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988887

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	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 GPs will be required to notify (a) the police and (b) the Home Office when making prescriptions for medicinal cannabis.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	180264
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>From 1 November, certain cannabis-based products for medicinal use, that meet conditions related to the quality of their manufacture and supply routes, can be prescribed by doctors on the specialist register of the General Medical Council (GMC). GPs will not be able to prescribe cannabis-based medicinal products for their patients.</p><p>There is no requirement for specialist doctors to notify the police or the Home Office when issuing prescription for these products. Controlled Drug Accountable Officers have a statutory responsibility to secure the safe management and use of controlled drugs. This includes a duty to monitor the prescribing, supply and administration (if applicable) of all controlled drugs and liaise with the police to investigate suspected diversion.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/10/2018 15:40:57 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

988854

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Department is taking to ensure the provision of mental welfare services to Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service officers.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	180119
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>It is essential that firefighters receive the support they require to undertake their role and that health and wellbeing services are in place should they require them.</p><p>It is the responsibility of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service to ensure that they have appropriate support and wellbeing provisions in place to reflect the specific needs of their workforce. The new inspection regime – Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services will be considering how well the service understands the wellbeing needs of their workforce; how well they take early action to improve wellbeing; and to what extent is a culture of promoting health, safety and wellbeing evident at all levels in the fire and rescue service.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/10/2018 15:22:56 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

988839

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hare Coursing
	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 tackle hare coursing.
	tabling member constituency	South Suffolk
	tabling member printed	James Cartlidge
	uin	180275
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The police have a range of powers to tackle hare coursing through the game acts and the Hunting Act 2004. My officials have engaged with affected police forces on the issue of hare coursing. However, decisions on how the available powers are used are operational matters for the police.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/10/2018 15:42:37 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge

988770

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the average response time to dwelling fires by the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service in each year since 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	180117
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office published the latest statistics on average response times to fires in England on 25 January 2018. The average response times for dwelling fires recorded by Greater Manchester FRS are shown in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6 mins 36 secs</p></td><td><p>7 mins 13 secs</p></td><td><p>6 mins 55 secs</p></td><td><p>6 mins 46 secs</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Figures for 2017-18 will be released in Winter 2018-19.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/10/2018 15:21:35 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

988858

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions (a) he and (b) officials of his Department have had with the Mayor of Greater Manchester on the adequacy of the provision of fire services in the last six months.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	180120
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The Home Secretary spoke to the Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham during the moorland fires on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester, as advised in 2<sup>nd</sup> July statement by Nick Hurd to House of Commons as stated in Hansard at <a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-07-02/debates/B99D43C6-EFCF-4C33-AF83-1E17518C73C5/SaddleworthMoorAndTamesideOngoingFire?highlight=saddleworth#contribution-26957472-C19C-4BD7-90E9-C44F9501B1D5" target="_blank">https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-07-02/debates/B99D43C6-EFCF-4C33-AF83-1E17518C73C5/SaddleworthMoorAndTamesideOngoingFire?highlight=saddleworth#contribution-26957472-C19C-4BD7-90E9-C44F9501B1D5</a></p><p>In addition, Nick Hurd visited Greater Manchester on 1<sup>st</sup> August 2018 and met with the interim chief fire officer <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/minister-meets-and-thanks-wildfire-firefighters" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/minister-meets-and-thanks-wildfire-firefighters</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/10/2018 15:23:39 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

988860

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fires
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if his Department will make an assessment of the efficiency of the Fire Service's response to the the wildfires of Summer 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	180121
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government was extremely impressed by the fire and rescue services response to this summer’s unprecedented wildfire incidents. The Home Office directly supports a number of specialist capabilities, such as High Volume Pumps, which were used during the incidents, and funds the National Resilience Team of firefighters who coordinated the highly effective mutual aid between fire and rescue services.</p><p>As with all responses to major incidents, the local fire and rescue services, National Resilience Assurance Team and the Home Office are looking at lessons learned to consider any ways in which performance can be improved.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/10/2018 15:26:24 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

988902

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Merseyside Police
	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 there were in Merseyside in each of the last eight years.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	180173
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical publication.</p><p>Data on the number police officers employed by Merseyside Police, as at 31 March each year and going back to March 2007, can be found in the Open Data Table accompanying the main release: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629362/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629362/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 22/10/2018 16:46:35 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

988840

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service: 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 firefighter posts there were in the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15, (c) 2015-16, (d) 2016-17 and (e) 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	180118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office published the latest statistics on firefighter numbers in England on 26 October 2017. The number of firefighters (full time equivalent) employed by Greater Manchester FRS on the 31<sup>st</sup> March each year are shown in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1,614</p></td><td><p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>1,532</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td><td><p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>1,450</p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></td><td><p>1,385</p></td><td><p>1,292</p></td><td><p>1,291</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 24/10/2018 15:25:17 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne