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443052

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Firearms: Crime
	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 prevent the supply of guns and ammunition at a neighbourhood level.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Perry Barr
	tabling member printed	Mr Khalid Mahmood
	uin	21234
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Government and police work nationally, and with international partners, to reduce the threat to the UK from the criminal use of firearms. In 2013/14, firearms were used in a small and diminishing proportion of total police recorded crime, 0.2%. The figure for 2009/10 was 0.3%. Following the firearms surrenders in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Greater Manchester and the West Midlands in 2013 and 2014, the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS) co-ordinated firearms surrenders in the majority of the Police Force areas in England and Wales during 2014 and 2015, resulting in the surrender of over 6000 items.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">As of 7th January 2016; 3,864 firearms and over 13,000 items of ammunition have been recovered following the November 2015 firearms surrender, with 934 weapons being recovered prior to the November surrender. Of those items recovered in the November surrender (discounting ammunition, CS Sprays and Stun Guns), items include:</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">• 516 pistols;</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">• 473 revolvers;</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">• 1,226 shotguns;</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">• 243 rifles;</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">• 873 air weapons</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">This brings the total volume of firearms surrendered in the last eighteen months to 4,798. If ammunition, CS Sprays and Stun Guns are included this comes to over 6000.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Following publication of the Law Commission’s report on firearms law published on 16 December we will be reviewing options to strengthen the current legislation to ensure it safeguards against abuse by criminals.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>The Government and police work nationally, and with international partners, to reduce the threat to the UK from the criminal use of firearms. In 2013/14, firearms were used in a small proportion of total police recorded crime, 0.2%. The figure for 2009/10 was 0.3% </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em> </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>Figures from the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS) show that in 2013 and 2014, there were 757 weapons recovered in firearm surrenders undertaken in the Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Greater Manchester and West Midlands Police Force areas. </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em> </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>Building on the success of these surrenders, NABIS co-ordinated firearms surrenders in the majority of the remaining Police Force areas in England and Wales during 2014 and 2015, resulting in the recovery of 5,468 weapons and over 17,000 items of ammunition. The items recovered included:</em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em> </em></ins></p><ul><li><ins class="ministerial"><em>588 pistols; </em></ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial"><em>479 revolvers; </em></ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial"><em>1,850 shotguns; </em></ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial"><em>416 rifles; </em></ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial"><em>1,269 air weapons; and,</em></ins></li><li><ins class="ministerial"><em>866 other items including gas guns, stun guns, CS sprays, BB guns and blank firers.</em></ins></li></ul><p><ins class="ministerial"><em> </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>The total number of weapons recovered from all forces in England and Wales as a result of these surrenders was 6,225. </em></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><em>Following publication of the Law Commission’s report on firearms law published on 16 December 2015 we will be reviewing options to strengthen the current legislation to ensure it safeguards against abuse by criminals</em>.</ins></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 13/01/2016 16:31:42 question first ministerially corrected 01/02/2016 14:13:57 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 38611 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1392 label Biography information for Mr Khalid Mahmood

443050

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Firearms: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much was spent on tackling gun crime in (a) England and (b) the West Midlands between (i) January 2010 to December 2012 and (ii) January 2013 to December 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Perry Barr
	tabling member printed	Mr Khalid Mahmood
	uin	21233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>Information about specific aspects of spending by the police is not held centrally by the Home Office. Birmingham is one of the areas previously supported under the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme. However, it is not possible to determine what proportion of the total programme budget was spent in this area, and in turn what proportion of this was related to tackling gun crime specifically.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 14/01/2016 17:59:55 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1392 label Biography information for Mr Khalid Mahmood

443031

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Firearms: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the recorded level of gun crime was in (a) England and (b) the West Midlands between (i) January 2010 to December 2012 and (ii) January 2013 to December 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Perry Barr
	tabling member printed	Mr Khalid Mahmood
	uin	21235
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>Offences involving firearms recorded by the police at the force area level are published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on a financial year basis. The most recently published figures for the West Midlands and England are 2013/14. These are given in the table and show that between 2009/10 and 2013/14, offences involving firearms (excluding air weapons) fell by 40% in both the West Midlands and in England.</p><p>Figures for 2014/15 are due to be published on 11 February 2016 in the ONS publication Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences 2014/15.</p><p>The ONS publish provisional data for England and Wales on the number of offences involving firearms in their quarterly crime statistics releases. The most recently available figures are for the year ending June 2015 and these can be found here: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/year-ending-june-2015/stb-crime--ye-june-2015.html</p><p>The Home Office does not collect data on the number of people arrested in connection with offences involving firearms. The Home Office collects data on arrests by groups of crimes (for example, violence against the person, robbery) but cannot separately identify those that involved a firearm from those that did not.</p><p>Convictions data are the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice has informed the Home Office that they do not hold data on the number of convictions for offences where a firearm was involved.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 21371 question first answered 13/01/2016 16:29:21 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1392 label Biography information for Mr Khalid Mahmood

443044

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Firearms: West Midlands
	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) arrests and (b) convictions have been made in connection with gun-related crime in the West Midlands metropolitan area in each quarter of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Perry Barr
	tabling member printed	Mr Khalid Mahmood
	uin	21371
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>Offences involving firearms recorded by the police at the force area level are published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on a financial year basis. The most recently published figures for the West Midlands and England are 2013/14. These are given in the table and show that between 2009/10 and 2013/14, offences involving firearms (excluding air weapons) fell by 40% in both the West Midlands and in England.</p><p>Figures for 2014/15 are due to be published on 11 February 2016 in the ONS publication Focus on: Violent Crime and Sexual Offences 2014/15.</p><p>The ONS publish provisional data for England and Wales on the number of offences involving firearms in their quarterly crime statistics releases. The most recently available figures are for the year ending June 2015 and these can be found here: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/year-ending-june-2015/stb-crime--ye-june-2015.html</p><p>The Home Office does not collect data on the number of people arrested in connection with offences involving firearms. The Home Office collects data on arrests by groups of crimes (for example, violence against the person, robbery) but cannot separately identify those that involved a firearm from those that did not.</p><p>Convictions data are the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice has informed the Home Office that they do not hold data on the number of convictions for offences where a firearm was involved.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning grouped question UIN 21235 question first answered 13/01/2016 16:29:21 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1392 label Biography information for Mr Khalid Mahmood

443068

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people of each gender work in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester West
	tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
	uin	21286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department publishes diversity report which contains workforce data broken down by gender on an annual basis. The last published report for 2013/2014 can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/diversity-report-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/diversity-report-2013-to-2014</a></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 11/01/2016 14:08:39 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

443064

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Information Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many press and public relations staff are employed by (a) his Department, (b) HM Courts and Tribunal Service, (c) HM Prison Service, (d) the Legal Aid Agency and (e) the National Offender Management Service; how many of those employees are paid more than (i) £50,000 and (ii) £100,000; and what the total expenditure was on press and public relations by each of those organisations in the most recent year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	21339
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice including the National Offender Management Service employs a total of 42 staff within the external communications division. Of those, eight are paid more than £50,000. The total spend on external communications during 2014/15 was £1,914,806.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of staff is less than that in 2009/2010 even though the function has additional responsibilities such as strategic communications, campaigns, stakeholder communications and a wider spread of digital communications activities.</p><p> </p><p>The Legal Aid Agency shares services with the Ministry of Justice, and consequently has no separate spend on press and public relations. HM Courts and Tribunals Service operate a separate press office function employing a total of 3 staff, one of which is paid more than £50,000. The total HMCTS spend 2014/15 was £161,331.</p><p> </p><p>Spend on external communications continues to fall and we will look for further savings where possible. As one of the biggest departments responsible for prisons, courts and other issues of national importance such as human rights we have a duty to explain our work to the public.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 23/02/2016 12:16:48 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

443046

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for how long people under the age of 18 who were transferred to a place of safety under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 were detained on average in (a) a police cell and (b) a police vehicle in England and Wales in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Totnes
	tabling member printed	Dr Sarah Wollaston
	uin	21299
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>However, the use of police cells as a place of safety for all persons detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 has more than halved since 2011/12 (when figures were first collated) as shown in the following table. A joint inspection by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC); Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP); the Care Quality Commission (CQC); and Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) (published in 2013) found that the average time that each such person spent in police custody was 10 hours 32 minutes.</p><p>The Government intends to make provision in the Policing and Crime Bill, to be introduced in Parliament soon, to prohibit the use of police cells as places of safety for people under the age of 18, and to further limit their use in the case of adults. The maximum period for which a person may be detained pending a mental health assessment will also be reduced.</p><br /><p><strong>Table 1: number of times a police station was used as a place of safety for people detained under Section 136 Mental Health Act 1983 (England only)</strong></p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Section 136 detentions in police stations</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage reduction year on year (to nearest whole number)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>8,667</p></td><td><p>N/A[1]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>7,881</p></td><td><p>-9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>6,028</p></td><td><p>-24%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>3,996</p></td><td><p>-34%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><em>Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre</em></p><br /><p>[1] No data on use of police stations is available for 2010-11.</p><br /><p><br></p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 13/01/2016 17:03:28 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4073 label Biography information for Dr Sarah Wollaston

443051

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: 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 was spent on policing in (a) England and (b) the West Midlands between (i) January 2013 and December 2015 and (ii) January 2010 and December 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Perry Barr
	tabling member printed	Mr Khalid Mahmood
	uin	21363
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2016 answer text <p>The police in England and Wales receive funding from two main sources - central Government and the police precept component of council tax.</p><p>The table below shows the amount of revenue funding provided by central Government to the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for the West Midlands (formerly the West Midlands Police Authority), and the amount of central Government revenue funding provided by central Government to PCCs (formerly police authorities) and their London equivalents in England from 2009/2010 to 2015/2016. It also shows precept funding for the relevant years.</p><p>Overall police spending (central Government funding plus precept) will be protected in real terms over the next Spending Review period. This is an increase of up to £900 million in cash terms by 2019/20.</p><p>Police reform is working and, according to the independent Crime Survey for England and Wales, crime has fallen by more than a quarter since 2010. This is the lowest level since the survey began in 1981. In the West Midlands, crime has fallen by 15 per cent compared with 2010.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>£m</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>West Midlands</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>England</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Government funding*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Precept**</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Government funding*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Precept**</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-2010</p></td><td><p>529.0</p></td><td><p>77.9</p></td><td><p>606.9</p></td><td><p>8,573.4</p></td><td><p>2,913.7</p></td><td><p>11,487.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-2011</p></td><td><p>540.8</p></td><td><p>79.4</p></td><td><p>620.2</p></td><td><p>8,686.2</p></td><td><p>2,982.9</p></td><td><p>11,669.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-2012</p></td><td><p>515.8</p></td><td><p>79.7</p></td><td><p>595.4</p></td><td><p>8,292.0</p></td><td><p>3,039.7</p></td><td><p>11,331.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>484.7</p></td><td><p>80.0</p></td><td><p>564.7</p></td><td><p>7,823.1</p></td><td><p>3,093.2</p></td><td><p>10,916.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>474.8</p></td><td><p>82.0</p></td><td><p>556.8</p></td><td><p>7,655.0</p></td><td><p>3,128.6</p></td><td><p>10,783.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>458.9</p></td><td><p>84.4</p></td><td><p>543.3</p></td><td><p>7,385.5</p></td><td><p>3,207.4</p></td><td><p>10,592.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-2016</p></td><td><p>435.6</p></td><td><p>87.3</p></td><td><p>522.8</p></td><td><p>7,031.2</p></td><td><p>3,289.8</p></td><td><p>10,321.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Government funding figures include specific grants that have since been rolled into Police Main Grant (including Rule 2 Grant, the Neighbourhood Policing Fund and, from 2013/14, the Community Safety Fund) in order to provide consistency over the time period.</p><p>Since 2011/12, West Midlands and other English force areas have been in receipt of Council Tax Freeze Grants. These amounts are included in the figures, along with National and International City Grants paid to the London forces.</p><p>These figures do not include funding for counter-terrorism policing, or additional funding received by the police from other specific grants, the Police Innovation Fund or other sources.</p><p>**From 2013/14, West Midlands and other English force areas have also received Local Council Tax Support (LCTS) funding. These amounts are included within the precept totals to assist comparison with previous years.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 14/01/2016 17:58:52 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	1392 label Biography information for Mr Khalid Mahmood