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1639572

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rape: Convictions and Prosecutions
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 reports of rape resulted in a (a) charge and (b) conviction in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	186345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes official statistics on the investigative outcomes, including charges, of rape offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, on a quarterly basis.</p><p>These can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</a></p><p>The Ministry of Justice collects and publishes information on outcomes (including convictions) by offence, which can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fcriminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2022&amp;data=05%7C01%7CChristopher.Linehan%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1e40732191f444aec7d308db5c390f7e%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638205172361328991%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=kpDqFqeKArZDS2zpuaOrjOWZFkC2UYI4uqyoHCcQv8M%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2022</a></p><p>The number of charged/summonsed, and as % of the total number of outcomes, for rape offences recorded in the period by the police in England and Wales, 2019/20 to year ending December 2022 (excluding GMP and Devon and Cornwall police), source: Home Office, Police recorded crime:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Charged</p></td><td><p>Proportion (%) of investigative outcomes which result in charged/summonsed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2,330</p></td><td><p>4.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2,904</p></td><td><p>5.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>2,911</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>YE Dec 2021</p></td><td><p>2,840</p></td><td><p>5.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>YE Dec 2022</p></td><td><p>3,446</p></td><td><p>5.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 01/06/2023 14:11:21 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1639631

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Action Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with what she intends to replace Action Fraud.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	186541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2023 answer text <p>We are replacing the Action Fraud service to create a more efficient new system that will provide better intelligence to forces. Improvements include:</p><ul><li>Increasing the number of staff in the call centre,</li><li>Expanding the reach of victim care services, including for the most vulnerable,</li><li>Sending cases to forces faster and better progress updates on cases.</li></ul><p>These improvements, which have been tested across the victim support landscape, law enforcement agencies, and other relevant bodies, will improve the support services and reporting tools for victims, provide greater intelligence and insight to policing for investigations, and allow for greater proactive work to prevent and disrupt fraudsters at scale. The new service expected to be fully operational by early 2024.</p><p>In the meantime, we continue to work closely with the City of London Police, who manage the service, and a number of improvements to the existing system have been put in place over the last year to ensure a smooth transition to the new service.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 01/06/2023 15:35:22 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1639647

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Sudan
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 decrease the waiting time to process family reunion applications for individuals from Sudan.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	186434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2023 answer text <p>We are committed to improving and speeding up processing times for family reunion applications.</p><p> </p><p>We prioritise all applications where the application has been made by an unaccompanied child, under the age of 18. We will also prioritise applications where there is an evidenced urgent or compelling reason.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 01/06/2023 15:20:26 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1639652

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
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: Kingston upon Hull East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to (a) tackle increases in antisocial behaviour in East Hull and (b) support local (i) authorities and (ii) communities in tackling it.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	186367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>On 27 March, the Government published its Anti-social Behaviour (ASB) Action Plan. The ASB Action Plan commits to tackling ASB across five key themes: stronger punishment, making communities safer, building local pride, prevention and early intervention, improving data, reporting and accountability for action.</p><p>This plan is backed by £160m of funding. This includes up to £60m to fund an increased police and other uniformed presence to clamp down on anti-social behaviour, targeting hotspots. Initially we will work with 10 police force areas, but from 2024 will support a hotspot approach across every police force area in England and Wales.</p><p>We are also providing up to £50m to support the provision of Immediate Justice, by issuing out of court disposals with conditions to swiftly repair any damage – the aim being for them to start within 48 hours of the offence. This will start in 10 initial trailblazer police force areas and be rolled out nationally in 2024.</p><p>The plan includes up to £2m to supercharge use of High Street Rental Auctions which will allow local authorities to sell off the rental rights for empty properties to willing tenants, with financial support to make sure that areas which need this the most are not priced out by prohibitive refurbishment costs to bring the properties up to standard.</p><p>We are providing up to £2.5 million to pilot High Street Accelerators in up to 10 areas which will incentivise and empower local people to work together to develop ambitious plans to tackle vacancy and reinvent their high streets so that they are fit for the future.</p><p>Humberside police force has recruited 365 additional uplift police officers against a total three-year allocation of 322 officers, as at 31 March 2023.</p><p>Humberside’s funding will be up to £231.7m in 2023/24, an increase of up to £7.9m when compared to 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/05/2023 16:51:42 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

1639673

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
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: Portsmouth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of reported incidents of anti-social behaviour in Portsmouth.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	186442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>On 27 March, the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan giving the police, local authorities and other relevant agencies the tools they need to tackle anti-social behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>This plan is backed by £160m of funding and focuses on stronger punishment, making communities safer, building local pride, and prevention and early intervention. Under the plan, one million extra hours of youth support will be made available in anti-social behaviour hotspots and we will invest more to intervene early with at risk young people via one-to-one support.</p><p> </p><p>The volume of anti-social behaviour incidents recorded by Hampshire police fell by 22% in the latest year (to March 2022). The latest available data covering year to March 2022 can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ons.gov.uk%2Fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2Fcrimeandjustice%2Fdatasets%2Fpoliceforceareadatatables&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBirol.Mehmet%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ccd7c11a86a874dc2305a08db5c408ea4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638205204562790565%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=FxLL%2Bsx%2BF8wwKl2dIyCk%2BVTiJumRVnhOPO6%2BiikJjUo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 186443 186444 186445 question first answered 25/05/2023 16:39:45 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1639674

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
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: Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help support local authorities to tackle anti-social behaviour.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	186443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>On 27 March, the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan giving the police, local authorities and other relevant agencies the tools they need to tackle anti-social behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>This plan is backed by £160m of funding and focuses on stronger punishment, making communities safer, building local pride, and prevention and early intervention. Under the plan, one million extra hours of youth support will be made available in anti-social behaviour hotspots and we will invest more to intervene early with at risk young people via one-to-one support.</p><p> </p><p>The volume of anti-social behaviour incidents recorded by Hampshire police fell by 22% in the latest year (to March 2022). The latest available data covering year to March 2022 can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ons.gov.uk%2Fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2Fcrimeandjustice%2Fdatasets%2Fpoliceforceareadatatables&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBirol.Mehmet%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ccd7c11a86a874dc2305a08db5c408ea4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638205204562790565%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=FxLL%2Bsx%2BF8wwKl2dIyCk%2BVTiJumRVnhOPO6%2BiikJjUo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 186442 186444 186445 question first answered 25/05/2023 16:39:45 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1639675

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle the root causes of anti-social behaviour.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	186444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>On 27 March, the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan giving the police, local authorities and other relevant agencies the tools they need to tackle anti-social behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>This plan is backed by £160m of funding and focuses on stronger punishment, making communities safer, building local pride, and prevention and early intervention. Under the plan, one million extra hours of youth support will be made available in anti-social behaviour hotspots and we will invest more to intervene early with at risk young people via one-to-one support.</p><p> </p><p>The volume of anti-social behaviour incidents recorded by Hampshire police fell by 22% in the latest year (to March 2022). The latest available data covering year to March 2022 can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ons.gov.uk%2Fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2Fcrimeandjustice%2Fdatasets%2Fpoliceforceareadatatables&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBirol.Mehmet%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ccd7c11a86a874dc2305a08db5c408ea4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638205204562790565%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=FxLL%2Bsx%2BF8wwKl2dIyCk%2BVTiJumRVnhOPO6%2BiikJjUo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 186442 186443 186445 question first answered 25/05/2023 16:39:45 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1639676

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
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: Young 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 she is taking to help prevent young people from engaging in anti-social behaviour.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	186445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>On 27 March, the Government launched the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan giving the police, local authorities and other relevant agencies the tools they need to tackle anti-social behaviour.</p><p> </p><p>This plan is backed by £160m of funding and focuses on stronger punishment, making communities safer, building local pride, and prevention and early intervention. Under the plan, one million extra hours of youth support will be made available in anti-social behaviour hotspots and we will invest more to intervene early with at risk young people via one-to-one support.</p><p> </p><p>The volume of anti-social behaviour incidents recorded by Hampshire police fell by 22% in the latest year (to March 2022). The latest available data covering year to March 2022 can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ons.gov.uk%2Fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2Fcrimeandjustice%2Fdatasets%2Fpoliceforceareadatatables&amp;data=05%7C01%7CBirol.Mehmet%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ccd7c11a86a874dc2305a08db5c408ea4%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638205204562790565%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=FxLL%2Bsx%2BF8wwKl2dIyCk%2BVTiJumRVnhOPO6%2BiikJjUo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 186442 186443 186444 question first answered 25/05/2023 16:39:45 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1639677

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
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, what assessment she has made of the (a) implications for her policies of and (b) the potential impact of increases in the cost of living on trends in the level of shoplifting incidents.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	186446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office works closely with retailers and trade organisations such as the British Retail Consortium (BRC), Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) and the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers<strong> (</strong>USDAW), and police partners via the National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG) to understand the crime trends retailers are experiencing. Recent discussions at the NRCSG have included the impact of the cost of living on crime such as shoplifting, and we continue to keep this under review.</p><p>The NRCSG has produced practical <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrc.org.uk%2Fnrcsg-against-shop-worker-abuse-and-violence%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSarah.Brade%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cad1c592f0edd476a5e3b08db517ac6da%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638193359976304780%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2BtPQPoWHs5tN3EeNFms0Ud0CFYl5PRzgkveadOXkucg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">resources</a> to provide guidance on partnership working and encourage engagement with Business Crime Reduction Partnerships (BCRPs) to help ensure businesses and police can work effectively together to identify the trends and types of crimes that affect businesses and to ensure incidents are dealt with appropriately.</p><p>We also work closely with the police-led National Business Crime Centre (NBCC) to help prevent crime against businesses. The NBCC has undertaken a number of Safer Action Business Days (SABA) across the country, where police, BCRPs and retailers work in partnership to carry out days of action to deliver a focussed operation with joint patrols, targeted intervention <br> of offenders and a range of crime prevention activities.</p><p>Police recorded offences in England and Wales (excluding Devon and Cornwall) for shoplifting and all theft offences for year ending December 2022 are showing a fall of 12% and 13% respectively compared with the pre-pandemic period of March 2020.</p><p>Volumes data for shoplifting from police recorded crime (PRC) data should be interpreted with caution due to under reporting of shoplifting. Therefore, the volumes presented here are likely to underestimate the true level of shoplifting.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 26/05/2023 12:44:47 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1639678

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
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, what steps she is taking to protect shopworkers from violence and abuse by customers in their place of work.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	186447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/05/2023 answer text <p>The Government is clear that violence and abuse towards any worker is not acceptable.</p><p>Last year we introduced a statutory aggravating factor for assault against any public facing workers via section 156 of the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. This applies in cases of assault where an offence is committed against those performing a public duty or providing a service to the public. This legislative change ensures the courts treat the public-facing nature of a victim’s role as an aggravating factor when considering the sentence for an offence.</p><p>The Home Office continues to work closely with retailers, trade associations and the police through the National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG) to encourage retailers to work with police so that crimes are effectively dealt with at a local level. The NRCSG has produced practical resources to assist retailers to report crimes when they occur. These are available <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbrc.org.uk%2Fnrcsg-against-shop-worker-abuse-and-violence%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7CFozia.Forsyth%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cb0d70680ff164a6dc7f208d8fdaaa4af%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637538256631674020%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=Z7pgnOlOg5yAENDleaodFwmq%2FfhUUHaCz%2FumWo6pMSo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>The Home Office-funded #ShopKind campaign is also key to getting the message across that violence and abuse towards retail workers across the country will not be tolerated. The campaign asks the public to consider their behaviour and shop with kindness.</p><p>Police recorded offences in England and Wales (excluding Devon and Cornwall) for shoplifting and all theft offences for year ending December 2022 are showing a fall of 12% and 13% respectively compared with the pre-pandemic period of March 2020.</p><p>Volumes data for shoplifting from police recorded crime (PRC) data should be interpreted with caution due to under reporting of shoplifting. Therefore, the volumes presented here are likely to underestimate the true level of shoplifting.</p><p>Across England and Wales we now have the highest number of police officers on record with over 149,500 officers.</p><p>As a result of the unprecedented police recruitment drive we have recruited over 20,000 additional officers. That means that there are now over 3,500 more officers in England and Wales than the previous peak in 2010.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 26/05/2023 12:40:42 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan