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1055980

registered interest
date	06/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Homelessness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment his Department made of the level of violent crime directed at homeless people.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	217445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>We do not hold relevant data on levels of violent crime directed at homeless people, however in April 2018 the Government published the Serious Violence Strategy which sets out our evidence and analysis of violent crime.</p><p>The Strategy identifies a range of risk and protective factors that may increase an individual’s involvement in violent crime and the evidence suggests that being homeless is one of the markers for increased risk of both victimisation and perpetration of serious violence and also substance abuse. We also know that the homeless are particularly targeted by county lines gangs.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/02/2019 17:18:22 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

924115

registered interest
date	14/06/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how his Department is assessing the effect of its policy to allow police forces to convict people who steal under £200 by post on levels of retail crime; and what assessment he has made of the effect of that policy on the regional disparity in retail crime offences.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	153726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>Shop theft is a high-volume crime that has a significant impact on retailers and the wider community. This is why we encourage retailers to report these crimes to the police, so that proportionate action can be taken against those who commit these offences.</p><p><em>By virtue of section 176 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, </em>the shoplifting of goods of a value of £200 or less is a summary offence unless the defendant, if an adult, elects to be tried in the Crown Court. Where a summary offence, the case can be handled as a police-led prosecution, and the defendant will be given the opportunity to plead guilty by post.</p><p>Police-led prosecutions were introduced to improve the efficiency of the criminal justice system by allowing for a simpler, more proportionate police-led process in high-volume, low-level, uncontested cases. We have not undertaken a specific assessment of the effect of this approach in relation to shop theft, including in relation to any regional variations in retail crime offences. However, the National Retail Crime Steering Group which I co-chair with the British Retail Consortium provides a forum for addressing issues in relation to shoplifting, which is a priority issue for the Steering Group.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/06/2018 16:38:23 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

887174

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Retail Crime Steering Group
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 21 March 2018 to Question 132685, when the National Crime Steering Group's work plan was last updated; how often that work plan is published; and what assessment she has made of whether the objectives of that work plan have been achieved.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	136738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The work plan of the National Retail Crime Steering Group is kept up to date on an ongoing basis, and is formally reviewed by the Steering Group when it meets, twice per year.</p><p> </p><p>As co-chair of the Steering Group, alongside the British Retail Consortium, it is part of my role to ensure that members of the Steering Group are satisfied that the work plan reflects the retail sector’s crime priorities and that the required activity is in place to deliver its component parts. I am satisfied that this is currently the case, and I will review this with the full Steering Group at our next meeting, which is due to take place in June.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 27/04/2018 13:01:31 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

887176

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Crime
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 11 April 2018 to Question 132690, what the British Retail Consortium's estimate of the cost of crime to the UK retail industry was for each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	136740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The British Retail Consortium publishes its estimate of the cost of retail crime as part of its annual retail crime survey. This is published by the British Retail Consortium on its website: <a href="https://brc.org.uk" target="_blank">https://brc.org.uk</a>.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 27/04/2018 12:59:40 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

882678

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to review hate crime legislation to tackle social media hate speech directed towards ethnic minority groups.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	135740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government is clear that what is illegal offline is illegal online.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister announced on 6 February that Government has commissioned the Law Commission to launch a review of current legislation on offensive online communications to ensure that laws are up to date with technology.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 23/04/2018 16:54:11 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

862266

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Retail Crime Steering Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on helping develop a five-year strategy for the National Retail Crime Steering Group.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	132685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>I am the co-chair of the National Retail Crime Steering Group with the British Retail Consortium. It is an important group that brings together representatives from government departments, the police and the retail sector to focus on the crime issues that affect retailers. The Steering Group has a work plan that has been developed in consultation with its members. This helps to ensure that the work is focused on the retail sector’s crime priorities, such as tackling violence and abuse against retail staff.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/03/2018 14:39:47 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

862271

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Business: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of the different categories of crime to UK businesses.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	132690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises that crime against businesses causes damage and disruption to those businesses as well as having a negative impact on their customers and the wider community. However, we do not routinely collect data on the costs of different types of crimes to different types of businesses. We do have assessments of the costs of crime to the retail sector provided by our partners on the National Retail Crime Steering Group. For example, the British Retail Consortium has estimated that the direct financial cost of crime to the UK retail industry was £700 million in 2016-17. It estimated that the cost of customer theft was £503 million and the cost of fraud against the sector was £155 million.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/04/2018 09:40:30 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

806054

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fireworks: 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 recent steps her Department has taken to tackle the anti-social use of fireworks.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	119263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2017 answer text <p>The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 provides the police and local authorities with a range of powers to tackle anti-social and nuisance behaviour. Provided that the relevant legal tests are met, these powers can be used to tackle those who cause alarm or distress to others through their misuse of fireworks.</p><p>These powers are in addition to regulations in place covering the supply, storage, possession and use of fireworks which includes restrictions on when fireworks can be sold, curfews which limit the hours during which fireworks can be used, local authority powers to deal with excessive firework noise and a prohibition on setting off or throwing fireworks in the street or other public places.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 18/12/2017 12:14:51 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe