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Written Question
Dogs: Theft
Wednesday 17th February 2021

Asked by: Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to tackle dog theft.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

I refer my Rt Hon Friend to the answer I gave to a question from the Hon Member for Newport East (UIN 142846).


Written Question
Seasonal Workers: Pilot Schemes
Wednesday 7th October 2020

Asked by: Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to make a decision on whether to continue the Seasonal Workers Pilot scheme under the new points-based immigration system.

Answered by Kevin Foster

We are working with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for Work and Pensions to evaluate and consider the findings of the Pilot, including balancing measures to recruit in the UK Labour Market with any access to overseas labour.

We will publish further details in due course.


Written Question
Guardianship
Monday 13th January 2020

Asked by: Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to provide independent legal guardianship for (a) separated, (b) unaccompanied and (c) trafficked children in the UK.

Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

This Government takes its responsibility for the welfare of unaccompanied, trafficked and asylum-seeking children very seriously and has stringent safeguards in place.

Local authorities are responsible for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children in their area, including separated, unaccompanied and child victims of modern slavery. Unaccompanied children looked after by local authorities are entitled to the same services as any other looked-after child. Under these arrangements, unaccompanied children are assessed with regard to their individual needs and provided with access to education, accommodation and health services. They will be assigned a social worker and an independent reviewing officer, who are responsible for overseeing their care arrangements.

In addition, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in England are able to access independent advice and assistance on the asylum process and their interactions with other central and local government agencies, through the Refugee Council’s Children’s Advice Project. Scotland and Northern Ireland also provide separate guardianship services.

Local children's services will work in close co-operation with the police and other statutory agencies to offer potentially trafficked children the support they require. In addition to statutory support, the Government has successfully expanded Independent Child Trafficking Guardians (ICTGs) this year, so that ICTGs are operational in one third of all local authorities in England and Wales. ICTGs are an additional source of advice and support for all trafficked children, irrespective of nationality, and somebody who can advocate on their behalf.

These arrangements ensure unaccompanied children are provided with the support and advice that they need.


Written Question
Guardianship
Tuesday 5th November 2019

Asked by: Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps have been taken to provide independent legal guardianship for separated, unaccompanied and trafficked children in the UK.

Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Dissolution.


Written Question
Police: Hampshire
Wednesday 23rd October 2019

Asked by: Damian Hinds (Conservative - East Hampshire)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the change in FTE police numbers in Hampshire (a) in 2019 (b) in subsequent years.

Answered by Kit Malthouse

The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers in each Police Force Area (PFA) in England and Wales in the annual ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin.

The number of officers in Hampshire in each year from 31 March 2007 to 31 March 2019, by headcount and full-time equivalence (FTE), can be found in open data tables available here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/817734/open-data-table-police-workforce.ods

We have also announced the allocation of 156 additional officers in Hampshire by the end of 2020/21 as part of the Police Uplift Programme.

These new officers will be in addition to those hired to fill existing vacancies and the extra officers already being recruited due to the increase in police funding for 2019-20.