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1186391

registered interest
date	19/03/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Recruitment
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 is taking to increase the number of police officers.
tabling member constituency	Derbyshire Dales
tabling member printed	Miss Sarah Dines
uin	901698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2020 answer text This Government recognises the challenges of policing in the modern age, which is why we are increasing the number of police officers across all forces.<p>The police funding settlement for 2020/21 sets out the biggest increase in funding for the policing system since 2010.</p><p>This Government is also delivering on the people’s priorities by recruiting 20,000 additional police officers over the next three years and we are giving police forces £700 million for the recruitment of 6,000 additional officers by the end of March 2021</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/03/2020 17:39:18 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines

1330254

registered interest
date	07/06/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Ethnic Groups
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 instances of hate crime towards people of Indian heritage in the UK in the last (a) 3 and (b) 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	11690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2021 answer text The Home Office collects and publishes statistics annually on the number of hate crime offences recorded by the police in England and Wales by five centrally monitored strands: race, religion, sexual orientation, disability and transgender. Information has not previously been collected on the race or ethnicity of victims but will be during 2021/22 and published in due course. answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/06/2021 13:59:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 5523 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1220562

registered interest
date	03/07/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: 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 estimate her Department has made of the number of instances of (a) hate crime, (b) serious violence and (c) malicious communications directed at BAME LGBTQ+ youth in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	68756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2020 answer text The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of hate crime offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, including a breakdown of those motivated by hatred of the racial, sexual orientation or transgender background of victims. The latest ‘Hate Crime, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin is available here:<p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2018-to-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>However, from the information we hold it is not possible to identify the number of instances of hate crime, serious violence or malicious communications directed specifically at BAME LGBTQ+ youth or trans youth.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 68757 question first answered 13/07/2020 16:17:26 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1220563

registered interest
date	03/07/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Transgender People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of instances of (a) hate crime, (b) serious violence and (c) malicious communications directed at trans youth in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	68757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2020 answer text The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of hate crime offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, including a breakdown of those motivated by hatred of the racial, sexual orientation or transgender background of victims. The latest ‘Hate Crime, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin is available here:<p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2018-to-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2018-to-2019</a></p><p> </p><p>However, from the information we hold it is not possible to identify the number of instances of hate crime, serious violence or malicious communications directed specifically at BAME LGBTQ+ youth or trans youth.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 68756 question first answered 13/07/2020 16:17:26 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1260342

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Travellers: Caravan Sites
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 the Friends, Families and Travellers 2020 report, Police renew calls for more Gypsy and Traveller sites in opposition to the criminalisation of unauthorised encampments, published 9 September 2020, that concluded (a) 21.7 per cent of police respondents agreed with the Home Office proposals to criminalise unauthorised encampments and (b) 93.7 per cent of police bodies called for site provision as the solution to unauthorised encampments.
tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
uin	128181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2020 answer text <ul><li>The Home Office has conducted a public consultation on strengthening the powers available to the police to deal with unauthorised encampments. The Government will consider all views and representations made when reaching our decision on the next steps.</li></ul> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 16/12/2020 16:11:06 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

1344812

registered interest
date	07/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Nitrous Oxide: Misuse
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 help tackle nitrous oxide use among young people.
tabling member constituency	North West Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
uin	29151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2021 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Government has published guidance on gov.uk for retailers to satisfy themselves that they comply with the law. The guidance recommends that retailers, including those operating online, should pay particular attention to the potential for abuse of nitrous oxide, especially where customers seek to buy in bulk or large volumes, and suggests that retailers may wish to carry out age checks to prevent those at highest risk from gaining access to psychoactive substances. The online resource, Talk to FRANK, provides information to the public about nitrous oxide and outlines the risks and dangers of inhaling the gas. We are aware of the role that online sale of nitrous oxide can play in causing harm to young people. We have published the draft Online Safety Bill, which gives effect to the regulatory framework outlined in the Full Government Response to the Online Harms White Paper, published in December 2020. We want the internet to be a safe space for all users and are clear that what is unacceptable offline should be unacceptable online. For the first time, tech companies are going to be accountable to an independent regulator to keep their users safe. Under a new legal duty of care, in-scope companies will need to remove and limit the spread of illegal content and activity online. The draft Online Safety Bill will be subject to pre-legislative scrutiny in this session.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 15/07/2021 15:34:52 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden

1382371

registered interest
date	25/11/2021
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Prison population projections: 2021 to 2026, published on 25 November 2021, what estimate he has made of the number of prisoners serving an Indefinite Sentence for Public Protection who will be (a) released and (b) recalled in each year in the forecast period.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	81905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2021 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p>Projection year</p></td><td><p>Total estimated prisoners released after IPP sentence</p></td><td><p>Total estimated prisoners recalled after IPP sentence</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-21 to Jun-22</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-22 to Jun-23</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-23 to Jun-24</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-24 to Jun-25</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-25 to Mar-26</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>500</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>All figures rounded to the nearest 100.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 03/12/2021 13:55:56 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1179712

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	Flakka
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 prevent the (a) sale and (b) use of the drug flakka.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	19871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2020 answer text <p>“Flakka” is a street name for some cathinones. Cathinones and related compounds are controlled under Class B of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and it is an offence to possess, supply or produce them.Tough enforcement is a fundamental part of our approach to tackling drugs and we are working across Government to address the drivers behind drug-related crime and help prevent further substance misuse and offending.</p><p>The UK Drugs Summit took place on 27 February. The Summit brought together all four nations of the United Kingdom to consider the challenges we are facing and to reflect on what more can be done to address drug supply and reduce drug harms. The Prime Minister has also established a Cabinet committee on crime which will help to drive cross-Government action in this area.</p><p>The Government is taking action to reduce demand for drugs, and to build recovery and treatment to tackle harmful substances such as these. We are investing in evidence-based programmes to prevent young people using drugs, for example, we support Rise Above, an online resilience building resource aimed at 11 to 16-year-olds, and FRANK, the national drugs information and advice service.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 11/03/2020 19:34:14 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1138665

registered interest
date	12/07/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Green Belt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what (a) quantum and (b) proportion of greenbelt land in England has been built on in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin and Harpenden
tabling member printed	Bim Afolami
uin	276594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>a) The amounts of Green Belt land within England changing to developed use in each year from 2013-14 to 2017-18 are published in Live Table P381 within the '2017 to 2018 land use based change tables' at<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-land-use-change-statistics" target="_blank"> https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-land-use-change-statistics</a>. Figures for previous years exist only for 2011 and earlier years and are not on the same basis as those included within Table P381</p><p><br> b) Corresponding figures for the proportion of Green Belt land that has been developed in each year from 2013-14 to 2017-18 can be obtained by expressing the figures within Live Table P381 as a percentage of the total area of Green Belt land for the relevant year as shown in the 'Area since 1997 - England' table within the Accompanying tables at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-green-belt-statistics-for-england-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-green-belt-statistics-for-england-2017-to-2018</a></p><p><br> The Government remains committed to protecting the Green Belt. Most types of new building are inappropriate there, and should be refused permission unless in very special circumstances. Only in exceptional circumstances may a Green Belt boundary be altered, using the Local Plan process of consultation of consultation, followed by rigorous examination of the revised Plan. By clarifying the exceptional circumstances test and increasing support for higher density and re-use of brownfield land, our revised National Planning Policy Framework gives local authorities more power to protect their Green Belts and manage the allocation of land for development.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/07/2019 13:57:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami

1281569

registered interest
date	28/01/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Covert Human Intelligence Sources: Children
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 limit the use of child sources in criminal investigations.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	911869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2021 answer text <p>Young people under 18 years of age are only deployed as Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) in extremely rare and exceptional circumstances and are authorised in very small numbers.</p><p>For example, the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office (IPCO) confirmed that between January 2015 and December 2018, there were only 17 instances where law enforcement bodies deployed under 18s as CHIS.</p><p>In his response on this issue to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, the then Investigatory Powers Commissioner noted that in the “vast majority of cases” deployment of young people as CHIS is only considered “when the juvenile is already engaged in the relevant criminality or is a member of a criminal gang, and that they are not asked to participate in activity that they were not already undertaking.”</p><p>While investigators may wish to avoid the use of young people as CHIS, we must recognise that some young people are involved in serious crimes, as perpetrators and victims. Consequently, young people may have unique access to information that is important in preventing and prosecuting gang violence and terrorism. This includes the troubling ‘county lines’ phenomenon which, along with the associated violence, drug dealing and exploitation, has a devastating impact on young people, vulnerable adults and local communities.</p><p>Those operating these powers have a duty to ensure they promote the best interests of the young person as a primary consideration. Extensive guidance and enhanced safeguards exist to ensure that the powers are used appropriately, and that young people are suitably safeguarded.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 04/02/2021 15:22:42 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis