Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2022 to Question 25867 on Threat to Life Notices, whether her Department holds figures on the cost to police forces of issuing Osman warnings in each of the last five years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office does not collect or hold figures on the cost to police force of issuing Osman warnings.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what statistics her Department holds on the number of Osman warnings (threat to life notices), issued by police forces in England in each of the last ten years for which data is available.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The information requested is not centrally held.
The Home Office collects and publishes data on use of various police powers and procedures, available here: Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
However, information on Osman warnings is not collected.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people on the sex offenders register who have changed their name by deed poll in the last three years.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
The UK has some of the toughest powers in the world to deal with sex offenders.
Qualifying offenders are required to notify their personal details, including their name, address, date of birth and national insurance number, to their local police station (this system is often referred to as the ‘sex offenders’ register’). This is done annually or whenever their details change. Failure to comply, including failure to notify the police of a name change, is punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. We recently further strengthened the regime for managing registered sex offenders through the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act.
Statistics on registered sex offenders are published in the most annual Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) report. The most recent report showed that on 31 March 2021 there were 64,325 registered sex offenders in England and Wales, and 1,641 breaches of the notification requirements. The number of offenders cautioned or convicted for a breach of notification requirements had been increasing since 2015/16 but declined by 36% in the year to March 2021. A further breakdown of this data is not collated centrally.
The Home Office is carrying out an internal review to better understand the nature of offenders, including registered sex offenders, changing their name and whether this is used to facilitate further offending.
In addition, on 2 March the Home Secretary appointed former chief constable, Mick Creedon, to conduct an independent review into the police management of registered sex offenders in the community. The review will deliver recommendations to HM Government on what needs to be done across the policing landscape to enhance the management of registered sex offenders in the community in England and Wales.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has provided a full response to Bishop's review of Hillsborough families' experiences.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office is coordinating the Government’s overarching response to the Bishop’s report and has been working closely with its partners in the relevant government departments and organisations to carefully consider all of the points of learning in it.
It is important that the Hillsborough families are given the opportunity to share their views on the Government’s proposed response and we hope to be in a position to conduct that engagement and publish a full response soon.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost has been to the public purse of maintaining the Sex Offenders' Register in every year since its inception.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
A system which maintains a database which holds records of those required to register with the police under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (the 2003 Act), those jailed for more than 12 months for violent offences, and those thought to be at risk of offending was rolled out to police forces in England & Wales during 2004 and 2005. The costs of running & maintaining the system for the period 2017 to 2022 are shown below. To retrieve the data from 2003 to 2017, this could only be obtained at disproportionate cost and hence is not available here.
From Financial year 2017/2018 to Financial Year 2021/22 the overall cost has been £9,601,852.
The costs below for the system include the budgeted OH charge in the Run cost and the split of staff costs.
VISOR | FY 21/22 | FY20/21 | *FY 19/20 | *FY 18/19 | *FY 17/18 | |
Staff Costs | 667619.58 | 933389.93 | 600730.94 | 541014.32 | 678995.96 | |
Run Cost | 1580310.66 | 2059242.78 | 916544.85 | 737044.98 | 886958.23 | |
Total | 2247930.24 | 2992632.71 | 1517275.79 | 1278059.30 | 1565954.19 |
*Due to the limited data available in regard to pay cost in these FYs, budgets pay costs have been used.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the cost of crime to the public purse in each region of England and Wales in each year since 2017.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Economic and Social Costs of Crime (published by the Home Office, July 2018) estimates the costs of crime against individuals and businesses in England and Wales, in the year ending 31st March 2016. The report estimates the total cost at £59 billion (2015/16 prices).
The economic and social costs of crime (publishing.service.gov.uk)
Following this publication, the Home Office has published multiple standalone reports costing the impact of different crime types, including Contact Child Sexual Abuse (published December 2021), Organised Crime (published February 2019), Domestic Abuse (published January 2019), and Modern Slavery (published July 2018).
A regional breakdown of the costs are not available, however regional crime statistics can be found via the ONS (Crime in England and Wales: Crime in England and Wales: Police Force Area data tables - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)).
References:
Economic and Social Cost of Child Sexual Abuse:
The economic and social cost of contact child sexual abuse - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Understanding Organised Crime:
Understanding organised crime 2015/16 second edition (publishing.service.gov.uk)
Economic and Social Costs of Domestic Abuse:
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of law firms potentially involved in money laundering by people or organisations linked to the Russian Government.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
We are well aware that individuals with links to the Russian state may seek to further their reputation and influence within the UK through strategic investments. We continue to look in close detail at the nature of these relationships and the individuals or entities, including law firms, who facilitate corrupt elites.
All legal professionals offering services which may be abused to enable money laundering or terrorist financing are required to comply with the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 (MLRs), and must be supervised to ensure their compliance by one of the 9 Professional Body Supervisors (PBSs) for the legal sector in the UK.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of victims of rape who withdrew their complaint after reporting it to the police in each of the last five years.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
Rape and sexual violence are devastating crimes that can have a long-lasting impact on victims. We have taken a hard and honest look at how the criminal justice system deals with rape; in too many instances it is simply not good enough. We apologised at the time for this and will not rest until we have delivered real improvements – transforming support for victims, ensuring cases are investigated fully and pursued rigorously through the courts.
We know that rape and sexual offences are still all too often hidden crimes, and we want to see more victims having the confidence to come forward to report them to the police. The large increase in the latest figures is likely to reflect both more victims coming forward to report sexual offences in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard in March 2021 and more latterly the re-opening of the night-time economy following COVID restrictions easing.
It is key that we must ensure that victims receive their rights under the Victims’ Code, which, together with improving the provision of support services, will mean more victims should have the confidence and support they need to stay engaged in the justice process. Our plans for the Victims’ Bill to improve accountability and ensure victims feel supported are critical to improve victim engagement.
The Home Office does not hold information on the precise number of rape offences recorded by the police where the victim withdrew their complaint after reporting it. The Home Office publishes statistics on the number of rape offences recorded by the police in England and Wales and the number of these offences where the investigation was closed as the victim did not support any further action. This also includes cases which were reported by a third party where the victim did not wish to report an offence, and those where the victim is unable to support further investigation for another reason. The latest statistics can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people released under investigation in criminal cases have subsequently committed criminal offences in every year since 2017.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office collected and published data on the number of individuals released under investigation for the first time in 2021 in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures: Other PACE powers’ publication which can be found here: Police powers and procedures: Other PACE powers, England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Data on the length of time an individual was released under investigation, for a subset of police forces who were able to provide data, can be found in Table RUI.01 of the released under investigation data tables. These data are experimental statistics to acknowledge that further development will take place in the future and they should be treated with caution.
The Home Office does not hold data on the number of individuals released under investigation who have subsequently committed criminal offences.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the average length of time people released under criminal investigation have remained under investigation in each year since 2017.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office collected and published data on the number of individuals released under investigation for the first time in 2021 in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures: Other PACE powers’ publication which can be found here: Police powers and procedures: Other PACE powers, England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
Data on the length of time an individual was released under investigation, for a subset of police forces who were able to provide data, can be found in Table RUI.01 of the released under investigation data tables. These data are experimental statistics to acknowledge that further development will take place in the future and they should be treated with caution.
The Home Office does not hold data on the number of individuals released under investigation who have subsequently committed criminal offences.