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1677242

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Unmanned Air Vehicles: Video Recordings
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 prevent drones being used by members of the public to film footage of crime scenes and investigations.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Simon Lightwood
uin	6632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2023 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of the police to secure a crime scene and ensure any sensitive details are kept out of public view. There is a robust legislative framework that supports them in doing so.</p><p>Air Navigation Order 265B(3) makes it an offence to fly close to or inside areas where an emergency response effort is ongoing, unless permission has been granted by the service undertaking the response.</p><p>Under the Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021, the police have the power to ask drone operators to land their drones. If required, they may authorise the use of counter-drone equipment to force a landing. This legislation also gives the police the ability to seize the drone.</p><p>The police also have the power to create an Emergency Restriction of Flying which establishes a temporary airspace restriction. These are well-defined restrictions generally reserved for fatalities, major incidents, and serious crime searches.</p><p>The Home Office works closely with the police and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to ensure these restrictions are effective and are well understood by drone operators.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/12/2023 17:39:10 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood

1677252

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offenders: Personal Names
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times have registered sex offenders (a) attempted to change their names and (b) been prevented from changing their names by legal means in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	6410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2023 answer text <p>Registered sex offenders are required to notify name changes to the police. Failure to do so is an offence punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. In addition, the police – on application to a court – can limit an individual’s ability to change their name through a Sexual Harm Prevention or Sexual Risk Order if necessary to protect members of the public from sexual harm.</p><p>Data related to name changes for these offenders and conditions imposed via civil orders are not collated centrally.</p><p>To help ensure our system is as robust as it can be, the Home Office will bring forward measures through the Criminal Justice Bill to restrict the ability of registered sex offenders to change their name in certain circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/12/2023 11:38:03 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1677259

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Tractors: Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Transport on the timetable for approving the sale of tractors with Immobilisers.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Bill Wiggin
uin	6442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government supported the Equipment Theft (Prevention) Act 2023, which gained Royal Assent on the 20 July. The Act will require immobilisers and forensic marking to be fitted as standard to new agricultural equipment such as All-Terrain Vehicles and quad bikes, to help prevent theft of this equipment and identify the owners of stolen equipment when it is recovered.</p><p>The Act provides a power for the Secretary of State to extend the scope of the Act, via secondary legislation, to other large agricultural machinery such as tractors. The necessary secondary legislation will be brought before Parliament in due course.</p><p>This legislation will make it harder for criminals to sell on stolen machinery, which will have a deterrent effect, and will have a significant impact on thefts of ATVs by breaking the current cycle of theft between farmers, insurers and manufacturers.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 20/12/2023 14:55:41 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1677279

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes were reported on the True Vision website in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	6414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>The department does not hold data on the number of crimes reported on the True Vision website.</p><p>The reports made to True Vision are sent directly to relevant police forces, as identified by the complainant and reports deemed as hate crimes are included in the force specific hate crime data.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 20/12/2023 14:54:39 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1677292

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Deportation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people with rejected asylum applications were removed in each year since 2019.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	6385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum and returns in the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration System Statistics quarterly release</a>’. Data on initial decisions on asylum applications including refusals by date of refusal are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#asylum-and-resettlement" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement detailed datasets</a>’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook.</p><p>Data on asylum-related returns by date of removal are published in table Ret_05 of the ‘<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/immigration-system-statistics-data-tables#returns" target="_blank">Returns summary tables</a>’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on returns.</p><p>The latest data relate to the end of September 2023.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson question first answered 21/12/2023 11:45:11 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1677327

