Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what advice her Department requested from the National Archives on the (a) disposal and (b) destruction of Windrush generation records in advance of the destruction of those records.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
No decision was taken to destroy ‘Windrush migrant’ information specifically and records were not categorised as being related to a ‘Windrush migrant’ or the ‘Windrush generation’. Any Windrush papers would have been destroyed in line with the retention and disposal periods set for the wider records collections in which they were located.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to identify companies that are required to make declarations in relation to their supply chains under section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Under Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, commercial organisations that carry on a business in the UK and have an annual turnover of £36 million or more, are required to publish a slavery and human trafficking statement.
There are a number of practical difficulties in using the data Government currently holds to identify businesses in scope, for example, although Companies House is working to make their data more readily accessible it is not currently possible to filter their database by turnover size. Therefore we are planning to obtain a list of organisations that are subject to this legislation from a range of non-governmental sources.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on the effect on local authority Fire and Rescue services of the Ministry of Defence's proposals to contract-out the Defence Fire and Rescue Service.
Answered by Nick Hurd
There have been no discussions between the Secretary of State for the Home Department and the Secretary of State for Defence on the effect on local authority fire and rescue services of the Ministry of Defence's proposal to contract out the Defence and Fire and Rescue Service.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on the effect on local authority fire and rescue services of his Department's proposal to contract out the Defence Fire and Rescue Service.
Answered by Nick Hurd
There have been no discussions between the Secretary of State for the Home Department and the Secretary of State for Defence on the effect on local authority fire and rescue services of the MOD’s proposal to contract out the Defence and Fire and Rescue Service.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To as the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with Chief Fire Officers on consequential effects of proposals from the Ministry of Defence to contract out the Defence Fire and Rescue Service.
Answered by Nick Hurd
There have been no discussions between the Secretary of State and Chief Fire Officers of local Fire and Rescue Services regarding the consequential effects of the MOD’s proposals to contract out the Defence and Fire and Rescue Service.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for indefinite leave to remain from residents in Stoke-on-Trent are awaiting a decision.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The information is not published in the format requested.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with Staffordshire's Police and Crime Commissioner on future governance arrangements for Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire has considered options for joint police and fire governance and consulted locally on a proposal to take on responsibility for the governance of fire and rescue in the area, under the Policing and Crime Act (2017) provisions. On 3 October, he submitted a written proposal to the Home Secretary for consideration.
Asked by: Gareth Snell (Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many warranted officers there were in Staffordshire Police on 1 January in (a) 2011, (b) 2012, (c) 2013, (d) 2014, (e) 2015, (f) 2016 and (g) 2017.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on police workforce by each police force in England and Wales on a bi-annual basis. These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2017