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1696772

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fire Prevention: Departmental Coordination
	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 coordinate activity across Government in order to improve the UK’s preparedness for extreme wildfire events.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	19041
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office are the lead Government Department for Wildfire Response and own the National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA) wildfire risk.</p><p> </p><p>This <a href="https://fireengland.uk/publications/reports/wildfire-framework-england" target="_blank">Wildfire Framework</a> outlines the work being undertaken to improve the UK’s preparedness for wildfires in England. The Home Office works closely with other departments and key stakeholders including Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities to mitigate the risk of wildfire.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office have committed to scoping a wildfire strategy and action plan by mid 2024, with support from Defra and its agencies. This commitment is outlined in the third National Adaptation Plan.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office maintains regular engagement with National Bodies including the National Fire Chiefs Council and England and Wales Wildfire Forum to monitor and review sector led improvements to wildfire response and mitigation.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/03/2024 16:31:07 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1641269

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Public Order Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Fifth Special Report of Session 2021-22 of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Legislative Scrutiny: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, Part 3 (Public Order): Government Response to the Committee’s Second Report, published on 21 October 2021, HC 734, with reference to the Government’s response to para 93 of the JCHR Legislative Scrutiny: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, Part 3 (Public Order), published on 22 June 2021, whether the decision to collate and publish national data on use of Section 12 and 14 powers is the responsibility of her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	187154
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>As part of the 2023-24 Annual Data Requirement (ADR), the Home Office introduced a new mandatory requirement for police forces in England and Wales to record data on the use of section 12, 14 and 14ZA under the Public Order Act 1986 (1986 Act). The ADR also included a request for retrospective data on the use of these powers for the period of 28 June 2022 to 31 March 2023.</p><p>As part of this data collection, information is being requested on: the date and time of the protest; the conditions imposed; the triggers; the theme of the protests/assembly; demographic information such as age, sex and ethnicity; the level of authorisation and the number of resultant arrests.</p><p>Data will be collected from police forces in due course and the intention is to publish this data in the Summer of 2024. As is usual for all data collections, Home Office analysts will assess the quality of the data collected before making a decision on which information will be included for publication on GOV.UK.</p><p>The section 12, 14, and 14ZA ADR was developed in collaboration with National Police Coordination Centre, who are overseen by the National Police Chiefs’ Council.</p><p>In addition, the Home Office will prepare and publish a report on the operation of sections 12, 14, and 14ZA of the 1986 Act as amended by sections 73, 74, and 79 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. This will be published and laid before Parliament by 28 June 2024.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 187150 187151 187152 187153 question first answered 12/06/2023 15:27:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1641268

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Public Order Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Second Report of Session 2021-22 of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Legislative Scrutiny: Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, Part 3 (Public Order), published on 22 June 2021, HC 331, what recent discussions she has had with the National Police Chiefs' Council on the recommendation in paragraph 93 of that Report; what support her Department has provided to the Council to help fulfil that recommendation; when she expects the recommendation to be met; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	187153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>As part of the 2023-24 Annual Data Requirement (ADR), the Home Office introduced a new mandatory requirement for police forces in England and Wales to record data on the use of section 12, 14 and 14ZA under the Public Order Act 1986 (1986 Act). The ADR also included a request for retrospective data on the use of these powers for the period of 28 June 2022 to 31 March 2023.</p><p>As part of this data collection, information is being requested on: the date and time of the protest; the conditions imposed; the triggers; the theme of the protests/assembly; demographic information such as age, sex and ethnicity; the level of authorisation and the number of resultant arrests.</p><p>Data will be collected from police forces in due course and the intention is to publish this data in the Summer of 2024. As is usual for all data collections, Home Office analysts will assess the quality of the data collected before making a decision on which information will be included for publication on GOV.UK.</p><p>The section 12, 14, and 14ZA ADR was developed in collaboration with National Police Coordination Centre, who are overseen by the National Police Chiefs’ Council.</p><p>In addition, the Home Office will prepare and publish a report on the operation of sections 12, 14, and 14ZA of the 1986 Act as amended by sections 73, 74, and 79 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. This will be published and laid before Parliament by 28 June 2024.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 187150 187151 187152 187154 question first answered 12/06/2023 15:27:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1641267

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Public Order Act 1986
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria she plans to use to determine whether the Home Office will (a) collate and (b) publish in a searchable publicly accessible database data from all operationally independent forces on section 12 and section 14 Public Order Act conditions; what the time frame for making this determination will be; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	187152
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>As part of the 2023-24 Annual Data Requirement (ADR), the Home Office introduced a new mandatory requirement for police forces in England and Wales to record data on the use of section 12, 14 and 14ZA under the Public Order Act 1986 (1986 Act). The ADR also included a request for retrospective data on the use of these powers for the period of 28 June 2022 to 31 March 2023.</p><p>As part of this data collection, information is being requested on: the date and time of the protest; the conditions imposed; the triggers; the theme of the protests/assembly; demographic information such as age, sex and ethnicity; the level of authorisation and the number of resultant arrests.</p><p>Data will be collected from police forces in due course and the intention is to publish this data in the Summer of 2024. As is usual for all data collections, Home Office analysts will assess the quality of the data collected before making a decision on which information will be included for publication on GOV.UK.</p><p>The section 12, 14, and 14ZA ADR was developed in collaboration with National Police Coordination Centre, who are overseen by the National Police Chiefs’ Council.</p><p>In addition, the Home Office will prepare and publish a report on the operation of sections 12, 14, and 14ZA of the 1986 Act as amended by sections 73, 74, and 79 of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. This will be published and laid before Parliament by 28 June 2024.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 187150 187151 187153 187154 question first answered 12/06/2023 15:27:12 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1551181

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will fully fund the (a) replacement and (b) operation of fire service end-of-life national resilience assets; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	109514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The maintenance and replacement of end-of-life fire National Resilience assets is fully funded for the 2021 to 2025 Spending Review period.</p><p>However, the specialist vehicles and equipment which support the National Resilience capabilities were purchased around 2005 and will need to be replaced from 2025. We will seek funding for this for the next Spending Review period.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 19/12/2022 17:32:42 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1551180

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to fund the cost of (a) a fire service pensions remedy and (b) the second options exercise for part-time workers in fire services; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	109513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The proposed remedies in both instances will ensure that affected firefighters and former firefighters will be placed in the correct position in respect of their pension entitlement and receive their full pension benefits.</p><p>Decisions on central government funding relating to these remedies will be subject to future discussions between The Treasury, the Home Office and Local Government.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 19/12/2022 17:31:19 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1551179

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Grants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to (a) add to the Local Government Finance Settlement the one-off grants that fire authorities receive for pensions and post Grenfell funding in protection services, (b) reinstate the Firelink grant when it comes to an end from the Home Office while Fire Services continue to incur the costs the grant is designed to cover and (c) increase the new burdens grant for the costs of the Redmond review of audit procedures in line with the increase in the costs of external audit; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	109512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office keeps the payment of grants to Fire and Rescue Services under regular review and seeks to include them into the Local Government Settlement wherever possible. The Department will continue to seek to rationalise funding for Fire and Rescue where possible, including consolidating smaller grants which can create administration burdens.</p><p>The costs of the Fire and Rescue communication systems, along with all of their other costs of delivering their service has been factored into the Local Government Settlement which will be published by the Department for Levelling-up, Housing and Communities later this month.</p><p>The Government is clear that local authorities will need to meet audit costs within existing budgets. However, we remain committed to supporting local authorities with the costs of strengthening their financial reporting and will be providing additional funding of £45m over the next three years.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 19/12/2022 16:37:41 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1551182

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Carbon Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide additional funding to fire and rescue services to help enable them to achieve net zero by 2050; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	109515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>Fire and Rescue Authorities are responsible for considering the impact of and planning against risks to their Fire and Rescue Service and local communities including environmental risks.</p><p>Funding for all Fire and Rescue responsibilities is delivered via the Local Government Settlement. Fire and Rescue Authorities will receive around £2.5bn in 2022/23 to enable the delivery of their services to communities.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 19/12/2022 16:30:00 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1278197

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether stakeholder views have been included in her Department’s review of its policy on asylum-seekers’ right to work; and when she plans to publish that review.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	140023
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2021 answer text <p>Asylum seeker right to work is a complex issue. A review of the policy is ongoing, and we are considering the evidence put forward on the issue. The findings of the review will be announced once the work has been completed</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 140025 question first answered 25/01/2021 14:26:13 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1272230

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Sleeping Rough
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will reverse the current plans for rough sleeping to become grounds for refusal or cancellation of permission to be in the UK; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	131225
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2021 answer text <p>The Secretary of State has no plans to reverse the Immigration Rule which makes provision for the discretionary refusal or cancellation of permission to stay in the UK on the grounds of rough sleeping. It will be used sparingly and only as a last resort where a person sleeping rough refuses offers of support and engages in persistent anti-social behaviour.</p><p>A person is expected to leave the UK if their leave is cancelled or refused. If they do not choose to leave voluntarily the Home Office may enforce their removal. They will not be subject to deportation action which is reserved for foreign national offenders with serious and persistent criminality as well as for reasons of national security.</p><p>The new rule is not intended to criminalise rough sleeping or penalise those who inadvertently find themselves without a roof over their head for a short period of time.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 12/01/2021 17:05:13 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas