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Written Question
Passports: British National (Overseas)
Tuesday 5th November 2019

Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many British National Overseas passports are held by citizens of Hong Kong.

Answered by Seema Kennedy

As at 18 October 2019 the number of valid British National (Overseas) Passports in circulation was 255,377. The data provided is for all British National (Overseas) passports as this information cannot be broken down by where a passport holder is currently residing.


Written Question
Passports: British National (Overseas)
Tuesday 8th October 2019

Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many British National (Overseas) passports issued to people from Hong Kong remain valid.

Answered by Seema Kennedy

It has not proved possible to respond to the Hon Member in the time available before Prorogation.


Written Question
Antisemitism: Arrests
Monday 20th May 2019

Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of arrests for antisemitic hate crimes in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of arrests, conducted by each police force in England and Wales, on an annual basis.

Data are held at the offence group level only (for example ‘Violence against the person’ and ‘Public order’ offences). Information on the number of arrests for hate crimes – and further details of the nature of an offence – are not held centrally.

Data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, the latest of which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2018


Written Question
Antisemitism: Arrests
Monday 20th May 2019

Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of arrests for violent antisemitic hate crimes in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of arrests, conducted by each police force in England and Wales, on an annual basis.

Data are held at the offence group level only (for example ‘Violence against the person’ and ‘Public order’ offences). Information on the number of arrests for hate crimes – and further details of the nature of an offence – are not held centrally.

Data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, the latest of which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2018


Written Question
Stop and Search: Lancashire
Tuesday 19th March 2019

Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times stop and search was used by Lancashire Constabulary in 2018; and (a) how many convictions there were for crimes involving the use of knives and (b) how many of those convictions resulted from arrests following stop and search in Lancashire in 2018.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of stop and searches conducted by each police force in England and Wales and the number of resultant arrests. These data are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which can be accessed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales

In 2017/18, Lancashire Police conducted 3,284 stop and searches in total.

The Home Office does not collect data on outcomes of prosecutions. Nor does the data collected by the Home Office on stop and searches allow for the stop and search to be tracked through the criminal justice system to the outcome of a prosecution.


Written Question
Fraud: Westminster Bridge
Tuesday 12th March 2019

Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many scam artists were arrested on Westminster Bridge in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The information requested is not held centrally by the Home Office.


Written Question
Fraud: Westminster Bridge
Tuesday 12th March 2019

Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many scam artists on Westminster Bridge were cautioned in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The information requested is not held centrally by the Home Office.


Written Question
Fraud: Westminster Bridge
Tuesday 12th March 2019

Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes involving scam artists on Westminster Bridge were reported in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The information requested is not held centrally by the Home Office.


Written Question
Energy: Meters
Tuesday 5th March 2019

Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many house fires have been caused by smart meters.

Answered by Nick Hurd

Fires related to smart meters are captured under the category ‘Other’ and cannot be identified separately in the Home Office data collection.

National Statistics on the causes and locations of fires are published annually in, ‘Detailed analysis of fires attended by FRSs, England’. The most recent publication for 2017/18 can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/detailed-analysis-of-fires-attended-by-fire-and-rescue-services-england-april-2017-to-march-2018

Accompanying data tables can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables.


Written Question
Energy: Meters
Tuesday 5th March 2019

Asked by: Nigel Evans (Conservative - Ribble Valley)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many house fires have there been in which the suspected cause was a smart meter.

Answered by Nick Hurd

Fires related to smart meters are captured under the category ‘Other’ and cannot be identified separately in the Home Office data collection.

National Statistics on the causes and locations of fires are published annually in, ‘Detailed analysis of fires attended by FRSs, England’. The most recent publication for 2017/18 can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/detailed-analysis-of-fires-attended-by-fire-and-rescue-services-england-april-2017-to-march-2018

Accompanying data tables can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables.