Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is on increasing the number of reporting locations for asylum seekers.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
There are currently no plans to increase the number of reporting locations. In some areas of the UK where there are no Reporting Centres, the Home Office require indivduals on reporting conditions to to report to Non-Home Office locations (Police Stations).
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reporting locations there are for asylum seekers in each local authority area.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
Asylum seekers are not required to report to the Secretary of State unless they have had a negative decision or if they have previously been encountered in breach of the Immigration rules
The majority of individuals on reporting conditions are required to report to one of the 14 reporting centres in a Home Office location. Additional reporting currently takes place in police stations in some of the areas not close to a reporting centre.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which projects by London Borough have received funding for the Early Intervention Youth Fund as set out in in the Serious Violence Strategy announcement on 9 April 2018.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
We have awarded over £4.1m from the £22m Early Intervention Youth Fund to fund ten projects in London. Details on the projects are at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-intervention-youth-fund-successful-bids.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which projects by London Borough have received funding from the anti-knife crime Communication Fund as set out in in the Serious Violence Strategy announcement on 9 April 2018.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Lists of all London-based projects that have received funding from the anti-knife crime Community Fund in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 financial years may be found in the attached tables.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints against the actions of the Independent Office for Police Conduct have been made since its inception in January 2018.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The information you requested is available on the IOPC’s website, published via their annual reports. The 2017/18 report can be accessed:
With previous reports available:
https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/who-we-are/accountability-and-performance/annual-report-and-plans
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints against the actions of the Independent Police Complaints Commission were made in each year between 2005 and 2018; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The information you requested is available on the IOPC’s website, published via their annual reports. The 2017/18 report can be accessed:
With previous reports available:
https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/who-we-are/accountability-and-performance/annual-report-and-plans
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints the Independent Police Complaints Commission (a) received, (b) opened investigations into and (c) concluded investigations and reported on in each year between 2005 and 2018; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The information you requested is available on the IOPC’s website, published via their annual reports. The 2017/18 report can be accessed:
With previous reports available:
https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/who-we-are/accountability-and-performance/annual-report-and-plans
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many complaints the Independent Office for Police Conduct (a) received, (b) opened investigations into (c) concluded investigations and have yet to report and (d) concluded investigations and reported on since its establishment in January 2018; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The information you requested is available on the IOPC’s website, published via their annual reports. The 2017/18 report can be accessed:
With previous reports available:
https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/who-we-are/accountability-and-performance/annual-report-and-plans
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) (i) staff employed by, (ii) vacancies as of 31 December in and (iii) investigations conducted by each professional standards department in each police authority in England and Wales and (b) investigations into each such department in each such authority by an external oversight body in each year since 2005; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office does not hold information on the number of staff employed or vacancies within professional standards departments. We do collect and publish information on investigations conducted by these departments, found in the misconduct section of the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ sta-tistical bulletin:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2018
The Home Office does not hold information on the number of investigations into professional standards departments by an external oversight body.
Asked by: Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many analyses his Department has made since 2015 of the effect of decreased funding for the police on levels of serious violence; and what the conclusions of those analyses were.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Government’s Serious Violence Strategy published in April last year sets out our analysis of the trends and drivers of rises in violent crime. The strategy is clear that there are a range of factors driving increases in serious violence most notably changes in the drugs market. The focus of the strategy is on early intervention and prevention, together with a robust law enforcement response. The action delivered includes:
• Our Early Intervention Youth Fund of £22m which is already supporting 29 projects in England and Wales to deliver interventions to young people at risk of criminal involvement, gang exploitation and county lines
• A new National County Lines Co-ordination Centre to tackle violent and exploitative criminal activity associated with county lines
• The new Offensive Weapons Bill to strengthen legislation on fire-arms, knives and corrosive substances which has now completed its passage through Parliament
• Delivering our national knife crime media campaign - #knifefree - to raise awareness of the consequences of knife crime
On 2 October 2018 the Home Secretary announced further measures to address violent crime in the UK including:
• The new £200 million Youth Endowment Fund which will be delivered over 10 years and will support interventions with children and young people at risk of involvement in crime and violence, and which started this month.
• An Independent Review of Drug Misuse, to be chaired by Dame Carol Black, which will look into ways in which drugs are fuelling seri-ous violence
• A consultation on a new legal duty to underpin a ‘public health’ approach to tackling serious violence. This consultation launched on 1 April 2019.
On 13 March the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced further funding of £100 million in 2019/20 to help tackle the rise in serious violence. Two thirds of the funding will enable priority forces to immediately begin planning to put in place the additional capacity they need and the other third of the funding will be invested in Violence Reduction Units, bringing together a range of agencies to develop a multi-agency approach in preventing serious violence altogether. The initial allocation to forces of £51 million was announced on 17 April.
In addition to this funding, in 2019/20, total police funding will increase by around £970m including council tax precept, additional pensions funding and national investment, the most substantial investment in policing since 2010. The settlement for local government for 2019/20 will also mean that core spending power increases from £45.1bn in 2018/19 to £46.6bn in 2019/20. This settlement sees a real-terms increase in resources available to local authorities.