Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests there have been in (a) Lambeth, (b) Greater London and (c) the UK related to female genital mutilation; and how many such arrests have led to prosecution.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
Female genital mutilation is an extremely harmful practice which the government is committed to tackling. We are strengthening the law on FGM. The Serious Crime Bill includes provisions to extend extra-territorial jurisdiction over
offences of FGM committed abroad, to provide lifelong anonymity for victims of FGM, and to create a new offence of failing to protect a girl from the risk of FGM. We are also introducing a new civil protection order to protect victims or
potential victims of FGM.
We are improving the police response to FGM working with the College of Policing and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary.
The College of Policing is introducing a new authorised professional practice on FGM to raise awareness amongst investigators and better equip them to tackle the practice. In addition, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary will be conducting a force level inspection on the police response to so-called honour based violence with a focus on FGM.
In order to support local areas the government has launched an e-learning tool so that all front line practitioners are able to undertake an introduction to FGM. The government is also funding training for Local Safeguarding Children
Boards which will be delivered this financial year and has launched an online FGM resource for local areas. The aim of the resource is to emphasise what works in tackling FGM and highlight examples where effective practice has been
identified.
The government has part funded a new study by Equality Now and City University into the prevalence of female genital mutilation in England and Wales. The interim report, published in July 2014, has estimated that approximately 60,000
girls aged 0-14 were born in England and Wales to mothers who had had FGM, and that approximately 103,000 women aged 15-49 and approximately 24,000 women aged 50 and over who have migrated to England and Wales are living with the consequences of FGM. In addition, approximately 10,000 girls aged under 15 who have migrated to England and Wales are likely to have suffered FGM. The full report, with data disaggregated to a local level, will be released in the new year.
In addition, since April 2014 NHS staff have been required to record in a patient’s healthcare record whenever it is identified that the patient has suffered FGM. This applies to all NHS clinicians and healthcare professionals
across the NHS. The collection became mandatory on 1 September 2014.The first aggregated monthly data return from acute hospital providers in England, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, reported that in
September 2014 there were 1,279 patients identified as having undergone FGM prior to the reporting period, who were still being actively seen or treated for FGM-related conditions or any other non-related condition, and 467 newly
identified cases of FGM nationally.
The government does not hold information on the number of arrests related to FGM in the UK.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase the number of arrests and prosecutions related to female genital mutilation.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
Female genital mutilation is an extremely harmful practice which the government is committed to tackling. We are strengthening the law on FGM. The Serious Crime Bill includes provisions to extend extra-territorial jurisdiction over
offences of FGM committed abroad, to provide lifelong anonymity for victims of FGM, and to create a new offence of failing to protect a girl from the risk of FGM. We are also introducing a new civil protection order to protect victims or
potential victims of FGM.
We are improving the police response to FGM working with the College of Policing and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary.
The College of Policing is introducing a new authorised professional practice on FGM to raise awareness amongst investigators and better equip them to tackle the practice. In addition, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary will be conducting a force level inspection on the police response to so-called honour based violence with a focus on FGM.
In order to support local areas the government has launched an e-learning tool so that all front line practitioners are able to undertake an introduction to FGM. The government is also funding training for Local Safeguarding Children
Boards which will be delivered this financial year and has launched an online FGM resource for local areas. The aim of the resource is to emphasise what works in tackling FGM and highlight examples where effective practice has been
identified.
The government has part funded a new study by Equality Now and City University into the prevalence of female genital mutilation in England and Wales. The interim report, published in July 2014, has estimated that approximately 60,000
girls aged 0-14 were born in England and Wales to mothers who had had FGM, and that approximately 103,000 women aged 15-49 and approximately 24,000 women aged 50 and over who have migrated to England and Wales are living with the consequences of FGM. In addition, approximately 10,000 girls aged under 15 who have migrated to England and Wales are likely to have suffered FGM. The full report, with data disaggregated to a local level, will be released in the new year.
In addition, since April 2014 NHS staff have been required to record in a patient’s healthcare record whenever it is identified that the patient has suffered FGM. This applies to all NHS clinicians and healthcare professionals
across the NHS. The collection became mandatory on 1 September 2014.The first aggregated monthly data return from acute hospital providers in England, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, reported that in
September 2014 there were 1,279 patients identified as having undergone FGM prior to the reporting period, who were still being actively seen or treated for FGM-related conditions or any other non-related condition, and 467 newly
identified cases of FGM nationally.
The government does not hold information on the number of arrests related to FGM in the UK.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of knife crime were recorded by the Metropolitan Police in (a) Greater London and (b) Lambeth in each year from 2005 to date.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
The number of offences recorded by the Metropolitan Police involving knives and firearms are shown in Tables A and B respectively. The figures are not available below police force area.
The number of offences involving knives has been collected by the Home Office since 2008/09.
The number of selected offences involving a knife or sharp instrument recorded by the Metropolitan police has fallen by 20% between 2008/09 and the year ending June 2014. The number of offences involving firearms recorded by the Metropolitan police has fallen by 60% between 2005/06 and the year ending June 2014.
The Home Office has not issued any definition of gang-related crime for the purposes of recording such crime by local police forces. The Home Office does not collect data on number of gang related crimes recorded by the police.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of gun crime were recorded by the Metropolitan Police in (a) Greater London and (b) Lambeth in each year from 2005 to date.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
The number of offences recorded by the Metropolitan Police involving knives and firearms are shown in Tables A and B respectively. The figures are not available below police force area.
The number of offences involving knives has been collected by the Home Office since 2008/09.
The number of selected offences involving a knife or sharp instrument recorded by the Metropolitan police has fallen by 20% between 2008/09 and the year ending June 2014. The number of offences involving firearms recorded by the Metropolitan police has fallen by 60% between 2005/06 and the year ending June 2014.
The Home Office has not issued any definition of gang-related crime for the purposes of recording such crime by local police forces. The Home Office does not collect data on number of gang related crimes recorded by the police.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how her Department defines gang related incidents when recording incidences; how many incidents of gang related crime were recorded by the Metropolitan Police in (a) Greater London and (b) Lambeth in each year from 2005 to 2014.
Answered by Baroness Featherstone
The number of offences recorded by the Metropolitan Police involving knives and firearms are shown in Tables A and B respectively. The figures are not available below police force area.
The number of offences involving knives has been collected by the Home Office since 2008/09.
The number of selected offences involving a knife or sharp instrument recorded by the Metropolitan police has fallen by 20% between 2008/09 and the year ending June 2014. The number of offences involving firearms recorded by the Metropolitan police has fallen by 60% between 2005/06 and the year ending June 2014.
The Home Office has not issued any definition of gang-related crime for the purposes of recording such crime by local police forces. The Home Office does not collect data on number of gang related crimes recorded by the police.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police positions in Greater London were vacant in March of each year from 2005 to 2014.
Answered by Mike Penning
The table provided contains statistics on the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the foot/car/beat/patrol function as at 31 March 2005 to 2008, and the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the neighbourhoods and response functions as at 31 March 2009 to 2014.
The Home Office does not collect these statistics for Lambeth or any other Basic Command Unit.
The Home Office also does not collect statistics on police vacancies.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Metropolitan Police officers there were serving in Lambeth in Safer Neighbourhood Teams in March of each year from 2005 to 2014.
Answered by Mike Penning
The table provided contains statistics on the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the foot/car/beat/patrol function as at 31 March 2005 to 2008, and the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the neighbourhoods and response functions as at 31 March 2009 to 2014.
The Home Office does not collect these statistics for Lambeth or any other Basic Command Unit.
The Home Office also does not collect statistics on police vacancies.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police positions in Lambeth were vacant in March of each year from 2005 to 2014.
Answered by Mike Penning
The table provided contains statistics on the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the foot/car/beat/patrol function as at 31 March 2005 to 2008, and the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the neighbourhoods and response functions as at 31 March 2009 to 2014.
The Home Office does not collect these statistics for Lambeth or any other Basic Command Unit.
The Home Office also does not collect statistics on police vacancies.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Metropolitan Police officers there were serving in Greater London in Safer Neighbourhood Teams in March of each year from 2005 to 2014.
Answered by Mike Penning
The table provided contains statistics on the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the foot/car/beat/patrol function as at 31 March 2005 to 2008, and the number and proportion of Metropolitan Police officers in the neighbourhoods and response functions as at 31 March 2009 to 2014.
The Home Office does not collect these statistics for Lambeth or any other Basic Command Unit.
The Home Office also does not collect statistics on police vacancies.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) assessment she has made and (b) research he has commissioned on the potential effect on UK export growth of the inclusion of foreign students in the Government's net migration target.
Answered by James Brokenshire
There is no cap on the number of foreign students who can come to the UK so there is no effect on UK export growth from their inclusion in the way the UK measures net migration.
Net migration statistics are produced by the independent Office for National Statistics (ONS). In line with the internationally agreed UN definition, these statistics define a migrant as someone changing their normal place of residence for more than a year. This includes students in net migration in the same way as other migrants are included. Other countries, such as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand also include students in their net migration figures.
Net migration measures the difference between the number of people coming to the UK and the number leaving, so if students return home after their studies, their impact on long-term net migration will be minimal. The ONS has recently improved its methodology so that it is possible to better identify students in the emigration flows to give a more accurate measure of the contribution of students to overall net migration. In the last year, 124,000 non-EU students came to Britain to stay for more than 12 months, and the ONS estimates that only 50,000 left the country.
All migrants who are in the UK for 12 months or more have an impact on our communities, infrastructure and public services.