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Written Question
Knives: Crime
Wednesday 9th May 2018

Asked by: Andrew Selous (Conservative - South West Bedfordshire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of knife crime incidents recorded in England in the last year for which figures are available were linked to criminal drug taking activity; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The Home Office collects data on the number of selected offences involving a knife or a sharp instrument recorded by the police in England and Wales.

It is not possible to tell from this information whether an offence was related to criminal drug taking activity or not.

The most recently published data for offences involving knives or sharp instruments is for the calendar year 2017 and is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables.

Written Question
Slavery: Vietnam
Wednesday 31st January 2018

Asked by: Andrew Selous (Conservative - South West Bedfordshire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the location of Vietnamese victims of modern slavery found in the UK in the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Information about the region of exploitation of potential victims of modern slavery referred to the national referral mechanism is collected where known.

This data is published in the UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery 2017 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2017-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery However the published data is not disaggregated by nationality of potential victims.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Policing

"The Minister knows that I have set out my concerns about the capacity of Bedfordshire police in person with him, and in an Adjournment debate. I am grateful for the extra £2.9 million in the statement for Bedfordshire police, but will he explain more fully what he sees as the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Nov 2017
Police Funding: Bedfordshire

"I am grateful to Mr Speaker for granting me this important debate, and I am honoured to have the chief constable of Bedfordshire present.

Keeping the public safe is the highest duty of any Government, which is why I take this issue so seriously. Back in 2004, the concept of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Nov 2017
Police Funding: Bedfordshire

"I hope that the Government will listen to the chief constable, because damping—which, as I think the hon. Gentleman would admit, has been happening under Governments of both parties for a long time, starting in 2004—has had a cumulatively serious effect on Bedfordshire police.

Between 1 April 2016 and 31 …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Nov 2017
Police Funding: Bedfordshire

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Nov 2017
Police Funding: Bedfordshire

"The hon. Gentleman is exactly right. Community policing plays a vital role in prevention.

In Bedfordshire, 40% of the force’s activity takes place in Luton. While there is insufficient police capacity to deal with the challenges in that town, it means that the rest of Bedfordshire has less than its …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Nov 2017
Police Funding: Bedfordshire

"I set out the increases in crime on the record for the House just now.

Bedfordshire Police’s unearmarked reserves are only £3 million, the absolute minimum they should be allowed to fall to. Merger with Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire would not be agreed by those two counties on the current level …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Nov 2017
Police Funding: Bedfordshire

"I note the Minister’s typically fair comments about the comparator forces, but does he agree that what distinguishes Bedfordshire’s case is the unusual level of challenge coming from Luton, from the terror issues and from the particular and serious nature of the crime mix within the county? When those things …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Nov 2017
Police Funding: Bedfordshire

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