Asked by: Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat - North Norfolk)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many working days were lost due to mental illness in her Department in each of the last three years.
Answered by Sarah Newton
The total number of working days lost in the Home Office due to mental illness in each of the last three years is set out in the table enclosed.
Period | Working Days Lost as a % of Working Days Available |
01 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 | 0.68% |
01 April 2014 to 31 March 2015 | 0.65% |
01 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 | 0.79% |
Data Source: Data View - Office for National Statistics complaint monthly | |||||
snapshot corporated Human Resources data for Home Office | |||||
Period Covered: Figures are from March 2014, March 2015 and March 2016 | |||||
Extraction Date: 1st April 2014, 2015 and 2016 | |||||
Organisational Coverage: Figures are from the Home Office | |||||
Employee Coverage: Data is based on all current paid Civil Servants at 31 March 2014, | |||||
2015 and 2016 and leavers during the previous 12 months | |||||
In the Home Office we are committed to breaking down barriers and reducing stigma for those staff living with mental health conditions. We signed up to the Time to Change pledge in 2014 making a public commitment to be at the forefront of UK employers to tackle mental health issues in the workplace and we remain dedicated to ensuring mental health is a priority. Our specific initiatives are outlined in Annex 1.
Asked by: Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat - North Norfolk)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds information on the number of times (a) territorial support groups and (b) other police officers have been deployed to a mental health unit in response to a request from a provider in each of the last three years.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The Home Office does not hold information on the number of times that any police officers or other police staff have been deployed to a mental health unit or deployed to recall a person on a mental health treatment order in the community to return them to hospital.
Police deployments are an operational matter for the relevant police force.
Asked by: Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat - North Norfolk)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds information on the number of times (a) territorial support groups and (b) other police officers have been deployed to recall a person on a mental heath treatment order in the community and to return them to hospital in each of the last three years.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The Home Office does not hold information on the number of times that any police officers or other police staff have been deployed to a mental health unit or deployed to recall a person on a mental health treatment order in the community to return them to hospital.
Police deployments are an operational matter for the relevant police force.
Asked by: Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat - North Norfolk)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the frequency and relative effect of the use of tasers on (a) people from the UK's Afro-Caribbean communities and (b) the general population.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
No data is recorded centrally on the frequency and relative effect of the use of TASER on people from Afro-Caribbean communities and the general population in England and Wales.
We are committed to improving transparency and accountability on the police use of force, which is why in 2014, the then Home Secretary asked former CC David Shaw (Chief Constable for West Mercia until July 2016) to lead a review into what data should be recorded and published.
The Review recommended the police record and publish the ethnicity, age, location and outcome of all serious use of force by police officers, including physical restraint and the use of TASER ® X26. Eight pathfinder police forces worked to implement the new data collection system from April 2016, and from October all forces are now working to implement this system. All forces are expected to publish their record level use of force data. We expect a sub-set of the data collected to form part of the overall Home Office 2017-18 Annual Data Requirement, which will be published on an annual basis.
There are no plans to review of the use of TASER in mental health settings. The deployment of police officers to mental health settings and the tactics used are an operational matter for the police. Any use of force by police officers in psychiatric wards – or any other setting – must be appropriate, proportionate, necessary and conducted as safely as is possible. If police officers need to use force, it is right that they are expected to account for their actions.
Asked by: Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat - North Norfolk)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2016 to Question 41026, which police forces record the ethnicity, age, location and outcome of all serious uses of force by police officers, including the use of tasers, in accordance with the recommendations of Chief Constable David Shaw's review.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
No data is recorded centrally on the frequency and relative effect of the use of TASER on people from Afro-Caribbean communities and the general population in England and Wales.
We are committed to improving transparency and accountability on the police use of force, which is why in 2014, the then Home Secretary asked former CC David Shaw (Chief Constable for West Mercia until July 2016) to lead a review into what data should be recorded and published.
The Review recommended the police record and publish the ethnicity, age, location and outcome of all serious use of force by police officers, including physical restraint and the use of TASER ® X26. Eight pathfinder police forces worked to implement the new data collection system from April 2016, and from October all forces are now working to implement this system. All forces are expected to publish their record level use of force data. We expect a sub-set of the data collected to form part of the overall Home Office 2017-18 Annual Data Requirement, which will be published on an annual basis.
There are no plans to review of the use of TASER in mental health settings. The deployment of police officers to mental health settings and the tactics used are an operational matter for the police. Any use of force by police officers in psychiatric wards – or any other setting – must be appropriate, proportionate, necessary and conducted as safely as is possible. If police officers need to use force, it is right that they are expected to account for their actions.
Asked by: Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat - North Norfolk)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2016 to Question 41026, when she plans to extend the recording of ethnicity, age, location and outcome of all serious uses of force by police officers, including the use of tasers, beyond the Pathfinder forces.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
No data is recorded centrally on the frequency and relative effect of the use of TASER on people from Afro-Caribbean communities and the general population in England and Wales.
We are committed to improving transparency and accountability on the police use of force, which is why in 2014, the then Home Secretary asked former CC David Shaw (Chief Constable for West Mercia until July 2016) to lead a review into what data should be recorded and published.
The Review recommended the police record and publish the ethnicity, age, location and outcome of all serious use of force by police officers, including physical restraint and the use of TASER ® X26. Eight pathfinder police forces worked to implement the new data collection system from April 2016, and from October all forces are now working to implement this system. All forces are expected to publish their record level use of force data. We expect a sub-set of the data collected to form part of the overall Home Office 2017-18 Annual Data Requirement, which will be published on an annual basis.
There are no plans to review of the use of TASER in mental health settings. The deployment of police officers to mental health settings and the tactics used are an operational matter for the police. Any use of force by police officers in psychiatric wards – or any other setting – must be appropriate, proportionate, necessary and conducted as safely as is possible. If police officers need to use force, it is right that they are expected to account for their actions.
Asked by: Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat - North Norfolk)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2016 to Question 41026, for what reason the collection of information on the ethnicity, age, location and outcome of all serious uses of force by police officers, including the use of tasers, will not form part of the 2016-17 Home Office Annual Data Return; if she will make it her policy to bring forward the publication of that data; and if she will make it her policy to publish that data on a quarterly basis.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
No data is recorded centrally on the frequency and relative effect of the use of TASER on people from Afro-Caribbean communities and the general population in England and Wales.
We are committed to improving transparency and accountability on the police use of force, which is why in 2014, the then Home Secretary asked former CC David Shaw (Chief Constable for West Mercia until July 2016) to lead a review into what data should be recorded and published.
The Review recommended the police record and publish the ethnicity, age, location and outcome of all serious use of force by police officers, including physical restraint and the use of TASER ® X26. Eight pathfinder police forces worked to implement the new data collection system from April 2016, and from October all forces are now working to implement this system. All forces are expected to publish their record level use of force data. We expect a sub-set of the data collected to form part of the overall Home Office 2017-18 Annual Data Requirement, which will be published on an annual basis.
There are no plans to review of the use of TASER in mental health settings. The deployment of police officers to mental health settings and the tactics used are an operational matter for the police. Any use of force by police officers in psychiatric wards – or any other setting – must be appropriate, proportionate, necessary and conducted as safely as is possible. If police officers need to use force, it is right that they are expected to account for their actions.
Asked by: Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat - North Norfolk)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will conduct an immediate review of the use of tasers (a) in mental health settings and (b) by the police more generally.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
No data is recorded centrally on the frequency and relative effect of the use of TASER on people from Afro-Caribbean communities and the general population in England and Wales.
We are committed to improving transparency and accountability on the police use of force, which is why in 2014, the then Home Secretary asked former CC David Shaw (Chief Constable for West Mercia until July 2016) to lead a review into what data should be recorded and published.
The Review recommended the police record and publish the ethnicity, age, location and outcome of all serious use of force by police officers, including physical restraint and the use of TASER ® X26. Eight pathfinder police forces worked to implement the new data collection system from April 2016, and from October all forces are now working to implement this system. All forces are expected to publish their record level use of force data. We expect a sub-set of the data collected to form part of the overall Home Office 2017-18 Annual Data Requirement, which will be published on an annual basis.
There are no plans to review of the use of TASER in mental health settings. The deployment of police officers to mental health settings and the tactics used are an operational matter for the police. Any use of force by police officers in psychiatric wards – or any other setting – must be appropriate, proportionate, necessary and conducted as safely as is possible. If police officers need to use force, it is right that they are expected to account for their actions.
Asked by: Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat - North Norfolk)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data or other information on the deployment of tasers in mental health settings was provided by Chief Constable David Shaw's review of taser use.
Answered by Mike Penning
Data is not recorded centrally on the number of times the police have deployed Taser devices on psychiatric wards. A Taser record is completed by police officers each time a Taser is used. However, this record does not currently show the detailed geographical or type of location.
Police Use of Taser statistics are published by the Home Office and most recently on 28 April 2016. These provide a snapshot of Taser use.
We have been very clear that the public need greater transparency and that is why the Home Secretary asked Chief Constable David Shaw to lead an in-depth review of the publication of Taser data and other use of force by police officers.
The review recommended that the police record and publish the ethnicity, age, location and outcome of all serious use of force by police officers, including physical restraint and Taser. Pathfinder forces started to collect this data from April this year, and it is anticipated that the collection will form part of the 2017-18 Home Office Annual Data Return.
A copy of Chief Constable David Shaw’s review will be placed in the House library. The review contained no data on the number of times the police have used Taser in mental health settings.
Asked by: Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat - North Norfolk)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timetable is for (a) collection and (b) publication of data on the ethnicity and age of targets, location and outcome of taser use by the police.
Answered by Mike Penning
Data is not recorded centrally on the number of times the police have deployed Taser devices on psychiatric wards. A Taser record is completed by police officers each time a Taser is used. However, this record does not currently show the detailed geographical or type of location.
Police Use of Taser statistics are published by the Home Office and most recently on 28 April 2016. These provide a snapshot of Taser use.
We have been very clear that the public need greater transparency and that is why the Home Secretary asked Chief Constable David Shaw to lead an in-depth review of the publication of Taser data and other use of force by police officers.
The review recommended that the police record and publish the ethnicity, age, location and outcome of all serious use of force by police officers, including physical restraint and Taser. Pathfinder forces started to collect this data from April this year, and it is anticipated that the collection will form part of the 2017-18 Home Office Annual Data Return.
A copy of Chief Constable David Shaw’s review will be placed in the House library. The review contained no data on the number of times the police have used Taser in mental health settings.