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598245

registered interest
date	10/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ethiopia: Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what account his Department took of the suspension by the Department for International Development of a security sector management programme in Ethiopia in deciding to oversee an executive MSc programme in such management.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	47651
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2016 answer text <p>The Regional MSc in Security Sector Management was restarted in financial year 2015-16 following discussions between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Ministry of Defence and the Department for International Development (DFID) reviewing the aims, objectives and performance of the previous DFID-funded programme. The new MSc differs from the previous programme as it draws students from across the region and wider African Union countries, thereby contributing to the National Security Council (NSC) objectives of enhancing regional peace and security in East Africa and building the African Union's capacity to reduce, manage and resolve conflict and crises in Africa. The MSc is now funded from the Conflict Security and Stability Fund, which better reflects the security focus of the syllabus.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 13/10/2016 15:04:36 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

595666

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ethiopia: Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how the current executive MSc in security sector management programme, run in Ethiopia with oversight from his Department, differs from the Department for International Development's similar MSc programme which was closed in June 2015.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	47139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2016 answer text <p>The MSc programme was restarted in 2015-16 under the Conflict Security and Stability Fund, reflecting the security focus of the syllabus. It differs from the DFID-funded programme as it draws students from across the region, thereby contributing to the National Security Council (NSC) objective of enhancing regional peace and security in East Africa, whereas the previous MSc was primarily for Ethiopians. There are ongoing efforts to improve the diversity profile of the student intake, in terms of age, gender and military/civilian balance; and to identify more students from African Union countries, in support of the NSC objective to build the African Union's capacity to reduce, manage and resolve conflict and crises in Africa.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 12/10/2016 15:12:34 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

487081

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police and Crime Commissioners: Mayors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what powers she has to shorten the term of a Police and Crime Commissioner elected in May 2016 in order that the role is subsumed by a Metro-Mayor.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	32560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>If a local area were to make the case to transfer Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) functions to an elected mayor, secondary legislation would set out the details of the transfer of powers and the relevant timescales based on discussions between the local area and central government.</p><p>These powers are provided for in Section 107F of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (as amended by the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016), which sets out the Secretary of State’s necessary order making powers to enable the transfer of PCC functions to an elected mayor.</p><p>Local areas can put forward a proposal to transfer PCC functions at any time and, as stated in response to the honourable member’s earlier question on this issue [32271], any proposal submitted by a local area for an elected mayor to take on PCC functions would be considered on its merits, on a case-by-case basis. The timing of any transfer of powers would also form part of this consideration.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 32561 question first answered 11/04/2016 15:35:44 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

487083

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police and Crime Commissioners: Mayors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is permitted to consider a bid from a Combined Authority for a Police and Crime Commissioner elected in May 2016 to be subsumed by a Metro-Mayor.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	32561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>If a local area were to make the case to transfer Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) functions to an elected mayor, secondary legislation would set out the details of the transfer of powers and the relevant timescales based on discussions between the local area and central government.</p><p>These powers are provided for in Section 107F of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (as amended by the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016), which sets out the Secretary of State’s necessary order making powers to enable the transfer of PCC functions to an elected mayor.</p><p>Local areas can put forward a proposal to transfer PCC functions at any time and, as stated in response to the honourable member’s earlier question on this issue [32271], any proposal submitted by a local area for an elected mayor to take on PCC functions would be considered on its merits, on a case-by-case basis. The timing of any transfer of powers would also form part of this consideration.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 32560 question first answered 11/04/2016 15:35:43 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

487090

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Families
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 15 March 2016 to Question 30648, what details of family members her Department records in respect of refugees who are granted asylum in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	32506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2016 answer text <p>Asylum claims may include one or more family members who are accepted as dependant on the principal claimant’s asylum claim. Information on family members is requested at the screening and substantive interviews and, where given, this includes name, date of birth, nationality, gender and method of entry into the country.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 12/04/2016 15:40:51 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

487091

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Families
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 15 March 2016 to Question 30649, when she plans to publish the outcomes of the review of the process of dealing with family reunion applications.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	32505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2016 answer text <p>Following consultation with partners, we are currently in the process of finalising revised guidance on dealing with family reunion applications. We intend to publish updated guidance in April 2016.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 12/04/2016 15:40:37 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

485703

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police and Crime Commissioners: Mayors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria she uses to assess a bid from a metro mayor to assume the additional role of police and crime commissioner.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	32271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>Any proposal submitted by a local area for an elected mayor to take on police and crime commissioner (PCC) functions will be considered on a case-by-case basis.</p><p>In keeping with the Government’s broader approach to the devolution of powers to local people, it is for local areas to make the case and demonstrate that the transfer of PCC functions would be in the best interests of local communities and the efficiency and effectiveness of policing in relevant areas.</p><p>There is no presumption that an elected mayor would take on PCC functions. Local circumstances and the views of relevant PCCs are important factors in any consideration. Alongside this, another significant consideration is the issue of geographic boundaries and co-terminosity between the police area and the combined authority area.</p><p>Against that background, it is for local areas to make the case for any proposals.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 11/04/2016 15:44:21 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

435905

registered interest
date	07/12/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Driving Offences: Speed Limits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Police and Crime Commissioners have powers to instruct the police to impose fines on motorists found to be travelling at 71 mph in 70 mph zones.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	18955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2015 answer text <p>How the police enforce road traffic law, including in respect of speeding offences, is a matter for their professional judgement and operational discretion.</p><p>Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) do not have powers to instruct the police in operational policing matters. The operational independence of the police is a fundamental principle of British policing. The Policing Protocol Order 2011, which sets out how the relationship between PCCs and Chief Constables should work, is explicit when it states that “At all times the Chief Constable, their constables and staff, remain operationally independent in the service of the communities that they serve.”</p><p>Regardless of the PCC in office, the police have the discretion to use their judgment when deciding who to investigate or arrest, and must by law be wholly without influence of the PCC in respect of operational policing.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 11/12/2015 13:13:38 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

420780

registered interest
date	12/10/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Personation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals to make identity theft a criminal offence.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	11440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2015 answer text <p>Where a person steals somebody’s identity documents and/or uses somebody else’s identity to access a bank account or to make some other kind of financial gain, he or she can already be prosecuted under existing theft and fraud offences. We have no plans to create additional offences.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 15/10/2015 14:09:10 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

391486

registered interest
date	20/07/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Bail
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were held on pre-charge bail for (a) three to 12 months and (b) over 12 months in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	8026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>There is currently no maximum period of pre-charge bail. This Government feels that it cannot be right that people can spend months or even years on pre-charge bail with no oversight.</p><p>That is why the Home Secretary announced on 23 March a package of measures to reduce both the number of individuals subject to, and the average duration of, pre-charge bail. As set out in the Gracious Speech, we will legislate in the Policing and Criminal Justice Bill to adopt those reforms. These measures will make pre-charge bail more effective and will bring greater accountability to the system.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold the data requested. Estimated annual figures for the whole of England and Wales are set out on page 25 of the Government consultation response, published on 23 March and available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/pre-charge-bail-consultation-on-statutory-time-limits-and-related-changes. Those figures are based on comparable data from twelve forces, scaled nationally on the basis of the number of arrests for notifiable offences per force.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 7911 question first answered 07/09/2015 14:38:12 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe