Asked by: Peter Fortune (Conservative - Bromley and Biggin Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much their department spent on X and xAI since July 2024.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Communication Directorate has spent £0 on X and xAI since July 2024.
Asked by: Peter Fortune (Conservative - Bromley and Biggin Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help prevent protests from disrupting the activities of defence firms.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The management of protest activity is an operational matter for the police, who are independent of government.
While the Government is committed to protecting the public and businesses from serious disruption, ministers cannot intervene in individual cases or direct police decisions, including those relating to protests near defence firms. This operational independence is a fundamental principle of policing in the UK.
Asked by: Peter Fortune (Conservative - Bromley and Biggin Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the accessibility of the consultation on Ransomware: proposals to increase incident reporting and reduce payments to criminals, published on 14 January 2025.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
The Home Office Cyber Policy Unit launched the Ransomware: proposals to increase incident reporting and reduce payments to criminals consultation on 14 January 2025.
As per the Governments Publishing Accessible Documents guidance, the document will be published in HTML format. We provided a PDF version, as per Government guidance on publishing official documents.
As with all of our publications, users can request an alternative format by emailing ransomwareconsultation@homeoffice.gov.uk.
Asked by: Peter Fortune (Conservative - Bromley and Biggin Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment with the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology of the adequacy of the accessibility of the consultation on Provisional police grant allocations: 2025 to 2026, published on 17 December 2024.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Accessible versions of content on Gov.uk are available on request. HTML documents like the provisional settlement page are already considered accessible within the guidance for publications (Publishing accessible documents - GOV.UK).
The consultation for the Provisional Police Funding Settlement 2025-26 followed this process, which is the same as in previous years.
Asked by: Peter Fortune (Conservative - Bromley and Biggin Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the accessibility of the consultation on criminal justice joint inspection programme, published on 20 November 2024.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Criminal Justice Joint inspectorates are consulting on their Criminal Justice Joint Inspection Programme. This consultation is published online and available in both HTML and PDF formats.
This is a public consultation intended to gather the views of those with experience of the criminal justice system to ensure the most pertinent issues are inspected.
Where accessibility issues arise, the secretariat for the programme is able to provide alternative formats for the consultation document.
Details of this are available on gov.uk: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-criminal-justice-joint-inspection-programme
Asked by: Peter Fortune (Conservative - Bromley and Biggin Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the accessibility of the consultation on Firefighters pensions: member contribution structure, published on 20 November 2024.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Accessible versions of both the consultation document and consultation questions document were published on 04/12/2024.
These can be accessed at: Firefighters pensions: member contribution structure - GOV.UK
Asked by: Peter Fortune (Conservative - Bromley and Biggin Hill)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the accessibility of the consultation on Police pensions: member contribution structure, published on 20 November 2024.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
Accessible versions of both the consultation document and consultation questions document were published on 04/12/2024.
These can be accessed at: Police pensions: member contribution structure - GOV.UK