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1050010

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Criminal Investigation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department's transparency data, Police funding: special grant applications: 2017 to 2018, updated on 4 June 2018, for what reason his Department's policy is to fund 85 per cent of the investigation costs requested by police forces for large scale child sexual exploitation cases and not the full costs of such investigations.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	213414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>Police and Crime Commissioners should include, within their policing and budget plans, reasonable contingencies for unexpected events within their areas. It is usual practice for PCCs to pay some costs towards most Special Grant claims. This ensures affordability, so we can support a number of PCCs in any financial year. In addition, seeking a contribution towards long term operations helps incentivise forces to ensure that such investigations are run efficiently.</p><p>Between 2017/18 and 2018/19, the Home Office has provided £22 million of Special Grant towards costs related to Grenfell Tower and £27 million towards major child sexual exploitation investigations.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 31/01/2019 14:07:16 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1050011

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Criminal Investigation: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department's transparency data, Police funding: special grant applications: 2017 to 2018, updated on 4 June 2018 and the Grenfell Tower investigation, for what reason his Department's policy is to fund 85 per cent of large scale investigations that are a Government top priority and not the full costs of such investigations.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	213415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>Police and Crime Commissioners should include, within their policing and budget plans, reasonable contingencies for unexpected events within their areas. It is usual practice for PCCs to pay some costs towards most Special Grant claims. This ensures affordability, so we can support a number of PCCs in any financial year. In addition, seeking a contribution towards long term operations helps incentivise forces to ensure that such investigations are run efficiently.</p><p>Between 2017/18 and 2018/19, the Home Office has provided £22 million of Special Grant towards costs related to Grenfell Tower and £27 million towards major child sexual exploitation investigations.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 31/01/2019 14:18:09 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1050227

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police
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 minimum staffing levels for policing under the auspices of Operation Yellowhammer.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	213416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to the answer given to 210622 on 24 January 2019.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 31/01/2019 14:22:24 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1047998

registered interest
date	25/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: EU Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what alternative arrangements will replace (a) the Schengen Information System II, (b) the European Arrest Warrant, (c) the European Criminal Records Information System, (d) intelligence sharing through Europol, (e) Eurojust and (f) European Investigation Orders in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	212644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2019 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 28 January 2019 [203414].</p><p>We are working with operational partners on a contingent basis to transition our cooperation with EU Member States to non-EU channels, should that be required in a no deal scenario. The alternative arrangements for the EU ‘tools’ in question would involve making more use of Interpol, Council of Europe Conventions and other forms of cooperation, such as bilateral channels.</p><p>The Government’s position remains that the agreement reached with the EU, which includes ambitious internal security arrangements, is in the UK’s best interests.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 30/01/2019 17:06:12 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1046814

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Plastics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to phase-out unnecessary single-use plastic.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	211814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government published the Resources and Waste Strategy in December last year which sets out our plans to reduce plastic pollution. This builds on the commitment in the 25 Year Environment Plan to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste.</p><p>Domestically we have made good progress: from banning microbeads in rinse-off personal care products and removing 15.6 billion plastic bags from circulation with our 5p charge to strengthening the protection of our marine areas.</p><p> </p><p>We have already consulted on banning plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds and are currently consulting on extending the carrier bag charge. We will shortly consult on reforming existing packaging waste regulation, introducing a deposit return scheme for drinks containers and increasing consistency in the recycling system. Legislative proposals will be developed taking account of the consultation responses.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to review the latest evidence on problematic products and materials to take a systematic approach to reducing the use of unnecessary single-use plastic products.</p><p>The 25 Year Environment Plan includes a commitment to remove all single-use consumer plastics from central Government offices and the Resources and Waste Strategy has confirmed that the Government will do this by 2020. A number of Departments, including Defra, have already taken steps to eliminate single-use consumer plastics from their operations.</p><p>The Government is also committed to the plastics tax announced by the Chancellor.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 211815 211816 question first answered 31/01/2019 14:31:52 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1046815

