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1190592

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to protect retail workers from abusive or violent behaviour during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	40593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises the damaging impact that violence and abuse can have on victims, businesses, and the wider community; and we are committed to tackling this issue. Any incident of violent or abusive behaviour towards retail workers is completely unacceptable and especially so in current circumstances during the covid-19 outbreak. Everyone has the right to feel safe at work.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not hold data on the number of incidents of abusive or violent behaviour towards retail workers during the covid-19 outbreak period, however the Home Office is working closely with police and retail industry to monitor and understand these types of incidents during the current period.</p><p> </p><p>We launched a call for evidence on violence and abuse toward shop staff to help strengthen our understanding of the scale and extent of the issue. The call for evidence has now closed and my intention had been to publish the Government response before the end of March. As the Government must focus its communications on tackling covid-19, the publication of the Government response has been delayed and will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 40594 40596 question first answered 05/05/2020 15:57:53 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1190593

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of incidents of abusive or violent behaviour towards retail workers during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	40594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises the damaging impact that violence and abuse can have on victims, businesses, and the wider community; and we are committed to tackling this issue. Any incident of violent or abusive behaviour towards retail workers is completely unacceptable and especially so in current circumstances during the covid-19 outbreak. Everyone has the right to feel safe at work.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not hold data on the number of incidents of abusive or violent behaviour towards retail workers during the covid-19 outbreak period, however the Home Office is working closely with police and retail industry to monitor and understand these types of incidents during the current period.</p><p> </p><p>We launched a call for evidence on violence and abuse toward shop staff to help strengthen our understanding of the scale and extent of the issue. The call for evidence has now closed and my intention had been to publish the Government response before the end of March. As the Government must focus its communications on tackling covid-19, the publication of the Government response has been delayed and will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 40593 40596 question first answered 05/05/2020 15:57:53 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1190594

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
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, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on levels of retail crime.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	40595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises the damaging impact that retail crime can have on victims, businesses, and the wider community. Shops are the lifeblood of our communities and neighbourhoods, and it is important that businesses should be free to trade without fear of crime or disorder, particularly in these unprecedented times.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Following Government announcements on 23<sup>rd</sup> March, much of the retail sector has closed outlets to customers and those that have remained open have implemented social distancing measures. Together these were expected to lead to a reduction in the level of retail crime. Provisional figures published by the NPCC have indicated that shoplifting reported to and recorded by the police has fallen by 54% in the 4 weeks ending 12<sup>th</sup> April.</p><p> </p><p>I am working closely with the police and industry to continue to monitor these types of incidents during this challenging period.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/05/2020 16:19:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1190595

registered interest
date	27/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Abuse and Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish a response to her Department's call for evidence on abuse and violence towards shop staff; and if she will bring forward legislative proposals to make assaults against retail workers aggravated.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	40596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises the damaging impact that violence and abuse can have on victims, businesses, and the wider community; and we are committed to tackling this issue. Any incident of violent or abusive behaviour towards retail workers is completely unacceptable and especially so in current circumstances during the covid-19 outbreak. Everyone has the right to feel safe at work.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not hold data on the number of incidents of abusive or violent behaviour towards retail workers during the covid-19 outbreak period, however the Home Office is working closely with police and retail industry to monitor and understand these types of incidents during the current period.</p><p> </p><p>We launched a call for evidence on violence and abuse toward shop staff to help strengthen our understanding of the scale and extent of the issue. The call for evidence has now closed and my intention had been to publish the Government response before the end of March. As the Government must focus its communications on tackling covid-19, the publication of the Government response has been delayed and will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 40593 40594 question first answered 05/05/2020 15:57:53 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1173948

registered interest
date	28/01/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UK Visas and Immigration: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officials were responsible for examining and making decisions on asylum applications at the end of 2019.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	9022
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>The number of officials across the department who were responsible for examining and making decisions on asylum applications at the end of 2019 is not held in a reportable format. To obtain this information would require detailed reporting against multiple cost centres and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.</p><p>Decisions on asylum claims are made by decision makers in Asylum Operations. All staff are maintained at a level that allows the Home Office to progress cases and make timely decisions.</p><p>All asylum claims lodged in the UK are carefully considered on their individual merits against a background of relevant case law and up to date country information.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 05/02/2020 15:52:14 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1143583

registered interest
date	02/09/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Action Fraud
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 in response to reports that Action Fraud is not investigating fraud cases.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	285011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>This Government is determined to crack down on fraudsters and it is vital that victims have the confidence to come forward and know that their case will be dealt with properly.</p><p>The allegations concerning Action Fraud Contact Centre staff behaviour, reported recently in <em>The Times</em> articles, raises serious concerns. The Home Secretary has asked the City of London Police to set out how they intend to respond to these allegations. I will closely monitor the response and the performance of Action Fraud.</p><p>Action Fraud is the national reporting service for fraud and cyber crime. It receives reports from the public via its call centre and its website, however the operational response to fraud, including decision to investigate, remains with individual forces.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 284620 284631 question first answered 05/09/2019 15:48:41 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham