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157011

registered interest
date	20/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Pensions
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 estimate of what it would have cost to have continued paying police widows' pensions to those widows or widowers who lost their serving husbands or wives between 1987 and 2006, before officers had the option to opt in to a scheme which permitted payments to continue to a surviving spouse on remarriage.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Andrew Bingham
uin	215397
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>No such estimate has been made. The police pension schemes are administered locally by police forces, so data on this specific issue is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 25/11/2014 14:23:51 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	3994 label Biography information for Andrew Bingham

156692

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police positions in Greater London were vacant in March of each year from 2005 to 2014.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	215341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>The table provided contains statistics on the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the foot/car/beat/patrol function as at 31 March 2005 to 2008, and the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the neighbourhoods and response functions as at 31 March 2009 to 2014.<br><br>The Home Office does not collect these statistics for Lambeth or any other Basic Command Unit.<br><br>The Home Office also does not collect statistics on police vacancies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 215340 215342 215343 question first answered 26/11/2014 16:47:18 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning attachment 1 file name PQs 215340,215341,215342 & 215343 table v2 (with proportions).xlsx title Metropolitan police officer functions
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

156693

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Lambeth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Metropolitan Police officers there were serving in Lambeth in Safer Neighbourhood Teams in March of each year from 2005 to 2014.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	215342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>The table provided contains statistics on the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the foot/car/beat/patrol function as at 31 March 2005 to 2008, and the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the neighbourhoods and response functions as at 31 March 2009 to 2014.<br><br>The Home Office does not collect these statistics for Lambeth or any other Basic Command Unit.<br><br>The Home Office also does not collect statistics on police vacancies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 215340 215341 215343 question first answered 26/11/2014 16:47:18 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning attachment 1 file name PQs 215340,215341,215342 & 215343 table v2 (with proportions).xlsx title Metropolitan police officer functions
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

156694

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Lambeth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police positions in Lambeth were vacant in March of each year from 2005 to 2014.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	215343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>The table provided contains statistics on the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the foot/car/beat/patrol function as at 31 March 2005 to 2008, and the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the neighbourhoods and response functions as at 31 March 2009 to 2014.<br><br>The Home Office does not collect these statistics for Lambeth or any other Basic Command Unit.<br><br>The Home Office also does not collect statistics on police vacancies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 215340 215341 215342 question first answered 26/11/2014 16:47:19 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning attachment 1 file name PQs 215340,215341,215342 & 215343 table v2 (with proportions).xlsx title Metropolitan police officer functions
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

156695

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Metropolitan Police officers there were serving in Greater London in Safer Neighbourhood Teams in March of each year from 2005 to 2014.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	215340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>The table provided contains statistics on the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the foot/car/beat/patrol function as at 31 March 2005 to 2008, and the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the neighbourhoods and response functions as at 31 March 2009 to 2014.<br><br>The Home Office does not collect these statistics for Lambeth or any other Basic Command Unit.<br><br>The Home Office also does not collect statistics on police vacancies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 215341 215342 215343 question first answered 26/11/2014 16:47:18 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning attachment 1 file name PQs 215340,215341,215342 & 215343 table v2 (with proportions).xlsx title Metropolitan police officer functions
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

156785

registered interest
date	19/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Criminal Proceedings: Veterans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 18 November 2014 to Question 211583, who the advisers to the review of veterans in the criminal justice system are.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	215243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The advisors to the review, appointed by Rory Stewart MP were: the Rt. Hon. Lord Judge, the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales; Lord Ramsbotham GCB CBE, formerly HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales; Sir John Nutting Bt. QC, who was commissioned by the Howard League for Penal Re-form to conduct its enquiry into former armed service personnel in the prison population; Dr Hugh Milroy OBE, the Chief Executive of Veterans Aid (who also advised Sir John Nutting in relation to his enquiry); and Major General Michael Laurie CBE, a member of Lord Ashcroft’s Veterans Transition Review Team.</p><p> </p><p>Stephen Phillips has submitted his completed review to the Secretary of State and it will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 25/11/2014 11:35:49 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

156359

registered interest
date	18/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Resignations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of police officers left the police service in each police force area in (a) Suffolk, (b) England and (c) Wales (i) within two to five years, (ii) within five to 10 years and (iii) after more than 10 years of joining the service in each year since 2004.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
uin	214900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2014 answer text <p>The tables provided contains data on the number of police officer leavers (headcount) and police officer wastage rates, by the requested length of service, for each police force area in England and Wales between 2003/04 to 2010/11.<br><br>These figures ceased to be collected from 2011/12 onwards.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 21/11/2014 14:51:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning attachment 1 file name PQ214900 _table.xlsx title Police officers who have left the police force
tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

156366

registered interest
date	18/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
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 publish the Metropolitan Police Service review on criminal finances that was produced in 2012.
tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
uin	215060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2014 answer text <p>The Metropolitan Police Service conducted an internal review of the management and deployment of its financial investigators. Publication of the review is a matter for the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime and the Metropolitan Police Service.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 21/11/2014 14:53:27 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 29203 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

156382

registered interest
date	18/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Knives: West Yorkshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of all sentences handed down for (a) knife possession and (b) aggravated knife possession at (i) Keighley Magistrates' Court and (ii) Bradford Crown Court were custodial sentences in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	214963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>Knives on our streets are a social scourge. Unlawful possession of a knife or offensive weapon is already a serious criminal offence (which carries a maximum 4 year custodial sentence). We are building on that to send a clear and unequivocal message that those who use a knife or offensive weapon to threaten another person are behaving in a wholly unacceptable manner and can expect an automatic custodial sentence.</p><p> </p><p>This Government introduced the offences of threatening with a knife or offensive weapon in public or in a school. And last year, the Government made changes to the Simple Cautions Guidance issued to police to restrict the use of cautions for certain offences, including knife possession, in all but exceptional circumstances. The Ministry of Justice is also legislating on these changes within the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill, to make it absolutely clear that cautions should no longer be used for serious offences such as those involving a knife or offensive weapon.</p><p> </p><p>Within the sentencing framework, it is for judges and magistrates to decide the appropriate sentence in individual cases taking account of the harm the offence caused and the culpability of the offender. Under the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, there is an obligation on courts, when sentencing for offences, to follow the guidelines issued by the Sentencing Council, unless it would be contrary to the interests of justice to do so.</p><p> </p><p>Custodial sentences for knife possession handed down at Keighley Magistrates' Court and Bradford Crown Court, for the last available year, were as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Offences involving the possession of a knife or offensive weapon resulting in immediate custody at selected courts.</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of offences and percentages</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>12 months ending June 2014</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Bradford Crown Court</strong></p></td><td><p>Offences resulting in immediate custody</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Custody rate (%)</p></td><td><p><em>55</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Keighley Magistrate Courts<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>Offences resulting in immediate custody</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Custody rate (%)</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Source: MoJ Police National Computer (PNC)</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><sup>1</sup> Includes Bradford and Keighley Local Justice Area and Keighley Divison magistrates courts.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In the 12 months ending June 2014 there were two aggravated knife possession offences sentenced to immediate custody at Bradford Crown Court, and there was only a single aggravated knife possession offence sentenced to immediate custody at Keighley magistrate courts.</p><p> </p><p>The figures provided have been drawn from an extract of the Police National Computer (PNC) data held by the Department. The PNC holds details of all convictions and cautions given for recordable offences committed in England and Wales. In addition, as with any large scale recording system the PNC is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 25/11/2014 17:30:54 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

156406

registered interest
date	18/11/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) age and (b) sex of the (i) offender and (ii) victim was in each case where an offender was given a caution for the offence of sexual activity with a child under 13 in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	214936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>This Government has taken action to end the cautions culture and to make sure serious offenders do not receive penalties seen as soft options. The use of cautions is at its lowest point for thirty years.</p><p>We are changing the law to ban simple cautions for all of the indictable only offences - the most serious criminal offences which must be tried in the Crown Court, including rape, manslaughter and robbery. We are also banning simple cautions for possession of a knife or offensive weapon, supplying Class A drugs and a range of sexual offences against children.</p><p>Further, we have also outlined a new approach to scrap all cautions, which is being piloted in Staffordshire, West Yorkshire and Leicestershire, with a view to being extended across the country.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice issues guidance on the process to be followed by the police when they are administering simple cautions for adult offenders. The latest guidance, issued in November 2013 following the Simple Cautions Review, states that the use of a simple caution for indictable-only offences, such as rape, should only be given following authorisation by a senior police officer of at least the rank of Superintendent and the Crown Prosecution Service. These will be cases where there are exceptional circumstances which would mean that it is not in the public interest to prosecute.</p><p>Data for those offenders cautioned for sexual activity with a child under 13, in England and Wales from 2009 to 2013, is available in the public domain as part of the Criminal Justice Statistics annual publication, in the table ‘CJS outcomes by offence, 2009 to 2013.’ This is available at: <a title="blocked::https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly-december-2013" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly-december-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly-december-2013</a></p><p> </p><p>Under the list of offences please select “21 Sexual activity with child under 13”.</p><p> </p><p>The age of the victims cannot be separately identified without contacting each individual police force area involved, which would be at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 25/11/2014 17:18:50 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies