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Written Statements
UK-US Data Access Agreement: First Year of Use - Tue 19 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) This must be for the purpose of investigating, preventing, detecting, and prosecuting serious crime. - Speech Link

Non-Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Youth Justice Board for England and Wales

Apr. 12 2024

Source Page: Suffolk Youth Justice Service: A prevention and diversion success
Document: Child Gravity Matrix (PDF)

Found: Hate Crime NPCC and CPS Flagging definition There are two hate crime flagging definitions.

Select Committee
Letter from the Minister of State for Crime, Policing and Fire regarding the synthetic use of opioids in the UK, dated 23 April 2024

Correspondence May. 01 2024

Committee: Home Affairs Committee (Department: Home Office)

Found: Letter from the Minister of State for Crime, Policing and Fire regarding the synthetic use of opioids

Deposited Papers
Home Office

May. 01 2024

Source Page: Letter dated 23/04/2024 from Chris Philp MP to Diana Johnson MP regarding an update on the risk of synthetic opioids to the UK and the Government’s work to address it, following the Home Affairs Committee report ‘Drugs’ (HC 198) published on 31 August 2023. 4p.
Document: Minister_Philp_to_HASC_Chair-Synthetic_Opioids.pdf (PDF)

Found: opioids to the UK and the Government’s work to address it, following the Home Affairs Committee report ‘Drugs

Written Question
Cybercrime: Greater London
Tuesday 27th February 2024

Asked by: Feryal Clark (Labour - Enfield North)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to help tackle cyber-related crime in (a) Enfield North constituency, (b) the London Borough of Enfield and (c) London.

Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)

Tackling cyber crime is at the heart of the Government’s National Cyber Strategy 2022-25, which is supported by £2.6 billion of investment through the National Cyber Fund.

Key to delivery is ensuring that local policing has the resources needed to deal with the cyber threats we face. In 2023/24, the Home Office is receiving £18 million from the National Cyber Fund to provide a range of capabilities and resource to tackle and respond to cyber crime. This funding is supplemented by a further £16 million of Home Office funding through the Police Settlement Programme.

This funding continues to build law enforcement capabilities at the national, regional, and local levels to ensure they have the capacity and expertise to deal with the perpetrators and victims of cyber crime.

There are a wide range of law enforcement and community outreach programmes addressing cyber crime in Greater London and Enfield, which include:

  • The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) take part in a Junior Citizens Scheme across various boroughs in London. This includes information and presentations to young people around cyber crime.
  • The MPS have been delivering presentations at Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) forums across London to raise awareness of how to refer individuals into the Cyber Choices programme, which aims to deter them from committing cyber crime in the first place. The MPS aims to deliver these presentations to all 32 boroughs. The presentation in Enfield took place on the 23rd January 2024.
  • In May 2023, officers from the MPS Protect Team attended Enfield School for Girls and carried out their Cyber Escape Room with 38 students.
  • The MPS Cyber Crime Unit targets Organised Crime Networks (OCN) that utilise Dark Web marketplaces to supply large amounts of drugs. In the last 18 month period, three unconnected OCNs that were operating in the Enfield area were dismantled and convicted.

We continue to work with all of society to tackle cyber crime as we recognise it is an issue that requires collaboration from citizens, businesses and the public sector, keenly working with communities in Enfield to educate and inform as to the harms cyber crime can cause.

Scottish Government Publication (Research and analysis)
Constitution Directorate
Justice Directorate

Apr. 25 2024

Source Page: Building a New Scotland: Justice in an independent Scotland
Document: Justice in an independent Scotland : Paper 13 (PDF)

Found: , gambling, and organised crime, with decisions attuned to Scotland’s specific circumstances and needs

Written Question
Prisons: Smuggling
Tuesday 19th March 2024

Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to help prevent drones being used to bring drugs and other illicit goods into prisons.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

We are working hard to deter, detect and disrupt the illegal use of drones to deliver contraband into prisons. We conduct vulnerability assessments across the estate to understand the risk and develop and implement plans to manage and mitigate the threat, including physical countermeasures.

The Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Act 2021 established powers for prisons to authorise the use of counter-drone technology. This Act also enables the police to stop and search those suspected of committing drone-related crimes.

In January this year, we strengthened the legislative framework by introducing Restricted Fly Zones around prisons to disrupt illegal drone use. This strengthens our ability to intercept illicit items being smuggled via drones, and enables the police to fine or prosecute those seeking to undermine prison security.

Recent joint operations with the police and HMPPS have resulted in a number of drone related arrests and disruptions to the activity of serious and organised crime networks. Since June 2016 we have secured over 70 convictions, and those convicted have been sentenced to more than a total of 240 years in prison.

Scottish Government Publication (Research and analysis)
Constitution Directorate
Justice Directorate

Apr. 25 2024

Source Page: Building a New Scotland: Justice in an independent Scotland
Document: Building a New Scotland: Justice in an independent Scotland (webpage)

Found: more focused and creative action on some of the most challenging issues facing our society such as drugs

Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 14 May 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: James Gray (Con - North Wiltshire) Surely the question should be the crime rather than the age. - Speech Link
2: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) ministerial counterparts in Italy to discuss topics ranging from preventing illegal migration to tackling organised - Speech Link
3: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) Today, at an event organised by my hon. - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Home Office

Nov. 27 2023

Source Page: Fifteen new synthetic opioids to be made illegal
Document: Fifteen new synthetic opioids to be made illegal (webpage)

Found: opioids will become Class A drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.