Asked by: Dan Norris (Labour - North East Somerset and Hanham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to end the forced swim test in addition to holding discussions with (a) the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology and (b) UKRI.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office intends to completely eliminate the use of the forced swim test. This will require the validation of suitable appropriate alternatives.
Asked by: Dan Norris (Labour - North East Somerset and Hanham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish a timeline for ending the forced swim test.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office intends to completely eliminate the use of the forced swim test. This will require the validation of suitable appropriate alternatives.
Asked by: Dan Norris (Labour - North East Somerset and Hanham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will set a deadline for elimination of the forced swim test.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office intends to completely eliminate the use of the forced swim test. This will require the validation of suitable appropriate alternatives.
Asked by: Dan Norris (Labour - North East Somerset and Hanham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many active licences authorise use of the forced swim test.
Answered by Dan Jarvis - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office intends to completely eliminate the use of the forced swim test. This will require the validation of suitable appropriate alternatives.
Asked by: Dan Norris (Labour - North East Somerset and Hanham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to support the availability of bleed kits.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The use of bleed control kits is determined at the local level and the Government does not provide specific funding for bleed control kits.
Where decisions have been made by police forces to deploy bleed control kits, these would have been done as part of their operational decision making, including how to allocate resources based on their local knowledge and experience.
Asked by: Dan Norris (Labour - North East Somerset and Hanham)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to make all wildlife crimes notifiable.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
This Government recognises the importance of tackling wildlife crime, which is why, along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Home Office directly funds the National Wildlife Crime Unit to help tackle these crimes.
There are no plans currently to make all wildlife crimes notifiable. Any non-notifiable wildlife crime reported to police can be investigated as Chief Constables have operational independence to tackle the crimes that matter most to their communities.