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1693997

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date	05/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Recruitment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to The Angiolini Inquiry: Part 1 Report published on 29 February, which territorial and national police forces outsource their recruitment vetting to other police forces or other law enforcement agencies.
tabling member printed	Lord Kempsell
uin	HL3034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2024 answer text <p>All Home Office (territorial) forces in England and Wales conduct their recruitment vetting internally.</p><p>This is also the case for all non-Home Office national police forces, aside from the Royal Military Police who are assisted by Warwickshire Police for vetting checks.</p><p>The Part 1 report of Angiolini’s Inquiry highlighted that in 2010, the Civil Nuclear Constabulary had outsourced its force vetting to Thames Valley Police. They now carry out their own recruitment vetting.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 19/03/2024 14:39:20 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4988 label Biography information for Lord Kempsell

1694009

registered interest
date	05/03/2024
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential role of technology in tackling theft and violence in convenience stores across the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government recognises the significant impact shoplifting and violence towards shopworkers has on businesses, communities, and consumers, and supports the use of emerging technologies to prevent and detect crime where it is necessary, proportionate, and fair.</p><p>In October, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) published the Retail Crime Action Plan. Through this Plan, all forces across England and Wales have committed to prioritise police attendance at the scene 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.</p><p>The plan encourages the use of technology; where CCTV or other digital images are secured, police will run this as standard through the Police National Database using facial recognition technology to further aid efforts to identify prolific offenders or potentially dangerous individuals.</p><p>Innovative technologies have huge potential to cut crime and reduce the cost of crime to businesses, as well as making workplaces and communities safer. The Government is keen to support increased adoption of these technologies, to prevent crime, recognising this must be done in a lawful and proportionate way with due consideration given to privacy. We are continuing to work closely with retail businesses, security representatives, trade associations and policing through the National Retail Crime Steering Group to discuss how technology can be used to tackle retail crime.</p><p>The National Business Crime Centre has been running workshops with retailers and Digital Evidence Management System (DEMS) providers to support the use of DEMS to help assist in sharing evidence with the police.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 19/03/2024 14:30:08 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1693163

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Community Development
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are taking steps to develop engagement forums with asylum seeker and refugee communities.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Chelmsford
uin	HL2981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2024 answer text <p>We regularly engage with stakeholders through standalone meetings and various forums such as the Asylum Strategic Engagement Group, which includes organisations who both speak for and represent asylum seekers.</p><p> </p><p>The Asylum Lived Experience Advisory Panel (ALEAP) is a regular engagement forum, which enables refugees with recent lived experience of the UK asylum system an opportunity to discuss the impact of Home Office policies and processes across their asylum journey.</p><p> </p><p>It is important that we distinguish between individuals who need protection and those seeking to work here who can apply for a work visa under the Immigration Rules.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 18/03/2024 17:57:04 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	4922 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Chelmsford

1693189

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of immigration on (1) public services, (2) housing, and (3) infrastructure.
tabling member printed	Lord Reid of Cardowan
uin	HL3001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government has been clear that net migration is too high and is determined to bring it down to sustainable levels to help protect public services and housing against unsustainable pressure.</p><p>In May 2023, the Government announced measures to restrict the number of overseas students able to bring dependants. On 4 December 2023, the Home Secretary announced a new package of measures to reduce net migration further. These include limitations on family dependants being brought in by care workers and senior care workers; increasing the salary threshold for the Skilled Worker route; commissioning the Migration Advisory Committee to review the Shortage Occupation List; and raising the minimum income requirement for Family visas progressively over the next few years. These measures are now being implemented and were the subject of a WMS by the Minister for Legal Migration and the Border on January 30th.</p><p>Taken together with the measures the Government announced in May 2023, this means that around 300,000 people who were eligible to come to the UK last year would not be able to do so in future.</p><p>We keep all our immigration policies under review and work closely with key government departments to ensure that the immigration system best serves the UK, reflects the public’s priorities and protects public services against undue pressure.</p><p>A full analysis of the impact of the package will be published in a regulatory impact assessment in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 18/03/2024 17:38:19 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom
tabling member	617 label Biography information for Lord Reid of Cardowan