Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the funding received by police forces operating in areas where crime levels are rising.
Answered by Mike Penning
Police reform is working and crime is falling. According to the independent Crime Survey for England and Wales, crime has fallen by more than a quarter since 2010. This is the lowest level since the survey began in 1981.
The Government has protected overall police spending in real terms over the Spending Review period, when precept is taken into account. This is an increase of up to £900 million in cash terms by 2019/20. Funding allocations for individual police force areas were published in the Provisional Police Grant Report on 17 December.
Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many disclosure and barring applications have been sent to the Metropolitan Police in each year of the last five years; and what the average time taken by the Metropolitan Police to process checks for Disclosure and Barring Service applications was in each of those years.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The number of applications that the Disclosure and Barring Service sent to the Metropolitan Police in each of the last five years is set out in the follwoing table, together with the Metropolitan Police’s average processing time for each of those years.
Time Period | Volume Despatched | Turnaround Time (Days) |
November 2010 to October 2011 | 336,358 | 68.68 |
November 2011 to October 2012 | 207,571 | 33.77 |
November 2012 to October 2013 | 191,273 | 26.95 |
November 2013 to October 2014 | 194,984 | 40.81 |
November 2014 to October 2015 | 192,950 | 65.44 |
Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what meetings the Minister for Security and Immigration has had with the Chief Executive and senior officials of HM Passport Service since November 2013.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Home Office Ministers have regular meetings with Ministerial colleagues and others as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings.
Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of (a) new passport applications and (b) passport renewal applications were received by HM Passport Office in each week since 6 January 2014; and what proportion of those applications (i) were completed in three weeks, (ii) were completed in four weeks and (iii) remain outstanding for each of these weeks.
Answered by James Brokenshire
Table 1 sets out the volume of new and renewal passports on a weekly basis since 5 January 2014.
Table 2 provides the proportion of straightforward cases dealt with within three weeks , four weeks and over four weeks. The information is not available by breakdown of application type.
Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) new passport applications and (b) passport renewal applications have been received by HM Passport Office since the beginning of the current financial year; and what proportion of such applications were completed and dispatched within (i) three and (ii) four weeks.
Answered by James Brokenshire
During April and May 2014, Her Majesty's Passport Office received:
(a) 319,639 new passport applications.
(b) 1,044,840 passport renewal applications.
Her Majesty's Passport Office does not hold passport application processing
data in the format requested, although we can advise that 96.1% of straightforward
applications were processed within 3 weeks and 96.9% of non straightforward
passport applications were processed within the 6-week target.
Asked by: Meg Hillier (Labour (Co-op) - Hackney South and Shoreditch)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her statement of 30 April 2014, Official Report, column 831, on Stop-and-Search, which police forces have signed up to the revised code on stop-and-search to date.
Answered by Damian Green
The Home Office is currently in discussion with all police forces on the Best
Use of Stop and Search Scheme. The Scheme already has the backing of the
Metropolitan Police – the biggest user of stop and search in the country – and
the intention is to launch the Scheme in the Summer.