Asked by: Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many road traffic collisions involving a cyclist and a pedestrian were reported to the police in England and Wales in each of the last five years; and what was the recorded severity of the injuries resulting from those collisions.
Answered by Baroness Vere of Norbiton
The number of reported personal injury collisions between a pedal cyclist and a pedestrian in England and Wales, and the resulting casualties by severity of injury, in each of the last 5 years for which data are available is shown in the table.
Year | Total collisions | Total casualties | Fatalities | Seriously injured casualties | Slightly injured casualties |
2017 | 488 | 626 | 4 | 147 | 475 |
2018 | 428 | 544 | 1 | 159 | 384 |
2019 | 362 | 448 | 4 | 144 | 300 |
2020 | 278 | 343 | 4 | 112 | 227 |
2021 | 384 | 462 | 0 | 140 | 322 |
Asked by: Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the number of officers the Police Service of Northern Ireland needed to safely provide a police service for the people of Northern Ireland.
Answered by Lord Duncan of Springbank
Policing is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and operational capability is a matter for the Chief Constable. The PSNI’s main budget is allocated by the Department of Justice from the Northern Ireland block grant.
The UK Government has provided the PSNI with the additional security funding it has asked for and needs to ensure that they have the resource (including officers) to tackle the SEVERE threat from Northern Ireland related terrorism. This additional security funding boosts PSNI’s ability to tackle the terrorist threat while ensuring day-to-day policing isn’t compromised.
PSNI received £230m in additional security funding in the last Parliament and £160m in this one. In addition, the UK Government has, to date, provided PSNI with over £16.5m in EU Exit funding to help manage pressures and contingencies arising from ongoing EU exit preparations. This has enabled PSNI to recruit 206 additional officers this financial year.
Asked by: Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, in the light of (1) their announcement of an additional £970 million in funding for the police service in 2019, (2) the fact that each police officer costs approximately £50,000 a year, and (3) their proposals to fund an increase in police numbers of 3,500 officers, they will instead be able to fund an extra 20,000 police officers.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
Police funding is increasing by over £1 billion this year, including council tax and serious violence funding. Police force spending is a decision for PCCs and Chief Constables, considering their local pressures and priorities.
The Home Secretary has committed to prioritising police funding at the next Spending Review.
Asked by: Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how they measure the performance and success of the National Crime Agency in limiting the import and supply of controlled substances such as cocaine and heroin.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
In line with the National Serious Organised Crime Performance Framework, disruption data allows for the assessment of varied activities including traditional law enforcement Pursue responses and the broader spectrum of Prevent, Protect and Prepare activities, carried out by a range of agencies and government departments.
Therefore, across SOC threats (including Drugs), the NCA assesses its disruptions by the extent to which an activity is judged to have led to a reduction in the threat from an individual, group, or vulnerability linked to serious and organised crime. This approach helps to calibrate the NCA’s effort towards the highest harm serious and organised criminals and networks.
Asked by: Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to reports of the actions of Rabia Bibi and the government of Pakistan in arresting a trafficking ring of Pakistani and Chinese nationals, what assessment they have made of the number of cases of faith targeted human trafficking; and what steps they are taking to ensure that this newly vulnerable community is being effectively supported through UK aid designated for the most vulnerable and marginalised communities.
Answered by Baroness Sugg
The UK Government’s approach to tackling modern slavery and trafficking in Pakistan is to reduce the permissive environment through community based activities, and to strengthen the legislative framework for more effective prevention and control. We have not made an assessment of the number of cases of faith targeted human trafficking, however the UK Government is currently working on a range of projects aimed at minimising the incidence of modern slavery (including trafficking) in Pakistan. DFID and the Home Office have also commissioned a study which will look at modern slavery and trafficking specifically. A second study on women and trafficking is planned in 2020.
Asked by: Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of Working Links going into administration on the charities to which it owed money.
Answered by Baroness Buscombe
The Department considered the impact on stakeholders and sub-contractors, based on the Administrator’s statement of affairs at the point of Working Links going into administration, and has worked with both the Administrator and Fedcap, who have taken over a number of Working Links contracts, to minimise the impact on those supply chain partners owed monies by Working Links at the point of administration.
Asked by: Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the average time taken for the Independent Office for Police Conduct to investigate a public complaint about police behaviour.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
The information you requested is available on the Independent Office for Police Conduct’s (IOPC) website, published via their annual reports. The 2017/18 report can be accessed
https://policeconduct.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Documents/Who-we-are/accountability-performance/IOPC_annual_report_and_accounts_2017-18.pdf with previous reports available https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/who-we-are/accountability-and-performance/annual-report-and-plans The police conduct accountability and performance annual report: describes our work over the past year, including the investigations we have carried out, the appeals we have handled, and our work to increase public confidence in the complaints system. It also outlines what we have been doing over the past year to review and implement changes to the way we work.
The 2017/18 performance year, the figures include 9 months of IPCC data (April to December) and 3 months of IOPC data (January to March).
Figures for the 2018/19 performance year will be included in the IOPC’s next annual report which will be laid before Parliament and published later in the year.
Asked by: Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the level of illiteracy among the prison population in England and Wales over the last three years; and how those figures have been affected by the literacy programme organised by HM Prison Service.
Answered by Lord Keen of Elie - Shadow Minister (Justice)
On 24 May, we published a ground-breaking Education and Employment strategy for our prisons. The strategy sets out how we will transform our approaches to helping prisoners develop their skills and thereby secure and sustain employment after they leave custody.
The government introduced mandatory testing of prisoners’ levels of maths and English in prisons in England in August 2014. Prisoners are tested on reception to custody and, since 1 August 2017, we also test prisoners when they move between establishments and on release.
The table below sets out data on assessed levels of English on reception for prisoners in custody in England.
Academic year: | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | |||
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Education assessments in English | 72,680 |
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Entry Level 1 | 5,760 | 7.9% | 4,620 | 7.4% | 4,350 | 8.0% |
Entry Level 2 | 9,630 | 13.2% | 9,770 | 15.7% | 8,440 | 15.6% |
Entry Level 3 | 21,620 | 29.7% | 21,050 | 33.8% | 16,610 | 30.7% |
Level 1 | 25,850 | 35.6% | 18,560 | 29.8% | 17,360 | 32.0% |
Level 2 | 9,340 | 12.9% | 6,340 | 10.2% | 5,830 | 10.8% |
Not known | 890 | 1.2% | 2,410 | 3.9% | 2,110 | 3.9% |
Entry Level 3 would be the level expected of an 11-year old: in the 2016/17 academic year, 54% of prisoners were at or below that level in English.
We are empowering governors, giving them the power to tailor education and training to the needs of their prisoners by putting in place new prison education contracts that will come into effect from April 2019. Under these new arrangements, we will be collecting the data needed to allow us to judge the success of our learning programmes more effectively in terms of progress. We have put in place a core common curriculum, focused on the underpinning basic skills of maths and English, which will underpin the new education contracts. We have selected the Awarding Organisations whose qualifications will be used exclusively in these subjects so that those starting a course at one prison can bank and build on their progress if they move elsewhere.
Asked by: Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the budget to support the police transformation fund in England and Wales in each of the last three years.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
As outlined in a Written Statement on Police Funding (HLWS429) of 31 January 2018 the Police Transformation Fund will remain at £175m in the 2018/19 financial year. £29m of the fund is allocated to enable a national uplift in armed policing capability and capacity.
The fund was £175m in 2017/18 (including £32m for the armed uplift) and £76m in 2016/17 (including £34m for the armed uplift).
Asked by: Lord Hogan-Howe (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have died from police weapon discharges in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
The Home Office publication Police use of firearms statistics, England and Wales: April 2016 to March 2017 presents statistics on the number of i) armed officers, ii) police firearms operations and iii) incidents in which police firearms were discharged in the 43 Home Office police forces for the financial years ending March 2009 to March 2017. The data can be found in tables 1, 3 and 4 here:
Below is the relevant extract from the tables to answer part of your request:
How many police firearms officers are employed in England and Wales at present; and how many were employed in each of the last five years (HL7888).
Table 3: Number of armed officers on 31 March 2013 to 31 March 2017
Police force/region | March 2013 | March 2014 | March 2015 | March 2016 | March 2017 |
England and Wales | 6,092 | 5,864 | 5,647 | 5,639 | 6,278 |
How many times police firearms officers have been deployed in England and Wales in each of the last five years (HL7889).
Table 1: Number of police firearms operations, years ending March 2013 to March 2017
Police force/region | March 2013 | March 2014 | March 2015 | March 2016 | March 2017 |
England and Wales | 15,475 | 14,939 | 14,685 | 14,649 | 15,705 |
The Home Office does not hold data centrally on:
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) publication ‘Deaths during or following police contact Statistics for England and Wales 2016/17’ presents statistics on the number of fatal police shootings for the financial years ending March 2007 to March 2017. The data can be found in table A1 here:
https://policeconduct.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Documents/statistics/Tables_deaths_report1617.ods