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 suspects in criminal cases have been released under investigation 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 estimate she has made of the number of arrests on suspicion of theft of catalytic converters from motor vehicles in each of the last three years.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office does not hold information on the number of arrests for theft of catalytic converters from motor vehicles centrally.
The Home Office collect and publish data annually on the number of arrests, including reason for arrest, in the Police Powers and Procedures publication which can be found here: Police powers and procedures England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). However, data for reason for arrest are collected at offence group level only (e.g. theft offences) and cannot be broken down to identify if it was a theft of a catalytic converter.
The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) provides estimates of the number of incidents of theft from vehicles, including details of the items stolen, such as car parts. The latest available data is published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the ‘Nature of Crime: vehicle related theft’ tables, available here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/natureofcrimevehiclerelatedtheft.
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 cases of pet theft were reported to the police in each year since 2015.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
Information on the scale pet theft was gathered as part of the recent Pet Theft Taskforce which engaged a number of key organisations and experts in the field to shine a light on the existing evidence, considered the issue from end to end, and set out a package of specific recommendations to tackle this crime.
The evidence included data from 33 police forces in England and Wales on trends in reported dog thefts since 2015 and is available here:
Pet theft taskforce report - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
The Government is acting on the recommendations of the Task Force which includes introducing a new dog abduction offence which has been added by the Government to the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill, bolstering the raft of measures it already includes to further protect pets, livestock and kept wild animals.
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 Hong Kongers have arrived in the UK via the British National (Overseas) visa scheme since its launch, by local authority.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office publishes data on visas and the British National Overseas (BN(O)) route in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’ on GOV.UK:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release .
At present it is not possible from this data to say how many of those issued with a visa have arrived in the UK or where they are planning to settle within it..
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 information her Department holds on the number of arson investigations undertaken by local authorities in England in each of the last five years.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects data on arson offences recorded by the police and the outcomes of resulting investigations of the offences. The data for the police forces in England is published on the Home Office website at the address below:
Police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Data by local authority is not published.
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 from Hong Kong have (a) applied for and (b) been granted a Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office publishes data on visas and the British National Overseas (BN(O)) route in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’ on GOV.UK:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release
The data relates to the first and second quarter of 2021, January to June, and are derived from management information. These data sets are rounded to the nearest hundred. Data for Q3 2021 will be published on 25 November 2021.
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 steps she is taking to help local authorities work with local police forces to tackle antisocial behaviour.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Government introduced a range of flexible tools and powers for local agencies, including local authorities and police forces, to tackle anti-social behaviour through the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.
These powers are deliberately local in nature. Local authorities, Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners can decide how they use the powers within the Act and how best to work with each other in responding to anti-social behaviour priorities.
Home Office statutory guidance, which was updated this year, supports all local agencies to take the multi-agency approach that is needed to tackle anti-social behaviour in a way that takes account of the needs of the victim and the wider community.
The Home Office and I are very proud to support Anti-social Behaviour Awareness Week which begins on 19th July.
I have also recently written to all local authorities this week to remind them of their duties around the Community Trigger process and the importance of taking a multi-agency approach to ensure that anti-social behaviour incidents are dealt with efficiently so local communities do not suffer through ASB and feel safe within their neighbourhood.
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 and what proportion of outstanding applications of asylum from applicants living in the (a) London Borough of Croydon and (b) Croydon North constituency have exceeded a 12 month wait.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Whilst we hold data on the current addresses of asylum claimants, data on how many and what proportion of outstanding applications of asylum have exceeded a 12 month wait and how many applications are outstanding, from applicants living in the (a) London Borough of Croydon and (b) Croydon North constituency could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
The Home Office does publish data on the total number of asylum applications awaiting a decision broken down by duration of more or less than 6 months. This can be found in the published Immigration Statistics, Asy_04 as at end of September 2020:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets
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 outstanding applications for asylum there are from people living in the (a) London Borough of Croydon and (b) Croydon North constituency.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Whilst we hold data on the current addresses of asylum claimants, data on how many and what proportion of outstanding applications of asylum have exceeded a 12 month wait and how many applications are outstanding, from applicants living in the (a) London Borough of Croydon and (b) Croydon North constituency could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
The Home Office does publish data on the total number of asylum applications awaiting a decision broken down by duration of more or less than 6 months. This can be found in the published Immigration Statistics, Asy_04 as at end of September 2020:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to answer Questions 311, 312 and 313 tabled by the hon. Member for Croydon North on 20 December 2019.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The response for UINs 311, 312 and 313 were given on 25th June 2020.