Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people in each ethnic group died following arrest in each of the last five years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
This information is publicly available.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people in each ethnic group died in police custody in each of the last five years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
This information is publicly available.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the change in the level of the use of nitrous oxide during the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
Public Health England continues to provide information on the dangers of nitrous oxide through FRANK and support in schools. FRANK, the government’s drug information and advisory website, provides information on a wide range of drugs, including advice on what to do if people are concerned about their own use of the drug, or someone else’s use. It is regularly updated in response to changing patterns of drug use and emerging information. FRANK also signposts users to support services and provides a 24 hour free-to-use confidential helpline, text and email message services and online chat. FRANK offers information about nitrous oxide covering the risks of use, including taking it with alcohol.
FRANK receives over 500,000 visits per month with high levels of awareness and trust. User research commissioned by Public Health England has shown that 83% of 18 to 24 year old adults are aware of the site and 85% of its users trust FRANK to provide reliable information about drugs.
The government is continuing to monitor the effect of Covid-19 on drug use and markets through official sources and through our partners.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the provisions available for communities to educate people on the dangers of nitrous oxide inhalation as a psychoactive substance.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
Public Health England continues to provide information on the dangers of nitrous oxide through FRANK and support in schools. FRANK, the government’s drug information and advisory website, provides information on a wide range of drugs, including advice on what to do if people are concerned about their own use of the drug, or someone else’s use. It is regularly updated in response to changing patterns of drug use and emerging information. FRANK also signposts users to support services and provides a 24 hour free-to-use confidential helpline, text and email message services and online chat. FRANK offers information about nitrous oxide covering the risks of use, including taking it with alcohol.
FRANK receives over 500,000 visits per month with high levels of awareness and trust. User research commissioned by Public Health England has shown that 83% of 18 to 24 year old adults are aware of the site and 85% of its users trust FRANK to provide reliable information about drugs.
The government is continuing to monitor the effect of Covid-19 on drug use and markets through official sources and through our partners.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who have arrived in the UK from France have been returned to France in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it, in accordance with our international obligations under the Refugee Convention and European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Those found not to need protection are refused and if unsuccessful at a subsequent appeal will be removed from the UK and it is an established principle that those seeking asylum should claim it in the first safe country they reach.
The Home Office publishes data on the number of returns from the UK and Dublin regulation in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release However, the data do not show which of these have previously arrived from France.
Data on:
1) The number of Returns to country of destination are published in table Ret_D02 of the Returns detailed datasets, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/returns-and-detention-datasets
2) The number of individuals who have been transferred to an EU member state are published in table Dub_D01 of the Dublin regulation datasets. This data is published annually and includes data dating back to 2015. Please note that this shows the country where the individual has been transferred to and not necessarily the nationality of the individual.
Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending December 2019.
Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the returns data in the Summary Returns tables and the asylum data in the ‘ Summary Asylum tables’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on returns, asylum and resettlement.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of police officers have a degree.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office does not hold the information requested.
The Home Office collects and publishes information on the police workforce on a biannual basis, however, information on officers’ qualifications are not collected. The latest statistical releases are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to bring into force the offence of threatening with an offensive weapon etc in a private place as provided for by section 52 of the Offensive Weapons Act 2019.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
We will commence the offence of threatening with an offensive weapon in private, alongside a number of other measures in the Act, as soon as possible following the publication of Statutory Guidance on measures in the Offensive Weapons Act 2019.
We will be publishing this guidance shortly.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to mark International Men's Day on 19 November 2019.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Dissolution.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many background checks on foreign offenders were requested by police, broken down by police force, in the most recent year for which information is available .
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office does not hold the specific information requested.
The ACRO Criminal Records Office (ACRO) carry out overseas criminal records checks on behalf of police forces. ACRO record the number of requests to and from both EU and non-EU countries.
These figures are published at:
https://www.acro.police.uk/acro_std.aspx?id=226
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken as a result of the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services report on police effectiveness in March 2018 which concluded that background checks were being missed on foreign national offenders; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The importance of submitting checks for overseas convictions is widely recognised and has been the focus of attention within the Home Office and with policing partners for some time. UK Policing has issued guidance to support forces in the management of Foreign National Offenders to increase the number of overseas conviction checks submitted. This guidance was supported by extensive outreach campaigns to educate officers.
Individual force performance is one of the issues reviewed regularly at senior levels within the Home Office Foreign Criminality Programme. This programme has driven a range of activity to improve engagement between Police and Immigration colleagues and drive up the incidence of police conducting criminality checks routinely in relation to the foreign nationals they encounter.