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1130366

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date	06/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Spit Guards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance has been published for police services on the use of spit guards for arrested persons.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	261190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The use of spit and bite guards, as with any other use of restraint or force, is an operational policing matter. The Home Office does not, therefore, issue guidance on the use of the equipment.</p><p>However, the Home Secretary has been clear that being spat at is a totally unacceptable form of assault and police officers should have the equipment necessary to ensure they are protected as they perform their duties.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 13/06/2019 11:52:01 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1130367

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date	06/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Knives: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many recorded knife crime offences were disposed of with a conviction in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	261191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>This information is not collated centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We cannot determine from the data we hold on prosecutions whether offences, such as assault and murder, involved a weapon. However, data on offenders who are convicted or cautioned for the possession of a knife or threatening with a knife can be found online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/knife-possession-sentencing-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/knife-possession-sentencing-quarterly</a></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 12/06/2019 16:55:01 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1130368

registered interest
date	06/06/2019
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, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the opportunities for the police to seek financial redress when police officers are called to attend civil matters.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	261192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government believes in local policing, accountable to local communities. Decisions on financial redress for police forces and police staff are a matter for individual police forces for which the Home Office do not hold information.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 13/06/2019 11:48:15 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1130374

registered interest
date	06/06/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Babies: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department has issued on the (a) use and (b) retention of information produced from Guthrie tests.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	261195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2019 answer text <p>The Guthrie test was used for detecting phenylketonuria. However, as the newborn bloodspot screening programme screens for nine rare conditions, the heel prick test is performed using the newer technique of tandem mass spectrometry to detect conditions.</p><p>Public Health England (PHE) and NHS England have published the ‘NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme Code of Practice for the retention and storage of residual newborn blood spots’. This code of practice was published in January 2018 and applies to all newborn blood spot samples. It sets out arrangements for the retention, storage, use and release of residual newborn blood spots and related information and communication requirements.</p><p>The retention guidance is currently under review and will be updated shortly.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 14/06/2019 13:01:35 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord