Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to provide funding for the Community Security Trust.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Community Security Trust will receive funding of £18 million per year through the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant (JCPS) from 2024/25 to 2027/28.
The Jewish Community Protective Security Grant provides protective security measures (such as security personnel services, CCTV and alarm systems) at synagogues, Jewish educational establishments and community sites. It is managed on behalf of the Home Office by the Community Security Trust.
We continue to work closely with the Community Security Trust on how best to protect Jewish communities across the UK.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to tackle knife crime amongst (a) young people and (b) young people in the black community.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
Halving knife crime over the next decade is a key part of the Government’s mission to take back our streets. We are taking a range of steps to realise this ambition.
We have banned Zombie style knives and zombie style machetes.
We have set up a Knife-Enabled Robbery Taskforce, which brings together Ministers, Chief Constables and others working across criminal justice to take immediate action to tackle the fastest rising type of knife crime.
We have formed the Coalition to Tackle Knife Crime that brings together campaign groups, families of people who have tragically lost their lives to knife crime, young people who have been impacted and community leaders, united in their mission to save lives and make Britain a safer place for the next generation.
We launched a consultation to help our plans for an effective ban of Ninja Swords.
We have launched a review into the online sale and delivery of knives to identify any gaps in current processes and legislation. We are also consulting on introducing personal liability measures on senior executives of online platforms or marketplaces who fail to take action to remove illegal content relating to weapons.
We will also create a new Young Futures programme - intervening earlier to stop young people being drawn into crime. It is vital we have a system that can identify and support those young people who need it most.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many taskings for Military Aid to the Civil Authorities from her Department required the use of RAF CH-47 Chinook helicopters since 2019.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office have made no Military Aid to the Civil Authority request that has required the use of RAF CH-47 Chinooks Helicopters since 2019.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2024 to Question 16677 on Community Policing: Cambridgeshire, how many of the 13,000 additional police officers Cambridgeshire Constabulary will receive.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
As part of the Government’s Safer Streets mission, the Home Secretary has made a clear commitment to strengthen neighbourhood policing through the introduction of a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee.
This includes delivering an additional 13,000 police officers, PCSOs and special constables in neighbourhood policing roles up and down the country. We are working closely with policing to implement this commitment and will announce our plans for the delivery of neighbourhood officers shortly. Every part of the country needs to benefit from this pledge, and of course that includes Cambridgeshire.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2024 to Question 3381 on Police: Cambridgeshire, how many of the additional 13,000 police personnel will be redeployed police constables; what criteria her Department will use to determine which roles are redeployed; and which roles will be in scope for redeployment.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Government is committed to introducing a neighbourhood policing guarantee as part of its Safer Streets mission. This will include the delivery of an additional 13,000 police officers, PCSOs and special constables into neighbourhood policing roles throughout England and Wales and will ensure that every community has a named officer to turn to.
The Home Office is working with policing to deliver this increase which will include a combination of additional recruitment and redeployment into neighbourhood policing roles. We will announce our plans for the delivery of neighbourhood officers in 25/26 shortly.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how Cambridgeshire Constabulary will benefit from the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
As part of the Government’s Safer Streets mission, the Home Secretary has made a clear commitment to strengthen neighbourhood policing through the introduction of a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee.
This includes delivering an additional 13,000 police officers, PCSOs and special constables in neighbourhood policing roles up and down the country.
We are working closely with policing to implement this commitment and will announce our plans for the delivery of neighbourhood officers shortly.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers, (b) Police Community Support Officers and (c) special constables are planned to be recruited between 1 December 2024 and 31 March 2025.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
As part of the Government’s Safer Streets mission, the Home Secretary has made a clear commitment to strengthen neighbourhood policing through the introduction of a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee. This will include delivering an additional 13,000 police officers, PCSOs and special constables in neighbourhood policing roles and ensuring every community has a named officer to turn to.
We are working closely with policing to implement this commitment and will announce our plans for the delivery of neighbourhood officers shortly.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) warranted police officers, (b) Police Community Support Officers and (c) special constables have been recruited since February 2023.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number of police workers joining the police service in the ‘Police Workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.
Information on the number of Police Officers, Police Community Support Officers and Special Constables joining the police service between the years ending 31 March 2007 to 2024 can be found in the ‘Joiners Open Data Table’ here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/669a9161fc8e12ac3edb0081/open-data-table-police-workforce-joiners-240724.ods.
Information for the period 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025 is due to be published in Summer 2025.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Written Statement of 19 November 2024 on Police Reform, HCWS232, how the increase in the core grant for police forces will be divided up.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
On 19th November, the Home Secretary announced that central government funding for policing will increase by half a billion pounds; this includes an increase of over £260m in the core grant for police forces, and additional funding for neighbourhood policing, the NCA and counter terrorism.
Force level funding allocations for the financial year 2025-26 will be confirmed at the police funding settlement.
Asked by: Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative - Huntingdon)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on recruitment of (a) warranted police officers, (b) Police Community Support Officers and (c) Special Constables.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
This Government is committed to ensuring police forces are supported to tackle crime effectively.
The latest Home Office statistics for the overall Police Workforce show a 1.2% increase when compared to the previous year. The total paid police workforce in the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales was 236,588 full-time equivalents (FTE) as at 31 March 2024; an increase of 2,752 FTE, compared to 233,836 FTE as at 31 March 2023. This includes 147,746 FTE police officers (up 0.2% on 147,434 in March 2023); and 81,303 FTE police staff and designated officers (up 3.4% on 78,596 in March 2023).
As part of the Government’s Safer Streets mission, the Home Secretary has made a clear commitment to strengthen neighbourhood policing through the introduction of a Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee. This includes delivering an additional 13,000 police officers, PCSOs and special constables in neighbourhood policing roles. More detail on the Guarantee will be set out in the coming weeks.