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1645729

registered interest
date	19/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Stop and Search
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many stop and searches per 1,000 people by ethnicity were recorded in England in 2021-22.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	190196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the ethnicity of people stopped and searched in England and Wales on an annual basis. The latest data are available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/update-to-stop-and-search-and-arrests-statistics-using-2021-census-estimates" target="_blank">Update to stop and search and arrests statistics using 2021 Census estimates - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Table 1 below shows how many searches per 1,000 people by ethnicity were recorded in England and Wales in 2021-22. Population data used to calculate the rates are from the 2021 Census.</p><p><strong>Table 1 – stop and searches per 1,000 people by ethnicity in 2021-22, England and Wales</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Self-defined ethnicity</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>Black or Black British</p></td><td><p>Asian or Asian British</p></td><td><p>Other Ethnic Group</p></td><td><p>Mixed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rate per 1,000 people - England</p></td><td><p>5.5</p></td><td><p>26.7</p></td><td><p>8.8</p></td><td><p>6.7</p></td><td><p>9.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rate per 1,000 people - Wales</p></td><td><p>5.3</p></td><td><p>17.7</p></td><td><p>5.4</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>6.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Home Office have explored using different denominators to calculate stop and search disparity rates. Within the Metropolitan Police Force area using suspects of violent crime reduced disparity rates for black people from 3.7 to 1.2. Further details are here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/exploration-of-an-alternative-approach-to-calculating-stop-and-search-rates-in-the-metropolitan-police-force-area-experimental-statistics" target="_blank">Exploration of an alternative approach to calculating stop and search rates in the Metropolitan Police Force Area – Experimental Statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>We continue to work to refine and enhance stop and search statistics, and reflect the fact searches tends to be concentrated in geographical areas with high crime.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 190195 question first answered 22/06/2023 16:37:55 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1542004

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Stop and Search
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether police will have the power to stop and search citizens at protests without suspicion under the Public Order Bill.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	86663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The Public Order Bill will enable an officer of or above the rank of inspector to authorise suspicionless stop and searches in a defined geographical area if they reasonably believe the following:</p><ol><li>That specific protest related offences listed in the Public Order Bill will be committed within the officer’s area.</li><li>That individuals are carrying prohibited items within the respective officer’s locality</li><li>That the authorisation of a suspicion-less stop and search power is necessary to prevent the commission of the protest related offences.</li></ol><p>The use of a suspicion-less stop and search power would only be authorised if each of these criteria are met and, in doing so, the authorising officer must specify the locality and time period (not exceeding 24 hours) in which it is to be used. The specified area and time period must be no greater than is absolutely necessary.</p><p>A &quot;prohibited item&quot; refers to an item which is made or adapted to facilitate, or to commit, an offence. Alternatively, a prohibited item is an item which an individual intends to use to facilitate or to commit an offence.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/11/2022 14:26:28 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1464096

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Stop and Search
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 the potential equality impacts of the introduction of new stop and search powers, including suspicion-less stop and search powers, in the proposed Public Order Bill; and what assessment she had made of the impact of those proposed powers on people with protected characteristics’ right to protest.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	4688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>The Government has conducted an Equalities Impact Assessment on the measures in the Public Order Bill, which can be accessed at: Public Order Bill: Equality Impact Assessment - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk).</a> The section 60 Equalities Impact Assessment will be published in due course.</p><p>The new stop and search powers in the Public Order Bill will enable the police to proactively tackle highly disruptive protest offences by searching for and seizing items which are made, adapted or intended to be used in connection with protest-related offences. In their 2021 report on the policing of protests, Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary and Fire &amp; Rescue Services agreed that such powers would have an operational benefit to police.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/05/2022 14:43:46 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1464097

registered interest
date	18/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Stop and Search
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in the context of the Equality Impact Assessment of the relaxation of section 60 Best Use of Stop and Search Safeguards pilot not having yet been published, for what reason the introduction of new suspicion-less stop and search powers are proposed in the Public Order Bill.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	4689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>The Government has conducted an Equalities Impact Assessment on the measures in the Public Order Bill, which can be accessed at: Public Order Bill: Equality Impact Assessment - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.gov.uk).</a> The section 60 Equalities Impact Assessment will be published in due course.</p><p>The new stop and search powers in the Public Order Bill will enable the police to proactively tackle highly disruptive protest offences by searching for and seizing items which are made, adapted or intended to be used in connection with protest-related offences. In their 2021 report on the policing of protests, Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary and Fire &amp; Rescue Services agreed that such powers would have an operational benefit to police.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/05/2022 14:41:10 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

1378032

registered interest
date	12/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Stop and Search
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason her Department has not yet published statistics on the use of stop and search powers in 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	73925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2021 answer text <p>On Monday 25 October the Home Office took the decision to delay the publication of the annual ‘Police powers and procedures: Stop and search and arrests, England and Wales year ending 31 March 2021’ statistical bulletin. This decision was made to allow the Home Office extra time to quality assure new, more granular data on individual stop and search records.</p><p>This decision was made in line with the <a href="https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Code of Practice for Statistics</a> and announced at the earliest possible point on GOV.UK. The announcement can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/police-powers-and-procedures-stop-and-search-and-arrests-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/police-powers-and-procedures-stop-and-search-and-arrests-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2021</a></p><p>As set out in the announcement, the statistical bulletin will now be published on 18<sup>th</sup> November 2021 at 9:30am and will be available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales" target="_blank">Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 73926 73927 question first answered 17/11/2021 15:22:14 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1378033

registered interest
date	12/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Stop and Search
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 publish a timetable for her Department's publication of the statistics on the use of stop and search powers in 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	73926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2021 answer text <p>On Monday 25 October the Home Office took the decision to delay the publication of the annual ‘Police powers and procedures: Stop and search and arrests, England and Wales year ending 31 March 2021’ statistical bulletin. This decision was made to allow the Home Office extra time to quality assure new, more granular data on individual stop and search records.</p><p>This decision was made in line with the <a href="https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Code of Practice for Statistics</a> and announced at the earliest possible point on GOV.UK. The announcement can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/police-powers-and-procedures-stop-and-search-and-arrests-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/police-powers-and-procedures-stop-and-search-and-arrests-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2021</a></p><p>As set out in the announcement, the statistical bulletin will now be published on 18<sup>th</sup> November 2021 at 9:30am and will be available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales" target="_blank">Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 73925 73927 question first answered 17/11/2021 15:22:14 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1378034

registered interest
date	12/11/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Stop and Search
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the 2021-21 statistics on the use of stop and search powers will be published before the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill returns to the House.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	73927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2021 answer text <p>On Monday 25 October the Home Office took the decision to delay the publication of the annual ‘Police powers and procedures: Stop and search and arrests, England and Wales year ending 31 March 2021’ statistical bulletin. This decision was made to allow the Home Office extra time to quality assure new, more granular data on individual stop and search records.</p><p>This decision was made in line with the <a href="https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Code of Practice for Statistics</a> and announced at the earliest possible point on GOV.UK. The announcement can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/police-powers-and-procedures-stop-and-search-and-arrests-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2021" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/police-powers-and-procedures-stop-and-search-and-arrests-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2021</a></p><p>As set out in the announcement, the statistical bulletin will now be published on 18<sup>th</sup> November 2021 at 9:30am and will be available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales" target="_blank">Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 73925 73926 question first answered 17/11/2021 15:22:14 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1151966

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Stop and Search
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent guidance she has issued to police forces on the use of stop and search.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	4423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>Stop and search helps to seize deadly weapons from our streets and is a vital tool in the fight against violent crime. We fully support the police in their use of this power to tackle serious violence and protect our communities from harm. There were over 9,300 offensive weapons arrests in 2018-19, a 20% increase on the previous year.</p><p>Code A of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 provides detailed guidance for police officers on the fair and effective use of stop and search, and the College of Policing has developed an Authorised Professional Practice on stop and search based on Code A and recommendations from reviews of stop and search.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/10/2019 17:30:29 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1151967

registered interest
date	23/10/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Stop and Search
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times police forces used stop and search powers in each of the last 12 months; and what the (a) ethnicity and (b) gender was of each of those people who were stopped and searched.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	4424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of stop and searches, conducted by each police force in England and Wales, on an annual basis.</p><p>Data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, the latest of which cover the twelve months to March 2019:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2019</a></p><p>However, stop and search data collected and published for this release does not contain information on the month in which the search took place, nor on the gender of the person stopped and searched.</p><p>Data on stop and search are also published on the police.uk website, where further breakdowns, including the date of the search and the gender of the person being searched, are available. Data up to August 2019 are available here: <a href="https://data.police.uk/data/" target="_blank">https://data.police.uk/data/</a></p><p>However, the police.uk data do not form part of the National Statistics published by the Home Office. There are known issues with the data including for location accuracy, Court Results matching, and matching outcomes. Full details are available at <a href="https://data.police.uk/about/#quality" target="_blank">https://data.police.uk/about/#quality</a>. Data on the police.uk website is a snapshot in time at the end of a particular month and should be treated with caution.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 28/10/2019 17:31:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1131617

registered interest
date	12/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Stop and Search
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) his Department and (b) individual police forces have imposed targets on the number of stop and searches to be carried out.
tabling member constituency	Croydon Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Jones
uin	263809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not set stop and search targets</p><p>Stop and search can only be carried out when legal thresholds have been met, and as such setting central targets for the number of searches would not be appropriate.</p><p>We are not aware of targets being set by individual forces. Stop and search can be an important tool in fighting violence, with searches last year resulting in nearly 8,000 arrests for weapons and firearms offences.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 17/06/2019 14:20:07 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4631 label Biography information for Sarah Jones