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Plastics: Pollution Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the Government's progress on reducing plastic pollution.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	211815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government published the Resources and Waste Strategy in December last year which sets out our plans to reduce plastic pollution. This builds on the commitment in the 25 Year Environment Plan to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste.</p><p>Domestically we have made good progress: from banning microbeads in rinse-off personal care products and removing 15.6 billion plastic bags from circulation with our 5p charge to strengthening the protection of our marine areas.</p><p> </p><p>We have already consulted on banning plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds and are currently consulting on extending the carrier bag charge. We will shortly consult on reforming existing packaging waste regulation, introducing a deposit return scheme for drinks containers and increasing consistency in the recycling system. Legislative proposals will be developed taking account of the consultation responses.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to review the latest evidence on problematic products and materials to take a systematic approach to reducing the use of unnecessary single-use plastic products.</p><p>The 25 Year Environment Plan includes a commitment to remove all single-use consumer plastics from central Government offices and the Resources and Waste Strategy has confirmed that the Government will do this by 2020. A number of Departments, including Defra, have already taken steps to eliminate single-use consumer plastics from their operations.</p><p>The Government is also committed to the plastics tax announced by the Chancellor.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 211814 211816 question first answered 31/01/2019 14:31:53 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1046816

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Plastics: Pollution Control
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to bring forward legislative proposals to reduce levels of plastic pollution.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	211816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government published the Resources and Waste Strategy in December last year which sets out our plans to reduce plastic pollution. This builds on the commitment in the 25 Year Environment Plan to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste.</p><p>Domestically we have made good progress: from banning microbeads in rinse-off personal care products and removing 15.6 billion plastic bags from circulation with our 5p charge to strengthening the protection of our marine areas.</p><p> </p><p>We have already consulted on banning plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds and are currently consulting on extending the carrier bag charge. We will shortly consult on reforming existing packaging waste regulation, introducing a deposit return scheme for drinks containers and increasing consistency in the recycling system. Legislative proposals will be developed taking account of the consultation responses.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to review the latest evidence on problematic products and materials to take a systematic approach to reducing the use of unnecessary single-use plastic products.</p><p>The 25 Year Environment Plan includes a commitment to remove all single-use consumer plastics from central Government offices and the Resources and Waste Strategy has confirmed that the Government will do this by 2020. A number of Departments, including Defra, have already taken steps to eliminate single-use consumer plastics from their operations.</p><p>The Government is also committed to the plastics tax announced by the Chancellor.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey grouped question UIN 211814 211815 question first answered 31/01/2019 14:31:53 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1047014

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the additional £90 million to tackle serious organised crime announced in the provisional police funding settlement 2019-20 will be allocated.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	211817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The SOC Strategy, published on 1 November 2018, sets out the Government’s response to the full range of serious and organised crime threats</p><p>The priorities for investment for the £90 million announced in the provisional police funding settlement 2019-20 will be geared toward delivering the SOC Strategy. <br>Home Office officials are in discussions with operational colleagues on how to allocate the money. This process is ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 28/01/2019 16:10:40 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1047016

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency and Regional Organised Crime Units: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much public funding (a) has been allocated to the (i) National Crime Agency and (ii) regional organised crime units in each year since 2015-16 and (b) he plans to allocate to those organisations in total under the 2019-20 provisional police funding settlement.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	211818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>Regarding the public funding for the National Crime Agency, the figures are as follows:<br>- 15/16: Resource DEL (excluding depreciation): 371; Capital DEL, 40<br>- 16/17: Resource DEL (excluding depreciation): 384; Capital DEL, 50<br>- 17/18: Resource DEL (excluding depreciation): 387; Capital DEL, 50<br>- 18/19: Resource DEL (excluding depreciation): 377; Capital DEL, 50.</p><p>Regarding the public funding for the regional organised crime units (ROCUs), funding is provided through a combination of PCC funding, Home Office Grant funding (including around £20m ROCU grant per annum) and the Police Transformation Fund. The total figures are as follows:</p><p>- 15/16: Just over £101m. <br>- 16/17: Just under £119m (they were also granted just over £2.6m in capital). <br>- 2017/18: Just over £129m (they were granted capital of just over £2.4m). <br>In 2018/19, the ROCU network has a combined operating budget of around £166.4m with a total capital expenditure of around £4.6m. It should be noted that the 2018/19 figure excludes London, but we can confirm that London was allocated just over £2.1m through the Home Office ROCU Grant.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 28/01/2019 13:45:48 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1047017

registered interest
date	23/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Private Finance Initiative
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the total cost of PFI projects to police forces in each year since 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	211819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>HM Treasury publish data on all current PFI projects, including information on the unitary charge for each contract. The information can be found at the link below.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-finance-initiative-and-private-finance-2-projects-2017-summary-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-finance-initiative-and-private-finance-2-projects-2017-summary-data</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 28/01/2019 13:35:45 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh