Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding each police authority in England received (a) in (i) revenue support grant and (ii) redistributed business rates and (b) through the council tax policing precept in 2009-10.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Information on revenue grant support, redistributed business rates and council tax policing precept for 2009-10 was published by the Department for Communities and Local Government (now Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) and is available at the link below.
Table 6 breaks down council tax precept income for English police forces.
Table 8 includes a breakdown of revenue grant support and redistributed business rates by force area.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the online platforms that hate crime offences have been perpetrated on.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Home Office does not collect this information centrally. However, the most recent assessment of the evidence is available on GOV.UK: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/748140/hate-crime-a-thematic-review-of-the-current-evidence-oct2018-horr102.pdf.
A joint Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and Home Office White Paper will be published this winter, which will set out a range of legislative and non-legislative measures detailing how we will tackle online harms. Potential areas where we will consider legislating include transparency report-ing to outline the response and prevalence of harms, including hate crime, on online platforms.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the (a) amount of direct Government funding and (b) contribution from council tax through the police precept to each police force in England in each year from 2009 to 2016.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Earlier this year the Home Office published a statistical bulletin setting out the breakdown of general Government grant funding and precept funding for each force for the years 2015-16 to 2018-19, available at the link below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-funding-for-england-and-wales-2015-to-2019
Police Grant Reports and accompanying Written Ministerial Statements setting out the grant funding provided by the Home Office are available for the years since 2010-11 at the address below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-finance
The 2009-10 Police Grant Report can be found at the link below.
Council tax information for Police and Crime Commissioners in England since 2011-12 is published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and is available at the link below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/council-tax-statistics
The 2009-10 and 2010-11 council tax information can be found at the links below.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what level of reserve funding police forces held at 31 March in each year since 2009.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Reserves are an important tool for police leaders, but this is taxpayers’ money and we need real transparency about how it is being used.
That is why in January the Government published information on police reserves and provided guidance to Police and Crime Commissioners making clear that they must be more open with taxpayers about their plans to use them.
The exact level of reserves is a matter for individual Police and Crime Commissioners, who have a legal duty to set balanced annual budgets and ensure they have adequate reserves. Police reserve levels since 2011 are published in the Police Financial Reserves section on gov.uk. These can be found by following the link below. Earlier figures can be found in former Police Authority statements of accounts.
We will shortly be publishing March 2018 police reserve figures on gov.uk, following the publication of Police and Crime Commissioners’ annual accounts
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-financial-reserves
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the (a) amount of direct Government funding and (b) contribution from council tax through the police precept to each police force in England in each year from 2009 to 2016.
Answered by Nick Hurd
Earlier this year the Home Office published a statistical bulletin setting out the breakdown of general Government grant funding and precept funding for each force for the years 2015-16 to 2018-19, available at the link below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-funding-for-england-and-wales-2015-to-2019
Police Grant Reports and accompanying Written Ministerial Statements setting out the grant funding provided by the Home Office are available for the years since 2010-11 at the address below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-finance
The 2009-10 Police Grant Report can be found at the link below.
Council tax information for Police and Crime Commissioners in England since 2011-12 is published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and is available at the link below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/council-tax-statistics
The 2009-10 and 2010-11 council tax information can be found at the links below.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for his Department to respond to it's consultation on the draft Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill; and what the timetable is for further steps to be taken in relation to that Bill.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
On 8 March we launched a 12 week public consultation on proposals for a landmark domestic abuse Bill and a supporting package of practical action to transform the response to domestic abuse. The consultation closed on 31 May. Over 3,200 responses to the consultation were received. The responses to the consultation are being considered and a draft Bill will be published later this session.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for his Department to respond to it's consultation on the draft Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill; and what the timetable is for further steps to be taken in relation to that Bill.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
On 8 March we launched a 12 week public consultation on proposals for a landmark domestic abuse Bill and a supporting package of practical action to transform the response to domestic abuse. The consultation closed on 31 May. Over 3,200 responses to the consultation were received. The responses to the consultation are being considered and a draft Bill will be published later this session.