Tag: Jack Dromey

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jack Dromey on 2016-01-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions officials from her Department have had with the City of London Police on the performance of Action Fraud in the last 12 months.

Mr John Hayes

The City of London Police (CoLP) is subject to ongoing scrutiny, in terms of both performance and financial management of the Action Fraud and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau capabilities; this is an explicit condition of the funding arrangements. CoLP is also subject to a Ministerially approved improvement plan, which is overseen by officials, who meet CoLP on a regular basis to monitor progress and to ensure delivery.

We have seen significant improvement in performance; official figures show reports of fraud have trebled since Action Fraud was rolled out nationally, addressing the concern that fraud was an underreported crime type. The number of crime packages disseminated to local forces to consider investigation has also increased significantly, raising from around 40,000 in 13/14 to 75,000 in 14/15.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jack Dromey on 2016-05-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for Policing, Fire and Criminal Justice and Victims of 24 March 2016, Official Report, column 221, on the Policing and Crime Bill, how many volunteer police community and support officers have been trained in Lincolnshire; what training those volunteers have received; and whether the training those volunteers have received is in line with the guidance to be issued by the College of Policing.

Mike Penning

Currently, volunteers already have all the powers of a police constable as a Special Constable and have done so for over a century.

Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the Bill will enable chief officers to designate police staff with a wider range of police powers. They will also be able to confer police powers – other than the core powers reserved for warranted officers set out in Schedule 9 to the Bill – on volunteers. The intention is that the powers that can be conferred on employed staff and designated volunteers are the same. This includes the power to carry and use defensive sprays, such as CS or PAVA, in situations where the chief officer considers there to be an operational case for this. It is already the case that chief officers can equip police community support officers with defensive sprays; accordingly, the Bill simply codifies the existing position for staff. Chief officers must ensure appropriate training before conferring a power.

Since opening the recruitment for Volunteer Police Community Support Officers (VPCSOs) in the autumn of 2013, Lincolnshire Police have recruited 80 volunteers, who have been trained to the same standard as paid PCSOs. The College of Policing guidance in respect of VPCSOs has not yet been written.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jack Dromey on 2016-05-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2016 to Question 37288, if she will publish statistics on how many European Arrest Warrant surrenders to and from each UK law enforcement agency of each type there have been in each region.

James Brokenshire

These statistics are provided by the National Crime Agency on their website at: http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/european-arrest-warrant-statistics However, this does not provide statistics on surrenders by law enforcement and offence – these are recorded separately.

The following figures are therefore based on surrenders to and by relevant police force areas (excluding those law enforcement agencies that sit outside of regional police force areas (i.e., British Transport Police)). This, and the fact that these figures are taken from statistics for the relevant fiscal years, rather than the calendar years, explains the slight variation from the figures previously released.

Police Force Area	Surrenders to the UK Fiscal years 2009/10 to 2015/16
Cleveland	1
Durham	3
Northumbria	6
North East Region	10
Cheshire	6
Cumbria	4
Greater Manchester	46
Lancashire	42
Merseyside	43
North West Region	141
Humberside	9
North Yorkshire	8
South Yorkshire	13
West Yorkshire	47
Yorkshire and Humber Region	77
Derbyshire	9
Leicestershire	17
Lincolnshire	8
Northamptonshire	0
Nottinghamshire	10
East Midlands Region	44
Staffordshire	24
Warwickshire	2
West Mercia	8
West Midlands	25
West Midlands Region	59
Bedfordshire	5
Cambridgeshire	4
Essex	4
Hertfordshire	15
Norfolk	9
Suffolk	10
East of England Region	47
London, City of	22
Metropolitan Police	139
London Region	161
Hampshire	18
Kent	28
Surrey	6
Sussex	28
Thames Valley	18
South East Region	98
Avon & Somerset	22
Devon & Cornwall	15
Dorset	5
Gloucestershire	4
Wiltshire	1
South West Region	47
Dyfed-Powys	1
Gwent	4
North Wales	4
South Wales	13
Wales	22
Northern Ireland	34
Northern Ireland	34
TOTAL	740

Police Force Area	Surrenders from the UK Fiscal years 2009/10 to 2015/16
Cleveland	25
Durham	29
Northumbria	56
North East Region	110
Cheshire	103
Cumbria	18
Greater Manchester	268
Lancashire	122
Merseyside	106
North West Region	617
Humberside	104
North Yorkshire	36
South Yorkshire	136
West Yorkshire	360
Yorkshire and Humber Region	636
Derbyshire	69
Leicestershire	121
Lincolnshire	163
Northamptonshire	125
Nottinghamshire	145
East Midlands Region	623
Staffordshire	70
Warwickshire	42
West Mercia	79
West Midlands	373
West Midlands Region	564
Bedfordshire	129
Cambridgeshire	242
Essex	157
Hertfordshire	85
Norfolk	95
Suffolk	65
East of England Region	773
London, City of	11
Metropolitan Police	1967
London Region	1978
Hampshire	167
Kent	277
Surrey	58
Sussex	172
Thames Valley	273
South East Region	947
Avon & Somerset	128
Devon & Cornwall	85
Dorset	68
Gloucestershire	42
Wiltshire	41
South West Region	364
Dyfed-Powys	32
Gwent	18
North Wales	35
South Wales	55
Wales	140
Northern Ireland	196
Northern Ireland	196
TOTAL	6948

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jack Dromey on 2015-11-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on (a) temporary agency staff, (b) consultants, (c) non-payroll staff, (d) administration and (e) marketing and advertising in real terms in each year since 2010-11.

Karen Bradley

The Home Office publishes monthly spending data for temporary agency staff, consultants and non-payroll staff. This information is available online, and can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-management-information-2015 >

Transparency Data was introduced by the coalition government in 2010, to enable the public to hold the Government to account, with the aim of reducing administration costs. The information available online through Transparency Data includes departmental spending on temporary staff, consultants and non-payroll staff. The previous administration did not compile or collate that information, and it is therefore not possible to provide comparative figures, or to establish what was previously spent, on the same basis.

The Home Office has reduced administration expenditure budgets by 50 per cent since 2010-11 in real terms. The Home Office is committed to a further 30 per cent reduction by 2019-20 over Spending Review 2015 period.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jack Dromey on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of unlawful marketing of knives in each year since 2010.

Mike Penning

Knife crime has no place on our streets and the government continues to work with the police and partners, including retailers, to ensure that we reduce violence and knife crime. There are strict laws on sales of knives and on how knives can be marketed, which are enforced by the police and Trading Standards. Anyone who markets a knife in a way that indicates or suggests that is suitable for combat or is likely to encourage violent behaviour faces a prison sentence of up to four years.

There were no convictions for the offence of unlawful marketing of knives, in England and Wales, from 2010 to 2014 (the latest available), on a principal offence basis.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jack Dromey on 2016-05-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office of 26 April 2016, Official Report, column 1363, on the Policing and Crime Bill, what steps she is taking to ensure that cybercrime is included in the crime statistics produced by the Office for National Statistics.

Mike Penning

In April 2012, the Home Secretary transferred the responsibility for the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and the publication of crime statistics to the independent Office for National Statistics (ONS) – to ensure the public had confidence in the statistics after years of poor data management.

A major strength of the CSEW has been its ability to compare crime types over time back to the 1980s. As ONS have acknowledged, over a period of time, new technologies such as the internet have expanded the scope of existing crime types and developed new ones, particularly in fraud and cybercrime. Therefore, following a period of extensive development work, ONS introduced new questions to the CSEW in October 2015. ONS have said that they will release estimates of fraud and cyber crime based on the first six months data (October 2015 to March 2016) alongside the main statistical bulletin in July 2016 and will label them as experimental statistics.

It is important to recognise that these data are not simply uncovering new crimes, but finding better ways of capturing existing crimes which were not measured as well in the past.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jack Dromey on 2016-05-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 23 May 2016 to Questions 37209 and 37235, whether official guidelines on the policing of football matches abroad state that authority must be granted by her Department under section 26 of the Police Act 1996 to permit UK police officers to perform operational police duties abroad.

Mike Penning

Guidelines on overseas police deployments include detail on when approval from the Home Office is required under section 26 of the Police Act 1996.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jack Dromey on 2015-11-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) the amount of any underspend expected against departmental expenditure limits in the current fiscal year and (b) her Department’s latest forecast of total AME spend for this year are; and what the forecasts were for those two sums at the time of the Summer Budget 2015 and March Budget 2015.

Karen Bradley

(a) At the close of September 2015, we were not forecasting an underspend of Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit (RDEL)

At the close of September 2015, we were not forecasting an underspend of Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (CDEL)

(b) At the close of September 2015, we were forecasting a total Annual Managed Expenditure (AME) spend for 2015-16 of £1,616 million.

At the time of the Summer Budget 2015 – when we had closed the accounts for June – we were forecasting:

• £9,805 million RDEL for the whole of 2015-16

• £363 million CDEL for the whole of 2015-16

• £1,618 million AME for the whole of 2015-16

At the time of the Spring Budget we were forecasting:

• £9,805 million RDEL for the whole of 2015-16

• £363 million CDEL for the whole of 2015-16

• £1,616 million AME for the whole of 2015-16

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jack Dromey on 2016-04-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding her Department plans to allocate to the College of Policing for (a) digital media investigators and (b) the mainstreaming cyber-crime training in each of the next three years.

Mike Penning

The Home Office provides the College of Policing with annual funding through grant in aid, with some specific funding uplifts to develop certain programmes.

Development of the Digital Media Investigator (DMI) training, run by the College of Policing, will be funded by the Home Office for 2016/17 at a cost of £635,448. After this financial year the College will be expected to meet the costs of continuing the training though their grant in aid or a re-charge to forces.

The National Cyber Security Programme (NCSP) provides investment to increase the cyber security of the UK. The NCSP funded the development of the second phase of the Mainstream Cyber Crime Training course which was launched on 30 September 2015 by the College of Policing. This is a modular course consisting of a series of self-teach and interactive modules accessible to all police officers and staff, which gives an introduction to how to recognise and investigate cyber crimes. The course was developed so that once it was rolled out, there would be no ongoing cost to the College into 2016/17 and future years. It has now been licensed to forces to deliver themselves.

Since the introduction of the College of Policing’s Cyber Crime Training course for all police forces, which was rolled out nationally in February 2014 4,394 officers successfully completed it. The College of Policing reported on 30 March 2016, that 1,014 police officers had received DMI training up to that point.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jack Dromey on 2016-05-04.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2016 to Question 34842, how much of the £3.95 million spent on Cyber Streetwise in 2014-15 was spent on (a) media spend and production, (b) PR, partnership and social, (c) research and (d) website; and how much of the £4.1 million spent on Cyber Streetwise in 2015-16 was spent on (i) media spend and production, (ii) PR, partnership and social, (iii) research and (iv) website.

Mr John Hayes

Cyber Streetwise is a cross Government campaign, developed by private and public stakeholder partners and coordinated by the Home Office’s Research, Information and Communications Unit. It is designed to measurably make the UK a safer place to interact and do business online by increasing individual and SME adoption of safe online behaviours.

Government experts estimate that a significant proportion of cyber security issues would be avoided by safer online behaviours. Cyber Streetwise supports this by increasing digital confidence by informing people about the key things that keep them safer online. It does this by:

• Delivering actionable and positive solution focussed advice on how to be secure.

• Creating arresting communications that highlight the consequences and cut through low interest.

• Reminding and reinforcing individuals and SMEs of the core protective behaviours at the point of risk/incidence.

Currently our prioritised protective behaviours are: using strong passwords made up of three random words; installing security software on all devices; and regularly downloading software updates. Government and Industry experts agree that adopting these 3 behaviours will provide SMEs and individuals with the best protection against cyber-crime.

The impact of Cyber Streetwise on behaviours is evaluated via regular quantitative tracking research. Since its launch in January 2014, it is estimated that 2 million adults have adopted safer online behaviours that will better protect them.

The spend for Cyber Streetwise in 2014/15 and 2015/16 is as follows:

• 2014/15 – £3.95m excl VAT

• 2015/16 – £4.1m excl VAT