Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers there were per capita in (a) St Helens, (b) Merseyside and (c) the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office does not hold information on the number of police officer posts removed from 2010. Police workforce data is collected annually on joiners and leavers and can be found in police workforce statistics which are available via: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2019
The Government has announced the police officer recruitment targets for police forces across England and Wales in the first year of the drive to increase ranks by 6,000 by March 2021, and an unprecedented 20,000 over the next three years. The information can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-announces-first-wave-of-20000-police-officer-uplift
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many officers from each police force are assigned to the policing operations for (a) Extinction Rebellion protests and (b) protests connected to the UK leaving the EU; and what estimate she has made of the cost of those operations.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The management of demonstrations, including the use of mutual aid and the associated costs, are operational matters for the police.
The Metropolitan Police have stated their intention to seek Special Grant funding to cover the additional costs of the Extinction Rebellion protests, however as yet no formal application has been received.
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers he plans to recruit in (a) St Helens, (b) Merseyside and (c) the UK in each year until 2024-25.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Government has committed to increasing the number of police officers by an additional 20,000 over the next three years.
Up to 6,000 additional officers will be recruited in the first wave by the end of 2020/21 and will be shared among the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales. The allocation of officers between forces and plans for recruitment in future years will be announced in due course.
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of police officers that will leave the service in (a) St Helens, (b) Merseyside and (c) the UK in each year until 2024-25.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office does not hold this information.
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2019 to Question 230087, whether local Common Travel Area journeys across the Irish land border will not be subject to the proposed future requirement to obtain Electronic Travel Authorisation.
Answered by Seema Kennedy
The detail of our ETA scheme is currently under development and requires primary legislation before it can be introduced.
The ETA requirement will not apply to British or Irish nationals. However, it will require visitors and transit passengers who do not normally need a visa to obtain permission prior to travelling to the UK.
The UK does not operate routine immigration controls on local journeys from within the Common Travel Area and the ETA scheme will be developed to operate in a way which is consistent with those arrangements.
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) fire incidents, (b) rescues and (c) total incidents firefighters in the North West have attended in each year since 2010.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office published the latest statistics on incidents attended by fire and rescue services in 2017/18 on 9 May 2019. The number of total incidents, fires, rescue incidents and other emergency incidents attended by fire and rescue services in the North West1 in each year are shown in the table below:
Year | Total incidents | Fires | Rescues2 | Other emergency incidents3 |
2010/11 | 94,815 | 43,326 | 2,077 | 49,412 |
2011/12 | 83,832 | 38,004 | 1,985 | 43,843 |
2012/13 | 71,890 | 28,781 | 1,864 | 41,245 |
2013/14 | 71,595 | 32,010 | 1,611 | 37,974 |
2014/15 | 66,279 | 27,593 | 1,724 | 36,962 |
2015/16 | 74,339 | 29,077 | 1,711 | 43,551 |
2016/17 | 78,058 | 28,604 | 1,742 | 47,712 |
2017/18 | 77,021 | 29,389 | 1,724 | 45,908 |
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1 Includes Cumbria, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside fire and rescue services
2 Includes rescue or evacuation from water, lift release, other rescue / release of persons
3 Includes all other non-fire incidents and fire false alarms
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the need for new police stations in Newton-le-Willows and St Helens; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nick Hurd
It is for democratically elected and accountable Police and Crime Commissioners, working with their Chief Constables, to determine the most effective use of resources to best meet the local needs and priorities of the communities they serve.
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department's White Paper on The UK’s future skills-based immigration system, Cm 9722, how the proposed future introduction of Electronic Travel Authorisation for EU nationals set out in that White Paper will operate within local journeys in the Common Travel Area and local journeys over the Irish land border.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
The Government intends to introduce a requirement for visitors and transit passengers who do not need a visa to come to the UK to obtain an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). The requirement will not apply to Irish nationals,
The detail of our ETA scheme is currently under development and requires primary legislation before it can be introduced.
The UK does not operate routine immigration controls on local journeys from within the Common Travel Area and the ETA scheme will be developed to operate in a way which is consistent with those arrangements.
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2019 to Question 213222 on Immigration: EU Nationals, what the differences are between the rights retained by Irish citizens under the (a) EU Settlement Scheme and (b) Common Travel Area.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
Irish citizens have long-held a status in the UK that, like EU Treaty rights, allows them to live, work, study and access benefits and services without being subject to a requirement to obtain leave to enter or remain. This status will not be affected by the UK leaving the EU. Irish citizens resident in the UK can apply to the EU Settlement Scheme if they choose, though they are not required to given that the relevant rights are protected under the Common Travel Area (CTA) arrangements.
The arrangements for existing close family members, who are not Irish citizens or British citizens, to remain in the UK with, or join, EU citizens resident in the UK in the future are not provided for by the CTA arrangements but under the draft Withdrawal Agreement. Irish citizens will be able to support an application from family members without applying to the EU Settlement Scheme themselves.
Asked by: Conor McGinn (Independent - St Helens North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what framework social services use when dealing with (a) adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse and (b) child-on-parent violence.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Government is committed to tackling all forms of domestic abuse. On 21 January 2019, we published a landmark draft Domestic Abuse Bill alongside a wide-ranging package of measures to protect and support victims.
As part of our package of commitments, we will drive forward wide-ranging reforms to children’s social care, to ensure that social workers provide effective support to children and families affected by domestic abuse. We are also providing funding for the development of training for social workers on domestic abuse.
In 2015 the Government published an information guide on adolescent to parent violence and abuse, which provides materials and advice to support professionals in their response, including social workers.