Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has plans to change the redistribution mechanism in the Asset Recovery Incentivisation scheme so that (a) local authorities and (b) police forces receive higher payments for successful investigations.
Answered by Ben Wallace
Data on asset recovery is published annually, the latest published figures are available on gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/asset-recovery-statistics.
The Home Office runs the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS). With over 250 agencies participating in the Scheme, it would take disproportionate time and resource to provide a detailed breakdown of these individual payments.
The amounts recovered in respect of confiscation orders, together with amounts paid from this amount in compensation is provided in the attached table. This information was taken from the live database, JARD (Joint Asset Recovery Database) on 9 May 2019.
There are no immediate plans for changing the distribution allocations in the ARIS, but the Government keeps it under review. The upcoming Asset Recovery Action Plan will make wider recommendations to improve the use and effectiveness of powers and practice in this area.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to instruct police forces in England and Wales to record dog attacks on livestock.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Government recognises that dog attacks on livestock can cause considerable stress to livestock owners, as well as causing serious injury to the animals.
A range of powers are available to the police to tackle this issue, including offences provided for by the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953 and Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 and civil orders introduced by the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 which can be used to address nuisance behaviour involving dogs.
The police should record and investigate all crimes reported to them.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department of 22 March 2019, Official Report, column 1404, how much of the £100 million in funding will be allocated to the police, by each police force.
Answered by Nick Hurd
On 13 March the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an additional £100 million of funding for serious violence in 2019/20 to help the police’s immediate response to the rise in serious knife crime, and also to support investment in Violence Reduction Units. It is important that we recognise that greater law enforcement on its own will not reduce serious violence and that we must continue to focus on prevention.
The majority of the investment will go towards supporting police forces where violent crime is impacting the most, to take immediate action to suppress the violence we are seeing, to make our streets safer. We are engaging with partners including the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and we are developing the criteria by which forces will receive this funding.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to reply to the letter of the 29 June 2018 from the hon. Member for Delyn on the Offensive Weapons Bill.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
I replied to the Rt Hon Member on 12 March 2019.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department plans to publish its response to the review into air weapons which was launched on 10 October 2017.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Government fully understands the interest that Members of Parliament and others have in the outcomes of the Home Office review of the regulation of air weapons. It remains our intention to set these out as soon as we can.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded incidences of online fraud there were where the value of theft was greater than £200 in each year since 2012.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes data quarterly on police recorded crime, broken down by Police Force Area, which can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
This includes the number of recorded offences of violence with injury, robbery of business property and fraud. However, information on the value of theft or whether or not fraud was committed online is not held centrally by the Home Office.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded incidences of online fraud there were where the value of theft was under £200 in each year since 2012.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes data quarterly on police recorded crime, broken down by Police Force Area, which can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
This includes the number of recorded offences of violence with injury, robbery of business property and fraud. However, information on the value of theft or whether or not fraud was committed online is not held centrally by the Home Office.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded incidences there were of robberies from business properties where the value of theft was valued at over £200 in each year since 2012.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes data quarterly on police recorded crime, broken down by Police Force Area, which can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
This includes the number of recorded offences of violence with injury, robbery of business property and fraud. However, information on the value of theft or whether or not fraud was committed online is not held centrally by the Home Office.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded incidences there were of robberies from business properties where the theft was valued at under £200 in each year since 2012.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes data quarterly on police recorded crime, broken down by Police Force Area, which can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
This includes the number of recorded offences of violence with injury, robbery of business property and fraud. However, information on the value of theft or whether or not fraud was committed online is not held centrally by the Home Office.
Asked by: David Hanson (Labour - Delyn)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recorded incidences there have been of (a) violence with injury crimes and (b) robberies from business properties in each year since 2012 by police force area.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes data quarterly on police recorded crime, broken down by Police Force Area, which can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
This includes the number of recorded offences of violence with injury, robbery of business property and fraud. However, information on the value of theft or whether or not fraud was committed online is not held centrally by the Home Office.