Asked by: Iain Wright (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on (a) Uber for Business and (b) other Uber transactions since 28 October 2016.
Answered by Sarah Newton
No transactions have taken place between the Home Office and Uber since 28 October 2016.
Asked by: Iain Wright (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 22 November 2012, Official Report, columns 566-7W, on police: Cleveland, what estimate she has made of the number of police officers allocated to Hartlepool constituency for frontline duties in each year since the basic command unit was abolished; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Mike Penning
As set out in the previous answer mentioned by the Hon Gentleman, the Home Office no longer collects police workforce information at the requested level. The deployment of available resources is a matter for chief officers locally, working with their Police and Crime Commissioner.
At the overall police force area level, according to the definitions set out by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, Cleveland Police plan to have 1271 police officers working in frontline roles by March 2015. This represents 91 per cent of the total police officer workforce.
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary has made clear there is no simple link between officer numbers and crime levels. This is supported by the reduction in crime of more than one fifth under this Government, according to the independent Crime Survey for England and Wales.
Asked by: Iain Wright (Labour - Hartlepool)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide additional funding for Cleveland Police to assist in (a) retaining and (b) increasing the number of police officers in operation in Hartlepool constituency.
Answered by Damian Green
Like all parts of the public sector the police must play their part in
reducing the deficit and the vast majority of forces are rising to the
challenge of reducing costs, maintaining services and cutting crime.
Ultimately what matters is how officers are deployed, not how many of them
there are and, in Cleveland, police recorded crime has fallen by 14 per cent
since 2010.