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1690755

registered interest
date	21/02/2024
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, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of trends in the level of retail crime on convenience store closures in England.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	15126
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office has not made an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the level of retail crime on convenience store closures in England.</p><p>I regularly engage with the retail sector through the National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG) to keep abreast of crime experienced by the sector. The NRCSG meets quarterly and comprises of senior representatives from policing, the retail sector, and retail trade associations including the Association of Convenience Stores and British Independent Retailers Association, alongside Government departments.</p><p>All police forces in England and Wales have made a commitment, through the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s Retail Crime Action Plan, to prioritise police attendance at the scene of retail crime where violence has been used towards shop staff, where an offender has been detained by store security, and where evidence needs to be secured and can only be done by police personnel. This commitment applies to all retailers, including convenience stores, and will help to drive down the level of retail crime.</p><p>The Retail Crime Action Plan was launched in October and is published here: NPCC Retail Crime Action Plan</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 26/02/2024 16:45:18 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

1690772

registered interest
date	21/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Domicil
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any non-executive directors employed in his Department are non-domiciled.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	15075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>Non-executive’s personal data, including those relating to personal taxation or status, are protected by the UK General Data Protection Regulation. Collection of personal data on non-dom status is not routinely collected and is generally not required for making public appointments. If any such data was held it could only be published if doing so was in compliance with data protection law.</p><p>Non executive board members are not employees of the Home Office and act in an advisory capacity.</p><p>Data relating to public appointments are covered by the Public Appointments Privacy Statement found here <a href="https://apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/privacy" target="_blank">Privacy – Apply for a public appointment – GOV.UK (apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 26/02/2024 16:50:41 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1690799

registered interest
date	21/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Health and Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to comply with principle (d) of schedule 1 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	15114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office has a Health and Safety and Fire Management system within which risk assessments are conducted and reviewed appropriately for our buildings and people.</p><p>The Home Office complies with all UK Health, Safety and Fire Safety statutory provisions proportionate and relevant to its undertaking including principle (d) of schedule 1 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.</p><p>The control measures in said risk assessments apply the principle of prevention using the hierarchy of controls e.g. elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, health surveillance and the issue of personal protective equipment.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 26/02/2024 16:49:57 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1690843

registered interest
date	21/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Resignations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of police officers recruited between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2023 have since resigned in (a) Cheshire and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	15014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collect information on the length of service of police officers leaving the police service.</p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number of police officer leavers in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin which can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a>.</p><p>Information on the number of police officer leavers, by Police Force Area, between the years ending 31 March 2007 and 2023, can be found in the ‘Leavers Open Data Table’ here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64ba76662059dc000d5d27c0/open-data-table-police-workforce-leavers-260723.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64ba76662059dc000d5d27c0/open-data-table-police-workforce-leavers-260723.ods</a>. The data does not include length of service to identify when the individual joined the police service.</p><p>Voluntary resignation rates in both Cheshire and England, at around 3%, are low compared to other sectors.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 26/02/2024 16:49:14 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1690844

registered interest
date	21/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: 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, how many police officers in (a) Cheshire and (b) England have been assaulted in each year since 2016.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	15015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>Data on the number of police officer assaults is collected and published by the Office for National Statistics as part of their quarterly ‘Crime in England and Wales’ police recorded crime series. This can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice</a>.</p><p>Information on the number of police officers assaulted in England and Wales, broken down by Police Force Area, for the year ending 31 March 2013 onwards, can be found in police recorded crime open data table here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65afb470bc0de3000d187340/prc-pfa-mar2013-onwards-tables-250124.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65afb470bc0de3000d187340/prc-pfa-mar2013-onwards-tables-250124.ods</a>.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 26/02/2024 16:47:24 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1690845

registered interest
date	21/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Cheshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of police offers in Cheshire who have taken sick leave have been diagnosed with a mental health condition in each year since 2016.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	15016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collect information on how many and what proportion of police officers who have taken sick leave have been diagnosed with a mental health condition.</p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number of police officers on long term absence, which includes sickness, as at 31 March each year, in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin which can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a>.</p><p>Information on long term absences, by Police Force Area, and the reason for absence, between the years ending 31 March 2007 and 2023, can be found in the ‘Absences Open Data Table’ here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64ba613a2059dc00125d2782/open-data-table-police-workforce-absence-260723.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64ba613a2059dc00125d2782/open-data-table-police-workforce-absence-260723.ods</a>.</p><p>The data are broken down by absence type which includes sickness. However, the reason for sick absence is not collected and as such it is not possible to determine how many police officers on sick absence have been diagnosed with a mental health condition.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 26/02/2024 16:46:42 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1690364

