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227908

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Pensions
	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 the debate on police widows pensions of 25 February, Official Report, columns 126-133WH, what steps she is taking to ensure all police widowers receive life-long pensions.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	227749
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>The Chancellor announced in the Budget on 18 March that the Government will ensure that all widows, widowers and civil partners of police officers and firefighters who are killed on duty will no longer lose their survivor benefits if they remarry, cohabit, or form a civil partnership.</p><p>The Home Office and Department for Communities and Local Government will set out further details in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 19/03/2015 15:56:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

508949

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2016
	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 she has made of the adequacy of police funding after service reorganisation.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	904394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government has protected overall police spending for the coming Spending Review period, once police precept is taken into account. The public can be confident that over the next four years the police will have the resources they need to carry on cutting crime, fighting terrorism and keeping the people of this country safe.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 11/04/2016 15:57:20 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

418956

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	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 steps she has taken to ensure that the ongoing police funding formula consultation contains an adequate equality impact assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	10335
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The consultation on police funding arrangements closed on 15 September and the responses are being analysed. The Government will consider these responses carefully to determine what changes, if any, are required. At this stage final force-level allocations have not been set and will not be determined until we have completed our analysis. We will continue to engage with policing partners during this process and intend to provide information, including exemplifications of future allocations, as these develop.</p><p>Alongside the development of the new funding model, we are developing a Policy Equalities Statement which will set out how this work has been completed in compliance with the Public Sector Equality Duty.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 10336 question first answered 12/10/2015 14:12:01 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

418957

	registered interest
	date	15/09/2015
	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, if she will publish the exemptions requested by police and crime commissioners and chief constables in the ongoing police funding formula consultation; what progress has been made on that review; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	10336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The consultation on police funding arrangements closed on 15 September and the responses are being analysed. The Government will consider these responses carefully to determine what changes, if any, are required. At this stage final force-level allocations have not been set and will not be determined until we have completed our analysis. We will continue to engage with policing partners during this process and intend to provide information, including exemplifications of future allocations, as these develop.</p><p>Alongside the development of the new funding model, we are developing a Policy Equalities Statement which will set out how this work has been completed in compliance with the Public Sector Equality Duty.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 10335 question first answered 12/10/2015 14:12:02 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

419130

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	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, if she will estimate the effect on demand on policing services of budgetary reductions in other government departments.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	10418
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>Home Office officials are working with the police and other government departments as part of the Spending Review preparations. This work includes understanding of the interface between the police and other agencies. We encourage greater joint working to continue to reduce crime and manage demand. The Department also welcomed the College of Policing report “Estimating demand on the police service&quot;, published in January, which included analysis of non crime demand. The report is available on the College of Policing website <a href="http://www.college.police.uk/" target="_blank">www.college.police.uk</a></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 12/10/2015 13:09:06 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

485715

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Applications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms her Department has in place to determine the geographic distribution of asylum seekers awaiting decisions on asylum applications.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	32286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 introduced the policy of national dispersal, designed to share the impact of asylum seekers across the whole of the UK. Asylum seekers are housed across the UK under voluntary agreements between national government and local authorities that have been in place since 2000.</p><p>We work to a maximum agreed dispersal ratio of 1:200 asylum seekers per head of total population. We are proactively engaging with all areas that to date have not participated in asylum dispersal with a view to negotiating voluntary agreements to do so.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 11/04/2016 13:56:36 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

485720

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
	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 to reduce the number of asylum seekers placed in hotels while awaiting decisions on asylum applications.
	tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
	tabling member printed	Mike Kane
	uin	32287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>We have continued to make clear to our providers that the use of hotels is only acceptable as a short-term contingency arrangement and we are supporting all measures being pursued by providers to increase procurement to provide sufficient accommodation as a matter of urgency.</p><p>With the support of local authorities we, and our housing providers, are engaging with areas that to date have not participated in asylum dispersal with a view to negotiating voluntary agreements to do so. We are also working through a range of other options for accommodating asylum seekers safely and securely.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 11/04/2016 13:46:18 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

224479

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Wrexham
	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 police officers employed in Wrexham constituency for frontline duties in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
	uin	225883
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collect police workforce information at the requested <br>level. The deployment of available resources is a matter for chief officers <br>locally, working with their Police and Crime Commissioner.<br><br>At the overall police force area level, according to the definitions set out by <br>Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, North Wales Police plan to have <br>1428 police officers working in frontline roles by March 2015. This represents <br>95 % of the total police officer workforce compared to 92%<br>(1,458 officers) in <br>March 2010. <br><br>Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary has made clear there is no simple <br>link between officer numbers and crime levels. This is supported by the <br>reduction in crime of more than one fifth under this Government, according to <br>the independent Crime Survey for England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 05/03/2015 16:03:24 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

386187

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Criminal Investigation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) police civilian staff in (i) North Wales and (ii) the UK have been allocated to investigation of sexual offences in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	4504
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold information centrally on the number of police officers or staff that have been assigned to investigate sexual offences.</p><p>The deployment of police officers locally is an operational matter for Chief Constables, in conjunction with their Police and Crime Commissioners</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 06/07/2015 14:22:08 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

445565

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Wales
	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 constables there were in North Wales in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	22848
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2016 answer text <p>The table provided contains statistics on the total number of full-time equivalent police officers and the number of these who hold the rank of constable in North Wales, as at 31 March 2010 to 31 March 2015.</p><p>As HM Inspectorate of Constabulary has made clear, there is no simple link between police numbers and crime levels, between numbers and the visibility of police in the community, or between numbers and the quality of service provided.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 21/01/2016 17:37:56 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning attachment 1 file name Table 22848.xls title Full-time equivalent police officers
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas