Parliamentary activity

Answering body: Home Office

There are a wide range of reasons that police may stop individuals travelling through ports. Under Schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act 2000, Counter-Terrorism Police officers can stop and examine members of the public travelling through ports to determine their involvement in terrorist activity. The Home Office does not routinely comment on individual cases, and decisions on who to examine under Schedule 7 are made independently of government by the police.

I would refer the Honourable Member to the first volume of the Chair’s findings of the Manchester Arena Inquiry, which was published in June 2021. Volumes 2 and 3 of the findings are scheduled for publication later in 2022, and further information can be found on the Inquiry’s website: manchesterarenainquiry.org.uk

Answering body: Home Office

A summary of the relevant report was provided to the Manchester Arena Inquiry. This followed a thorough process overseen by the Inquiry Chair and his legal team as to what content could be disclosed without damaging national security.

Regrettably disclosing the report would cause damage to national security.

Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulates the independent ambulance sector with exemptions, where some activities fall outside of its scope. This includes transport and treatment services provided solely within the confines of an event site. However, there are a small number of providers which are regulated where no such exemption exists, primarily those which also offer diagnostic and screening procedures. This activity is therefore regulated.

While it does not have regulatory oversight of such providers, the CQC has evidence of patient safety and quality issues and wrote to the sector in March 2017 and November 2018 and stated these concerns in its ‘State of care in independent ambulance services’ report in March 2019. The CQC’s then Chief Inspector of Hospitals also raised similar concerns to the Manchester Arena Inquiry in January 2022.

To bring medical services provided at events into the CQC’s scope of regulation requires an amendment in the Regulated Activity of the Treatment of Disease, Disorder and Injury. The Department is currently undertaking a post implementation review to ascertain whether the current Regulated Activities achieved the intended policy objective. Once the post implementation review report has been completed, the Department will work with the CQC on how the Regulated Activity can be updated as part of a review of the CQC’s regulations.

Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulates the independent ambulance sector with exemptions, where some activities fall outside of its scope. This includes transport and treatment services provided solely within the confines of an event site. However, there are a small number of providers which are regulated where no such exemption exists, primarily those which also offer diagnostic and screening procedures. This activity is therefore regulated.

While it does not have regulatory oversight of such providers, the CQC has evidence of patient safety and quality issues and wrote to the sector in March 2017 and November 2018 and stated these concerns in its ‘State of care in independent ambulance services’ report in March 2019. The CQC’s then Chief Inspector of Hospitals also raised similar concerns to the Manchester Arena Inquiry in January 2022.

To bring medical services provided at events into the CQC’s scope of regulation requires an amendment in the Regulated Activity of the Treatment of Disease, Disorder and Injury. The Department is currently undertaking a post implementation review to ascertain whether the current Regulated Activities achieved the intended policy objective. Once the post implementation review report has been completed, the Department will work with the CQC on how the Regulated Activity can be updated as part of a review of the CQC’s regulations.

Answering body: Home Office

The Manchester Arena Inquiry is a statutory independent Inquiry and decisions as to how to deliver its terms of reference are a matter for the Chair.

The Inquiry heard evidence on what steps had been taken to ensure Ishmale Abedi appeared at the Inquiry on 21 October. The transcript for the hearing is published in full: https://files.manchesterarenainquiry.org.uk/live/uploads/2021/10/21201337/MAI-Day-165_Redacted.pdf

Answering body: Home Office

The third edition of the JESIP Joint Doctrine was published on 11 October 2021. The refreshed Doctrine incorporates learning from evidence heard during the Manchester Arena Inquiry. It has also incorporated key learning from the other terrorist attacks, and the Grenfell Tower fire.

The Joint Doctrine is updated as a process of continuous improvement and learning from the Inquiry’s Phase 2 report will be taken into consideration as part of this process.