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1350858

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of funding a public awareness campaign on male violence against women and girls.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	41068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>We have recently published the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Ftackling-violence-against-women-and-girls-strategy&amp;data=04%7C01%7CHelen.Fielder2%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C11357129b42e414d951b08d962f6cbe9%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637649634381120586%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=rIoilVk7SXbVF6ccv0ecocU9vR%2Bdaj%2BgROOPi5WpA9c%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy</a> to help ensure that women and girls are safe everywhere - at home, online and on the streets. The new strategy commits this government to using communications to create behaviour change that targets and challenge perpetrators, educates young people about healthy relationships and consent, and ensures victims can recognise abuse and non-contact sexual offending. The Strategy was informed by an unprecedented 180,000 responses from the general public and stakeholders as part of our Call for Evidence.</p><p>The campaign follows the swift action at the beginning of the pandemic last year where the Government launched the #YouAreNotAlone campaign. The campaign raised awareness of domestic abuse and the support available to those suffering from it, signposting those seeking support to the gov.uk domestic abuse support page <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-abuse-how-to-get-help" target="_blank">Domestic abuse: how to get help - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> where they can access support services, including Refuge’s National Domestic Abuse Helpline. The campaign reached millions of people through digital advertising, and specialist community engagement activity with campaign materials translated into 16 languages.</p><p>We also launched and promoted the ‘Ask for ANI’ codeword scheme which provides a simple and discreet way for domestic abuse victims to signal that they need immediate help using a codeword in participating pharmacies. Almost half of all pharmacies across the UK, including Boots, are now participating in the scheme, following the launch in January 2021.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/09/2021 11:57:53 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1350919

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fixed Penalties: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of a potential disparity in the rates of Fixed Penalty Notices issued to people from ethnic minority groups in respect of covid-19 face-covering requirements.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	40827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>Throughout the pandemic the Government has conducted in-depth assessments as to the impacts of proposed policies, including on groups with protected characteristics. The Government will also continue to work closely with policing partners to ensure that restrictions set out in the regulations are reasonably and lawfully enforced.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2021 10:23:36 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1351017

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Large Goods Vehicle Drivers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a seasonal visa scheme for qualified lorry drivers to tackle the shortage of drivers in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	41072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>I refer the honourable member to the response provided to the honourable member for Arfon on 21 June UIN 14141.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/09/2021 15:12:35 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1351134

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Contact Tracing: Travel Requirements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the covid-19 passenger locator form required for international travel is available in a physical form.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	41108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>All passengers must complete the Passenger Locator Form online, however, once completed they can print off their finished form to show carriers before departing to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 06/09/2021 14:55:59 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1351182

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the use of the £54 million given to the French authorities to tackle migrant Channel crossings.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	40908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>On 20 July 2021, the Home Secretary and her French counterpart, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, signed an agreement that further strengthens UK-France joint cooperation to tackle illegal immigration across the Channel.</p><p>The UK-France Joint Statement, which contains further information on that agreement, can be found on the GOV.UK website here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fuk-france-joint-statement-next-phase-of-tackling-illegal-migration&amp;data=04%7C01%7CRobert.Pilkington%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C8147c6d813c74ab46dc508d956822f33%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637635939392093919%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=f4ajqS8PQmrUgoBcWp6%2BdYQDLvPfqH%2FTzMq9gwpqH64%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-france-joint-statement-next-phase-of-tackling-illegal-migration</a>.</p><p>The impact on migration pressures of our investment under the Sandhurst Treaty is jointly assessed by France and the UK. The UK and France monitor the impact of funding through maintaining operational and policy level contact and regular strategic reviews. In line with previous arrangements, the impact of this year’s funding package will be reviewed through jointly agreed results frameworks and via a joint UK-France Monitoring Committee.</p><p>We are not intending to publish reports on the results frameworks, as these relate to sensitive operational activity.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 40909 question first answered 06/09/2021 09:15:13 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1351183

