Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the prevalence of abuse of people of restricted growth.
Answered by Laura Farris - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Ministry of Justice) (jointly with Home Office)
We have a robust legislative framework to respond to all forms of hate crime, including those which target a person’s disability.
Whilst the police are operationally independent and work in line with the College of Policing’s operational guidance to respond to hate crime, we expect them to fully investigate these offences and work with the Crown Prosecution Service to ensure perpetrators are brought to justice.
The Government is pleased to see the overall reduction in police-recorded hate crime in the year ending March 2023, including a 1% reduction in disability hate crime compared with the previous year. However, any instance is one too many and we remain absolutely committed to ensuring these offences are stamped out.
A person of restricted growth is not necessarily a disabled person. A disability hate crime is any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any other person to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person’s disability or perceived disability, or any disability including physical disability, learning disability and mental health or developmental disorders. This will be a question of fact in each case.
Our absolute priority is to get more police onto our streets, cut crime, protect the public and bring more criminals to justice. We are supporting the police by providing them with the resources they need. We delivered our commitment to recruit an additional 20,000 officers by March 2023 and there are now over 149,000 officers in England and Wales, which is higher than the previous peak in March 2010 before the Police Uplift Programme.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the impact of the proposed changes to the minimum salary threshold for spousal visas on individuals already living in the UK on such a visa.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Analytical work has been undertaken across Government to support decision making in this process, and an Impact Assessment will be developed in due course.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of people who will be unable to renew their visas under the proposed changes to the minimum salary threshold in (a) Tooting constituency and (b) the UK.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Analytical work has been undertaken across Government to support decision making in this process, and an Impact Assessment will be developed in due course.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many couples on a spousal visa with a combined income of over £38,700 but individual incomes of under £38,700 will be affected by the proposed changes to the minimum salary threshold.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Analytical work has been undertaken across Government to support decision making in this process, and an Impact Assessment will be developed in due course.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of visa applications that would have been refused under the proposed changes to the minimum salary threshold between 2016 and 2022.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
Analytical work has been undertaken across Government to support decision making in this process, and an Impact Assessment will be developed in due course.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers there were in (i) Balham ward, (ii) Trinity ward, (iii) Tooting Bec ward, (iv) Tooting Broadway ward, (v) Furzedown ward, (vi) Wandsworth Common ward, (vii) Wandle ward, (viii) South Balham ward and (ix) Wandsworth Town ward in the London Borough of Wandsworth in 2022.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales, broken down by Police Force Area (PFA), on a bi-annual basis in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin.
These data are collected by PFA only, and lower levels of geography, such as London Boroughs are not collected. Data on the number of police officers and Police Community Support Officers in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as at 31 March and 30 September each year, on a full-time equivalent (FTE) and headcount basis, accessed here: Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
While the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, as part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office publishes a quarterly update on the number of police officers (headcount terms only) in England and Wales, also broken down by PFA. They can be accessed here: Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
The latest data from the ‘Police Officer Uplift’ statistics shows, as at 31 March 2023, across England and Wales, there are 149,572 police officers, the highest number of police officers on record, surpassing the previous peak in March 2010 by 3,542 officers.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) police community support officers there were in (i) Bedford, (ii) Nightingale, (iii) Tooting, (iv) Graveney, (v) Furzedown, (vi) Wandsworth Common and (vii) Earlsfield ward in the London Borough of Wandsworth in 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size of the police workforce in England and Wales, broken down by Police Force Area (PFA), on a biannual basis in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin which can be accessed here: Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
These data are collected by PFA only, and lower levels of geography, such as London Boroughs are not collected. Data on the number of police officers and Police Community Support Officers in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as at 31 March each year, from 2007 to 2022, on a full-time equivalent (FTE) and headcount basis, can be found in the ‘Workforce Open Data Table’ here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1093587/open-data-table-police-workforce-270722.ods
While the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin remains the key measure of the size of the police workforce, as part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office publishes a quarterly update on the number of police officers (headcount terms only) in England and Wales, also broken down by PFA. The latest data as at 31 March 2023 are available here: Police Officer Uplift, quarterly update to March 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
The latest data from the ‘Police Officer Uplift’ statistics shows, as at 31 March 2023, across England and Wales, there are 149,572 police officers, the highest number of police officers on record, surpassing the previous peak in March 2010 by 3,542 officers.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the adoption by police forces of the Right Care, Right Person operational model.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Police forces are operationally independent of Government, and Chief Constables have the autonomy to decide whether their force will adopt the Right Care Right Person approach which originated in Humberside Police. This is an approach supported in the findings of the Policing Productivity Review that is being carried out, hosted by the National Police Chiefs Council, and one that Chiefs Council have agreed to promote as a national model.
The model has been successfully deployed in Humberside and that people experiencing a mental health episode, where there is no immediate risk of serious harm or criminality, or the need for the use of police powers, will normally require a health response, ensuring those with the right skills and expertise can provide the best possible service for people in crisis.
Government and health partners are currently finalising a new National Partnership Agreement between the police and health sectors, which will help to ensure that any emergency calls for service are responded to by the most appropriate agency to attend that incident; that those with the right skills and expertise can provide the best possible service for people in crisis.
The approach will not mean that police completely withdraw from assisting where the threshold for their attendance has been met, where there is a real and immediate risk to life or serious harm or responding to a report of crime. As part of the National Decision Model, police are required to continually assess risk of harm and threat.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many mental health incidents were attended by police officers in each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office does not hold the information requested.
Information on the police use of section 135 and section 136 powers under the Mental Health Act (1983) is collected and published as part of the Home Office’s ‘Police Powers and Procedures: Other PACE powers’ annual statistical bulletin.
These data cover the use of powers to remove people from a public or private space to a place of safety if a person appears to be suffering from a mental disorder and needs immediate care or control. However, the use of these powers does not cover all mental health incidents.
Asked by: Rosena Allin-Khan (Labour - Tooting)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 17 January 2023 to Questions 125431 and 125432 on Members: Correspondence, how many of those enquiries remain outstanding.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
The Home Office has no outstanding correspondence received from Members before 1 July 2022. It returned to providing responses within service standard in January 2023.
Data about intake and performance in answering Hon. Members correspondence are published quarterly with the latest Quarter available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/customer-service-operations-data-q4-2022.
The Home Office expects to publish performance data for January to March 2023 in late spring.