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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what role she proposes the Police ICT Company will play in standardising ICT equipment and procedures across police forces in England and Wales.
[118337]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what role she proposes the Police ICT Company will play in standardising ICT equipment and procedures across police forces in England and Wales.
[118337]
The new Police ICT Company has been set up to deliver value for money and improve innovation. The company will provide strategic ICT advice and be responsible for the procurement, implementation and management of ICT solutions and associated business change.
The company will provide services that support forces and other customers in their drive for interoperability. It will seek to harness the purchasing power of the police service by aggregating the requirements of as many forces as possible. The company will support standardisation of equipment and procedures where forces have agreed that this will provide them with interoperability and cost savings.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 21 May 2012 to the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, Official Report, column 824, on police (administrative burden), what further discussions she has had on the accountability and transparency of the National Crime Agency;...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 21 May 2012 to the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, Official Report, column 824, on police (administrative burden), what further discussions she has had on the accountability and transparency of the National Crime Agency;...
The Government have set out clear arrangements in the Crime and Courts Bill to ensure that the NCA will be fully accountable, open and transparent to Government, Parliament and the public. The Bill sets out that the NCA's Director General must publish an Annual Plan and Annual Report, and provides a new statutory duty that he or she must publish information about the Agency's functions and other matters relating to the Agency. The sorts of information that must be published under the duty will be set out in the NCA Framework Document, which will itself be published and laid before Parliament. I would refer my hon. Friend to the statements made on this issue in the Other Place by my noble Friend Lord Henley, Minister of State for crime prevention and antisocial behaviour reduction, on 18 June 2012, Official Report, column 1640. The Framework Document will also set out in more detail the respective roles and responsibilities of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) and Director General, including the arrangements for the NCA's performance reporting and financial accounting.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 12 July 2012, Official Report, columns 50-1WS, on firearms (England and Wales 2010-11), on how many occasions tasers were used as a proportion of (a) firearms operations and (b) operations involving Armed Response...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the written ministerial statement of 12 July 2012, Official Report, columns 50-1WS, on firearms (England and Wales 2010-11), on how many occasions tasers were used as a proportion of (a) firearms operations and (b) operations involving Armed Response...
This information is not collected centrally.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of any differences in levels of criminality between (a) men and (b) women; and what assessment she has made of the reasons for any difference between the two figures.
[118353]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of any differences in levels of criminality between (a) men and (b) women; and what assessment she has made of the reasons for any difference between the two figures.
[118353]
The Home Office has previously published research that, among other issues, examined differences in levels of offending between men and women.
A Home Office report (published in 2012) on the amount of youth crime estimated that 85% of police recorded crime in 2009-10 committed by young people aged 10 to 17 was committed by young men:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Earlier studies by the Home Office have produced similar findings. For example, a survey of offending among the general public conducted by the Home Office between 2003-06 (the Offending, Crime and Justice Survey) found higher rates of self-reported offending among males than females:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk
The Home Office has not made any assessment specifically of the reasons for different levels of criminality between men and women.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will make it her policy that the National Crime Agency should be subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
[118030]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will make it her policy that the National Crime Agency should be subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
[118030]
I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given on 21 May 2012, Official Report, column 824. The Government remains firmly of the view that the National Crime Agency (NCA), like the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), should be exempt from Freedom of Information legislation, as provided for by the Crime and Courts Bill. To apply the Freedom of Information Act to the NCA would jeopardise its operational effectiveness and ultimately result in lower levels of protection for the public, as Lord Henley, the Minister of State for Crime Prevention and Anti-Social Behaviour Reduction, explained in the Other Place on 18 June 2012, Official Report, column 1641.
I remain equally firmly committed to ensuring that the NCA is as open and transparent as possible. In support of that aim the Bill sets out that the NCA's Director General must publish an Annual Plan and Annual Report, and provides a new statutory duty that he or she must publish information about the Agency's functions and other matters relating to the Agency. The information that must be published under the duty will be set out in the NCA Framework Document, which will itself be published and laid before Parliament.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the implications of the Winsor Report for diversity in the police service, with reference to the recommendations to (a) increase the pass mark for the recruits selection test and (b) to increase the fitness...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the implications of the Winsor Report for diversity in the police service, with reference to the recommendations to (a) increase the pass mark for the recruits selection test and (b) to increase the fitness...
The recommendations on raising the pass mark for SEARCH assessment test and fitness testing are included in the Policy Equality Statement in Tom Winsor's Independent Review of Police Officer and Staff Remuneration and Conditions—Final Report, which was published on 15 March. In the report, Tom Winsor states that the effect that raising the pass mark has on protected groups should be monitored by the appropriate body. For fitness testing, he says, in his view, the test is justifiable because it is job related and does not have a disproportionately detrimental effect on people on the grounds of age or sex.
These recommendations have been referred to the police negotiating machinery for consideration.
The Secretary of State for the Home Department, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), will consider carefully the potential equality impact of raising the pass mark for SEARCH and recommendations on annual fitness tests for officers in line with her legal responsibilities under the Public Sector Equality Duty of the Equality Act 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many plastic bullets are available to English and Welsh police forces; and what advice her Department has issued to police forces on their use.
[118386]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many plastic bullets are available to English and Welsh police forces; and what advice her Department has issued to police forces on their use.
[118386]
The deployment of plastic bullets, more accurately called Attenuating Energy Projectiles, is the responsibility of individual chief officers. The Home Office has not provided advice to police forces on their use or storage.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent discussions she has had with the Metropolitan Police on progress in Libya to identify the killer of PC Yvonne Fletcher.
[118106]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent discussions she has had with the Metropolitan Police on progress in Libya to identify the killer of PC Yvonne Fletcher.
[118106]
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has recently updated Home Office Ministers about the ongoing investigation into the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher. The Government is pleased that the MPS is having discussions with the Libyan authorities about future co-operation in relation to this investigation. Helping the police to take forward this investigation remains a top priority for the Government in its relations with Libya and we will continue to offer the MPS whatever support we can.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was of the 101 non-emergency number in each of the last three years; how much income has been drawn from calls to the number in each year; and if she will make a statement.
[116120]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was of the 101 non-emergency number in each of the last three years; how much income has been drawn from calls to the number in each year; and if she will make a statement.
[116120]
[holding answer 13 July 2012]: In 2010-11 and 2011-12 the cost to the Government of developing the 101 police non-emergency number was approximately £900,000 and £950,000 respectively. In 2011-12, the Government extended the service to cover all forces in England and Wales under a renegotiated contract, with police forces now funding the ongoing running costs from their budgets. There is no central funding for 101 in 2012-13.
Police forces and government receive no income from calls to 101; the 15 pence flat rate charge for each 101 call goes directly to the telephony company to cover the cost of carrying the calls.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what total amount of funding was provided by her Department to the Association of Chief Police Officers in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12; and what estimate she has made of such funding for 2012-13.
[114237]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what total amount of funding was provided by her Department to the Association of Chief Police Officers in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11 and (c) 2011-12; and what estimate she has made of such funding for 2012-13.
[114237]
The information requested is provided in the following table. (projected)
| Table
1: Home Office funding allocations to ACPO for 2009-10 to
2011-12 | |||||
| £ | |||||
| Funding
area | Details | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-131 |
| Grant-in-Aid
funding | To
meet the costs of the ACPO president and ACPO HQ central
administration/office
costs | 836,232 | 823,688 | 792,770 | 562,000 |
| Supplementary
Grant-in-Aid
funding | One-off
payment to help meet shortfall in funding from Police
Authorities | — | — | 250,000 | — |
| UK
Disaster Victim
Identification | To
provide national expertise and support on the identification of victims
in the event of mass fatality
incidents | 673,565 | 540,950 | 458,000 | 474,000 |
| National
Domestic Extremism
Team1 | To
provide intelligence on domestic extremism and strategic public order
issues in the
UK | 2,000,000 | — | — | — |
| Conferences
and seconded officers fees for
UKBA | Payment
for strategic advice to
UKBA | 19,300 | — | — | — |
| ACPO-Terrorism
and Allied Matters payments to ACPO
HQ: | |||||
| Co-ordination
of Counter-Terrorism
policing | Funds
the national co-ordination functions: the National Co-ordinator of
Special Branch, media liaison work, Counter-Terrorism training needs
analysis and the police contribution to the Border Management
programme | 7,960,600 | — | — | — |
| Prevent | Prevent
Channel project-a multi-agency approach to protecting people from the
risk of
radicalisation | 2,427,750 | — | — | — |
| Prevent | Provision
of Prevent Engagement Officers who connect Counter-Terrorism policing,
neighbourhood policing and
communities | 3,867,990 | — | — | — |
| Prisoner
Intelligence
Network | Provides
strategic and tactical functions on matters relating to the
intelligence, security, activity and location of all terrorist and
extremist prisoners across England, Wales and
Scotland | 4,267,000 | — | — | — |
| Policing
the
Olympics | Co-ordinating
work -provided directly to
ACPO | 414,923 | 380,888 | 557,958 | 376,010 |
| Contribution
to the Police National Intelligence Coordination Centre
(PNICC) | Funding
to PNICC for Olympic -related
work | — | 113,551 | 471,653 | 392,010 |
| TOTAL | 22,476,360 | 1,859,077 | 2,530,381 | 1,804,079 | |
| 1
Projected |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she has taken in respect of the law on face coverings since the public disorder of August 2011.
[R]
[115643]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps she has taken in respect of the law on face coverings since the public disorder of August 2011.
[R]
[115643]
[holding answer 6 July 2012]: Following the 2011 disorder, the Government launched a public consultation into extending police powers, including in respect of face coverings. We are considering the results of the consultation and will be issuing a response in due course.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will assess the efficacy of Facewatch ID technology for circulating CCTV stills to the public to enable them to assist the police in locating persons of interest and possible witnesses to crimes; and what plans she has to...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will assess the efficacy of Facewatch ID technology for circulating CCTV stills to the public to enable them to assist the police in locating persons of interest and possible witnesses to crimes; and what plans she has to...
To date a small number of police forces have adopted Facewatch in a number of locations, including the Metropolitan Police Service. Ministers and Home Office officials have witnessed the system in operation and the Association of Chief Police Officers and the National Police Improvement Agency are working together to establish a shared national view of its effectiveness, with a view to providing advice to all forces on the potential benefits.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of the crimes (a) reported to the police and (b) identified by the British crime survey in (i) Ashfield constituency and (ii) Nottinghamshire in (A) 2008 and (B) each year since 2008 resulted in a...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of the crimes (a) reported to the police and (b) identified by the British crime survey in (i) Ashfield constituency and (ii) Nottinghamshire in (A) 2008 and (B) each year since 2008 resulted in a...
The information requested is not available. The Home Office is unable to track from centrally held records individual offences through to their conclusion at court.
This includes offences recorded by the police and those identified by the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW, previously the British crime survey).
The police.uk website compiled by the National Policing Improvement Agency contains information on the number and types of offences at street level, and for some crimes it includes the outcome of these offences. These data are available from January 2012, but are not Official Statistics and are considered a developmental dataset at this time.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many first-time offenders were arrested and charged in (a) 1997, (b) 2001, (c) 2005, (d) 2010 and (e) the latest year for which data is available.
[115722]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many first-time offenders were arrested and charged in (a) 1997, (b) 2001, (c) 2005, (d) 2010 and (e) the latest year for which data is available.
[115722]
[holding answer 6 July 2012]: The information requested is not collected centrally by the Home Office.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) when she plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 19 April 2012 in respect of a constituent, ref: M5696/12;
[108233]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) when she plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 19 April 2012 in respect of a constituent, ref: M5696/12;
[108233]
[holding answers 17 May and 25 June 2012]: A response was sent to the hon. Member on 17 July 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reason her Department has not been able to provide a response to the right hon. Member for Yeovil's letter dated 11 May 2012, on proposals for police reforms.
[116457]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reason her Department has not been able to provide a response to the right hon. Member for Yeovil's letter dated 11 May 2012, on proposals for police reforms.
[116457]
A response was sent to the right hon. Gentleman on 17 July 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she Department will take steps to use police training to build awareness of suicidal behaviour so that officers are better equipped to recognise those at risk; and if she will make a statement.
[111267]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she Department will take steps to use police training to build awareness of suicidal behaviour so that officers are better equipped to recognise those at risk; and if she will make a statement.
[111267]
It is the duty of the chief constable of each force to ensure that police officers are sufficiently well trained to deal with all situations that they might face. The Home Office does not mandate training for police officers.
The subject of suicide is mentioned on several occasions during the initial training for all police officers.
The police are currently taking part in a number a Government-led cross-sector forums which seek to improve practice in the investigation of sudden deaths.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she expects to publish her proposals for a Professional Policing Body.
[115594]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she expects to publish her proposals for a Professional Policing Body.
[115594]
The Secretary of State for the Home Department, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), updated the House on the police professional body in a WMS on 16 July 2012, Official Report, column 107WS.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she has requested additional resources from HM Treasury to promote the elections for police commissioners.
[117012]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether she has requested additional resources from HM Treasury to promote the elections for police commissioners.
[117012]
No additional resources have been requested from HM Treasury to promote police and crime commissioner elections.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 18 July 2011, Official Report, column 663W, on police: bureaucracy, how many national police forms have been drawn up for use by all forces.
[116407]
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 18 July 2011, Official Report, column 663W, on police: bureaucracy, how many national police forms have been drawn up for use by all forces.
[116407]
[holding answer 10 July 2012]: It is largely for individual forces to determine which forms they use. In 2011 the Government conducted a review of these forms in consultation with the joint Home Office/Association of Chief Police Officers Reducing Bureaucracy Programme Board. As a result of this review, there is now a standard national set of forms (known as the Manual of Guidance or MG forms) which are required by the Crown Prosecution Service if a case leads to charge and prosecution.