Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the adoption by police forces of the Right Care, Right Person operational model.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Police forces are operationally independent of Government, and Chief Constables have the autonomy to decide whether their force will adopt the Right Care Right Person approach which originated in Humberside Police. This is an approach supported in the findings of the Policing Productivity Review that is being carried out, hosted by the National Police Chiefs Council, and one that Chiefs Council have agreed to promote as a national model.
The model has been successfully deployed in Humberside and that people experiencing a mental health episode, where there is no immediate risk of serious harm or criminality, or the need for the use of police powers, will normally require a health response, ensuring those with the right skills and expertise can provide the best possible service for people in crisis.
Government and health partners are currently finalising a new National Partnership Agreement between the police and health sectors, which will help to ensure that any emergency calls for service are responded to by the most appropriate agency to attend that incident; that those with the right skills and expertise can provide the best possible service for people in crisis.
The approach will not mean that police completely withdraw from assisting where the threshold for their attendance has been met, where there is a real and immediate risk to life or serious harm or responding to a report of crime. As part of the National Decision Model, police are required to continually assess risk of harm and threat.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many mental health incidents were attended by police officers in each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not hold the information requested.
Information on the police use of section 135 and section 136 powers under the Mental Health Act (1983) is collected and published as part of the Home Office’s ‘Police Powers and Procedures: Other PACE powers’ annual statistical bulletin.
These data cover the use of powers to remove people from a public or private space to a place of safety if a person appears to be suffering from a mental disorder and needs immediate care or control. However, the use of these powers does not cover all mental health incidents.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 17 January 2023 to Questions 125431 and 125432 on Members: Correspondence, how many of those enquiries remain outstanding.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office has no outstanding correspondence received from Members before 1 July 2022. It returned to providing responses within service standard in January 2023.
Data about intake and performance in answering Hon. Members correspondence are published quarterly with the latest Quarter available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q4-2022.
The Home Office expects to publish performance data for January to March 2023 in late spring.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have served in the London Borough of Wandsworth in each year since 2000.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales, broken down by Police Force Area (PFA), on a bi-annual basis in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin.
These data are collected by PFA only, and lower levels of geography, such as London Boroughs are not collected. Data on the number of police officers in the Metropolitan Police Service as at 31 March each year, from 2007 to 2022, can be found in the ‘Workforce Open Data Table’.
Data on the number of police officers prior to 2007 can be found in Table S1 of the data tables accompanying the latest ‘Police Workforce’ statistical bulletin. These data are not broken down by PFA or lower levels of geography.
While the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, as part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office publishes a quarterly update on the number of officers (headcount terms only) in England and Wales, also broken down by PFA. Data as at 31 December 2022 are available here: Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Forces are operationally independent, and the deployment of officers remains an operational decision for Chief Constables.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in reference to case MPAM/0487817/22, when people affected will have their case considered under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office notified the main applicant of its decision on 1 March 2023, and will contact them as soon as it has made a decision on the dependant’s application.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date the longest outstanding MP enquiry to her Department was received.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The longest outstanding enquiry was received on 24 February 2022.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to correspondence of 7 June 2022 from the hon. Member for Tooting, reference RA45733.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office replied on 23 January 2023.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press release by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities entitled New over £650 million support package for Ukrainians sees increased thank you payments for longer-term hosts, published on 14 December 2022, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing similar financial support to people hosting Ukrainian refugees under the Ukraine Family Scheme.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
Ukrainian nationals coming to the UK under the Ukraine Family Scheme are given the same access to work, benefits and public services as those coming here under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme, as laid down in Appendix Ukraine to the Immigration Rules, details of which can be found at: Immigration Rules - Immigration Rules Appendix Ukraine Scheme - Guidance - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
The Ukraine Family Scheme does not require sponsors to provide accommodation. Therefore, the Government has not extended the ‘thank you’ payment offered to those providing a home to refugees arriving in the UK under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme.
Sponsoring family members able to provide appropriate accommodation can choose to sponsor their family members under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme in order to become eligible for the ‘thank you’ payment. They must undergo all the relevant local authority checks before their family member arrives in the UK.
The conditions attached to both Ukraine Scheme visas are identical in terms of length of permission to stay, entitlements to work and access to public funds. Local authorities also have flexibility as to how they use the £150 million funding for the Homes for Ukraine scheme to support Ukrainians on the Ukraine Family Scheme.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many enquiries from hon. Members received by her Department prior to 1 July 2022 have not received a response.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
A total of 830 enquiries received from Members of the House of Commons before 1 July 2022 have not received a response. We expect these enquiries to receive a response in the next two weeks.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many outstanding enquiries there are for her Department from hon. Members.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
There are currently 10,510 outstanding enquiries. We expect these enquiries to receive a response in the next two weeks.