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1179726

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding from the public purse has been allocated to Fire and Rescue Services in (a) West Yorkshire, (b) Cumbria, (c) Lancashire, (d) Greater Manchester and (e) London in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	19885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Spending power for West Yorkshire and Lancashire Fire and Rescue Services can be found at the following link.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing#history" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing#history</a></p><p>Fire and Rescue in Cumbria, Manchester and London are part of an overall parent authority which sets the budget for the fire and rescue services in their area from their overall un-ringfenced funding. The spending power for these parent authorities can also be found in the MHCLG tables published in the link above.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 27/02/2020 16:56:50 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1179010

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services
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 has she made of trends in the level of firefighters on the ability of the Fire Service to conduct its duties.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Morgan
uin	18900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The Fire Inspectorate, HMICFRS, has just completed the first inspection of all fire and rescue services for over a decade, including assessing how effective each is at responding to fires and other emergencies and how well they look after their employees.</p><p>Fire and rescue authorities have the resources they need to undertake their important work and it is the responsibility of fire and rescue services to ensure that they organise their resources effectively to deliver their core functions.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 27/02/2020 17:27:56 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1179267

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Floods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional resources from the public purse have been allocated to Fire and Rescue Services to respond to the effects of recent storms and flooding in 2020.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	18736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Overall fire and rescue authorities will receive around £2.3 billion in 2019/20. Single purpose fire and rescue authorities will see an increase in core spending power of 2.3% in cash terms in 2019/20 and an overall increase of 0.3% from 2015/16 to 2019/20, in addition to Home Office funding for High-Volume Pumps and training for their use as part of the New Dimensions Grant to Fire and Rescue Authorities which, together with other National Resilience capabilities, totals approximately £18m.</p><p>Fire and Rescue Authorities are funded to respond to incidents, including flooding, demonstrated by the fantastic response of Fire and Rescue Services to the 2020 storms and a range of incidents in 2019 including the Wainfleet and Yorkshire floods and the Toddbrook Reservoir incident.</p><p>The Home Office provides a further £9m funding to Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, the Lead Authority for National Resilience, in support of the maintenance and assurance of National Resilience Capabilities, including High Volume Pumps. Local Authorities responding to flooding in England also can make an application under the Bellwin Scheme for eligible additional costs.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 27/02/2020 17:24:47 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

1179269

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hikvision
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria his Department used in the decision to invite Hikvision to the Security and Policing Trade Fair in March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	18986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Companies register for Security and Policing exhibition and conference via the ADS website and must meet at least one of the following criteria:</p><ul><li>UK company manufacturing relevant products and equipment;</li><li>UK company supplying a relevant service;</li><li>International company (manufacturer and/or supplier) with registered offices in the UK;</li><li>International company with an innovative product and/or service not available in the UK looking for UK representation.</li></ul> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 27/02/2020 17:17:35 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1178401

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Extradition: Offenders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the (a) European Commission and (b) her (i) Austrian, (ii) German and (iii) Slovenian counterparts on the extradition of criminals during the transition period.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	1876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>Home Office officials and Ministers regularly engage with their international counterparts in EU Member States on security cooperation. As the UK has left the European Union, these policy discussions take place via bilateral rather than EU channels.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/02/2020 16:15:05 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1178437

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Poisons: Sales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has with representatives of the online retail sector on the sale of poisons which require a licence under the Control of Poisons and Explosives Precursors Regulations 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	1984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>As well as direct and tailored advice offered to individual businesses, the Home Office has published guidance for suppliers to assist them in their legal obligations in respect of poisons and explosive precursors. This includes advice on how to sell licensed products online, how to secure their chemicals, and advice on how to verify the professional or trade status of a prospective customer. The latter is not made available publicly as some of the detail may assist individuals in evading control measures.</p><p>The Home Office has a team of embedded police officers to engage with companies and provide advice. The team also assess controls, including through test purchases, to check the robustness of the regime. Where problems are found the team engage and seek to improve compliance.</p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of prosecutions of defendants charged with offences under the Poisons Act 1972. This information could only be obtained by a manual examination of CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>While the CPS does not collect data on defendants prosecuted by specific offence or the outcome of any prosecution, information is available for the number of offences under the Act in which a prosecution commenced at magistrates’ courts.</p><p>The table below shows the number of these offences recorded on the CPS’s Case Management System in each financial year over the last ten years.</p><p> </p><p><em>It should be noted that the figures relate to the number of offences and not the number of individual defendants. It is often the case that an individual defendant is charged with more than one offence against the same victim. </em></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-2019</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poisons Act 1972</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em> </em></p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 1985 question first answered 25/02/2020 17:43:41 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1178438

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Poisons: Prosecutions
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 have been prosecuted under the Poisons Act 1972 in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	1985
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>As well as direct and tailored advice offered to individual businesses, the Home Office has published guidance for suppliers to assist them in their legal obligations in respect of poisons and explosive precursors. This includes advice on how to sell licensed products online, how to secure their chemicals, and advice on how to verify the professional or trade status of a prospective customer. The latter is not made available publicly as some of the detail may assist individuals in evading control measures.</p><p>The Home Office has a team of embedded police officers to engage with companies and provide advice. The team also assess controls, including through test purchases, to check the robustness of the regime. Where problems are found the team engage and seek to improve compliance.</p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record of the number of prosecutions of defendants charged with offences under the Poisons Act 1972. This information could only be obtained by a manual examination of CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>While the CPS does not collect data on defendants prosecuted by specific offence or the outcome of any prosecution, information is available for the number of offences under the Act in which a prosecution commenced at magistrates’ courts.</p><p>The table below shows the number of these offences recorded on the CPS’s Case Management System in each financial year over the last ten years.</p><p> </p><p><em>It should be noted that the figures relate to the number of offences and not the number of individual defendants. It is often the case that an individual defendant is charged with more than one offence against the same victim. </em></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2015-2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016-2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017-2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-2019</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poisons Act 1972</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em> </em></p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 1984 question first answered 25/02/2020 17:43:41 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1178655

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Extradition: Indonesia
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 have been extradited from the UK to Indonesia for (a) violent crimes and (b) non-violent crimes in each year since 2003.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	15003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>There have been no extraditions from the UK to Indonesia between 1 January 2003 and 13 February 2020 for either violent or non-violent crimes.</p><p>As any request for extradition made to Scotland or issued by Scotland would be sent or received by the Crown Office directly, therefore the Home Office does not hold these figures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/02/2020 16:30:41 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

1177699

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Unexplained Wealth Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Home Department, how many Unexplained Wealth Orders have been issued in each quarter since the implementation of those orders.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>Since implementation, 15 unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) have been granted in relation to 4 cases.</p><p> </p><p>The quarterly breakdown is as follows:</p><p>3 UWOs were granted in relation to 1 case in Q4 of 2017/18</p><p>3 UWOs were granted in relation to 1 case in Q1 2019/20</p><p>9 UWOs were granted in relation to 2 cases in Q2 2019/20</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/02/2020 16:26:03 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1140762

registered interest
date	22/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to ensure that unsafe combustible cladding is removed from homes.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	912097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government has provided £600 million funding to remove unsafe Aluminium Composite Material cladding from high rise residential buildings in the social and private sector. We are backing local authorities to take enforcement action where building owners are refusing to remediate high-rise residential buildings with unsafe cladding.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 22/07/2019 16:29:26 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed