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1123707

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Smallholdings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities have sold off (a) all and (b) more than 50 per cent of council smallholdings since 1997.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	248573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">This information is not held centrally.</del><ins class="ministerial">Records held by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) show that in 1997 a total area of 119,977 hectares was held for smallholdings purposes by local authorities in England. Data on land held for smallholdings purposes by individual local authorities in 1997 is unavailable. A recent report published by Defra records that, at 31 March 2018, the total area of land held by 43 reporting smallholdings authorities in England was 89,020 hectares (for the whole estate), of which 83,600 hectares were let as smallholdings (for 40 reporting authorities).</ins></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse previous answer version 116395 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse 116427 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse question first answered 03/05/2019 10:26:49 question first ministerially corrected 08/10/2019 10:47:23 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

1307065

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Emergency Services Network: Ceredigion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, of the Extended Area Services (EAS) mast sites that are located in Ceredigion how many (a) have been designed and have received planning approval, (b) are awaiting physical work to connect the mast to the network and (c) are awaiting final activation.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	179375
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>In your constituency of Ceredigion, there are 11 EAS sites, 8 of which have been designed and have completed the planning approval stage. 4 of the sites have completed the passive build stage.</p><p>For reference the key stages are:</p><p>1) building the structure (this is known as ‘passive build’)</p><p>2) connecting the mast to the network, either by a cable link, microwave link or (on occasions) via a satellite connection</p><p>3) activating the mast for operational use for the emergency services</p><p> </p><p>The table attached provides an update on each sites’ progress and shows when power is forecast to be provided along with a forecast for site activation. After the award of the contract to connect to the network in Autumn 2021, we anticipate that a survey of each site will result in activation timelines varying depending on the work involved, therefore the dates forecast for activation may change accordingly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 20/04/2021 15:14:51 question first ministerially corrected 21/04/2021 10:52:47 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse attachment 1 file name Table for PQ 179375.docx title Table for PQ 179375 previous answer version 97771 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1271127

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Suicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what support her Department is providing to police forces to prevent suicides amongst (a) serving and (b) retired police officers.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Dehenna Davison
	uin	129111
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The death of any serving or retired police officer is a tragedy. The Government and police leaders take this matter seriously and are working to support the mental and physical wellbeing of all police officers and staff.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">We have invested in programmes which offer help directly to officers and staff. This includes £7.5 to fund the development of the National Police Wellbeing Service, which was launched in 2019. The Service is helping forces to identify where there is most risk of impacts on mental health, and developing work around building resilience, as well as putting in place support for those who need it in response to traumatic events.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government has also accelerated work to introduce a Police Covenant, which will ensure our police get the support and protection they need. We have been clear that the Covenant will also cover those who are retired from policing, to ensure that they are also supported effectively once they leave the service. The Covenant will be enshrined in law, with provisions being brought forward later this session, and the Home Secretary will have a duty to report annually on the work undertaken.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Our focus will be on health and wellbeing, physical protection and support for families. We are in no doubt that an area we must focus on is mental health support. We will continue to work closely with policing partners to ensure the Covenant has a lasting impact on both serving and retired officers and staff.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The death of any serving or retired police officer is a tragedy. The Government and police leaders take this matter seriously and are working to support the mental and physical wellbeing of all police officers and staff.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We have invested in programmes which offer help directly to officers and staff. This includes £7.5 million to fund the development of the National Police Wellbeing Service, which was launched in 2019. The Service is helping forces to identify where there is most risk of impacts on mental health, and developing work around building resilience, as well as putting in place support for those who need it in response to traumatic events.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government has also accelerated work to introduce a Police Covenant, which will ensure our police get the support and protection they need. We have been clear that the Covenant will also cover those who are retired from policing, to ensure that they are also supported effectively once they leave the service. The Covenant will be enshrined in law, with provisions being brought forward later this session, and the Home Secretary will have a duty to report annually on the work undertaken.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Our focus will be on health and wellbeing, physical protection and support for families. We are in no doubt that an area we must focus on is mental health support. We will continue to work closely with policing partners to ensure the Covenant has a lasting impact on both serving and retired officers and staff. </ins></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/12/2020 17:14:33 question first ministerially corrected 11/02/2021 12:11:45 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 70692 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4737 label Biography information for Dehenna Davison

1258275

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Liberal Democrats: Criminal Investigation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the status is of the Metropolitan police investigation into the former chief executive of the Liberal Democrats following a request by the Electoral Commission for a prosecution.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
	uin	124870
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">At the conclusion of the Electoral Commission’s investigation into the Liberal Democrat Party’s 2015 UK Parliamentary General Election campaign spending return, it made a referral to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) for its consideration of possible offences outside its remit. The decision to prosecute or not, following such a referral, is an operational matter for the MPS and it would not be appropriate to comment further.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Hon. Member may wish to ask the same question to the Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission, as this information may be held by the Electoral Commission.</ins></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 09/12/2020 17:15:35 question first ministerially corrected 14/12/2020 14:50:53 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 68073 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1248964

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Youth Services
	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 increase youth intervention services in (a) Slough and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	111599
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2020 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">It is vitally important that we prevent young people from being drawn into violent crime, exploitation and abuse. The Government recognises that high quality youth services can transform the lives of young people.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government has invested £70m over two years (19/20 – 20/21) in establishing Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) in the 18 police force areas most affected by serious violence. VRUs bring together police, local government, health and education professionals, community leaders and other key partners to identify the drivers of serious violence and agree a multi-agency response to them. In addition to leading and coordinating local responses, VRUs are also delivering interventions to support those most at risk of involvement in serious violence. In year 1 of their operation, VRUs applied £23.1m to enable delivery of 175 different interventions, which reached over 100,000 young people.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We have awarded Thames Valley PCC, which includes Slough, £2.32m to develop its multi-agency Violence Reduction Unit. We have also invested £3.2m in Thames Valley to ‘surge’ the operational police response to serious violent crimes, which is supporting vital work to identify and disrupt exploitative county lines operations.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government has invested £200 million in a 10-year Youth Endowment (YEF) Fund to tackle the drivers behind serious youth violence. An extra £5million has been awarded to the YEF in 2020 to develop a National Centre of Excellence, which will share knowledge and expertise with those working with vulnerable children and young people at risk of involvement in serious youth violence.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In July 2020, the YEF offered a total of £6.5m to 129 organisations across England and Wales as part of its COVID-19 grant round. The funding will help charities, social enterprises, local authorities and youth organisations to re-connect with young people at-risk of being drawn into violent crime and tackle any problems to emerge because of COVID-19.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">We are significantly increasing investment in specialist support for county lines victims this year. With investment of £860k the St Giles Trust will be delivering one-to-one support in London, Merseyside and the West Midlands (the three largest county lines exporting areas) which will aim to help over 200 vulnerable children and young people who are criminally exploited by county lines gangs to exit their involvement.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Home Office is also continuing to fund Missing People’s SafeCall service (c.£200k FY20/21). This specialist 24/7 helpline provides advice and support to children, young people and their parents/carers who are concerned about county lines, criminal exploitation and gangs.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Through the £13.2m Trusted Relationships Fund we are identifying innovative approaches to tackling vulnerability among children and young people at risk of exploitation and abuse. The local authority-led projects, which went live in August 2018, provide support for children and young people identified as at high risk of child sexual exploitation and abuse, criminal exploitation and peer-on-peer abuse.</ins></p><p><del class="ministerial">It is vitally important that we prevent young people from being drawn into violent crime, exploitation and abuse. The Government recognises that high quality youth services can transform the lives of young people.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government has invested £70m over two years (19/20 – 20/21) in establishing Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) in the 18 police force areas most affected by serious violence. VRUs bring together police, local government, health and education professionals, community leaders and other key partners to identify the drivers of serious violence and agree a multi-agency response to them. In addition to leading and coordinating local responses, VRUs are also delivering interventions to support those most at risk of involvement in serious violence. In year 1 of their operation, VRUs applied £23.1m to enable delivery of 175 different interventions, which reached over 100,000 young people.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">We have awarded Thames Valley PCC, which includes Slough, £2.32m to develop its multi-agency Violence Reduction Unit. We have also invested £3.2m in Thames Valley to ‘surge’ the operational police response to serious violent crimes, which is supporting vital work to identify and disrupt exploitative county lines operations.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Government has invested £200 million in a 10-year Youth Endowment (YEF) Fund to tackle the drivers behind serious youth violence. An extra £5million has been awarded to the YEF in 2020 to develop a National Centre of Excellence, which will share knowledge and expertise with those working with vulnerable children and young people at risk of involvement in serious youth violence.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In July 2020, the YEF offered a total of £6.5m to 129 organisations across England and Wales as part of its COVID-19 grant round. The funding will help charities, social enterprises, local authorities and youth organisations to re-connect with young people at-risk of being drawn into violent crime and tackle any problems to emerge because of COVID-19.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">We are significantly increasing investment in specialist support for county lines victims this year. With investment of £860k the St Giles Trust will be delivering one-to-one support in London, Merseyside and the West Midlands.</del></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/11/2020 15:08:01 question first ministerially corrected 19/11/2020 11:54:52 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 62194 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1247624

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: West Yorkshire
	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 West Yorkshire in (a) 2010 and (b) as at 30 October 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	109541
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">We are committed to increasing the number of police officers by 20,000 over the next three years, and West Yorkshire Police has already recruited 308 additional officers as part of the Police Uplift Programme. I am extremely grateful to those brave men and women who have signed up to join the police and keep our communities safe.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In March 2010, West Yorkshire Police had 5,856 police officers (headcount). The most recent figures (up to September 2020) shows the force had 5,494 officers.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The latest “Police officer uplift” statistics published on 29 October can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-officer-uplift-quarterly-update-to-september-2020</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> We are committed to increasing the number of police officers by 20,000 over the next three years, and West Yorkshire Police has already recruited 308 additional officers as part of the Police Uplift Programme. I am extremely grateful to those brave men and women who have signed up to join the police and keep our communities safe.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In March 2010, West Yorkshire Police had 5,856 police officers (headcount). The most recent figures (up to September 2020) shows the force had 5,494 officers.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> The latest “Police officer uplift” statistics published on 29 October can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-officer-uplift-quarterly-update-to-september-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-officer-uplift-quarterly-update-to-september-2020</a></ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 04/11/2020 17:24:40 question first ministerially corrected 09/11/2020 18:54:25 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 58787 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

1227248

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2020
	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, how many children were detained in police cells under the Mental Health Act 1983 (a) since 1 January 2020 and (b) in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
	tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
	uin	78477
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">This information is already publicly available.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">This information is already publicly available.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2019</a></ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 07/09/2020 11:53:02 question first ministerially corrected 08/09/2020 15:50:44 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 44529 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1171515

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police National Computer: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many conviction alerts on foreign nationals have not been sent to police in their home countries in each of the last three years, by country.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	4347
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">ACRO and the Home Office are working to identify a technical fix and implement it as soon as possible.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In order to resolve this issue, an ongoing technical response has been put in place. It is not possible to provide a specific figure of the number of notifications per EU Member States until the technical response is complete. Each Member State will be notified with the number of notifications they will receive as they are sent, to enable them to process the data as they see appropriate. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Home Office is working closely with the national Criminal Records Office (ACRO) to finalise the resolution of this issue as soon as possible. </ins></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 01/07/2020 16:22:14 question first ministerially corrected 06/07/2020 13:19:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 33916 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

1199779

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Demonstrations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with representatives from the National Police Chiefs Council on (a) guidance for policing protests while the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020 are in force and (b) arresting protesters under those regulations.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
	tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
	uin	53673
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The footage of George Floyd’s death is deeply upsetting and we appreciate the strength of feeling behind the planned #BlackLivesMatter protests, but it is vital to remember that we are still in the midst of a public health crisis. We strongly support the right to protest peacefully, but this pandemic has led to many of our individual freedoms being curtailed because everyone has a role to play in helping to control the virus following the rules. This is how we can continue to save lives so we can recover. Under the current regulations, gatherings of more than six people from different households are not permitted. We are in close contact with police to ensure they are prepared to respond to any public disorder and have appropriate policing plans in place. How they use these powers is an operational matter for the police, who are independent of Government. The Police have adopted an effective approach of the 4Es; engaging, explaining and encouraging compliance before moving to enforcement options. The National Police Chiefs Council and the College of Policing have issued guidance on how they will enforce the regulation. This can be found at https://www.college.police.uk/News/College-news/Pages/Health-Protection-Guidelines.aspx. Chief constables from forces across the country, the Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, the Chief Executive of the College of Policing and the President of the Police Superintendents' Association made a statement following the death of George Floyd, which is published at</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/uk-police-stand-with-those-appalled-by-george-floyd-death</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The footage of George Floyd’s death is deeply upsetting and we appreciate the strength of feeling behind the planned #BlackLivesMatter protests, but it is vital to remember that we are still in the midst of a public health crisis.We strongly support the right to protest peacefully, but this pandemic has led to many of our individual freedoms being curtailed because everyone has a role to play in helping to control the virus following the rules. This is how we can continue to save lives so we can recover.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Under the current regulations, gatherings of more than six people from different households are not permitted. We are in close contact with police to ensure they are prepared to respond to any public disorder and have appropriate policing plans in place. How they use these powers is an operational matter for the police, who are independent of Government.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Police have adopted an effective approach of the 4Es; engaging, explaining and encouraging compliance before moving to enforcement options. The National Police Chiefs Council and the College of Policing have issued guidance on how they will enforce the regulation. This can be found at <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.college.police.uk%2FWhat-we-do%2FCOVID-19%2Funderstanding-the-law%2FPages%2Fdefault.aspx&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C64ad4701c60445d25ba808d8112557d3%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637278199367742538&amp;sdata=IDKYcz7nyFPlAhGSHhncSLX86pm4qYnqvmJFi9Ljk5o%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/COVID-19/understanding-the-law/Pages/default.aspx</a></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> Chief constables from forces across the country, the Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, the Chief Executive of the College of Policing and the President of the Police Superintendents' Association made a statement following the death of George Floyd, which is published at <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.npcc.police.uk%2Freleases%2Fuk-police-stand-with-those-appalled-by-george-floyd-death&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCharlotte.Meyer%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C9cf8dbd92b8e42d9edd208d807c73185%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637267899391140130&amp;sdata=5q%2BK02t%2Fs5jgYUxc4oR%2FjQkVVOxwq1nzykmu0zWchYA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/uk-police-stand-with-those-appalled-by-george-floyd-death</a>.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 09/06/2020 08:00:46 question first ministerially corrected 15/06/2020 13:05:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 26767 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome

1199781

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Powers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the effect of (a) Regulation 7 of the Coronavirus Regulations 2020 and (b) the police use of powers under those regulations at recent protests on people's ability to exercise their right to protest under articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
	tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
	uin	53674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The footage of George Floyd’s death is deeply upsetting and we appreciate the strength of feeling behind the planned #BlackLivesMatter protests, but it is vital to remember that we are still in the midst of a public health crisis. We strongly support the right to protest peacefully, but this pandemic has led to many of our individual freedoms being curtailed because everyone has a role to play in helping to control the virus following the rules. This is how we can continue to save lives so we can recover. Under the current regulations, gatherings of more than six people from different households are not permitted. We are in close contact with police to ensure they are prepared to respond to any public disorder and have appropriate policing plans in place. How they use these powers is an operational matter for the police, who are independent of Government. The Police have adopted an effective approach of the 4Es; engaging, explaining and encouraging compliance before moving to enforcement options. The National Police Chiefs Council and the College of Policing have issued guidance on how they will enforce the regulation. This can be found at https://www.college.police.uk/News/College-news/Pages/Health-Protection-Guidelines.aspx. Chief constables from forces across the country, the Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, the Chief Executive of the College of Policing and the President of the Police Superintendents' Association made a statement following the death of George Floyd, which is published at</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/uk-police-stand-with-those-appalled-by-george-floyd-death</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> The footage of George Floyd’s death is deeply upsetting and we appreciate the strength of feeling behind the planned #BlackLivesMatter protests, but it is vital to remember that we are still in the midst of a public health crisis.We strongly support the right to protest peacefully, but this pandemic has led to many of our individual freedoms being curtailed because everyone has a role to play in helping to control the virus following the rules. This is how we can continue to save lives so we can recover.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Under the current regulations, gatherings of more than six people from different households are not permitted. We are in close contact with police to ensure they are prepared to respond to any public disorder and have appropriate policing plans in place. How they use these powers is an operational matter for the police, who are independent of Government.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Police have adopted an effective approach of the 4Es; engaging, explaining and encouraging compliance before moving to enforcement options. The National Police Chiefs Council and the College of Policing have issued guidance on how they will enforce the regulation. This can be found at <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.college.police.uk%2FWhat-we-do%2FCOVID-19%2Funderstanding-the-law%2FPages%2Fdefault.aspx&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C64ad4701c60445d25ba808d8112557d3%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637278199367742538&amp;sdata=IDKYcz7nyFPlAhGSHhncSLX86pm4qYnqvmJFi9Ljk5o%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/COVID-19/understanding-the-law/Pages/default.aspx</a></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Chief constables from forces across the country, the Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, the Chief Executive of the College of Policing and the President of the Police Superintendents' Association made a statement following the death of George Floyd, which is published at <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.npcc.police.uk%2Freleases%2Fuk-police-stand-with-those-appalled-by-george-floyd-death&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCharlotte.Meyer%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C9cf8dbd92b8e42d9edd208d807c73185%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637267899391140130&amp;sdata=5q%2BK02t%2Fs5jgYUxc4oR%2FjQkVVOxwq1nzykmu0zWchYA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/uk-police-stand-with-those-appalled-by-george-floyd-death</a>.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 09/06/2020 08:00:46 question first ministerially corrected 15/06/2020 13:05:46 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 26766 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome