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1176332

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Protest: 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 has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the Public Order Act 1986 in relation to social-media-driven protest with limited organisational structure.
tabling member constituency	Cities of London and Westminster
tabling member printed	Nickie Aiken
uin	12958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office continues to monitor developments in relation to demonstrations and are working closely with the relevant national police leads to review current public order powers to ensure that they are fit for purpose.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/02/2020 15:38:18 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4741 label Biography information for Nickie Aiken

1176416

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence
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 plans to take in response to her Department’s call for evidence on abuse and violence towards shopworkers.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	13001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises the damaging impact that violence and abuse can have on victims, businesses, and the wider community; and we are committed to tackling this issue.</p><p> </p><p>The call for evidence on violence and abuse toward shop staff was intended to help strengthen our understanding of the scale and extent of the issue. We are carefully analysing the responses before deciding what further action may be required and intend to publish the government’s response in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/02/2020 15:43:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1175959

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress she has made on a public consultation on firearms safety.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	12347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>The firearms safety consultation will be published shortly. It will seek views on security arrangements for high muzzle-energy rifles and will cover other firearms safety issues that were raised during the passage through Parliament of the Offensive Weapons Act 2019.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 12348 question first answered 12/02/2020 15:32:06 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1175961

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the terms of reference will be for the public consultation on firearms safety.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	12348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>The firearms safety consultation will be published shortly. It will seek views on security arrangements for high muzzle-energy rifles and will cover other firearms safety issues that were raised during the passage through Parliament of the Offensive Weapons Act 2019.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 12347 question first answered 12/02/2020 15:32:06 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1175962

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department,when she plans to respond to the consultation entitled, Statutory guidance to police on firearms licensing, which closed in September 2019.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	12349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government launched a public consultation on the introduction of statutory guidance to the police on firearms licensing in July last year. The Home Office received over 11,000 responses to the consultation and these are now under consideration. The Government response to the consultation will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/02/2020 15:33:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1175963

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Firearms: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the consultation entitled, Policing and Crime Act: proposals to implement legislation to define antique firearms, which closed in December 2017.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	12350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>The Policing and Crime Act 2017 contains a power to define in regulations which firearms can safely be regarded as antique and which still present a danger to the public and therefore require licensing.</p><p>A public consultation was held in late 2017 to seek views on the detail of these regulations. We are presently considering all the responses received, many of which are necessarily technical, and we intend to publish the</p><p>Government’s response and lay the regulations before Parliament as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/02/2020 15:34:18 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1175992

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime: Drugs
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 county lines drugs dealing.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	12264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>County lines have a devastating impact on communities. We are determined to disrupt these gangs and put an end to the exploitation of children and vulnerable adults.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2019 the Home Secretary announced £20m of targeted investment to support a package of measures to crack down on county lines gangs. This includes:</p><p> </p><ul><li>increasing the capacity of the National County Lines Coordination Centre;</li><li>supporting increased operational activity by British Transport Police on rail networks;</li><li>exploiting technology and data to support disruption of county lines drug dealers using the road network;</li><li>tackling money laundering and increasing cash and drug seizures; and</li><li>specialist support to victims and families to help young people exit their involvement.</li></ul><p> </p><p>This investment is already having a direct impact, which is why we recently committed an additional £5m to increase efforts to tackle these ruthless gangs. This brings our overall investment to £25m over 2019/20 and 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>The Children’s Commissioner’s report ‘Keeping Kids Safe’, published in February 2019, estimated that 27,000 children in England identify as a gang member. Children aged between 15-17 make up the majority of the vulnerable people involved in county lines, while both girls and boys are groomed and exploited, there is likely to be underrepresentation of both females and adults as victims.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 12265 question first answered 12/02/2020 15:21:41 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1175993

registered interest
date	04/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crime: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of children and young people exploited by county lines drug dealing networks.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	12265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2020 answer text <p>County lines have a devastating impact on communities. We are determined to disrupt these gangs and put an end to the exploitation of children and vulnerable adults.</p><p> </p><p>In October 2019 the Home Secretary announced £20m of targeted investment to support a package of measures to crack down on county lines gangs. This includes:</p><p> </p><ul><li>increasing the capacity of the National County Lines Coordination Centre;</li><li>supporting increased operational activity by British Transport Police on rail networks;</li><li>exploiting technology and data to support disruption of county lines drug dealers using the road network;</li><li>tackling money laundering and increasing cash and drug seizures; and</li><li>specialist support to victims and families to help young people exit their involvement.</li></ul><p> </p><p>This investment is already having a direct impact, which is why we recently committed an additional £5m to increase efforts to tackle these ruthless gangs. This brings our overall investment to £25m over 2019/20 and 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>The Children’s Commissioner’s report ‘Keeping Kids Safe’, published in February 2019, estimated that 27,000 children in England identify as a gang member. Children aged between 15-17 make up the majority of the vulnerable people involved in county lines, while both girls and boys are groomed and exploited, there is likely to be underrepresentation of both females and adults as victims.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 12264 question first answered 12/02/2020 15:21:41 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1175699

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gangs: Mobile Phones
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 impose restrictions on pay-as-you-go mobile phones to help tackle the activities of drug gangs; and if she will she make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	11450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2020 answer text <p>The use of pay-as-you-go mobile phones to run drugs supply ‘deal lines’ is a key feature of the county lines business model. The Government is committed to tackling drugs supply and reducing the viability of the county lines business model.</p><p> </p><p>The recent report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (Both Sides Of The Coin: The Police And National Crime Agency’s Response To Vulnerable People In ‘County Lines’ Drug Offending) recommended that the Home Office should commission a review of the criminal abuse of mobile telecommunications services. We welcome this report and are currently considering all of its recommendations and our response.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/02/2020 14:30:58 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1175747

registered interest
date	03/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Music Festivals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the provision of drug safety testing at music festivals.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	11649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2020 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the provision of drug testing at festivals.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/02/2020 14:32:41 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire