Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Government's publication A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation, published on 29 March 2023, how much and what proportion of the budget of each regulator in their Department was spent on regulation of artificial intelligence in the latest period for which information is available; how many staff in each regulator worked (a) wholly and (b) partly on those issues in the latest period for which information is available; and whether those regulators plan to increase resources for their work on artificial intelligence.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The AI Regulation White Paper sets out principles to guide responsible development and use of AI in all sectors of the economy, while highlighting the importance of regulators’ expertise to tailor their implementation to the specific context in which AI is used.
Due to difficulties in being able to disaggregate resource allocation specifically for ‘artificial intelligence’ work, we are not able to provide the figures requested on activity on AI regulation.
We will engage with regulators across the Home Office sector to understand the organisational capacity and resources needed for them to carry out this work effectively and in line with the approach set out in the White Paper.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to Answer 30 March 2022 of to Questions 147057 and 147056, of the 14,260 online CSA cases disseminated to police forces in England how many went to each police force between March 2020 and February 2021; and of the 17,022 online CSA cases disseminated to police forces in England how many went to each police force between March 2021 and February 2022.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
Further to the Answer of 30 March 2022 to Questions 147057 and 147056, the number of online child sexual abuse cases disseminated by the National Crime Agency to each Police Force in England is provided in the table below:
Police Force Disseminated To | March 2020- February 2021 | March 2021 - February 2022 |
Avon & Somerset Constabulary | 431 | 514 |
Bedfordshire Police | 134 | 186 |
Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 198 | 289 |
Cheshire Constabulary | 198 | 321 |
City of London Police | 2 | 2 |
Cleveland Police | 154 | 189 |
Cumbria Constabulary | 96 | 131 |
Derbyshire Constabulary | 210 | 247 |
Devon & Cornwall Constabulary | 387 | 504 |
Dorset Police | 132 | 172 |
Durham Constabulary | 124 | 156 |
Essex Police | 379 | 446 |
Gloucestershire Constabulary | 105 | 160 |
Greater Manchester Police | 884 | 1,050 |
Hampshire Constabulary | 481 | 520 |
Hertfordshire Constabulary | 242 | 294 |
Humberside Police | 271 | 300 |
Kent County Constabulary | 477 | 509 |
Lancashire Constabulary | 334 | 478 |
Leicestershire Constabulary | 267 | 347 |
Lincolnshire Police | 156 | 233 |
Merseyside Police | 425 | 503 |
Metropolitan Police | 2,892 | 3,002 |
Norfolk Constabulary | 202 | 229 |
North Yorkshire Police | 151 | 163 |
Northamptonshire Police | 221 | 213 |
Northumbria Police | 378 | 493 |
Nottinghamshire Police | 318 | 358 |
South Yorkshire Police | 431 | 536 |
Staffordshire Police | 260 | 326 |
Suffolk Constabulary | 167 | 213 |
Surrey Police | 211 | 236 |
Sussex Police | 362 | 493 |
Thames Valley Police | 537 | 735 |
Warwickshire Police | 106 | 131 |
West Mercia Constabulary | 243 | 267 |
West Midlands Police | 890 | 1,192 |
West Yorkshire Police | 615 | 691 |
Wiltshire Constabulary | 171 | 159 |
Two or more forces | 18 | 34 |
Grand Total | 14,260 | 17,022 |
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2022 to Question 143686, how many online child sexual abuse cases the National Crime Agency disseminated to each police force, Region or NCA Investigations for action in the period from March 2021 to February 2022.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
Further to the Answer of 24 March 2022 to Question 143686, the National Crime Agency disseminated online child sexual abuse cases to Police Forces in England, Regional Forces and NCA teams as follows:
In the period 1 March 2020 to 28 February 2021, the NCA disseminated 14,260 online CSA cases to forces in England including 18 individual cases referred to two or more police forces. And a further 49 cases were disseminated to Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs). NCA investigations teams also commenced an additional 133 investigations into online child sexual abuse.
In the period 1 March 2021 to 28 February 2022, the NCA disseminated 17,022 online CSA cases to forces in England including 34 individual cases referred to two or more police forces. And a further 206 cases were disseminated to ROCUs. NCA investigations teams commenced 96 new investigations into online child sexual abuse.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2022 to Question 143686, how many online child sexual abuse cases the National Crime Agency disseminated to each police force, Region or NCA Investigations for action in the period from March 2020 to February 2021.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
Further to the Answer of 24 March 2022 to Question 143686, the National Crime Agency disseminated online child sexual abuse cases to Police Forces in England, Regional Forces and NCA teams as follows:
In the period 1 March 2020 to 28 February 2021, the NCA disseminated 14,260 online CSA cases to forces in England including 18 individual cases referred to two or more police forces. And a further 49 cases were disseminated to Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs). NCA investigations teams also commenced an additional 133 investigations into online child sexual abuse.
In the period 1 March 2021 to 28 February 2022, the NCA disseminated 17,022 online CSA cases to forces in England including 34 individual cases referred to two or more police forces. And a further 206 cases were disseminated to ROCUs. NCA investigations teams commenced 96 new investigations into online child sexual abuse.
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 many referrals for online child sexual abuse cases the National Crime Agency has passed on to each police force in England between (a) March 2020 and February 2021 and (b) March 2021 and February 2022.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Tackling online child sexual abuse remains a key priority for this Government. Investment in the National Crime Agency and UK forces has ensured offenders are identified and brought to justice.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) leads the law enforcement response to online child sexual abuse working in collaboration with police forces across England. The NCA develops and disseminates intelligence in relation to online child sexual abuse to UK forces and NCA teams. This intelligence includes industry referrals of child sexual abuse, public reports, and intelligence generated by the NCA and international law enforcement.
In cases where the NCA judges that an offence has occurred and the offender can be located, these cases, including the content, are disseminated to a police force, Region or NCA Investigations for action.
In the period March 2020 to February 2021, the NCA disseminated 14,260 online child sexual abuse cases to forces in England including 18 individual cases referred to two or more police forces. And in the period between March 2021 and February 2022 the NCA disseminated 17,022 online child sexual abuse cases to forces in England including 34 individual cases referred to two or more police forces.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the update to the EU Settlement Scheme caseworker guidance on late applications and the section on children in care and care leavers in that guidance, whether care leavers who are aged 18-25 years at the deadline are included in the children in care and care leavers category as having reasonable grounds to make out of time applications.
Answered by Kevin Foster
In line with the Citizens’ Rights Agreements, there remains scope, indefinitely, for a person eligible for status under the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) to make a late application to the scheme where there are reasonable grounds for their failure to meet the deadline applicable to them.
We would consider it reasonable grounds for a late application to be made where a local authority failed in its duty to support a care leaver aged 18 to 25 in making an in-time application to the EUSS.
As made clear on many occasions the guidance published on 1 April is not exhaustive. We will take a pragmatic and flexible approach to cases in light of the particular circumstances of each application
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 level of UK-produced steel procured by his Department and associated departmental public bodies and agencies in (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.
Answered by Kevin Foster
No estimate of the level of UK-produced steel procured has been made.
We have discussed the procurement of steel with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which has asked all Government departments to consider guidance on steel procurement and to notify of any upcoming opportunities for industry.
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 the Government has provided to organisations tackling online extremism and hate crime in each of the last five years.
Answered by Victoria Atkins - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Over the last five years the Government has committed to funding a range of organisations tackling online extremism and hate crime.
This has included: over £450k to MOPAC for a London Hate Crime Hub through the Police Innovation Fund; £200k for the first year of the police National Online Hate Crime Hub which went live in January 2018; alongside £100k to the Police to support the TrueVision website for hate crime reporting. As part of the response to online extremism under the Counter Extremism Strategy, we have provided £272,419 in grant funding for Civil Society Organisations through the Building a Stronger Britain Together Programme.
There has also been funding to tackle broader issues than online extremism and hate which would have benefit for both issues. For example, over £1.8m funding to tackle online harassment through the Office for Students.
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 - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
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.