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Shoplifting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of theft from a shop of goods with a value of £200 or less being a summary-only offence on detection rates for low value shop theft.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	6530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government is clear that violent and abusive behaviour towards any public-facing worker is never acceptable. We take this issue very seriously and recognise the implications on businesses as well as the victims.</p><p>The Government took a significant step and legislated to introduce a statutory aggravating factor for assault against any public facing worker via section 156 of the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. This ensures the public facing nature of a victim’s role will be considered an aggravating factor when it comes to sentencing for assault offences.</p><p>We keep all legislation under review. Under section 176 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, the shoplifting of goods of a value of £200 or less is a summary offence unless the defendant, if an adult, elects to be tried in the Crown Court. Where a summary offence is committed, the case can be handled as a police-led prosecution. There is a misconception this is used as a threshold by police forces, so that if the value of goods stolen is under £200, police will not respond. No police force has such a policy and this summary offence for shoplifting does not prevent police taking action against shoplifters.</p><p>The Government has recently made significant steps to improve the police response to retail crime. In October, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) published the Retail Crime Action Plan. Through this Plan, all police forces in England and Wales have committed to prioritise police attendance at the scene where violence has been used towards shop staff, where an offender has been detained by store security, and where evidence needs to be secured and can only be done by police personnel. Additionally, where CCTV or other digital images are secured, police will run this through the Police National Database to further aid efforts to identify prolific offenders or potentially dangerous individuals. This builds on the commitment made by the NPCC in August 2023 that all police forces across England and Wales will follow up all crimes where there is actionable evidence and the chance of identifying an offender, including shoplifting.</p><p>Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) are a valued part of the police workforce, as a key liaison point to help resolve local issues and foster good community relations.</p><p>Decisions around recruitment and retention of PCSOs and the powers and duties they have are for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 6531 6532 6533 6534 question first answered 20/12/2023 14:58:30 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1677328

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals on a new standalone criminal offence to protect retail workers from violence and abuse.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	6531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government is clear that violent and abusive behaviour towards any public-facing worker is never acceptable. We take this issue very seriously and recognise the implications on businesses as well as the victims.</p><p>The Government took a significant step and legislated to introduce a statutory aggravating factor for assault against any public facing worker via section 156 of the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. This ensures the public facing nature of a victim’s role will be considered an aggravating factor when it comes to sentencing for assault offences.</p><p>We keep all legislation under review. Under section 176 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, the shoplifting of goods of a value of £200 or less is a summary offence unless the defendant, if an adult, elects to be tried in the Crown Court. Where a summary offence is committed, the case can be handled as a police-led prosecution. There is a misconception this is used as a threshold by police forces, so that if the value of goods stolen is under £200, police will not respond. No police force has such a policy and this summary offence for shoplifting does not prevent police taking action against shoplifters.</p><p>The Government has recently made significant steps to improve the police response to retail crime. In October, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) published the Retail Crime Action Plan. Through this Plan, all police forces in England and Wales have committed to prioritise police attendance at the scene where violence has been used towards shop staff, where an offender has been detained by store security, and where evidence needs to be secured and can only be done by police personnel. Additionally, where CCTV or other digital images are secured, police will run this through the Police National Database to further aid efforts to identify prolific offenders or potentially dangerous individuals. This builds on the commitment made by the NPCC in August 2023 that all police forces across England and Wales will follow up all crimes where there is actionable evidence and the chance of identifying an offender, including shoplifting.</p><p>Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) are a valued part of the police workforce, as a key liaison point to help resolve local issues and foster good community relations.</p><p>Decisions around recruitment and retention of PCSOs and the powers and duties they have are for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 6530 6532 6533 6534 question first answered 20/12/2023 14:58:30 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1677329

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Shoplifting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department made an assessment of the potential merits of including measures to tackle shoplifting in the Criminal Justice Bill.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	6532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government is clear that violent and abusive behaviour towards any public-facing worker is never acceptable. We take this issue very seriously and recognise the implications on businesses as well as the victims.</p><p>The Government took a significant step and legislated to introduce a statutory aggravating factor for assault against any public facing worker via section 156 of the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. This ensures the public facing nature of a victim’s role will be considered an aggravating factor when it comes to sentencing for assault offences.</p><p>We keep all legislation under review. Under section 176 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, the shoplifting of goods of a value of £200 or less is a summary offence unless the defendant, if an adult, elects to be tried in the Crown Court. Where a summary offence is committed, the case can be handled as a police-led prosecution. There is a misconception this is used as a threshold by police forces, so that if the value of goods stolen is under £200, police will not respond. No police force has such a policy and this summary offence for shoplifting does not prevent police taking action against shoplifters.</p><p>The Government has recently made significant steps to improve the police response to retail crime. In October, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) published the Retail Crime Action Plan. Through this Plan, all police forces in England and Wales have committed to prioritise police attendance at the scene where violence has been used towards shop staff, where an offender has been detained by store security, and where evidence needs to be secured and can only be done by police personnel. Additionally, where CCTV or other digital images are secured, police will run this through the Police National Database to further aid efforts to identify prolific offenders or potentially dangerous individuals. This builds on the commitment made by the NPCC in August 2023 that all police forces across England and Wales will follow up all crimes where there is actionable evidence and the chance of identifying an offender, including shoplifting.</p><p>Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) are a valued part of the police workforce, as a key liaison point to help resolve local issues and foster good community relations.</p><p>Decisions around recruitment and retention of PCSOs and the powers and duties they have are for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 6530 6531 6533 6534 question first answered 20/12/2023 14:58:30 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1677330

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Shoplifting: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of trends in the number of police community support officers on shoplifting charge rates in the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	6533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government is clear that violent and abusive behaviour towards any public-facing worker is never acceptable. We take this issue very seriously and recognise the implications on businesses as well as the victims.</p><p>The Government took a significant step and legislated to introduce a statutory aggravating factor for assault against any public facing worker via section 156 of the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. This ensures the public facing nature of a victim’s role will be considered an aggravating factor when it comes to sentencing for assault offences.</p><p>We keep all legislation under review. Under section 176 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, the shoplifting of goods of a value of £200 or less is a summary offence unless the defendant, if an adult, elects to be tried in the Crown Court. Where a summary offence is committed, the case can be handled as a police-led prosecution. There is a misconception this is used as a threshold by police forces, so that if the value of goods stolen is under £200, police will not respond. No police force has such a policy and this summary offence for shoplifting does not prevent police taking action against shoplifters.</p><p>The Government has recently made significant steps to improve the police response to retail crime. In October, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) published the Retail Crime Action Plan. Through this Plan, all police forces in England and Wales have committed to prioritise police attendance at the scene where violence has been used towards shop staff, where an offender has been detained by store security, and where evidence needs to be secured and can only be done by police personnel. Additionally, where CCTV or other digital images are secured, police will run this through the Police National Database to further aid efforts to identify prolific offenders or potentially dangerous individuals. This builds on the commitment made by the NPCC in August 2023 that all police forces across England and Wales will follow up all crimes where there is actionable evidence and the chance of identifying an offender, including shoplifting.</p><p>Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) are a valued part of the police workforce, as a key liaison point to help resolve local issues and foster good community relations.</p><p>Decisions around recruitment and retention of PCSOs and the powers and duties they have are for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 6530 6531 6532 6534 question first answered 20/12/2023 14:58:30 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1677331

registered interest
date	12/12/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police Community Support Officers: Urban Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he is taking steps to increase the presence of police community support officers in town centres.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	6534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>The Government is clear that violent and abusive behaviour towards any public-facing worker is never acceptable. We take this issue very seriously and recognise the implications on businesses as well as the victims.</p><p>The Government took a significant step and legislated to introduce a statutory aggravating factor for assault against any public facing worker via section 156 of the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. This ensures the public facing nature of a victim’s role will be considered an aggravating factor when it comes to sentencing for assault offences.</p><p>We keep all legislation under review. Under section 176 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, the shoplifting of goods of a value of £200 or less is a summary offence unless the defendant, if an adult, elects to be tried in the Crown Court. Where a summary offence is committed, the case can be handled as a police-led prosecution. There is a misconception this is used as a threshold by police forces, so that if the value of goods stolen is under £200, police will not respond. No police force has such a policy and this summary offence for shoplifting does not prevent police taking action against shoplifters.</p><p>The Government has recently made significant steps to improve the police response to retail crime. In October, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) published the Retail Crime Action Plan. Through this Plan, all police forces in England and Wales have committed to prioritise police attendance at the scene where violence has been used towards shop staff, where an offender has been detained by store security, and where evidence needs to be secured and can only be done by police personnel. Additionally, where CCTV or other digital images are secured, police will run this through the Police National Database to further aid efforts to identify prolific offenders or potentially dangerous individuals. This builds on the commitment made by the NPCC in August 2023 that all police forces across England and Wales will follow up all crimes where there is actionable evidence and the chance of identifying an offender, including shoplifting.</p><p>Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) are a valued part of the police workforce, as a key liaison point to help resolve local issues and foster good community relations.</p><p>Decisions around recruitment and retention of PCSOs and the powers and duties they have are for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 6530 6531 6532 6533 question first answered 20/12/2023 14:58:30 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan