Asked by: James Frith (Labour - Bury North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received on the introduction of a register for people found guilty of stalking or domestic violence offences.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The Government is fully committed to tackling domestic abuse and stalking. The Home Office has met and continues to meet with a number of partners to develop proposals to further protect victims and further target perpetrators, which have included discussions on the introduction of a register.
Those convicted of domestic abuse related offences and stalking offences are already captured on the Police National Computer. Where appropriate, they will also be captured on other systems such as on the Dangerous Persons’ Database, and managed by police and probation under Multi-agency Public Protection Arrangements.
The Government’s focus is on ensuring we make better use of existing
systems, rather than creating new databases or registers for different
offences, which risks a disjointed police and offender management response.
In addition, the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme has also been rolled out nationally to inform and alert new partners about a perpetrator's previous offending.
Asked by: James Frith (Labour - Bury North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have been employed by (a) Greater Manchester Police and (b) Bury Police Service in each year since 2010.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers employed by each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2017
The Home Office does not collect this information by constituency. Data on the number of police officers in Greater Manchester Police, as at 31 March each year, can be found in the Open Data Tables accompanying the main release: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629362/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods