Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of low-level crimes that were reported but not investigated in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office collects and routinely publishes information on how notifiable crimes that have been reported to and recorded by the police in England and Wales have been resolved.
Since April 2013, when the Home Office introduced a new outcomes framework, greater transparency has been provided on how all notifiable crimes recorded by the police have been resolved.
Prior to this information on how notifiable crimes recorded by the police were resolved was limited to those cases resulting in a formal or informal criminal justice outcome.
Published data can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crimes-detected-in-england-and-wales
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of police response time to emergency calls.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The handling of 999/101 calls, including response times and performance targets is an operational matter for the police.
The Home Office does not collect data on the 999 emergency service.
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of emergency calls that did not receive a police response within one hour in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The handling of 999/101 calls, including response times and performance targets is an operational matter for the police.
The Home Office does not collect data on the 999 emergency service.
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2019 to Question 235392, what estimate he has made of the number of homeless foreign nationals detained by Immigration Compliance and Enforcement teams in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Home Office does not hold the information requested in a reportable format. The data that is recorded on the housing conditions of migrants is largely volunteered by the migrants themselves, may not be reliable in all cases and does not allow for informed estimates of the numbers who are homeless. An attempt at an estimate requested could only be supplied at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of homeless foreign nationals detained by Immigration Compliance and Enforcement teams in each of the previous years for which figures are available.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Home Office does not hold the information requested in a reportable format. As such the information requested could only be supplied at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of rolling out the technology used for the EU Settled Status Scheme to other Home Office applications.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The UK’s future skills-based immigration system will make use of the latest digital technology to improve customer experience, increase security and detect abuse. Nearly all applications for individuals seeking to visit, work or study in the UK are now made online. However, under the future system we want to simplify the process further so that all users understand what they need to do and what they are entitled to do.
We will continue to explore other new technologies to improve application processes, including, for example the ID verification app developed for the EU Settlement Scheme, and we will learn lessons from its use in the EU Settlement Scheme and consider whether it might be appropriate for use in the future system.
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the board of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority includes no members with recent trade union experience.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Board of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) is constituted under The Gangmasters (Licensing Authority) Regulations 2015. Recruitment to the Board follows a fair and open process in line with the Government’s code of practice on public appointments.
Anyone with relevant experience and ability to contribute to the GLAA Board is able to apply to recruitment rounds.
The Home Secretary has not discussed the effectiveness of the GLAA Board with trade union representatives.
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether trade union experience is considered desirable in recruitment of members of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority board; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Board of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) is constituted under The Gangmasters (Licensing Authority) Regulations 2015. Recruitment to the Board follows a fair and open process in line with the Government’s code of practice on public appointments.
Anyone with relevant experience and ability to contribute to the GLAA Board is able to apply to recruitment rounds.
The Home Secretary has not discussed the effectiveness of the GLAA Board with trade union representatives.
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with trade unions on the effectiveness of the board of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Board of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) is constituted under The Gangmasters (Licensing Authority) Regulations 2015. Recruitment to the Board follows a fair and open process in line with the Government’s code of practice on public appointments.
Anyone with relevant experience and ability to contribute to the GLAA Board is able to apply to recruitment rounds.
The Home Secretary has not discussed the effectiveness of the GLAA Board with trade union representatives.
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and Penge)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of recent trends in domestic violence offences; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The latest data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that there was an 18% increase in domestic abuse related offences recorded by the police in England and Wales in the year to June 2017. ONS identify better recording and increased victim confidence as likely behind this rise. At the same time, the long-term trend on the prevalence of domestic abuse, as measured by the Crime Survey of England and Wales, is downward, with the latest estimate from the Crime Survey being the lowest since the series began.
However, despite this progress, the Crime Survey still estimates that there are approximately 2 million victims a year. That’s why this Government will bring forward a landmark Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill to transform our approach to domestic abuse to ensure that victims have the confidence to come forward and report their experiences, safe in the knowledge that the state and the justice system will support them.