Karen Lee: Home Office: All Documents

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 19 Dec 2018
Public Service Pensions: Government Contributions

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Christopher. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney (Gerald Jones) for securing such a vital debate.

The decision to reduce Government contributions to public sector pensions is highly flawed. I will give a short introduction …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Dec 2018
Firefighters: Mental Health Support

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Kensington (Emma Dent Coad) on securing the debate. I am pleased that she was successful in applying for it. In view of her expertise, given that the Grenfell disaster happened in …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Dec 2018
Firefighters: Mental Health Support

"Absolutely. I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman. After someone has attended an arrest situation unsuccessfully, they go through an algorithm and they know they have done everything properly, but they still feel bad about losing that person. My point is that going to more arrests with a lower likelihood …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 03 Dec 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Prime Minister has told us that austerity is over and that we are going to save millions from her Brexit deal, and the Minister regularly blames Labour for austerity. We should remember, though, that the Government have given tax cuts to the very wealthy and big corporations: it would …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 28 Nov 2018
Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service

"I thank my hon. Friend the Member for North Tyneside (Mary Glindon) for securing this debate. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hosie.

Hon. Members have voiced concerns about a number of issues, and I hope the Minister will respond in full. We have heard concerns …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Merging services is yet another ploy to promote the Government’s austerity agenda: cutting one budget rather than two. For example, in Essex, the recently merged fire service budget is now being used to prop up the local highway plan, while the Essex service is forecast to lose £8 million between …..."
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Written Question

Fire and Rescue Services: Standards

Tuesday 16th October 2018

Asked by: Karen Lee (Labour - Lincoln)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the fire service response times of each fire authority in England are recorded from the same point after receiving an incident call.

Answered by Nick Hurd

Home Office published statistics are recorded from the same point.

Each time a fire and rescue service (FRS) attends an incident in England, details of that incident are uploaded to the Home Office’s Incident Recording System (IRS) by the FRS and this is used as the source for all the statistics in the response times publication https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/response-times-to-fires-attended-by-fire-and-rescue-services-england-april-2016-to-march-2017

The response time is defined as the duration from time of call to time of arrival of the first vehicle at the scene of the incident and is standard for all FRSs. FRSs set their own targets for local response times which may not include the call time, however this should not affect records in the IRS and hence the statistics published by the Home Office.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 10 Oct 2018
Asylum Accommodation Contracts

"Does my hon. Friend agree that, in cases such as this, local authorities ought to be empowered to take over these contracts and oversee them, because this situation clearly is not acceptable?..."
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Written Question

Fire and Rescue Services

Friday 14th September 2018

Asked by: Karen Lee (Labour - Lincoln)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the benefits of standardising the method for recording fire service response times in England.

Answered by Nick Hurd

Written Question

Fire and Rescue Services: Mental Health Services

Friday 14th September 2018

Asked by: Karen Lee (Labour - Lincoln)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will provide additional funding to Fire Authorities for firefighter mental health services.

Answered by Nick Hurd

It is the responsibility of each fire and rescue authority in England to ensure that they have appropriate support and wellbeing provisions in place which reflect the specific needs of their workforce.

However, since 2014, the Government has provided £7m to pay for mental health support through Mind’s Blue Light Programme to ensure our emergency services workers, including fire service employees, have the counselling and emotional support they require.