Emergency Services: Standards
Home Department
Written answers and statements, 21 July 2009
John Horam (Orpington, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the name is of each Category 1 Responder under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 whose emergency procedures the Department has checked since January 2008; what the nature of the checks made was; and if he will make a statement.
David Hanson (Minister of State (Crime and Policing), Home Office; Delyn, Labour)
The Audit Commission works with partner inspectorates (i.e. HM Inspectorate for Constabularies, the Care Quality Inspectorate, HM Inspectorate of Prisons; HM Inspectorate of Probation and Ofsted) to assess the performance of local services in England through the comprehensive area assessment. HMIC carried out an inspection of 21 (of 43 English and Welsh) police forces between September 2008 and April 2009, examining three subjects: civil contingency planning; critical incident handling; and public order response. A consolidated report with the thematic findings of these inspections will be published in three to four weeks time.