Asked by: Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative - Thurrock)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces record the (a) sex and (b) gender of perpetrators of sex offences.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
It is an operational matter for the police to determine what relevant information should be recorded to assist in their investigation of individual crimes.
Home Office statisticians work with the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) on the quality of data from the police. The OSR have issued guidance on the collection and reporting of data about sex in official statistics which informs on-going conversations the Department has with policing partners on the issue of data:
Information is not held centrally on which police forces record both the sex and gender identity of the perpetrators of sexual offences.
Asked by: Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative - Thurrock)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of recording the (a) sex and (b) gender of perpetrators of sex offences; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
It is an operational matter for the police to determine what relevant information should be recorded to assist in their investigation of individual crimes.
Home Office statisticians work with the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) on the quality of data from the police. The OSR have issued guidance on the collection and reporting of data about sex in official statistics which informs on-going conversations the Department has with policing partners on the issue of data:
Information is not held centrally on which police forces record both the sex and gender identity of the perpetrators of sexual offences.
Asked by: Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative - Thurrock)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether guidance has been issued to police forces on recording data when a transwoman is arrested for a violent or sexual offence.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office does not issue guidance on the recording of sex or gender to police forces.
It is down to individual police forces and the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College for policing to make decisions on how this information is captured.
Asked by: Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative - Thurrock)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of how many cases met the criteria for inclusion in the migration refusal pool before 2008; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by James Brokenshire
This Government inherited over 223,000 records - dating from before December 2008 - with very poor data quality, and no structured plan. Alongside wider work to restore control to our immigration system, particularly through abolishing the UK Border Agency, the Government initiated a programme to bring sense to this stock of old records. Having identified and taken out records relating to those people known to have left the country, as well as duplicate and erroneous records, the number of meaningful pre-2008 records is just over 89,000. Those are now being addressed in the proper way.
Asked by: Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative - Thurrock)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many clandestine migrants have been identified at (a) the UK's seaport and (b) the Port of Tilbury in each year since 2000.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The following detections of clandestine migrants have been made across all UK sea ports since 2011 (to obtain data pre-2011 would be at disproportionate cost): 692 detections in 2011, 568 in 2012 and 678 in 2013.
In order to ensure the integrity and security of the UK border, Her Majesty’s Government does not comment on port specific statistics.
The figures quoted are management information, subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change. The figures include those detected at a sea port and on ferries.