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1366349

registered interest
date	05/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
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 21 October 2021 to Question 58293 on Drugs: Misuse, whether a formal consultation process in line with guidelines has been used in developing the drug strategy, as was the case in the 2010 and other previous drug strategies; how existing external experts were chosen; and to what extent the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has (a) been involved in the new strategy's development or (b) provided feedback on the draft.
tabling member constituency	Reigate
tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
uin	70217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>Like the 2017 Drug Strategy, the forthcoming Drug Strategy has been informed by extensive consultation with key partners in the drugs field. This includes through Dame Carol Black’s review of drugs, which involved significant consultation with external partners to gather information.</p><p>The calls for evidence for parts 1 and 2 of the review received responses from a wide range of stakeholders, including members of the public, academics, people working in the substance misuse sector and enforcement partners. Dame Carol also led an extensive programme of consultation events to develop her recommendations on drug treatment for part 2 of her review.</p><p>Our Strategy is responding to Dame Carol Black’s review in full. We have built on the research undertaken as part of the review, and have continued to consult external experts in order to shape the approach and interventions set out in the strategy. This includes Dame Carol Black in her role as independent advisor and Dr Ed Day our national Recovery Champion. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs’ Full Council has also been briefed on our strategic approach and members of the Council have provided feedback.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 15/11/2021 12:54:37 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

1366407

registered interest
date	05/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Emergency Services: County Durham
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average 999 emergency police response times are for incidents in (a) Peterlee and (b) Seaham in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	70254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>The handling of 999 calls, including response times and performance targets is an operational matter for the police.</p><p>The Home Office does not collect data on the 999 emergency service. However, in the Beating Crime Plan, the Government has committed to improving the responsiveness of police to 999 calls by working with HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services to develop league tables for answering calls and ensuring that the public know how responsive their local force is when they call them for help.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 15/11/2021 12:45:32 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1366201

registered interest
date	04/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Demonstrations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether police forces receive training on methods of removing those who obstruct public highways and thoroughfares.
tabling member constituency	Gainsborough
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Leigh
uin	69576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2021 answer text <p>The actions being taken by the Insulate Britain (IB) group to block the M25 have caused major upheaval and disruption to the public. That is why we intend to use the PCSC Bill to increase the maximum penalty for obstruction of a highway from the current £1,000 fine to an unlimited fine, six months’ imprisonment, or both.</p><p> </p><p>The police have extensive training programmes for dealing with public order, this includes tactics for removing those who are obstructing public highways and thoroughfares.</p><p> </p><p>Each public order trained officer receives a concentrated training refresher at least once a year. Police forces have specialist “protester removal teams” who are trained to quickly and effectively remove those who are obstructing public highways and thoroughfares, and who will receive even more regular training.</p><p> </p><p>Individual training packages are determined by police forces with guidance provided by the college of policing.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/11/2021 13:06:21 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	345 label Biography information for Sir Edward Leigh

1366202

registered interest
date	04/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Arson: CCTV
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 make it her policy that police forces are given an automatic right to access Fire and Rescue vehicle CCTV in order to facilitate the investigation of arson.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	69610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>Whilst this is an operational matter, it is clearly important that police forces have access to recorded CCTV images for the prevention and detection of crime. Fire and rescue services are expected to support police forces in the prevention and detection of crime and are subject to collaborative duties in statute.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 09/11/2021 17:55:20 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1366205

registered interest
date	04/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Poverty
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 whether there is a relationship between levels of policing and and areas of greater deprivation.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	69641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2021 answer text <p>The Government has committed to reviewing the police funding formula before the next General Election and our intention is to introduce new arrangements at the earliest opportunity.</p><p>Reviewing the funding formula will be a complex process that will require close working with the policing sector and relevant experts to develop proposals, and a full public consultation will take place before any new funding arrangements are put in place.</p><p>Decisions about the allocation of police resources and deployment of officers are for Chief Constables and democratically accountable PCCs. They are responsible for ensuring the needs of the local community are met.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 15/11/2021 12:38:47 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1366207

registered interest
date	04/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Public Health
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 support a public health approach to policing.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	69642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2021 answer text <p>The department is committed to driving the key tenets of a public health approach in policing.</p><p> </p><p>We have invested £105.5m over three years (2019-2022) into the development of 18 Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) in the areas worst affected by serious violence across England and Wales. VRUs are designed to deliver a multi-agency, Public Health Approach to preventing serious violence, combining the collective expertise of key local partners to identify the root causes of violent crime and agree an appropriate response. In year one alone, VRUs reached over 100,000 vulnerable young people across the risk spectrum through a range of interventions.</p><p> </p><p>Through the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, we are also creating a new duty on a range of specified agencies, such as the police, local government, youth offending teams, health and probation services, to work collaboratively, share data and information and put in place plans to prevent and reduce serious violence within their local communities. We also continue to work closely with DfE, DHSC and MoJ to ensure join-up between local practitioners – including police. This includes work to embed the reforms made to multi-agency safeguarding arrangements to drive collaboration on child safeguarding</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Home Office funds the NPCC’s Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme, which identifies best practice across police forces in responding to incidents and investigations involving vulnerable people. The programme contributes to the wider evidence base on the most effective policing approaches.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/11/2021 09:22:01 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1366209

registered interest
date	04/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her strategy is for policing county lines gangs.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	69643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>This Government is determined to crack down on the county lines gangs who are exploiting our children and have a devastating impact on our communities. That is why we are investing a dedicated £40m this year to tackle drugs supply and county lines, bringing our total dedicated investment to over £65m since November 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The £40m investment provided this financial year has allowed us to expand and build upon our successful County Lines Programme which, since launching in November 2019, has already seen more than 1,500 lines closed, over 7,400 arrests, £4.3 million in cash and significant quantities of drugs seized, and more than 4,000 vulnerable people safeguarded.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has announced its intention to publish a Drugs Strategy by the end of this year which will set out our ambition to attack the drugs supply chain and further disrupt county lines. Decisions on future resourcing will be taken as part of Departmental allocations following the conclusion of the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 69644 question first answered 09/11/2021 17:55:44 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1366212

registered interest
date	04/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to allocate further resources to county lines policing.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	69644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>This Government is determined to crack down on the county lines gangs who are exploiting our children and have a devastating impact on our communities. That is why we are investing a dedicated £40m this year to tackle drugs supply and county lines, bringing our total dedicated investment to over £65m since November 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The £40m investment provided this financial year has allowed us to expand and build upon our successful County Lines Programme which, since launching in November 2019, has already seen more than 1,500 lines closed, over 7,400 arrests, £4.3 million in cash and significant quantities of drugs seized, and more than 4,000 vulnerable people safeguarded.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has announced its intention to publish a Drugs Strategy by the end of this year which will set out our ambition to attack the drugs supply chain and further disrupt county lines. Decisions on future resourcing will be taken as part of Departmental allocations following the conclusion of the Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 69643 question first answered 09/11/2021 17:55:44 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1366214

registered interest
date	04/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to use diversion schemes and approaches to take people out of county lines involvement.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	69645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>County lines gang activity and the associated violence, drug dealing and exploitation has a devastating impact on young people, vulnerable adults and local communities. That is why we launched our County Lines Programme in November 2019 with activity concentrated at targeting county line holders while appropriately safeguarding and supporting the vulnerable to exit their involvement.</p><p> </p><p>This financial year we are providing up to £1m for specialist support to under 25s from London, the West Midlands and Merseyside who are criminally exploited through county lines, to help them safely reduce and exit their involvement, which includes supporting women and girls involved in this exploitation. We have also provided almost £400k of funding in 2021-22 for Young People’s Advocates who provide one-to-one support to young women and girls at risk of or experiencing all forms of exploitation by gangs. In 2020/21 they supported over 800 young women and girls.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office works closely with the Department for Education as we recognise that engagement in education is a powerful protective factor against children’s vulnerability and risk to involvement in county lines. The cross-Government Beating Crime Plan published in July this year (2021) announced an investment of over £45m in specialist support in both mainstream and Alternative Provision schools in serious violence hotspots to support young people at risk of involvement in violence to re-engage in education.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, in July this year, the Government published a new and ambitious cross-Government Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy that sets out our ambition to prioritise prevention, support survivors, pursue perpetrators and create a stronger system, with an objective of reducing prevalence.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 69646 69647 69648 question first answered 09/11/2021 17:55:58 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1366216

registered interest
date	04/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Organised 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 she is taking to work with other Cabinet colleagues to identify people vulnerable to county lines and ensure that pro-active steps are taken to prevent exploitation by county lines.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	69646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>County lines gang activity and the associated violence, drug dealing and exploitation has a devastating impact on young people, vulnerable adults and local communities. That is why we launched our County Lines Programme in November 2019 with activity concentrated at targeting county line holders while appropriately safeguarding and supporting the vulnerable to exit their involvement.</p><p> </p><p>This financial year we are providing up to £1m for specialist support to under 25s from London, the West Midlands and Merseyside who are criminally exploited through county lines, to help them safely reduce and exit their involvement, which includes supporting women and girls involved in this exploitation. We have also provided almost £400k of funding in 2021-22 for Young People’s Advocates who provide one-to-one support to young women and girls at risk of or experiencing all forms of exploitation by gangs. In 2020/21 they supported over 800 young women and girls.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office works closely with the Department for Education as we recognise that engagement in education is a powerful protective factor against children’s vulnerability and risk to involvement in county lines. The cross-Government Beating Crime Plan published in July this year (2021) announced an investment of over £45m in specialist support in both mainstream and Alternative Provision schools in serious violence hotspots to support young people at risk of involvement in violence to re-engage in education.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, in July this year, the Government published a new and ambitious cross-Government Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy that sets out our ambition to prioritise prevention, support survivors, pursue perpetrators and create a stronger system, with an objective of reducing prevalence.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 69645 69647 69648 question first answered 09/11/2021 17:55:58 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell