Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter of 11 July 2022 from the hon. member for West Lancashire on recycling logos on packaging, reference ZA60124.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
I apologise for the delay in responding to the hon. Member. A reply to the hon. Member is being prepared and will be issued very shortly.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when he plans to respond to the letter of 16 June 2022 from the hon. member for West Lancashire on gene editing, reference ZA59971.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
I apologise for the delay in responding to the hon. Member. A reply to the hon. Member is being prepared and will be issued very shortly.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police staff roles have been disestablished since the advent of the Police Uplift Programme (a) within Lancashire Police and (b) nationwide.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
Information on the number of disestablished staff roles since the advent of the Police Uplift Programme is not held centrally by the Home Office.
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size and composition of the police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Information on the number of police staff (including designated officers) in post since 31 March 2007 to 31 March 2022, by Police Force Area, is published in the ‘Police Workforce Open Data Table’ available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1093587/open-data-table-police-workforce-270722.ods
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many warranted police officers are occupying police staff roles (a) within Lancashire Police and (b) nationwide as of 2 September 2022.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
Information on the number of police officers occupying police staff roles is not held centrally by the Home Office.
The Home Office collects and publishes data on the size and composition of the police workforce in England and Wales on a biannual basis in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, available here: Police workforce England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The data tables accompanying the latest release (as at 31 March 2022) are available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1093761/police-workforce-mar22-tables.ods.
Tables F1 to F8 contain information on the number of police officers, police staff and Police Community Support Officers categorised by their policing function. These functions are categorised into frontline roles, frontline support roles and business support roles as described in Table F4. Table F5 shows, by Police Force Area, the number and proportion of officers carrying out frontline policing roles.
The deployment of officers is an operational decision for Chief Constables.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the probability that the Government will recruit a net increase of 20,000 police officers by the end of March 2023, as set out in her Department's Police Uplift Programme.
Answered by Jeremy Quin
We are recruiting an additional 20,000 police officers in England and Wales by March 2023, the biggest recruitment drive in decades.
As part of the Police Officer Uplift Programme, the Home Office publishes a quarterly update on the number of officers in England and Wales, available here: Police Officer uplift statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The latest release, published on 27 July 2022 for data up to June 2022, showed that we remain on track to deliver 20,000 additional officers. As at 30 June 2022, 13,790 additional officers have been recruited from funding for the Police Uplift Programme representing 69% of the target.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to respond to the letter of 31 May 2022 from the hon. Member for West Lancashire in relation to ESA deductions, reference ZA59073.
Answered by Julie Marson
A reply was sent to the hon. Member by the Director for Disability Services, Decision Making and Working Age, on behalf of the Secretary of State, on 6 September 2022.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he will respond to the correspondence of 23 May 2022 from the hon. Member for West Lancashire on remote learning, reference ZA59785.
Answered by Will Quince
I can confirm that a response has been sent to the hon. Member for West Lancashire on 19 July 2022.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to respond to the correspondence of 20 May 2022 from the hon. Member for West Lancashire on housing for Ukrainian refugees, reference ZA59780.
Answered by Marcus Jones - Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
A response has been issued to the Hon Member's correspondence.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will hold discussions with the Chief Executive of HM Revenue and Customs on when he plans to respond to the correspondence of 19 May 2022 from the hon. Member for West Lancashire on a query about tax credits, reference ZA59766.
Answered by Simon Clarke
Treasury Minister's maintain a regular dialogue with HMRC’s CEO about all aspects of HMRC’s performance, including correspondence.
I have been assured that a response to the honourable Member’s letter will be issued imminently.
Asked by: Rosie Cooper (Labour - West Lancashire)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the correspondence of 25 May 2022 from the Hon. Member for West Lancashire, reference ZA59821, regarding support for people with allergies.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
We replied to the hon. Member on 18 July 2022.