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Written Question
High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention
Monday 13th February 2023

Asked by: Andy Carter (Conservative - Warrington South)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Office, what guidance her Department issues on fire safety in high-rise residential buildings; and whether that guidance includes instructions for residents of such buildings on action to take in the event of a fire.

Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary

The Home Office, as the Department responsible for fire safety, publishes a suite of guides to help Responsible Persons (RPs) understand and meet their legal duties under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (FSO), and regulations made under Article 24 of the FSO, in specific types of premises including high rise purpose-built blocks of flats. This includes guidance on how to meet their legal duties in relation to providing instructions for residents on what action to take in the event of a fire.

The Home Office has also issued guidance on the new legal duties RPs have to ensure residents are aware of the steps they are required to take in the event of a fire as part of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 that came into force on 23 January 2023.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Nov 2022
Manston Update

"I am grateful to the Minister for setting out a clear plan for screening and vaccinations at Manston. However, as he just said, most asylum seekers spend only a very short period of time at that initial processing centre, so what additional support and resource is being provided to local …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 16 Nov 2022
Migration

"According to Home Office figures, the 116 asylum seekers who arrived in Warrington last week can expect to spend about 400 days waiting for their cases to be dealt with. What steps is my right hon. Friend taking to speed up the process so that those who do not meet …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Nov 2022
Asylum Seekers Accommodation and Safeguarding

"On Thursday, I was notified by the Home Office that the Fir Grove Hotel in Grappenhall would become an asylum centre the following day. There was no discussion with the borough council and no notification to local residents. It is in the middle of a residential area, fewer than 200 …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 28 Jun 2022
Community Payback

"My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I sat as a magistrate in a breach court in Merseyside last week, hearing from the probation service on cases that it had not been possible to complete in a certain period of time, and the periods for delivery of that community payback were …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 28 Jun 2022
Community Payback

"The hon. Lady is making an interesting speech. There are, of course, two elements to unpaid work—the punitive element and rehabilitation—so two levels of sentencing are imposed: rehabilitation activity requirements and unpaid work. It is important not to confuse the two, because unpaid work is usually the punitive element. She …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 May 2022
Preventing Crime and Delivering Justice

"The Home Secretary has talked about the extra 13,000 officers recruited across the UK. It perhaps helps to break the figures down. Cheshire has had 189 new officers, and we are seeing results from those additional recruits. There has been a striking improvement in the number of arrests in relation …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 Jan 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"20. What steps her Department is taking to ensure that the police are adequately funded to enable them to reduce crime. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 Jan 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Bearing in mind the security statement coming after this question session, will my right hon. Friend assure me that he is working with both law enforcement and security services to understand what more can be done to increase capacity to counter hostile activity that has the potential to damage democracy …..."
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Written Question
Police: Finance
Monday 7th June 2021

Asked by: Andy Carter (Conservative - Warrington South)

Question to the Home Office:

What steps her Department is taking to increase financial support for the police.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

In February, the Government published a total police funding settlement of up to £15.8 billion in 2021/22.

This is an increase of up to £600 million compared to 2020/21 and cements our commitment to give the police the resources they need to keep the public safe.