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1682022

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Abortion: Demonstrations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has had recent discussions with the providers of abortion services that are outside safe access zones and are affected by protesters.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	9383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government has launched a public consultation on the non-statutory guidance for Safe Access Zones. This consultation is open to all interested parties who wish to make their views known, including abortion service providers and health professionals.</p><p>The consultation will close at 11.59pm on 22 January 2024 and is available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/abortion-clinic-safe-access-zones-non-statutory-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/abortion-clinic-safe-access-zones-non-statutory-guidance</a>.</p><p>As Home Secretary, I am committed to ensuring that women in England and Wales feel safe and protected whilst exercising their legal right to access abortion services and I am confident that this guidance will support the effective introduction of Safe Access Zones.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 19/01/2024 14:34:53 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1682053

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Nitrous Oxide: West Midlands
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 effectiveness of measures taken by the police to tackle nitrous oxide use in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	9385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>The government controlled nitrous oxide as a Class C drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 on 8 November last year. We are keeping implementation of the ban under review with police forces and key stakeholders.</p><p>The government is aware of early successes from law enforcement partners, including the first conviction under the new law this month. The government has committed to publish a review of the effect of the control of nitrous oxide under the 1971 Act.</p><p>This will be a broad-ranging assessment of the effect of control and will be published three years from the date of its control in November 2026.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/01/2024 17:32:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1675496

registered interest
date	05/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Emergency Calls
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 he has made with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of the potential impact of reducing police callouts for people with mental ill health on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	5152
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>The National Partnership Agreement: Right Care, Right Person was published on 26 July 2023. The Right Care, Right Person (RCRP) approach is designed to end inappropriate police involvement in cases where people have health and/or social care needs, and to ensure that people receive support from the right person, with the right skills, training, and experience to best meet their needs.</p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Home Office are monitoring the impact of the National Partnership Agreement (NPA) on mental health and policing. All integrated care boards and local authorities, together with their partners in the police and voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, have been asked to provide updates about their progress in producing plans for implementing the RCRP approach and any resource requirements to achieve this.</p><p>DHSC and the Home Office are encouraging local areas to monitor the rollout of RCRP, to understand the impact on patients and the NHS and to mitigate against risks. I also meet regularly with the Minister for Mental Health to discuss policing and mental health, in particular the implementation of the RCRP approach.</p><p>In addition, the Government is expanding mental health services to support people in crisis to receive the care they need, and to prevent them entering crisis in the first place.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 12/12/2023 12:37:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1669284

registered interest
date	10/11/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Abortion: Demonstrations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Section 9 of the Public Order Act 2023, what is her expected timeline for implementing safe access zones.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	1289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>The Public Order Act 2023 received Royal Assent on 2 May. Implementation of the Public Order Act measures is staggered.</p><p>The Government respects the will of Parliament and is working to commence Safe Access Zones as soon as is practicably possible. We have been considering what needs to be done to ensure Safe Access Zones can be implemented as effectively as possible, with law enforcement agencies having a clear and consistent understanding around enforcement, and abortion service providers and protestors being clear as to what is expected under the new law.</p><p>The timescales for commencing the new Section 9 offence of interference with access to, or provision of, abortion services will be confirmed in due course.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 16/11/2023 15:17:37 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1661125

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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, what steps her Department is taking to reduce retail crime in Birmingham.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	906433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>I would like to group this question with question 19. Following the recent police commitment to investigate all reasonable lines of enquiry I have made clear to forces I expect them to take a zero-tolerance approach to retail crime. The Home Office is supporting Pegasus which will provide a national picture of organised retail crime. I continue to work with the sector to tackle this important issue.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/09/2023 14:55:34 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1581553

registered interest
date	27/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fenethylline: Drug Seizures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many seizures of captagon tablets there have been in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	133953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>Home Office data records show one seizure of Fenethylline (street name Captagon) seized by police and zero seizures by Border Force over the last 5 years.</p><p>Home Office publish data on seizures made by police and Border Force for England and Wales annually at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fseizures-of-drugs-in-england-and-wales&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSarika.Uppal2%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C807eb83c162b40c6e74908db02c389a9%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638106811935863188%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=FFYefQ4M0Fs%2BUHZ7Z1prbfEAMuIjyiKQrKR20kv6B08%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/seizures-of-drugs-in-england-and-wales</a>.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/02/2023 12:44:52 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1542915

registered interest
date	16/11/2022
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 Prevention
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 retail crime in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	88804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government is working closely with retailers, trade organisations, police and enforcement partners across England and Wales via the National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG) to ensure the response to crimes affecting the retail sector is as robust as it can be. This group includes representation from West Midlands Police who are involved in a number of crime prevention initiatives, including the Offender to Rehab Programme which is helping to reduce crimes like shoplifting by supporting prolific offenders with substance misuse issues through rehabilitation.</p><p>On a national level, we continue to work closely with the police-led National Business Crime Centre (NBCC) to understand the crimes affecting businesses and help ensure businesses and police are working effectively together. The NBCC launched a week of action in October involving a number of police force areas, including West Midlands, holding targeted operations in towns and city centres and engaging with local businesses to raise awareness of the impact of business crime and how to prevent it. The week of action has encouraged more effective partnership working and highlighted the importance of reporting crimes when they occur.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also recently taken significant action to tackle violence and abuse by introducing a statutory aggravating factor for assault against all public facing workers. This legislative change ensures the courts treat the public-facing nature of a victim’s role as an aggravating factor when considering the sentence for an offence. Section 156 of the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 commenced in June and sends a very clear message that assaults of this kind are unacceptable.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 23/11/2022 16:05:25 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1536778

registered interest
date	27/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime: Cost of Living
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 trends in the level of crime during the cost of living crisis; and what steps she will take to tackle that crime.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	72923
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>We monitor crime levels on a regular basis, both at a national level and police force area level and this monitoring feeds into our crime reduction efforts.</p><p>The Government is committed to reducing crime and is funding a range of evidence-led interventions to prevent crime happening in the first place.</p><p>For example, the Safer Streets Fund provides investment into innovative as well as traditional interventions to improve the safety of public places, Violence Reduction Units bring together local partners to tackle the drivers of violence in their area, and ‘Grip’ funding allows the police to carry out targeted and visible patrols in areas where there is greatest risk of serious violence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/11/2022 11:17:48 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1536779

registered interest
date	27/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Community Policing
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 will take to increase community policing to help tackle levels of crime.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	72924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>Decisions about frontline policing, and how resources are best deployed, are for Chief Constables and democratically accountable Police &amp; Crime Commissioners. They are best placed to make decisions based on their local knowledge, enabling them to adapt and respond to the changing crime mix and priorities of their communities.</p><p>We are continuing work to increase the number of police officers in England and Wales. As at 30 September 2022, 15,343 additional officers have been recruited in England and Wales as part of the Police Uplift Programme. This amounts for 77% of the target of 20,000 additional officers by March 2023.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/11/2022 11:27:54 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1535368

registered interest
date	24/10/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will take steps to improve his Department's response times to enquiries from Rt hon. and hon. Members.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	69492
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2022 answer text <p>The Department works to a target of responding to 95% of Hon. Member’s written correspondence within 20 working days.</p><p>Performance against target has been impacted by an unprecedented increase in MPs queries following the Afghan evacuation, Ukraine crisis and HM Passport Office application surge.</p><p>We now have an operational plan to fully recover our position and I will shortly be writing to all Members setting these plans in more detail including timescales for delivery.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 31/10/2022 17:53:28 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp previous answer version 29168 answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe