable statutory bodies (i) have been abolished or relocated from Stoke-on-Trent since 2010 and (ii) will be abolished in or relocated from Stoke-on-Trent by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	21452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text Within the Ministry of Justice, only the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) have offices within the Stoke-On-Trent postal address. There is one Juvenile Centre with a Stoke-On-Trent postal address, HMYOI Werrington. No posts have been abolished or relocated since 2010. There are currently no plans to abolish or relocate any posts by 2020. There are three National Probation Service (NPS) locations with a Stoke-on-Trent postal address. The NPS has only existed from 1 June 2014. Since that date there are no records of any posts being abolished or any relocation activity in the NPS Midlands Division which includes Stoke-on-Trent. There is an organisational change programme within the National Probation Service, that is ongoing and that will impact all area of NPS activity. It is too early to define the impact on a particular geographical location. HMCTS are unable to disaggregate information collected for the North Staffordshire area, so the following includes staff based within Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme. Since 2010, there has been a net reduction of 8 posts. There are currently no plans to further change the staffing in the North Staffordshire area. answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 14/01/2016 14:33:38 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

443314

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Pest Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much his Department has paid to (a) Rentokil and (b) other pest control companies in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	21471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2016 answer text <p>In the last 12 months for which data is available (December 2014 – November 2015), £91,172.45 was paid directly to Rentokil Initial Plc. Rentokill provide a range of services to the department in addition to pest control. £66,961.94 of the total was paid to Rentokill Initial Pest Control, and in the same period £525.88 was also paid to Killgerm Group Ltd for pest control services, a total of £67,487.82.</p><br /><p>This has reduced from £1,503,530.40 spent with Rentokil Initial Plc in 2010, of which £109.923.50 was with Rentokil Initial Pest Control. An additional £3,529.44 was paid to pest control companies in that year, making a total of £113,452.94.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 12/01/2016 17:48:34 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

443316

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Information Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many press and public relations staff are employed by (a) his Department, (b) HM Courts and Tribunal Service, (c) HM Prison Service, (d) the Legal Aid Agency and (e) the National Offender Management Service; how many of those employees are paid more than (i) £50,000 and (ii) £100,000; and what the total expenditure was on press and public relations by each of those organisations in the most recent year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	21457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the answer which I gave in PQ 21339, answered on 23<sup>rd</sup> February 2016.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 23/02/2016 13:14:24 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

443031

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the recorded level of gun crime was in (a) England and (b) the West Midlands between (i) January 2010 to December 2012 and (ii) January 2013 to December 2015.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Perry Barr
tabling member printed	Mr Khalid Mahmood
uin	21235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>Offences involving firearms recorded by the police at the force area level are published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on a financial year basis. The most recently published figures for the West Midlands and England are 2013/14. These are given in the table and show that between 2009/10 and 2013/14, offences involving firearms (excluding air weapons) fell by 40% in both the West Midlands and in England.</p><p>Figures for 2014/15 are due to be published on 11 February 2016 in the ONS publication Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences 2014/15.</p><p>The ONS publish provisional data for England and Wales on the number of offences involving firearms in their quarterly crime statistics releases. The most recently available figures are for the year ending June 2015 and these can be found here: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/year-ending-june-2015/stb-crime--ye-june-2015.html</p><p>The Home Office does not collect data on the number of people arrested in connection with offences involving firearms. The Home Office collects data on arrests by groups of crimes (for example, violence against the person, robbery) but cannot separately identify those that involved a firearm from those that did not.</p><p>Convictions data are the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice has informed the Home Office that they do not hold data on the number of convictions for offences where a firearm was involved.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 21371 question first answered 13/01/2016 16:29:21 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1392 label Biography information for Mr Khalid Mahmood

443044

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: West Midlands
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) arrests and (b) convictions have been made in connection with gun-related crime in the West Midlands metropolitan area in each quarter of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Perry Barr
tabling member printed	Mr Khalid Mahmood
uin	21371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>Offences involving firearms recorded by the police at the force area level are published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on a financial year basis. The most recently published figures for the West Midlands and England are 2013/14. These are given in the table and show that between 2009/10 and 2013/14, offences involving firearms (excluding air weapons) fell by 40% in both the West Midlands and in England.</p><p>Figures for 2014/15 are due to be published on 11 February 2016 in the ONS publication Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences 2014/15.</p><p>The ONS publish provisional data for England and Wales on the number of offences involving firearms in their quarterly crime statistics releases. The most recently available figures are for the year ending June 2015 and these can be found here: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/year-ending-june-2015/stb-crime--ye-june-2015.html</p><p>The Home Office does not collect data on the number of people arrested in connection with offences involving firearms. The Home Office collects data on arrests by groups of crimes (for example, violence against the person, robbery) but cannot separately identify those that involved a firearm from those that did not.</p><p>Convictions data are the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice has informed the Home Office that they do not hold data on the number of convictions for offences where a firearm was involved.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 21235 question first answered 13/01/2016 16:29:21 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1392 label Biography information for Mr Khalid Mahmood

443046

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for how long people under the age of 18 who were transferred to a place of safety under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 were detained on average in (a) a police cell and (b) a police vehicle in England and Wales in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Totnes
tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
uin	21299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>However, the use of police cells as a place of safety for all persons detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 has more than halved since 2011/12 (when figures were first collated) as shown in the following table. A joint inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC); Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP); the Care Quality Commission (CQC); and Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) (published in 2013) found that the average time that each such person spent in police custody was 10 hours 32 minutes.</p><p>The Government intends to make provision in the Policing and Crime Bill, to be introduced in Parliament soon, to prohibit the use of police cells as places of safety for people under the age of 18, and to further limit their use in the case of adults. The maximum period for which a person may be detained pending a mental health assessment will also be reduced.</p><br /><p><strong>Table 1: number of times a police station was used as a place of safety for people detained under Section 136 Mental Health Act 1983 (England only)</strong></p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Section 136 detentions in police stations</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage reduction year on year (to nearest whole number)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>8,667</p></td><td><p>N/A[1]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>7,881</p></td><td><p>-9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>6,028</p></td><td><p>-24%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>3,996</p></td><td><p>-34%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><em>Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre</em></p><br /><p>[1] No data on use of police stations is available for 2010-11.</p><br /><p><br></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 13/01/2016 17:03:28 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

443050

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent on tackling gun crime in (a) England and (b) the West Midlands between (i) January 2010 to December 2012 and (ii) January 2013 to December 2015.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Perry Barr
tabling member printed	Mr Khalid Mahmood
uin	21233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>Information about specific aspects of spending by the police is not held centrally by the Home Office. Birmingham is one of the areas previously supported under the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme. However, it is not possible to determine what proportion of the total programme budget was spent in this area, and in turn what proportion of this was related to tackling gun crime specifically.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 14/01/2016 17:59:55 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1392 label Biography information for Mr Khalid Mahmood

443051

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
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, how much was spent on policing in (a) England and (b) the West Midlands between (i) January 2013 and December 2015 and (ii) January 2010 and December 2012.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Perry Barr
tabling member printed	Mr Khalid Mahmood
uin	21363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The police in England and Wales receive funding from two main sources - central Government and the police precept component of council tax.</p><p>The table below shows the amount of revenue funding provided by central Government to the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for the West Midlands (formerly the West Midlands Police Authority), and the amount of central Government revenue funding provided by central Government to PCCs (formerly police authorities) and their London equivalents in England from 2009/2010 to 2015/2016. It also shows precept funding for the relevant years.</p><p>Overall police spending (central Government funding plus precept) will be protected in real terms over the next Spending Review period. This is an increase of up to £900 million in cash terms by 2019/20.</p><p>Police reform is working and, according to the independent Crime Survey for England and Wales, crime has fallen by more than a quarter since 2010. This is the lowest level since the survey began in 1981. In the West Midlands, crime has fallen by 15 per cent compared with 2010.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>£m</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>West Midlands</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>England</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Government funding*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Precept**</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Government funding*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Precept**</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-2010</p></td><td><p>529.0</p></td><td><p>77.9</p></td><td><p>606.9</p></td><td><p>8,573.4</p></td><td><p>2,913.7</p></td><td><p>11,487.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-2011</p></td><td><p>540.8</p></td><td><p>79.4</p></td><td><p>620.2</p></td><td><p>8,686.2</p></td><td><p>2,982.9</p></td><td><p>11,669.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>515.8</p></td><td><p>79.7</p></td><td><p>595.4</p></td><td><p>8,292.0</p></td><td><p>3,039.7</p></td><td><p>11,331.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>484.7</p></td><td><p>80.0</p></td><td><p>564.7</p></td><td><p>7,823.1</p></td><td><p>3,093.2</p></td><td><p>10,916.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>474.8</p></td><td><p>82.0</p></td><td><p>556.8</p></td><td><p>7,655.0</p></td><td><p>3,128.6</p></td><td><p>10,783.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>458.9</p></td><td><p>84.4</p></td><td><p>543.3</p></td><td><p>7,385.5</p></td><td><p>3,207.4</p></td><td><p>10,592.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-2016</p></td><td><p>435.6</p></td><td><p>87.3</p></td><td><p>522.8</p></td><td><p>7,031.2</p></td><td><p>3,289.8</p></td><td><p>10,321.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Government funding figures include specific grants that have since been rolled into Police Main Grant (including Rule 2 Grant, the Neighbourhood Policing Fund and, from 2013/14, the Community Safety Fund) in order to provide consistency over the time period.</p><p>Since 2011/12, West Midlands and other English force areas have been in receipt of Council Tax Freeze Grants. These amounts are included in the figures, along with National and International City Grants paid to the London forces.</p><p>These figures do not include funding for counter-terrorism policing, or additional funding received by the police from other specific grants, the Police Innovation Fund or other sources.</p><p>**From 2013/14, West Midlands and other English force areas have also received Local Council Tax Support (LCTS) funding. These amounts are included within the precept totals to assist comparison with previous years.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 14/01/2016 17:58:52 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1392 label Biography information for Mr Khalid Mahmood

443052

registered interest
date	06/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Crime
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 is taking to prevent the supply of guns and ammunition at a neighbourhood level.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Perry Barr
tabling member printed	Mr Khalid Mahmood
uin	21234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Government and police work nationally, and with international partners, to reduce the threat to the UK from the criminal use of firearms. In 2013/14, firearms were used in a small and diminishing proportion of total police recorded crime, 0.2%. The figure for 2009/10 was 0.3%. Following the firearms surrenders in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Greater Manchester and the West Midlands in 2013 and 2014, the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS) co-ordinated firearms surrenders in the majority of the Police Force areas in England and Wales during 2014 and 2015, resulting in the surrender of over 6000 items.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">As of 7th January 2016; 3,864 firearms and over 13,000 items of ammunition have been recovered following the November 2015 firearms surrender, with 934 weapons being recovered prior to the November surrender. Of those items recovered in the November surrender (discounting ammunition, CS Sprays and Stun Guns), items include:</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">• 516 pistols;</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">• 473 revolvers;</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">• 1,226 shotguns;</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">• 243 rifles;</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">• 873 air weapons</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">This brings the total volume of firearms surrendered in the last eighteen months to 4,798. If ammunition, CS Sprays and Stun Guns are included this comes to over 6000.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Following publication of the Law Commission’s report on firearms law published on 16 December we will be reviewing options to strengthen the current legislation to ensure it safeguards against abuse by criminals.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>The Government and police work nationally, and with international partners, to reduce the threat to the UK from the criminal use of firearms. In 2013/14, firearms were used in a small proportion of total police recorded crime, 0.2%. The figure for 2009/10 was 0.3% </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em> </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>Figures from the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS) show that in 2013 and 2014, there were 757 weapons recovered in firearm surrenders undertaken in the Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Greater Manchester and West Midlands Police Force areas. </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em> </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>Building on the success of these surrenders, NABIS co-ordinated firearms surrenders in the majority of the remaining Police Force areas in England and Wales during 2014 and 2015, resulting in the recovery of 5,468 weapons and over 17,000 items of ammunition. The items recovered included:</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em> </em></ins></p><ul><li><ins class="ministerial"><em>588 pistols; </em></ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial"><em>479 revolvers; </em></ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial"><em>1,850 shotguns; </em></ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial"><em>416 rifles; </em></ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial"><em>1,269 air weapons; and,</em></ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial"><em>866 other items including gas guns, stun guns, CS sprays, BB guns and blank firers.</em></ins></li></ul><p><ins class="ministerial"><em> </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>The total number of weapons recovered from all forces in England and Wales as a result of these surrenders was 6,225. </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>Following publication of the Law Commission’s report on firearms law published on 16 December 2015 we will be reviewing options to strengthen the current legislation to ensure it safeguards against abuse by criminals</em>.</ins></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 13/01/2016 16:31:42 question first ministerially corrected 01/02/2016 14:13:57 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 38611 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1392 label Biography information for Mr Khalid Mahmood