Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and East Dulwich)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the number of cases issued under a fixed penalty notice in (a) 2020, (b) 2019, (c) 2018, (d) 2017, (e) 2016 and (f) 2015.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office routinely collects and publishes data on the number of recorded Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) issued by the police in England and Wales for motoring offences. These data are published as part of the annual ‘Police Powers and Procedures’ statistical bulletin and can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/841256/fixed-penalty-notices-police-powers-procedures-mar19-hosb2519-tables.ods.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council has been regularly publishing the number of FPNs issued by the police in England and Wales for breaches of the public health regulations that have been introduced this year to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19). The latest published information can be found here:
https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/crime-is-close-to-pre-lockdown-levels-and-fines-given-to-the-public-rise-as-new-regulations-are-introduced-1
The Home Office does not collect information on FPNs issued by other public bodies, such as local authorities, who have powers to issue them with respect to anti-social behaviour, environmental breaches and parking offences.
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and East Dulwich)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of police capacity to adequately investigate low-level crimes.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
We recognise that demand on policing is changing and becoming more complex. That is why we provided an additional £1 billion of funding for policing in 2019/20 and PCCs announced plans to recruit an additional 3000 police officers and over 700 police staff.
The Government is now going even further – the Prime Minister announced on 26 July our commitment to recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers in England and Wales over the next three years.
Asked by: Ellie Reeves (Labour - Lewisham West and East Dulwich)
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 East Dulwich)
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 East Dulwich)
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.