Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to use the powers given to her under of the Criminal Finances Act 2017 against Andrei Pavlov and others listed under the US Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012.
Answered by Ben Wallace
It has been the practice of successive governments that we do not comment on specific cases.
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance is issued to police officers to make them aware of appropriate places of safety for people detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Places of safety are defined in the Mental Health Act 1983 and include hospitals, care homes for mentally disordered persons, police stations, specified local service authority residential accommodation and any other suitable place the occupier of which is willing temporarily to receive the patient.
Specific guidance to police officers on the availability of places of safety in their areas is a local matter. Local partnerships should have established policy or protocols on the use of section 135 and 136 powers and the operation of agreed places of safety in the area, as specified in the Mental Health Act Code of Practice. Decisions on the most appropriate place of safety in individual cases may also be supported by joint police and mental health worker schemes, such as ‘street triage’, where these are in operation.
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of the 2017-18 Counter Terrorism Policing and Protective Security Grant budget has been allocated to (a) regional units and (b) national units.
Answered by Ben Wallace
I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave to the Hon Member for West Ham on the 27th June 2017, UIN 787.
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 18 February 2016 to Question 26302, how many people from the Kurdistan Region in Iraq (a) applied for and (b) were refused entry clearance to the UK from 1 October 2015 to 30 April 2016.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
I am sorry but we do not routinely collect data on whether someone is from a particular region, only their nationality.
This data is published at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2016/list-of-tables
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish Dame Louise Casey's review into opportunity and integration without alteration or delay.
Answered by Sarah Newton
Dame Louise Casey’s independent review on boosting opportunity and integration in isolated and vulnerable communities will report to the Prime Minister and be published in due course.
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the reasons are for the time taken to publish the findings and recommendations of Dame Louise Casey's Review into Opportunity and Integration in the UK.
Answered by Sarah Newton
Dame Louise Casey’s independent review on boosting opportunity and integration in isolated and vulnerable communities will report to the Prime Minister and be published in due course.
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when Dame Louise Casey's review into Opportunity and Integration in the UK will be published.
Answered by Sarah Newton
Dame Louise Casey’s independent review on boosting opportunity and integration in isolated and vulnerable communities will report to the Prime Minister and be published in due course.
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to increase public awareness of the Community Trigger for reviewing anti-social behaviour complaints.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Home Office does not collect or hold information on anti-social behaviour case reviews undertaken by local agencies using the Community Trigger process. The Government issued statutory guidance for frontline professionals in July 2014 on the use of powers to tackle anti-social behaviour introduced by the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.
This included information on the Community Trigger, including setting an appropriate threshold, publishing the procedure to be followed when making an application, and relevant data relating to use of the Trigger. We are currently reviewing the statutory guidance and we will publish revised guidance in due course if changes are required.
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that local authorities are using the Community Trigger for reviewing reports of anti-social behaviour in a consistent way with respect to (a) the thresholds involved, (b) publicising the process and (c) publishing information on uses of the Community Trigger.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Home Office does not collect or hold information on anti-social behaviour case reviews undertaken by local agencies using the Community Trigger process. The Government issued statutory guidance for frontline professionals in July 2014 on the use of powers to tackle anti-social behaviour introduced by the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.
This included information on the Community Trigger, including setting an appropriate threshold, publishing the procedure to be followed when making an application, and relevant data relating to use of the Trigger. We are currently reviewing the statutory guidance and we will publish revised guidance in due course if changes are required.
Asked by: Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the use of the Community Trigger to tackle anti-social behaviour on a (a) national, (b) regional and (c) local authority level.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Home Office does not collect or hold information on anti-social behaviour case reviews undertaken by local agencies using the Community Trigger process. The Government issued statutory guidance for frontline professionals in July 2014 on the use of powers to tackle anti-social behaviour introduced by the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.
This included information on the Community Trigger, including setting an appropriate threshold, publishing the procedure to be followed when making an application, and relevant data relating to use of the Trigger. We are currently reviewing the statutory guidance and we will publish revised guidance in due course if changes are required.