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 he has made of how many dogs were experimented on in Great Britain in each year since 2010.
Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)
Statistics of scientific procedures on living animals in Great Britain are published annually and are available at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/animals-in-science-statistics
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 proportion of theft investigations were closed due to the victim did not support police action in each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Protecting victims and improving their experience and the support they receive is a key priority for the Government.
The public rightly expect the police to protect them and ensure those that break the law face justice, and we expect crimes reported to the police to be investigated appropriately.
According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, the most reliable estimate of crime trends in the UK, since 2010:
The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of police recorded offences, and their investigative outcomes (including charges and other outcomes). The next publication is due on Thursday 20th July 2023.
Information on the proportion of crimes closed with different outcomes are broken down by offence group are published as part of the ‘Crime outcomes in England and Wales’:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics
A new outcomes framework was developed in 2014 and data prior to this is not comparable.
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 percentage of possession of weapon investigations which were closed once a charge had been made due to the victim not supporting police actions in each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Protecting victims and improving their experience and the support they receive is a key priority for the Government.
The public rightly expect the police to protect them and ensure those that break the law face justice, and we expect crimes reported to the police to be investigated appropriately.
According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, the most reliable estimate of crime trends in the UK, since 2010:
The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of police recorded offences, and their investigative outcomes (including charges and other outcomes). The next publication is due on Thursday 20th July 2023.
Information on the proportion of crimes closed with different outcomes are broken down by offence group are published as part of the ‘Crime outcomes in England and Wales’:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics
A new outcomes framework was developed in 2014 and data prior to this is not comparable.
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 percentage of robbery investigations were closed before coming to court because the victim did not support police action in each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Protecting victims and improving their experience and the support they receive is a key priority for the Government.
The public rightly expect the police to protect them and ensure those that break the law face justice, and we expect crimes reported to the police to be investigated appropriately.
According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, the most reliable estimate of crime trends in the UK, since 2010:
The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of police recorded offences, and their investigative outcomes (including charges and other outcomes). The next publication is due on Thursday 20th July 2023.
Information on the proportion of crimes closed with different outcomes are broken down by offence group are published as part of the ‘Crime outcomes in England and Wales’:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics
A new outcomes framework was developed in 2014 and data prior to this is not comparable.
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 proportion of fraud investigations were closed due to the victim not supporting police actions in each year since 2010.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Protecting victims and improving their experience and the support they receive is a key priority for the Government.
The public rightly expect the police to protect them and ensure those that break the law face justice, and we expect crimes reported to the police to be investigated appropriately.
According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, the most reliable estimate of crime trends in the UK, since 2010:
The Home Office collects and publishes information on the number of police recorded offences, and their investigative outcomes (including charges and other outcomes). The next publication is due on Thursday 20th July 2023.
Information on the proportion of crimes closed with different outcomes are broken down by offence group are published as part of the ‘Crime outcomes in England and Wales’:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics
A new outcomes framework was developed in 2014 and data prior to this is not comparable.
Asked by: Steve Reed (Labour (Co-op) - Croydon North)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the average time taken in theft cases between the report of the theft and a charge being made in each year since 2012.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects information on the length of time it takes to assign an outcome, including an outcome of charge/summons, for offences recorded by the police in England and Wales.
Information on the median number of days taken to assign a charge/summons outcome, broken down by offence group (including theft offences), are published ‘Crime outcomes in England and Wales’ since March 2018 in table 4.3 here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics
For the year ending December 2022, the Crime Survey for England and Wales shows the number of Theft offences down 47% when compared with the year ending March 2010, to 2.6 million incidents.
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 she has made an estimate of the number of domestic abuse victims killed by a partner previously convicted of such an offence in each of the last 30 years.
Answered by Sarah Dines
The Home Office does not routinely collect data on the number of domestic abuse victims killed by a partner previously convicted of such an offence. However, the Home Office has funded the Domestic Homicide and Suspected Victim Suicides Project since 2020. This is led by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College of Policing and hosted by the Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme.
The second 12-month report was published on 05 December 2022 and includes the analysis that within intimate partner homicides, the proportion of suspects previously known to police for domestic abuse was 51% in Year 1 and 63% in Year 2.
Reducing domestic homicide is a priority for the Home Office and as part of this in the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan published in March 2022, we have committed to improving our knowledge about domestic abuse through better data. Any improvements in data on and knowledge of domestic abuse can be fed back into the system to tailor and refine the response to domestic abuse. The Home Office continue to fund the Domestic Homicide Project in order to further build the evidence base on what works to prevent domestic homicide.
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 (a) number and (b) proportion of bails that have been extended beyond 28 days in each of the last 12 years.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office have published data on the number of pre-charge bails that concluded in each financial year, broken down by duration, as part of the Police Powers and Procedures publications since the year ending March 2018.
The Home Office began collecting and publishing data on the outcome of pre-charge bail records for the year ending March 2021. However, it is not possible to determine from this data whether a pre-charge bail expired due to the defendant not being charged within 28 days.
The pre-charge bail system was reformed through the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 on 28 October 2022. As part of the Government’s consultation on pre-charge bail, timescales were extended to better reflect the operational policing realities. The initial bail period is now 3 months which can then be extended for more complex cases.
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 she has made an estimate of the number of bail expiries due to a defendant not being charged within 28 days.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office have published data on the number of pre-charge bails that concluded in each financial year, broken down by duration, as part of the Police Powers and Procedures publications since the year ending March 2018.
The Home Office began collecting and publishing data on the outcome of pre-charge bail records for the year ending March 2021. However, it is not possible to determine from this data whether a pre-charge bail expired due to the defendant not being charged within 28 days.
The pre-charge bail system was reformed through the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 on 28 October 2022. As part of the Government’s consultation on pre-charge bail, timescales were extended to better reflect the operational policing realities. The initial bail period is now 3 months which can then be extended for more complex cases.
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 she has made an estimate of the number of domestic abuse victims killed by a partner previously convicted of a domestic abuse offence in each of the last 30 years.
Answered by Amanda Solloway - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The Home Office does not routinely collect data on the number of domestic abuse victims killed by a partner previously convicted of a domestic abuse offence. However, the Home Office has funded the Domestic Homicide and Suspected Victim Suicides Project since 2020. This was led by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College of Policing and hosted by the Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme to monitor domestic homicides during the pandemic to build our evidence base on domestic homicides and domestic abuse perpetrators.
The first 12-month report was published on 25 August 2021 and includes the analysis that of the 58% of all suspects previously known to police as suspects (133) and four-fifths (82%) were known to police for domestic abuse offending. This was a combination of suspects known solely for domestic abuse offending and those known for both domestic and non-domestic abuse offending. Expressed as a proportion of the whole dataset, this means that 48% of suspects were previously known to police for perpetrating domestic abuse.
Reducing domestic homicide is a priority for the Home Office and as part of this in the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan published in March 2022, we have committed to improving our knowledge about domestic abuse through better data. Any improvements in data on and knowledge of domestic abuse can be fed back into the system to tailor and refine the response to domestic abuse.
The Home Office continue to fund the Domestic Homicide Project in order to further build the evidence base on what works to prevent domestic homicide and the second year report will be published in Autumn 2023.