Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many official Royal British Legion Remembrance events have received logistical police support other than wreath laying in a ceremonial capacity in each year since 2010.
Answered by Mike Penning
The Home Office does not hold the information requested. The police have never had a policy of routinely attending remembrance parades. Decisions on the operational deployment of resources are matters for Chief Constables, in association with Police and Crime Commissioners. There are no plans for the Home Office to issue guidance to the police on this matter.
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy that police officers be assigned to support all Royal British Legion Remembrance parades.
Answered by Mike Penning
The Home Office does not hold the information requested. The police have never had a policy of routinely attending remembrance parades. Decisions on the operational deployment of resources are matters for Chief Constables, in association with Police and Crime Commissioners. There are no plans for the Home Office to issue guidance to the police on this matter.
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to meet the recommendations set out in the UK report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women.
Answered by Karen Bradley
The United Kingdom has some of the strongest protections in the world to safeguard women and girls. The Government is committed to further supporting women to rebuild their lives, to breaking cycles of abuse and bringing perpetrators to justice.
We will continue to update our Violence Against Women and Girls strategy, as we have done every year, and will consider the Special Rapporteur's findings.
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of arrests made in (a) Barnsley East constituency, (b) Barnsley and (c) South Yorkshire in each of the last five years.
Answered by Mike Penning
The Home Office publishes data on the number of arrests in the South Yorkshire police force area. These data include the total number of arrests, and breakdowns by gender, age, and ethnicity of the person arrested, and the offence type that they were arrested for. These data are all published annually, and the latest data, which cover the year 2013/14, can be found here:
Data for previous years can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales
The Home Office does not hold data centrally on the number of arrests made in parliamentary constituencies, or individual towns or cities.
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the consequences for police resources of trends in the level of crime in (a) Barnsley East constituency and (b) South Yorkshire in each of the last three years.
Answered by Mike Penning
As the independent inspectorate of constabulary has made clear, there is no simple link between resource levels - including the number of officers - and crime levels. What matters is how officers are deployed, not how many of them there are.
Ultimately, decisions on the size and composition of a police force’s workforce are for individual chief officers and Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs). The independent inspectorate of constabulary’s latest Valuing the Police report (from July 2014) highlights that forces are balancing their books while protecting the frontline and delivering reductions in crime.
The Government is conducting a fundamental review of the Police Allocation Formula (PAF). The first phase of this work, an internal analytical review, is already underway. A precise timescale for implementation of revised funding arrangements has yet to be determined. However, this will not be until 2016/17 at the earliest. We will consult with the full range of partners at an appropriate point in the development of this work.
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests for sexual offences have been made in Barnsley East constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Norman Baker
Available data on arrests relate to the South Yorkshire police force area only, and are provided in the table. Data on arrests in the Barnsley East
constituency area are not reported centrally.
Data for 2013/14 will be published in spring 2015.
| Number of arrests for sexual offences in | ||
| South Yorkshire police force area | ||
| 2008/09-2012/13 | ||
| Year | Number of arrests | |
| 2008/09 | 739 | |
| 2009/10 | 810 | |
| 2010/11 | 794 | |
| 2011/12 | 761 | |
| 2012/13 | 631 | |
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many domestic violence arrests were made in Barnsley East constituency in each of the last five years.
Answered by Norman Baker
The requested arrests data are not collected centrally.
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in Barnsley East constituency were prosecuted for breaches of anti-social behaviour orders in (a) 2009, (b) 2010, (c) 2011, (d) 2012 and (e) 2013.
Answered by Norman Baker
Information on proceedings for the offence of breach of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order, which is collected centrally by the Ministry of Justice
and held on the Court Proceedings Database, does not include the constituency in which the ASBO recipient resides. This detailed information is only held by courts on individual case files and is not reported to the Ministry of Justice.
It is therefore not possible to determine from centrally held information how many people in Barnsley East constituency have been proceeded against for breach of an ASBO.
Asked by: Michael Dugher (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in (a) Barnsley East constituency and (b) South Yorkshire have been arrested for possession of (i) Class A, (ii) Class B and (iii) Class C drugs in the last year; and what steps her Department is taking to rehabiliate people convicted of drug-related offences.
Answered by Norman Baker
The information requested on arrests is not available centrally. Data on arrests for drug offences reported to the Home Office cannot be separated to identify arrests for possession of specific drug classes.
The Coalition Government strongly supports local investment in Integrated Offender Management approaches, including identifying drug-using offenders anddirecting them to treatment. This includes the provision of drug recovery wing pilots, focused on abstinence and connecting offenders with community drug recovery services on release, and testing an end-to-end approach to tackle addiction in the adult resettlement prisons in the North West, aimed at improving access for people with drug and/or alcohol dependency in custody and ‘Through the Prison Gate’ to existing treatment and associated health services in the community.
In addition we are currently working to provide access to Liaison and Diversion services, which operate by referring offenders who are identified as having mental health needs including substance misuse to an appropriate treatment or support service, as soon as they come into contact with the criminal justice system. This could be via voluntary attendance at a police station, in a custody suite or at court.