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Ask for ANI Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many disclosures of domestic abuse his Department’s Ask for ANI scheme received in its pharmacy sites in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	14886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>Ask for ANI (Action Needed Immediately) was launched across pharmacies in the UK during the unprecedented emergency of the pandemic in January 2021. Since then, there have been 186 reported disclosures from across the UK where victims have been supported by pharmacists to access support from the police or domestic abuse services. Of those disclosures, 38 were in 2022 and 50 in 2023. This however is likely to be an underestimate as participating pharmacies are encouraged but not required to report disclosures to the Home Office.</p><p> </p><p>The Ask for ANI scheme is currently being piloted in 15 Jobcentre Plus sites across England, Scotland and Wales and 4 Jobs and Benefits Offices in Northern Ireland. An independent evaluation has been commissioned to understand how the scheme has been implemented across the pilot sites which will conclude this summer. As the evaluation is ongoing, we are not able to share numbers of disclosures in pilot sites at this stage. A decision on the publication of the evaluation will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris grouped question UIN 14887 14888 question first answered 23/02/2024 13:23:10 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1690365

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Ask for ANI Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many disclosures of domestic abuse his Department’s Ask for ANI scheme received in (a) Jobcentre and (b) Jobs and Benefit Office sites in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	14887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>Ask for ANI (Action Needed Immediately) was launched across pharmacies in the UK during the unprecedented emergency of the pandemic in January 2021. Since then, there have been 186 reported disclosures from across the UK where victims have been supported by pharmacists to access support from the police or domestic abuse services. Of those disclosures, 38 were in 2022 and 50 in 2023. This however is likely to be an underestimate as participating pharmacies are encouraged but not required to report disclosures to the Home Office.</p><p> </p><p>The Ask for ANI scheme is currently being piloted in 15 Jobcentre Plus sites across England, Scotland and Wales and 4 Jobs and Benefits Offices in Northern Ireland. An independent evaluation has been commissioned to understand how the scheme has been implemented across the pilot sites which will conclude this summer. As the evaluation is ongoing, we are not able to share numbers of disclosures in pilot sites at this stage. A decision on the publication of the evaluation will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris grouped question UIN 14886 14888 question first answered 23/02/2024 13:23:10 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1690366

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Ask for ANI Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department plans to publish the evaluation of the Ask for ANI scheme.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	14888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>Ask for ANI (Action Needed Immediately) was launched across pharmacies in the UK during the unprecedented emergency of the pandemic in January 2021. Since then, there have been 186 reported disclosures from across the UK where victims have been supported by pharmacists to access support from the police or domestic abuse services. Of those disclosures, 38 were in 2022 and 50 in 2023. This however is likely to be an underestimate as participating pharmacies are encouraged but not required to report disclosures to the Home Office.</p><p> </p><p>The Ask for ANI scheme is currently being piloted in 15 Jobcentre Plus sites across England, Scotland and Wales and 4 Jobs and Benefits Offices in Northern Ireland. An independent evaluation has been commissioned to understand how the scheme has been implemented across the pilot sites which will conclude this summer. As the evaluation is ongoing, we are not able to share numbers of disclosures in pilot sites at this stage. A decision on the publication of the evaluation will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris grouped question UIN 14886 14887 question first answered 23/02/2024 13:23:10 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

1690390

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to notify local authorities of when (a) asylum seekers and (b) settled refugees are relocated to their area as a result of hotel closures.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
uin	14777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The programme of hotel closures is managed carefully to ensure those asylum seekers still eligible for support are relocated to suitable alternative Home Office accommodation, which may be in a different location from their current hotel. The Home Office’s accommodation providers manage the moves of asylum seekers from one location to another. Whilst we expect impacts on local authorities to be minimal, we have put in place additional resource to work with our accommodation providers and local partners to manage this process and minimise disruption. We are working with our partners, including local authorities, to provide timely notification of key events that impact them.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 26/02/2024 17:14:19 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms