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Parliamentary Debates
Town Centre Safety
117 speeches (30,747 words)
Tuesday 5th December 2023 - Commons Chamber
Home Office
Mentions:
1: Holly Lynch (Lab - Halifax) The Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 was passed thanks to an outstanding campaign by - Link to Speech



Written Answers
Pharmacy: Security
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Thursday 21st March 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of the levels of security in community pharmacies to ensure (a) staff and (b) public safety.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The data related to crime, including assault and theft, in community pharmacies is not held by the Department but could be obtained from individual police departments through Freedom of Information requests. These are matters for the police and criminal justice system. Community pharmacy staff are considered emergency workers under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 which provides for increased sentencing powers.

Community pharmacies are private businesses that are commissioned to provide National Health Service pharmaceutical services and are legally responsible for the health and safety of their staff.

Pharmacies are by law required to keep controlled drugs, those most likely to be abused or that pose a risk of diversion from a legal supply route, in a locked safe, cabinet or room which is constructed to prevent unauthorised access to the drugs.

Pharmacy: Theft
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Thursday 21st March 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an estimate of the amount of medication that has been stolen from community pharmacies in the last year.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The data related to crime, including assault and theft, in community pharmacies is not held by the Department but could be obtained from individual police departments through Freedom of Information requests. These are matters for the police and criminal justice system. Community pharmacy staff are considered emergency workers under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 which provides for increased sentencing powers.

Community pharmacies are private businesses that are commissioned to provide National Health Service pharmaceutical services and are legally responsible for the health and safety of their staff.

Pharmacies are by law required to keep controlled drugs, those most likely to be abused or that pose a risk of diversion from a legal supply route, in a locked safe, cabinet or room which is constructed to prevent unauthorised access to the drugs.

Pharmacy: Security
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Thursday 21st March 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has taken recent steps to ensure that there is increased security for medicines within community pharmacies.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The data related to crime, including assault and theft, in community pharmacies is not held by the Department but could be obtained from individual police departments through Freedom of Information requests. These are matters for the police and criminal justice system. Community pharmacy staff are considered emergency workers under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 which provides for increased sentencing powers.

Community pharmacies are private businesses that are commissioned to provide National Health Service pharmaceutical services and are legally responsible for the health and safety of their staff.

Pharmacies are by law required to keep controlled drugs, those most likely to be abused or that pose a risk of diversion from a legal supply route, in a locked safe, cabinet or room which is constructed to prevent unauthorised access to the drugs.

Pharmacy: Crimes of Violence
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Thursday 21st March 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many incidences of assault have been committed against community pharmacy staff in the last year.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The data related to crime, including assault and theft, in community pharmacies is not held by the Department but could be obtained from individual police departments through Freedom of Information requests. These are matters for the police and criminal justice system. Community pharmacy staff are considered emergency workers under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 which provides for increased sentencing powers.

Community pharmacies are private businesses that are commissioned to provide National Health Service pharmaceutical services and are legally responsible for the health and safety of their staff.

Pharmacies are by law required to keep controlled drugs, those most likely to be abused or that pose a risk of diversion from a legal supply route, in a locked safe, cabinet or room which is constructed to prevent unauthorised access to the drugs.

Pharmacy: Safety
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Thursday 21st March 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the safety of community pharmacies.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The data related to crime, including assault and theft, in community pharmacies is not held by the Department but could be obtained from individual police departments through Freedom of Information requests. These are matters for the police and criminal justice system. Community pharmacy staff are considered emergency workers under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 which provides for increased sentencing powers.

Community pharmacies are private businesses that are commissioned to provide National Health Service pharmaceutical services and are legally responsible for the health and safety of their staff.

Pharmacies are by law required to keep controlled drugs, those most likely to be abused or that pose a risk of diversion from a legal supply route, in a locked safe, cabinet or room which is constructed to prevent unauthorised access to the drugs.

Emergency Services: Crimes of Violence
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Wednesday 6th March 2024

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions there have been under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 in each of the last two years.

Answered by Gareth Bacon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of offenders convicted for offences relating to assault on emergency worker, covering the period requested. The latest data available, up to the year ending June 2023, can be obtained with the following data tool: Outcomes by Offence tool: June 2023.

In the data tool, navigate to ‘Prosecutions and Convictions’ tab and select ‘8.22 Assault of an emergency worker’ in the ‘Offence’ filter.

The pivot table will present the total number of offenders convicted for assaulting an emergency worker since year ending June 2011, including the requested last two years.

Prison Officers: Crimes of Violence
Asked by: Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)
Tuesday 16th January 2024

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many prosecutions for assaults against prison officers have been dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service on the grounds of not being in the (a) public interest and (b) interests of justice in each of the last five years.

Answered by Robert Courts - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not hold data on the number of prosecutions for offences relating specifically to assaults on prison officers. The number of prosecutions commenced in the last five years for charges relating to assault and/or battery against emergency workers (charged by way of section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 and section 1 of the Assaults on Emergency Workers
(Offences) Act 2018), which include prison officers, is set out below. It would not be possible to determine the outcome of these prosecutions or whether the charge related specifically to an assault on a prison officer without an examination of CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.

2018-2019

2019-2020

2020-2021

2021-2022

2022-2023

Section 39, Criminal Justice Act 1988; Section 1, Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018

4,401

23,676

28,906

35,301

31,996

Data Source: CPS Case Management Information System

Prison Officers: Crimes of Violence
Asked by: Ruth Cadbury (Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)
Thursday 11th January 2024

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions there have been for assaults on prison officers under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018.

Answered by Gareth Bacon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on the number of defendants convicted for offences relating to assault on prison officers, from 2010 to 2022, in the Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2022, using the following HO codes:

  • 10504 – Assaulting a prisoner custody officer or custody officer
  • 00873 – Assault or assault by beating of an emergency worker

The assault on a prison officer can be prosecuted under both ‘Assaulting a prisoner custody officer or custody officer’ and ‘Assault or assault by beating of an emergency worker’ offences since the enactment of Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018. However, whether the offences under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 relate to assaults specifically on prison officers is not held centrally in the Court Proceedings database. This information may be held on court records but to examine individual court records would incur disproportionate costs.

Fireworks: Crimes of Violence
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Monday 13th November 2023

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has taken steps with Cabinet colleagues to make an assessment of the potential impact of the public (a) sale and (b) use of fireworks on levels of assaults on (i) police officers, (ii) ambulance staff, (iii) firefighters and (iv) members of the public.

Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)

The Government has not undertaken an assessment of the potential impact of the public sale and use of fireworks on levels of assaults on the emergency services or members of the public.

Any assault on a member of the public using fireworks is a police matter. In addition, any attack on the emergency services – including any those involve fireworks – can be dealt with by the police using powers in the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018.



Department Publications - Statistics
Tuesday 19th March 2024
Ministry of Justice
Source Page: Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: June 2023
Document: A Technical Guide to Criminal Justice Statistics (PDF)

Found: (Amendment) Order 2014 • The Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 The Powers of Criminal