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1690449

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Arson: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help tackle arson in (a) Cardiff Central constituency, (b) Cardiff local authority area and (c) Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	14893
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling and preventing arson. We know the serious impact that arson can have on both individuals and the wider community.</p><p>We are committed to ensuring fire services have the resources they need to do their vital work and to keep the public safe from fires, including those caused by arson. Funding of the Fire Service in Wales is a devolved matter.</p><p>Decisions on how their resources are best deployed to meet their core functions are a matter for each fire and rescue authority.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 23/02/2024 09:50:10 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1690451

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Anti-social Behaviour: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help tackle anti-social behaviour in (a) Cardiff Central constituency, (b) Cardiff local authority area and (c) Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	14894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>Last year the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-action-plan%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/anti-social-behaviour-action-plan </a>ensuring the police, local authorities and other relevant agencies have the tools they need to tackle anti-social behaviour.</p><p>The plan is backed by £160m of funding. This includes funding an increased police and other uniformed presence to clamp down on anti-social behaviour, targeting hotspots. In 2023/24 this covered ten police force areas, including South Wales. That initiative is being rolled out across England and Wales with total funding of £66m will be allocated to support a hotspot approach.</p><p>We are also strengthening police and local authority powers to tackle anti-social behaviour through a number of measures in the Criminal Justice Bill.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 23/02/2024 09:48:34 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1690014

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help tackle knife crime in (a) Cardiff Central constituency, (b) Cardiff local authority area and (c) Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	14611
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>Since 2019, the Home Office has provided over £5 million of funding for a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) in South Wales (known as the Wales Violence Prevention Unit) (including c£1m in 2023/24) which is providing a multi-agency, preventative response designed to tackle the drivers of serious violence and knife crime in South Wales. In addition, we have invested c.£3.5m (including c.£535k in 2023/24) in ‘hotspot policing’ to boost the policing response to serious violence in South Wales and provide high-visibility police patrols and problem-solving tactics in the streets and neighbourhoods most affected.</p><p>The VPU is tasked with investing in evidence-based approaches designed to steer vulnerable young people away from involvement in violence. As part of this approach, the VPU is funding local interventions in Cardiff including A&amp;E Navigators, delivering advice, support and guidance to patients of any age who have experienced violence with injury, with the aim of engaging with those injured whilst they are in hospital to help break the cycle of violence at the point of crisis. Alongside this, the policing hot spot response programme is targeting key locations in Cardiff and Swansea with a dedicated proactive team conducting additional visible patrols and undertaking activity to target individuals within hotspots as well as providing additional support to teams working to police the night-time economy.</p><p>Additionally, just under £1m has been awarded in 2023/24 to support delivery of the Serious Violence Duty across Wales.</p><p>The government is also taking forward a programme to strengthen the controls and legislation on knives. A Statutory Instrument was laid in Parliament on 25 January 2024 to ban zombie style knives and machetes. Subject to the relevant legislation being approved by Parliament, a surrender and compensation scheme will be launched in August to remove zombie style knives and machetes from circulation and ownership, and once the scheme ends on 23 September, the manufacture, supply, sale and possession of zombie-style knives and machetes will be outlawed from 24 September 2024.</p><p>Additionally, through the Criminal Justice Bill , which is currently progressing through Parliament, we are providing more powers for police to seize knives held in private that they believe will be used for unlawful violence, increasing the maximum penalty for the offences of selling prohibited weapons and selling knives to under 18s, and creating a new offence of possessing an article with blade or point or an offensive weapon with intent to commit unlawful violence.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 14616 question first answered 22/02/2024 15:43:26 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1690020

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Burglary: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help tackle burglaries in (a) Cardiff Central constituency, (b) Cardiff local authority area and (c) Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	14615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>The Crime Survey for England and Wales data shows a 56% fall in domestic burglaries when comparing the year ending September 2023 with year ending March 2010. This is clearly good news; however, we recognise the impact domestic burglary can have on individuals and communities and we are committed to tackling and preventing this crime.</p><p>The public rightly expects that the police will visit them when a home burglary has been committed, which is why we welcome the announcement made by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) on 8 June that all 43 police forces in England and Wales have been implementing this attendance policy since March 2023. We are working with police leaders to ensure forces are making their attendance data available to the public. <a href="https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/police-now-attending-scene-of-every-home-burglary" target="_blank">https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/police-now-attending-scene-of-every-home-burglary</a>.</p><p>The police commitment to attend home burglaries is supported by specific College of Policing good practice guidance on conducting residential burglary investigations: <a href="https://www.college.police.uk/guidance/residential-burglary" target="_blank">https://www.college.police.uk/guidance/residential-burglary</a>.</p><p>Police forces across England and Wales have also committed to pursue all lines of enquiry where there is a reasonable chance it could lead to catching a perpetrator and solving a crime. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pursuing-all-reasonable-lines-of-enquiry-letter-to-police-leaders/pursuing-all-reasonable-lines-of-enquiry-letter-to-police-leaders" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pursuing-all-reasonable-lines-of-enquiry-letter-to-police-leaders/pursuing-all-reasonable-lines-of-enquiry-letter-to-police-leaders</a></p><p>To help ensure the police have the resources they need to fight crime and tackle anti-social behaviour, we have delivered on our commitment to recruit 20,000 additional police officers by the end of March 2023. There are now over 149,000 officers in England and Wales, higher than the previous peak in March 2010, and as of 30 September, South Wales had 3,535 police officers, a total growth of 540 additional officers since the start of the Police Uplift Programme.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/02/2024 16:13:26 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1690021

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Wales
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help reduce violent assaults in (a) Cardiff Central constituency, (b) Cardiff local authority area and (c) Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	14616
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>Since 2019, the Home Office has provided over £5 million of funding for a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) in South Wales (known as the Wales Violence Prevention Unit) (including c£1m in 2023/24) which is providing a multi-agency, preventative response designed to tackle the drivers of serious violence and knife crime in South Wales. In addition, we have invested c.£3.5m (including c.£535k in 2023/24) in ‘hotspot policing’ to boost the policing response to serious violence in South Wales and provide high-visibility police patrols and problem-solving tactics in the streets and neighbourhoods most affected.</p><p>The VPU is tasked with investing in evidence-based approaches designed to steer vulnerable young people away from involvement in violence. As part of this approach, the VPU is funding local interventions in Cardiff including A&amp;E Navigators, delivering advice, support and guidance to patients of any age who have experienced violence with injury, with the aim of engaging with those injured whilst they are in hospital to help break the cycle of violence at the point of crisis. Alongside this, the policing hot spot response programme is targeting key locations in Cardiff and Swansea with a dedicated proactive team conducting additional visible patrols and undertaking activity to target individuals within hotspots as well as providing additional support to teams working to police the night-time economy.</p><p>Additionally, just under £1m has been awarded in 2023/24 to support delivery of the Serious Violence Duty across Wales.</p><p>The government is also taking forward a programme to strengthen the controls and legislation on knives. A Statutory Instrument was laid in Parliament on 25 January 2024 to ban zombie style knives and machetes. Subject to the relevant legislation being approved by Parliament, a surrender and compensation scheme will be launched in August to remove zombie style knives and machetes from circulation and ownership, and once the scheme ends on 23 September, the manufacture, supply, sale and possession of zombie-style knives and machetes will be outlawed from 24 September 2024.</p><p>Additionally, through the Criminal Justice Bill , which is currently progressing through Parliament, we are providing more powers for police to seize knives held in private that they believe will be used for unlawful violence, increasing the maximum penalty for the offences of selling prohibited weapons and selling knives to under 18s, and creating a new offence of possessing an article with blade or point or an offensive weapon with intent to commit unlawful violence.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 14611 question first answered 22/02/2024 15:43:26 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1179758

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people claimed asylum in the UK on the basis of sexual orientation in 2018; and what proportion of those applications were refused.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	19904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum applications in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of asylum applications on the basis of sexual orientation and the initial decisions on such applications are published in the LGBT asylum data table under SOC_00 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets.</p><p>Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to 2018, with the next planned update scheduled for August 2020.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.</p><p>Links:</p><p>Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release</p><p>LGBT asylum data table:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/848102/asylum-sexual-orientation-dec-2018-tables.ods</p><p>Asylum and Resettlement Detailed Datasets</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets</p><p>Research and statistics calendar:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/02/2020 14:54:47 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1179759

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many hours of LGBT+ sensitive training were delivered to officers who interview people claiming asylum on the grounds of sexual orientation in 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	19905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office does not record the number of hours of LGBT+ sensitive training delivered to officers who interview individuals who claim asylum on the grounds of sexual orientation. LGBT+ training is a central theme throughout the Foundation Training Programme (FTP) that all asylum Decision Makers receive.</p><p>We are committed to an asylum system which is supportive and responsive to those claiming asylum on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/02/2020 15:00:19 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1179760

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
	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 has taken to minimise the risk of victimisation to LGBT+ asylum seekers living in temporary accommodation.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	19906
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>We take the welfare of all our service users in asylum accommodation very seriously.</p><p>The new accommodation contracts contain several uplifts in order to safeguard the vulnerable, including LGBT+, service users. This includes specific training for all frontline provider staff and improved data sharing protocols which include the characteristics and needs of Service users at risk of with specific needs.</p><p>Further, we liaise with Micro Rainbow, a charity who organises safe housing and support for LGBT+ asylum seekers and refugees.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/02/2020 15:04:29 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1179761

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: LGBT+ People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the risks to LGBT+ detainees in immigration removal centres.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	19907
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The UK has a proud record of providing protection for asylum seekers fleeing persecution because of their sexual orientation. Each case is considered on its individual merits, with all available evidence carefully and sensitively considered in light of published country information.</p><p>Decisions on claims based on sexual orientation are reviewed by a second experienced caseworker as an additional safeguard.</p><p>Migrants, including asylum claimants, may be detained for immigration purposes only in accordance with Home Office detention policy, as set out in Detention general guidance and adults at risk in immigration detention. The detention decision must always be made on the basis of the individual’s particular circumstances and eligibility for detention.</p><p>All immigration removal centres take a strategic approach to equality and diversity, with identification, monitoring and support for all detainees with protected characteristics. Every detainee receives an individual risk assessment at the point of initial detention which is repeated when the detainee enters the immigration removal centre. The risk assessment is kept under review.</p><p>Guidance is available for Home Office and supplier staff on providing consistent standards of treatment for LGB detainees. This is provided in Detention Services Order 2/2016 ‘Lesbian, gay and bisexual detainees in the detention estate’ which is available on the gov.uk website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/lesbian-gay-and-bisexual-detainees" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/lesbian-gay-and-bisexual-detainees</a></p><p>Where transsexual individuals are detained, Detention Services Order 11/2012 on the ‘Care and Management of Transsexual Detainees’ sets out how individuals with these particular protected characteristics should be safeguarded and treated in detention. This can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/caring-for-and-managing-transsexual-detainees" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/caring-for-and-managing-transsexual-detainees</a></p><p>The UK only ever returns those who both the Home Office and the Courts are satisfied do not need our protection and have no legal basis to remain in the UK.</p><p>We do not currently hold the data in the format you have requested, however published data is available on the number of individuals held in immigration detention and those that are returned, including the sexuality of the number of applicants and decisions made. Details of the number of Asylum claims made is also published, the data can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019/list-of-tables#detention-and-returns" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019/list-of-tables#detention-and-returns</a></p><p>Under section 8 (detentions and returns) and section 10 (Asylum on the basis of sexual orientation):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 19908 19910 question first answered 27/02/2020 15:28:00 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1179762

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Deportation: LGBT+ People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many failed LGBT+ asylum seekers were deported from the UK in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	19908
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The UK has a proud record of providing protection for asylum seekers fleeing persecution because of their sexual orientation. Each case is considered on its individual merits, with all available evidence carefully and sensitively considered in light of published country information.</p><p>Decisions on claims based on sexual orientation are reviewed by a second experienced caseworker as an additional safeguard.</p><p>Migrants, including asylum claimants, may be detained for immigration purposes only in accordance with Home Office detention policy, as set out in Detention general guidance and adults at risk in immigration detention. The detention decision must always be made on the basis of the individual’s particular circumstances and eligibility for detention.</p><p>All immigration removal centres take a strategic approach to equality and diversity, with identification, monitoring and support for all detainees with protected characteristics. Every detainee receives an individual risk assessment at the point of initial detention which is repeated when the detainee enters the immigration removal centre. The risk assessment is kept under review.</p><p>Guidance is available for Home Office and supplier staff on providing consistent standards of treatment for LGB detainees. This is provided in Detention Services Order 2/2016 ‘Lesbian, gay and bisexual detainees in the detention estate’ which is available on the gov.uk website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/lesbian-gay-and-bisexual-detainees" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/lesbian-gay-and-bisexual-detainees</a></p><p>Where transsexual individuals are detained, Detention Services Order 11/2012 on the ‘Care and Management of Transsexual Detainees’ sets out how individuals with these particular protected characteristics should be safeguarded and treated in detention. This can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/caring-for-and-managing-transsexual-detainees" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/caring-for-and-managing-transsexual-detainees</a></p><p>The UK only ever returns those who both the Home Office and the Courts are satisfied do not need our protection and have no legal basis to remain in the UK.</p><p>We do not currently hold the data in the format you have requested, however published data is available on the number of individuals held in immigration detention and those that are returned, including the sexuality of the number of applicants and decisions made. Details of the number of Asylum claims made is also published, the data can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019/list-of-tables#detention-and-returns" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2019/list-of-tables#detention-and-returns</a></p><p>Under section 8 (detentions and returns) and section 10 (Asylum on the basis of sexual orientation):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 19907 19910 question first answered 27/02/2020 15:28:00 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens