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1011242

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sir Edward Heath
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the cost of Operation Conifer was funded by (1) Wiltshire and Swindon police force, and (2) the Government under special funding arrangements.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
uin	HL11603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office only holds information in relation to the additional costs of Operation Conifer. We do not have details of opportunity costs incurred (i.e. the costs of officers whilst on their regular duties). Opportunity costs are met by the force through general funding.</p><p>In relation to the additional costs:</p><p>• The Home Office provided £1.1 million in Special Grant funding.</p><p>• Wiltshire Police made a contribution of £0.2 million (equivalent to 15 per cent of the additional costs total).</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 04/12/2018 15:27:44 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

1011243

registered interest
date	20/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sir Edward Heath
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost of the proposal by the Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire and Swindon in his most recent annual report for a public inquiry into Operation Conifer.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell-Savours
uin	HL11604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government has given careful consideration to this issue and has concluded that there are no grounds to justify a public inquiry into Operation Conifer.</p><p>Cost was not a factor in that decision and insufficient assessment of the cost of such an inquiry has been carried out.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 04/12/2018 15:28:01 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	499 label Biography information for Lord Campbell-Savours

1014997

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Criminal Investigation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of reported domestic abuse cases in which the police responded with a scheduled appointment rather than an urgent response in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	195584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested centrally.</p><p>On the 22 November, the Office for National Statistics published Domestic abuse in England and Wales: year ending March 2018. This bulletin collates information from across Government as well domestic abuse service providers to provide information on how domestic abuse is dealt with at the local level within England and Wales.</p><p>The publication can be found here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/domesticabuseinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2018" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/domesticabuseinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2018</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/12/2018 15:49:07 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1015122

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
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: Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effect of the recent reduction in the discount rate for public service pension schemes on the financial stability of fire services.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Hugh Gaffney
uin	195652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government proposed a change to the discount rate in September. This change was confirmed at the Budget in October. Provisional valuation results suggest employers will need to pay more into schemes from 2019/20.</p><p>At the Budget, the Treasury allocated extra funding to the reserve for 2019/20 to cover the unexpected additional costs arising from this change to the discount rate, including for fire. Provisional results indicate fire will pay an additional £10 million next year.</p><p>Fire services have the resources to do their work. At March 2018 the standalone FRAs held £545 million in reserves, equivalent to 42 percent of the core spending power.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/12/2018 16:03:34 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4614 label Biography information for Hugh Gaffney

1015142

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Phil Gormley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the vetting and recruitment process for the appointment of Phil Gormley as the new HM Inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services included the investigation of any (a) previous involvement in the (i) official and (ii) unofficial approval of relationships between undercover police officer Mark Kennedy and the subjects of police surveillance and (b)(i) public and (ii) unpublished statements by Mr Gormley about his knowledge of those relationships; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	195561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>HM Inspector (HMI) positions are Crown appointments.</p><p>The recruitment process for all HMI roles is conducted in line with the Cabinet Office Governance Code on Public Appointments. HMIs are appointed by HM The Queen, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary to the Prime Minister</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/12/2018 16:05:36 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1015156

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: 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, how many police officers faced gross misconduct hearings by their force after they were acquitted of (a) grievous bodily harm or (b) actual bodily harm at a trial; and what proportion of those officers received sanctions of (i) dismissal without notice; (ii) dismissal with notice; (iii) final written warning; (iv) written warning and (v) management advice in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	195660
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested centrally.</p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes information on the outcomes of mis-conduct meetings, misconduct hearings and criminal investigations in the police service, following a public complaint or internal conduct allegation. These data were first collected for the 2015/16 financial period. The Home Office does not collect any information on the incident or reasons that led to a misconduct matter arising.</p><p>Data on the outcomes of misconduct meetings, hearings, and criminal investigations in 2016/17 can be found in the misconduct section of the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2017</a></p><p>Table 5 and 6 of the accompanying Data Tables provide information on outcomes of misconduct hearings and special case hearings, which can be accessed here:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/675791/police-workforce-misconduct-tables-jan17.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/675791/police-workforce-misconduct-tables-jan17.ods</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/12/2018 15:53:06 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1015163

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Interpreters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many translators his Department (a) employed directly and (b) procured to work under contract in the last 12 months for which information is available; and what languages those translators spoke.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	195662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>Part (a)<br>No translators (i.e. people who work with written words) are employed directly.</p><p><br>Part (b)<br>297 translators were provided in the last 12 months for the following languages:</p><p><br>Albanian<br>Amharic <br>Arabic<br>Arabic (Egypt) <br>Arabic (Syria) <br>Bengali<br>Bengali (Bangladesh) <br>Bengali (India) <br>Bulgarian<br>Chinese (Hong Kong)<br>Chinese (PRC) <br>Chinese (Simplified)<br>Croatian <br>Czech <br>Dari - Farsi (Afghan) <br>Dutch<br>English<br>Estonian<br>Farsi (Persian) <br>Flemish<br>French<br>French Belgian<br>Georgian<br>German<br>German (Austria) <br>Greek<br>Gujarati <br>Hindi<br>Hungarian<br>Indonesian <br>Italian<br>Japanese <br>Korean <br>Kurdish<br>Latvian<br>Lithuanian<br>Macedonian<br>Pashto<br>Persian<br>Polish<br>Portuguese<br>Punjabi<br>Punjabi (Gurmukhi) <br>Romanian<br>Russian<br>Sinhalese<br>Slovak<br>Slovene<br>Somali<br>Spanish<br>Spanish Latin America<br>Swahili <br>Swedish (Sweden)<br>Tagalog <br>Tamil<br>Thai <br>Tigrinya<br>Turkish<br>Ukrainian<br>Urdu<br>Vietnamese<br>Welsh</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 04/12/2018 16:17:01 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1015179

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Lutfur Rahman
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many meetings his predecessors had with the Metropolitan police on (a) investigating and (b) prosecuting Lutfur Rahman for (i) voter fraud and (ii) other criminal offences relating to his former role as elected executive mayor of the London borough of Tower Hamlets after he was named in an election petition in June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	195510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p><br>There have been no Ministerial meetings with the Metropolitan Police Service concerning this case.</p><p>Decisions to investigate and / or subsequently prosecute an individual are operational decisions for the respective police force and Crown Prosecution Service to make. It would therefore not be appropriate for Ministers to comment on such matters.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/12/2018 15:45:01 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1015182

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Generation: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children of Windrush generation immigrants have an immigration case review (a) pending and (b) that has been completed.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	195513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>At the HASC evidence session on Tuesday 15 May, the Home Secretary committed to providing the HASC with regular updates on the work of the department in relation to Windrush. The most recent update was published on 12 November 2018.</p><p>The number of ‘live’ applications is subject to change on a frequent basis as applications are received and concluded daily. Data would only be accurate at the time it was generated, with any Answer potentially being inaccurate at the time of release. Providing a running commentary on the breakdown of cases would not be cost and resource effective.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/12/2018 16:08:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1015183

registered interest
date	26/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Generation: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children of Windrush generation immigrants have been deported; and of those how many have died since their deportation.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	195514
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The department does not hold this information.</p><p><br>On 16 April, the Home Office established a Taskforce to ensure that mem-bers of the Windrush generation were able to evidence their right to be in the UK. Subsequently, on 24 May the Home Secretary laid a Written Ministerial Statement setting out the Windrush Scheme, which ensures that members of this generation, their children born in the UK and those who arrived in the UK as minors will be able to apply to the Taskforce for citizenship, or various other immigration products, free of charge.</p><p>The scheme came into force on 30 May.The Department has provided an update on its response to the problems affecting members of the Windrush generation to the Home Affairs Select Committee on a monthly basis.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/12/2018 16:13:34 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead