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887059

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date	19/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cannabis: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the law on the use of medicinal cannabis to expand its availability for people with (a) chronic pain and b) long-term degenerative conditions for whom other treatments haven't worked.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	136627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>We recognise that people with chronic pain and debilitating illnesses will look to alleviate their symptoms. Raw cannabis has no established medicinal or therapeutic benefits in the UK and so it is listed as a Schedule 1 drug under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001, and consequently subject to strict control restrictions.</p><p> </p><p>The World Health Organisation’s Expert Committee on Drug Dependence has committed to reviewing the scheduling of cannabis under the United Nation’s 1961 Convention. This is due to consider the therapeutic use, as well as the dependence and the potential to abuse constituent parts of cannabis. We will await the outcome of this report before considering the next steps.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/04/2018 17:14:58 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

887060

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Alfie Dingley
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 the power and competence to issue a temporary licence for the treatment of Alfie Dingley which his parents have requested.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	136628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>The Home Secretary has the legal power under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 to license the supply and possession of a controlled drug. Any applications for a licence would need to be made by senior clinicians using sufficient and rigorous evidence.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/04/2018 16:39:31 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

887174

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Retail Crime Steering Group
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 March 2018 to Question 132685, when the National Crime Steering Group's work plan was last updated; how often that work plan is published; and what assessment she has made of whether the objectives of that work plan have been achieved.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	136738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The work plan of the National Retail Crime Steering Group is kept up to date on an ongoing basis, and is formally reviewed by the Steering Group when it meets, twice per year.</p><p> </p><p>As co-chair of the Steering Group, alongside the British Retail Consortium, it is part of my role to ensure that members of the Steering Group are satisfied that the work plan reflects the retail sector’s crime priorities and that the required activity is in place to deliver its component parts. I am satisfied that this is currently the case, and I will review this with the full Steering Group at our next meeting, which is due to take place in June.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 27/04/2018 13:01:31 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

887176

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Crime
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 11 April 2018 to Question 132690, what the British Retail Consortium's estimate of the cost of crime to the UK retail industry was for each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	136740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>The British Retail Consortium publishes its estimate of the cost of retail crime as part of its annual retail crime survey. This is published by the British Retail Consortium on its website: <a href="https://brc.org.uk" target="_blank">https://brc.org.uk</a>.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 27/04/2018 12:59:40 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

887190

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
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 to end (a) indefinite detention and (b) the employment of detainees to work for £1 per hour at immigration detention centres.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	136754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>It is not possible to detain people indefinitely under Immigration Act powers. To be lawful, detention must last no longer than is reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was authorised, must not be unduly prolonged and, in relation to removal, there must be a realistic prospect of the individual’s removal within a reasonable period of time.</p><p> </p><p>As recommended by Stephen Shaw in his independent review of detainee welfare published in January 2016, the pay rates for detainees have been reconsidered, and have been maintained at current levels.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2018 15:28:47 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

887202

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hunting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) reports, and (b) investigations of alleged illegal fox hunting there have been in each year since 2010 in (i) the West Midlands, (ii) Warwickshire and (iii) England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	136766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not centrally hold the information requested.</p><p> </p><p>The enforcement of the Hunting Act 2004 is an operational matter for the police.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 30/04/2018 14:17:03 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

887207

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Deportation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the safeguards and standards are for Government organisations or sub-contracted companies involved in forced deportation processes.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	136771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office expects the highest standards from staff and contractors working with detainees.</p><p> </p><p>Enforced removals from the UK are carried out on behalf of the Home Office by a private sector provider. Since 2014 the Home Office has required all staff involved in such removals to have successfully completed training in the techniques set out in the Home Office Manual of Escorting Safely (HOMES). HOMES is a bespoke restraint system developed by the National Offender Management Service (now Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, HMPPS) in consultation with the Independent Advisory Panel for Non Compliance Management and encourages compliance in those being removed to prevent the need for physical restraint techniques.</p><p> </p><p>All uses of restraints or force during an enforced removal from the UK are reviewed by the Home Office Use of Force Monitor with support from HMPPS and specialist medical professionals as required.</p><p> </p><p>Enforced removals processes are also subject to independent monitoring by Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons and Independent Monitoring Boards.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 24/04/2018 16:36:20 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe