Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of instructing the police and security services to make available to their unredacted registry files to the Undercover Policing Inquiry.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The police and Security Service are operationally independent from the Home Office and decisions concerning their engagement with the Undercover Policing Inquiry are a matter for them. It would not be appropriate for the Home Office to comment on or intervene in those organisations’ engagement with the Inquiry while it is ongoing.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been fined for breaching the covid-19 lockdown restrictions in order to seek childcare in (a) Leeds, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber and (c) the UK.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office does not hold the information requested.
Data on the number of fixed penalty notices (FPNs) issued under the new emergency COVID-19 health regulations, are published by the NPCC on a fortnightly basis. Information on the reason for which a fine was issued is included however the level of detail requested is not available. The latest statistics can be found here: https://news.npcc.police.uk/resources/fixed-penalty-notices-issued-under-covid-29th-may-v1
Policing is a devolved matter and FPNs issued by Police Scotland and Police Service Northern Ireland are reported separately by the respective forces.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people arrested for violent offences in each of the last 10 years have previously served a prison term.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of arrests made by each police force in England and Wales for violence against the person offences.
Data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, the latest of which can be accessed here:
Data on the number of people arrested for violent offences that have previously served a prison term is not included in this collection.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the total spend on legal representation for police (a) forces and (b) staff at inquests on people who have died as a result of police contact.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office does not collect this information. It is a decision for individual Police and Crime Commissioners whether to cover the costs of legal representation for their personnel.
The Home Office has provided guidance for PCCs which is available online at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/0102017-guidance-to-local-policing-bodies-on-providing-financial-assistance-to-police-officers-and-staff-facing-legal-proceedings
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's annual spending was on legal representation for police forces and police staff at inquests relating to people who have died during or following police contact in the last five years for which information is available.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office has not provided funding to forces to cover legal costs relating to deaths during or after police contact.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Office, how many cases were referred to the Trafficking Victim Support Scheme in each year since 2010; and which organisation made each such referral.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The National Crime Agency publishes data on the number of referrals made to the National Referral Mechanism, the system for identifying and support victims of modern slavery.http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics
The UK annual report on modern slavery contains figures on the number of victims that were supported through the Government funded Adult Victim Care and Coordination Contract.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been convicted under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 (a) in total and (b) for offences involving nitrous oxide.
Answered by Sarah Newton
Convictions data is a matter for the Ministry of Justice.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to paragraph 5.13 of the Spring Budget 2017, what estimate she has made of how much of £100 million funding for implementing the Government's Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy will be allocated to (a) Leeds East constituency, (b) Leeds and (c) Yorkshire.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Government's Violence against Women and Girls Strategy (VAWG) published in March 2016 committed increased funding of £80 million for VAWG services. A further £20 million was announced in the March 2017 Budget to support organisations that tackle domestic violence and abuse and work is ongoing to integrate this with the already announced funding.
We have provided approximately £2 million of central funding for VAWG services in Yorkshire which has supported refuge provision, Independent Domestic Violence Advisers, Independent Sexual Violence Advisers and Rape Support Centres.
We have also set out a clear blueprint for local action though our new National Statement of Expectations (NSE) and Commissioning Toolkit, which is available to local commissioning bodies and groups. Our move to support through the VAWG Service Transformation Fund will encourage better collaboration and new, joined-up approaches between local commissioners, and with specialist VAWG service providers. This will help promote better collaboration and joint leadership, encourage new approaches incorporating early intervention, and establish and embed the best ways to help victims, survivors and their families.
In addition, we will shortly be announcing successful bids in our three year £15 million VAWG Service Transformation Fund.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of funding changes on the effectiveness of the service provided by West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service since 2010.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Fire and Rescue Authorities (FRAs) have delivered significant savings over the past five years. Fire-related fatality numbers and incidents can fluctuate between years, and despite a small increase in 2015/16, over the past 10 years there has been a 22 per cent decrease in the number of fire-related fatalities and a 52 per cent decrease in the total number of reported fires.
Since 2009/10 single-purpose fire and rescue authorities’ non-ringfenced reserves rose by 153% to £602 million. These resources should be targeted at achieving long-term efficiencies.
West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authorities’ non-ringfenced reserves rose from £7.3m in 2009/10 to £29m in 2015/16.
Asked by: Richard Burgon (Labour - Leeds East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) what reimbursement West Midlands Police will receive for the deployment of officers to assist in containing the disturbance at HM Prison Birmingham on 16 December 2016 and (b) from what source that reimbursement will be made.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
This information is not held centrally.