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1650887

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date	06/07/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) the local police service or (b) the Exchequer benefits from the sale of former police buildings.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	192798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of Chief Constables and locally elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), including Mayors who exercise PCC or equivalent functions, to take decisions around their resourcing and estates. They are best placed to make decisions with their communities based on their local knowledge and experience.</p><p>Under the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, PCCs have a functional power to do anything which is calculated to facilitate, or is conducive or incidental to, the exercise of their functions including the acquisition or disposal of property (including land). Capital receipts from the sale of capital assets are retained by the PCC and can be used to repay loan debt or to finance new capital expenditure.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 11/07/2023 16:04:01 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1649468

registered interest
date	27/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Anti-social 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 ensure effective investigations by the police on incidents of antisocial behaviour.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	905753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>Mr Speaker, on 27 March, the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan, increasing funding for Police and Crime Commissioners by over £100m.</p><p>The Plan will focus on making communities safer, building local pride, prevention, early intervention and improving data, reporting and accountability. These proposals will ensure perpetrators are investigated and punished, helping to restore pride in our communities.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 03/07/2023 15:24:44 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1647692

registered interest
date	26/06/2023
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: Retail Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has held discussions with representatives of the retail sector on preventing attacks on staff working in shops.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	191025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government is clear that violence and abuse towards any worker is not acceptable.</p><p>The Home Office works closely with retailers and trade organisations and police partners via the National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG) to understand the issues retailers are experiencing. The NRCSG meet twice yearly, and discussions include how to help reduce incidents of violence and abuse towards shop staff, and to support staff when this does occur.</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.</p><p>In addition, section 156 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 introduced a statutory aggravating factor for assault against any public facing worker. This ensures the courts treat the public-facing nature of a victim’s role as an aggravating factor when considering the sentence for any assault offence where they consider this factor to be relevant.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 191026 question first answered 29/06/2023 16:37:51 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1647694

registered interest
date	26/06/2023
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: Retail Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the police on preventing attacks on people working in the retail sector.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	191026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government is clear that violence and abuse towards any worker is not acceptable.</p><p>The Home Office works closely with retailers and trade organisations and police partners via the National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG) to understand the issues retailers are experiencing. The NRCSG meet twice yearly, and discussions include how to help reduce incidents of violence and abuse towards shop staff, and to support staff when this does occur.</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.</p><p>In addition, section 156 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 introduced a statutory aggravating factor for assault against any public facing worker. This ensures the courts treat the public-facing nature of a victim’s role as an aggravating factor when considering the sentence for any assault offence where they consider this factor to be relevant.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 191025 question first answered 29/06/2023 16:37:51 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1198431

registered interest
date	01/06/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
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 take steps to prevent unlawful migration via small boats crossing the Channel.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	51696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p>Keeping our border secure is the Government’s highest priority and we are committed to doing everything we can to stop these dangerous Channel crossings which are putting vulnerable lives at risk.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office liaises directly with the French Interior Ministry on addressing the issue of illegal migration, engaging at an official, diplomatic level and supported at an operational level through regular UK-French Migration Committees.</p><p>Through joint-working with France, the UK has funded the continued deployment of French law enforcement along the coast of northern France, who are patrolling constantly in order to detect attempted crossings by migrants. Funding has been allocated, among other projects, for further security improvements at ports in northern France and on the ground, which includes drones, specialist vehicles and detection equipment to stop small boats leaving European shores.</p><p>Intelligence flows are also key to dismantling the organised crime groups behind crossings. We have restructured and repurposed our approach to support to better inform and direct how and where law enforcement is deployed.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 09/06/2020 12:55:57 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1182384

registered interest
date	03/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Syrian refugees have been admitted to the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	24282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office is committed to publishing data in an orderly way as part of the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. These can be found at <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics</a><br> <br> Latest statistics published on 27 February 2020 show that as of December 2019, a total of 19,353 people had been resettled in the UK across 327 local authorities under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme since it began.</p><p>The next set of figures will be in the quarterly release on 21 May 2020 and will cover the period January to March 2020.</p><p>We have committed to resettle 20,000 vulnerable refugees who have fled Syria and are on track to deliver the full commitment in 2020.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 09/03/2020 17:45:56 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers