Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Transport on the regulation of the use of electronic scooters.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) issued for motoring offences in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which can be accessed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales. However, information on the type of vehicle issued with a FPN is not collected. Data for the 2018/19 financial year is due to be published in October 2019.
Enforcement of road traffic law is an operational matter for the police to determine in line with local priorities. There have been no discussions with the Mayor of London, the Metropolitan Police or Transport for London on the enforcement of the regulations governing the use of electric scooters.
The Future of Mobility: Urban Strategy, published on 19 March 2019 by the Department for Transport, includes a Regulatory Review to address the challenges of ensuring our transport infrastructure and regulations are fit for the future. One strand of this will look at options for enabling micromobility devices, and a consultation will be issued in due course. The Home Office will work with Dft as proposals are developed.
Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with (a) the Mayor of London, (b) the Metropolitan Police and (c) Transport for London on the enforcement of the regulations governing the use of electric scooters on roads, pavements and cycle highways.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) issued for motoring offences in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which can be accessed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales. However, information on the type of vehicle issued with a FPN is not collected. Data for the 2018/19 financial year is due to be published in October 2019.
Enforcement of road traffic law is an operational matter for the police to determine in line with local priorities. There have been no discussions with the Mayor of London, the Metropolitan Police or Transport for London on the enforcement of the regulations governing the use of electric scooters.
The Future of Mobility: Urban Strategy, published on 19 March 2019 by the Department for Transport, includes a Regulatory Review to address the challenges of ensuring our transport infrastructure and regulations are fit for the future. One strand of this will look at options for enabling micromobility devices, and a consultation will be issued in due course. The Home Office will work with Dft as proposals are developed.
Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fixed penalty fines have been issued to electric scooter riders by police in each of the last two years.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) issued for motoring offences in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which can be accessed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales. However, information on the type of vehicle issued with a FPN is not collected. Data for the 2018/19 financial year is due to be published in October 2019.
Enforcement of road traffic law is an operational matter for the police to determine in line with local priorities. There have been no discussions with the Mayor of London, the Metropolitan Police or Transport for London on the enforcement of the regulations governing the use of electric scooters.
The Future of Mobility: Urban Strategy, published on 19 March 2019 by the Department for Transport, includes a Regulatory Review to address the challenges of ensuring our transport infrastructure and regulations are fit for the future. One strand of this will look at options for enabling micromobility devices, and a consultation will be issued in due course. The Home Office will work with Dft as proposals are developed.
Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect of the 89 per cent conversion rate of uninsured drivers to insured under operation Tutelage in conjunction with the Motor Insurers' Bureau on police time spent processing individual PNC checks after manually downloading and cross-checking MIDAS hits from ANPR.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office has not assessed Operation Tutelage. How police enforce uninsured driving and deploy resources, including any particular campaigns, is an operational matter for individual Chief Officers of police in conjunction with local policing plans.
Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish all non-personal data fields from the Incident Reporting System.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office is committed to making as much data as possible available from the Incident Recording System (IRS) whilst mindful of the personal and sensitive data within it. It has done this through publishing 13 incident level datasets that are available here
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-incident-level-datasets
Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to ISO 17020, entitled, General Criteria for the Operation of Various Types of Bodies Performing Inspection, what progress his Department has made on the (a) approval and (b) introduction of Quality Standards for Collision Investigators.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Quality standards for collisions investigations are an operational matter for police forces in accordance with guidance set by the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs Council. Forces are required to meet the accreditation by October 2020.
Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many fire inspections have been carried out by fire and rescue services in the UK in each of the last five years.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Fire is a devolved matter so the Home Office only holds data for England. Data on the number of fire safety audits undertaken by fire and rescue services (FRSs) in England are published in fire statistics data table FIRE1202 which accompanied the “Fire prevention and protections statistics, England, April 2017 to March 2018” release, available here:
Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the letter of 26 September 2017 from the hon. Member for Poplar and Limehouse on the case of Mrs Justina Ugisomi Saliu, the wife of Mr John Pattison.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
A response was sent to the hon. Member on 16 April.
Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Incident Reporting System for fires caused by electrical goods in domestic homes includes fires caused by (a) mobile phone chargers and (b) e-cigarettes.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office regularly considers how best to review both the IRS functionality and data collection, to ensure they continue to meet the needs of FRSs and other data users, particularly in light of the Fire Reform Agenda.
Fires related to mobile phone chargers are currently captured under the category ‘Battery Charger’ and although there is not a specific category for e-cigarettes, FRSs record fires related to these under the ‘other’ category.
Home Office officials have regular discussions with fire and rescue services about the data collected through the Incident Recording System and collect feedback about the IRS to feed into future reviews.
Asked by: Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour - Poplar and Limehouse)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the Incident Reporting System on fires caused by electricity.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office regularly considers how best to review both the IRS functionality and data collection, to ensure they continue to meet the needs of FRSs and other data users, particularly in light of the Fire Reform Agenda.
Fires related to mobile phone chargers are currently captured under the category ‘Battery Charger’ and although there is not a specific category for e-cigarettes, FRSs record fires related to these under the ‘other’ category.
Home Office officials have regular discussions with fire and rescue services about the data collected through the Incident Recording System and collect feedback about the IRS to feed into future reviews.