Nick Hurd corrected a written answer on Crime: Barnsley East

5 March 2018 · Commons written answer · Home Office

Stephanie Peacock (Labour, Barnsley East) asked written question 130091 on 27 February 2018. Mr Nick Hurd answered on 5 March 2018 for the Home Office, and Mr Nick Hurd corrected the answer on 5 March 2018. The corrected text adds the figure 24 per cent, which the original did not give. Altogether 182 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made on the effects of rural crime on (a) residents and (b) business in Barnsley East constituency.

Original and corrected answer

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Original	Corrected
~~I welcome~~ the ~~swift action taken~~ by the ~~National Police Chiefs’ Council~~ and ~~Association~~ of ~~Police and Crime Commissioners’ to manage the administration~~ of ~~Key Forensic Services (KFS), minimising the impact on the criminal justice system and protecting the evidence for live cases. With Home Office support, they reached an agreement~~ with the Administrators to ensure that the business continues to operate so that evidence KFS holds continues to be properly and professionally managed in accordance with the standards set by the Forensic Science Regulator.There are no plans to reopen the Forensic Science Service.	The Government has not undertaken an assessment of the effect of rural crime on residents and businesses in Barnsley East. The independent Crime Survey for England and Wales continues to show that, for those crimes covered by the Survey, people in rural areas are less likely to be the victims of crime than those in urban areas. The 2015 Commercial Victimisation Survey also showed that 24 per cent of agriculture, forestry and fishing premises in England and Wales, had experienced at least one incident of crime (excluding online crime) which represented a statistically significant fall of six percentage points compared with the 2013 Survey.

Original

Corrected

~~I welcome~~ the ~~swift action taken~~ by the ~~National Police Chiefs’ Council~~ and ~~Association~~ of ~~Police and Crime Commissioners’ to manage the administration~~ of ~~Key Forensic Services (KFS), minimising the impact on the criminal justice system and protecting the evidence for live cases. With Home Office support, they reached an agreement~~ with the Administrators to ensure that the business continues to operate so that evidence KFS holds continues to be properly and professionally managed in accordance with the standards set by the Forensic Science Regulator.There are no plans to reopen the Forensic Science Service.

The Government has not undertaken an assessment of the effect of rural crime on residents and businesses in Barnsley East. The independent Crime Survey for England and Wales continues to show that, for those crimes covered by the Survey, people in rural areas are less likely to be the victims of crime than those in urban areas. The 2015 Commercial Victimisation Survey also showed that 24 per cent of agriculture, forestry and fishing premises in England and Wales, had experienced at least one incident of crime (excluding online crime) which represented a statistically significant fall of six percentage points compared with the 2013 Survey.

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