Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many standard visitor visa applications were (a) received from, (b) granted to and (c) denied to artists, entertainers and musicians in the last year for which figures are available.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
This information is not centrally recorded.
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken was to answer a call to the Police 101 number in the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Responding to 101 calls is an operational matter for policing. The Home Office no longer collects 101 data, but you can find the published data at https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/policeuk/call-handling/101_call_handling_Jun_2014.zip
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of callers to the Police 101 number waited more than an hour for their call to be answered in the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Responding to 101 calls is an operational matter for policing. The Home Office no longer collects 101 data, but you can find the published data at https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/policeuk/call-handling/101_call_handling_Jun_2014.zip
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Police 101 call centres have been (a) closed and (b) merged since 7 May 2015.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Responding to 101 calls is an operational matter for policing. The Home Office no longer collects 101 data, but you can find the published data at https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/policeuk/call-handling/101_call_handling_Jun_2014.zip
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of calls to the Police 101 number were abandoned by the caller after failing to get a response in the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Responding to 101 calls is an operational matter for policing. The Home Office no longer collects 101 data, but you can find the published data at https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/policeuk/call-handling/101_call_handling_Jun_2014.zip
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the operating and staffing costs are for call centres delivering the police 101 service for each year for which figures are available.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Responding to 101 calls is an operational matter for policing. The Home Office no longer collects 101 data, but you can find the published data at https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/policeuk/call-handling/101_call_handling_Jun_2014.zip
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of calls to the Police 101 number were answered within the target of 30 seconds in the most recent period for which figures are available.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Responding to 101 calls is an operational matter for policing. The Home Office no longer collects 101 data, but you can find the published data at https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/policeuk/call-handling/101_call_handling_Jun_2014.zip
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is enrolled on any trusted flagger programmes with social media companies.
Answered by Ben Wallace
This Government takes seriously the issue of online illegal content on social media platforms.
Our Police Counter-Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) regularly refers online terrorist and extremist content that breaches social media companies terms and conditions for removal. So far they have secured the removal of over 250,000 pieces of terrorist content since February 2010. CTIRU have developed relationships with over 300 online platforms, and are a YouTube trusted flagger.
The National Crime Agency Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command (CEOP) also has Trusted Flagger status with YouTube, and has similar arrangements with a number of other social media providers.
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of the misuse of bots for the harvesting of event tickets through primary ticketing platforms have been reported to the police under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
Answered by Ben Wallace
The Home Office does not hold any data or statistics on the number of these incidents.
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential effect on professional sport of applying to professional sportspeople from outside the UK the same immigration arrangements as those currently available to entertainers, artists and musicians from outside the EU after the UK leaves the EU.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The precise way in which the Government will control the movement of EU nationals following the UK’s exit from the EU is yet to be determined.