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	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

1184612

	registered interest
	date	12/03/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Television Licences: Older People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people aged 75 or over have been prosecuted for failure to hold a TV licence in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	28641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has published the number of prosecutions, convictions and sentencing outcomes for the non-payment of television license fees up to December 2018. The number of prosecutions of individuals aged 75 or over can be found in the accompanying table.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 17/03/2020 12:30:15 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp attachment 1 file name PQ_28641table.xlsx title Table
	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

1179763

	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 LGBT+ asylum seekers have been the victim of a reported hate crime in (a) asylum accommodation and (b) immigration removal centres in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	19909
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government takes the welfare and safety of those in asylum accommodation very seriously and no form of ill-treatment or discrimination is tolerated.</p><p>We do not tolerate any kind of criminal activity in our accommodation or immigration removal centres, and any allegation of crime is immediately reported to the police for investigation. Reported incidents which are considered crimes are recorded by the police.</p><p>Information on the number of reported hate crimes is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/02/2020 15:11:02 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1179764

	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 seeking asylum in the UK on the basis of sexual orientation are in immigration detention.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	19910
	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 19908 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

1176778

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Offences against Children: Convictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions there have been for child sexual abuse committed in the (a) 1970s and (b) 1980s since the police service began the national operation coordinating claims of non-recent child sexual abuse in 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	13502
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The question seeks statistics on convictions arising from Operation Hydrant, the <strong>National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) co-ordination hub established in June 2014, to deliver the national policing response, oversight, and coordination of historic child sexual abuse cases. The hub covers investigations concerning persons of public prominence, or in relation to those offences which took place within institutional settings. Statistics produced by Operation Hydrant are not comparable with </strong>national crime statistics as some suspects could be charged with more than one offence.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings database holds information on people who have been proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for specific criminal offences in England and Wales. However, this system only captures information on the principal offence for which a person was convicted and does not specifically refer to cases that are part of Operation Hydrant.</p><p> </p><p>A further breakdown of data held on the court proceedings database shows that there have been 3,318 convictions in total for historic child abuse offences (where the abuse occurred in the period 1 January 1970 to 31 December 1989). Specifically, this includes 1409 cases in the 1970s and 1909 in the 1980s. These cases cover convictions where:</p><ul><li>there was at least one count of child sexual abuse on the indictment;</li><li>the offence fell within the Home Office sexual offences group;</li><li>we know that the victim was under the age of 16 at the time of the offence; and</li><li>the defendant pleaded guilty or was found guilty of at least one count of child sexual abuse on 1 July 2014 or later</li></ul><p> </p><p>Where a defendant has committed an offence in both the 1970s and the 1980s, these are accounted for separately. The data provided covers the period up to 30 September 2019.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 11/02/2020 17:15:16 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens