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Written Question
Passports: Caribbean
Tuesday 25th September 2018

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations his Department received before 2018 on the eligibility for UK passports of Caribbean-born UK residents.

Answered by Caroline Nokes

It has always been open to Caribbean-born UK residents to apply for documentation confirming their right to reside here, and for a British passport once they became naturalised as British Citizens. The vast majority of the Windrush generation already held documentation confirming their status here, but those who have not are those the Windrush Taskforce are helping now.


Written Question
Immigration: Windrush Generation
Wednesday 15th August 2018

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations he has received from the Equality and Human Rights Commission on the immigration status of members of the Windrush generation in the last 12 months.

Answered by Caroline Nokes

The Secretary of State has not received representations from the Equality and Human Rights Commission on the immigration status of members of the Windrush generation in the last 12 months.


Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 04 Jul 2018
Commercial Sexual Exploitation

"To underline my hon. Friend’s point, does not the fact that 50% of women in prostitution in the UK are estimated to have started being paid for sex acts before they were 18 years old expose more than anything the vulnerability of people in this trade and how the almost …..."
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Written Question
Fire and Rescue Services: Recruitment
Thursday 7th June 2018

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications of employment have been made to each fire service from each ethnic group in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Nick Hurd

Last year, for the first time, the Home Office collected information on the diversity of those joining fire and rescue services, for 2016/17. This data can be found, broken down by job role in table FIRE1121 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables#workforce-and-workforce-diversity

Data are not available for previous years. The Home Office does not collect data on the number of applications of employment made to each fire service.


Written Question
Fire and Rescue Services: Recruitment
Thursday 7th June 2018

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many appointments have been made to each fire service from each ethnic group in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Nick Hurd

Last year, for the first time, the Home Office collected information on the diversity of those joining fire and rescue services, for 2016/17. This data can be found, broken down by job role in table FIRE1121 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables#workforce-and-workforce-diversity

Data are not available for previous years. The Home Office does not collect data on the number of applications of employment made to each fire service.


Written Question
Police: Recruitment
Thursday 7th June 2018

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many employment applications have been made to each police force from each ethnic group in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The Home Office does not hold centrally all the information requested.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of police officers who join the police workforce, as standard direct recruits, broken down by Police Force Area, and the ethnicity of the officer. Data on the ethnicity of standard direct recruits are broken down only into two groups: White or Black and Minority Ethnic.

Data are published annually in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins.

The latest data available, covering joiners up to 2016/17, can be found inthe joiners Open Data Table, which accompanies the main release, here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629367/open-data-table-police-workforce-joiners.ods

The Home Office does not collect any data on employment applications made to the police. The next release of ‘Police workforce’ statistics is due to be published on 19th July.


Written Question
Police: Recruitment
Thursday 7th June 2018

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many appointments have been made to each police force from each ethnic group in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The Home Office does not hold centrally all the information requested.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of police officers who join the police workforce, as standard direct recruits, broken down by Police Force Area, and the ethnicity of the officer. Data on the ethnicity of standard direct recruits are broken down only into two groups: White or Black and Minority Ethnic.

Data are published annually in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins.

The latest data available, covering joiners up to 2016/17, can be found inthe joiners Open Data Table, which accompanies the main release, here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/629367/open-data-table-police-workforce-joiners.ods

The Home Office does not collect any data on employment applications made to the police. The next release of ‘Police workforce’ statistics is due to be published on 19th July.


Written Question
Horse Racing: Arrests
Thursday 17th May 2018

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests have been made at each Horse Racing racecourse in 2018; and for what offences those arrests were made.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The Home Office does not centrally hold the information requested.

The Home Office collects and publishes data on the number of arrests for notifiable offences on a financial year basis. The Home Office collects and publishes these data at the offence group level, for example, ‘Sexual offences’ or ‘Miscellaneous crimes against society’, broken down by police force area. More detailed information on the location of the arrest are not collected.

Data on the number of arrests are published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin. The latest bulletin, covering the year to 31 March 2017, can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales


Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 16 Apr 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"Two and a half weeks ago, I telephoned 999 after witnessing a prolonged and serious fight in a petrol station in Chesterfield. I have not been contacted by the police since then. Although I have been unable to establish this for certain, I believe that the incident was not recorded …..."
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Written Question
Crime
Monday 16th April 2018

Asked by: Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)

Question to the Home Office:

What assessment she has made of the level of crime and the effectiveness of crime reporting by police forces.

Answered by Nick Hurd

The independent Office for National Statistics is clear that overall crime has fallen, with ‘traditional’ crime down by almost 40 per cent since June 2010 according to the Crime Survey for England and Wales.

HMICFRS continue to inspect forces’ accuracy in crime recording and where recommendations are made for improvement we expect action to be taken locally by chief officers.