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to report on the effect of the £54 million given to the French authorities for the purposes of border control on the number of migrants reaching the UK via Channel crossings.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	40909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>On 20 July 2021, the Home Secretary and her French counterpart, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, signed an agreement that further strengthens UK-France joint cooperation to tackle illegal immigration across the Channel.</p><p>The UK-France Joint Statement, which contains further information on that agreement, can be found on the GOV.UK website here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fuk-france-joint-statement-next-phase-of-tackling-illegal-migration&amp;data=04%7C01%7CRobert.Pilkington%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C8147c6d813c74ab46dc508d956822f33%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637635939392093919%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=f4ajqS8PQmrUgoBcWp6%2BdYQDLvPfqH%2FTzMq9gwpqH64%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-france-joint-statement-next-phase-of-tackling-illegal-migration</a>.</p><p>The impact on migration pressures of our investment under the Sandhurst Treaty is jointly assessed by France and the UK. The UK and France monitor the impact of funding through maintaining operational and policy level contact and regular strategic reviews. In line with previous arrangements, the impact of this year’s funding package will be reviewed through jointly agreed results frameworks and via a joint UK-France Monitoring Committee.</p><p>We are not intending to publish reports on the results frameworks, as these relate to sensitive operational activity.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 40908 question first answered 06/09/2021 09:15:13 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1351306

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Biometrics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2021 to Question 11166 on Police: Biometrics, whether the police (a) are required to (i) obtain consent from and (ii) inform the public where facial recognition technology is used in a public place and (b) have powers to fine people who deliberately avoid detection by facial recognition software.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
tabling member printed	Janet Daby
uin	41251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>When using technologies like live facial recognition (LFR) it is important that the police maintain public trust in line with the principle of policing by consent. Opinion polling shows strong public support for its use, particularly for serious and violent crimes.</p><p>The College of Policing has consulted on guidance, which covers the importance of providing the public with information about when LFR is used. This guidance, and local force policies, will also explain the basis on which police forces process personal data – typically in line with Section 35(5) of the Data Protection Act 2018.</p><p>In normal circumstances (other than when a section 60AA Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 order is in place) the police do not have a legal power to issue fines simply where a person chooses not to walk past a LFR system.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2021 10:21:38 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1351329

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Housing: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the new fire risk assessments will be subject to a single regulatory standard; and whether leaseholders in apartment blocks under 18 metres will be informed as a result of those assessments in the event that remediation works are necessary.
tabling member constituency	Sevenoaks
tabling member printed	Laura Trott
uin	41313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>Article 9 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (the FSO) states that the responsible person (usually the building owner or landlord) must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to which relevant persons are exposed for the purpose of identifying the general fire precautions they need to take to comply with the requirements and prohibitions imposed on them by the FSO. This requirement is not new, having been in place since the FSO came into force in 2006, and applies to all buildings regulated by the FSO.</p><p>The Fire Safety Act 2021 clarifies that the external walls (including cladding and balconies) and individual flat entrance doors for buildings containing two or more sets of domestic premises must be included in that assessment.</p><p>The Fire Safety Act will apply to all buildings containing two or more sets of domestic premises (multi-occupied residential buildings) so will include buildings under 18 metres.</p><p>Article 19 of the FSO states that the Responsible Person must provide employees with comprehensible and relevant information about relevant fire safety matters.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently seeking to amend the FSO, via the Building Safety Bill, to extend this requirement to residents in buildings containing two or more sets of domestic premises. ‘Relevant fire safety matters’ includes the risks to residents of the domestic premises identified by the risk assessment and the preventive and protective measures.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 06/09/2021 15:10:57 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott

1351479

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to expand the Afghan Interpreters Scheme to include people engaged in UK-linked initiatives and human rights activists who are at risk of being targeted by the Taliban.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	41185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>The Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) launched on 1 April 2021. The scheme enables any current or former locally employed staff who are assessed to be under serious threat to life priority relocation to the UK regardless of their employment status, rank or role, or length of time served.</p><p>Our Afghan relocation policy is one of the most generous in the world and has already supported over 8,000 directly employed former Afghan staff and their families to start new lives in the UK.</p><p>The Home Office is committed to providing protection for vulnerable people fleeing Afghanistan. The Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme will welcome up to 5,000 vulnerable Afghans to the UK, who have been forced to flee the country, in its first year, with up to a total of 20,000 in the long-term.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/09/2021 15:42:12 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1351480

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to establish humanitarian visas and a means for people to apply for those visas from Afghanistan to reduce dangerous journeys for people seeking asylum.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	41186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>On Wednesday 18 August, the Government announced the launch of a new bespoke Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), to welcome up to 20,000 vulnerable Afghans to the UK. The scheme will focus on those most at risk and in its first year will resettle up to 5,000 vulnerable Afghans. This scheme delivers on the Government’s commitment in the New Plan for Immigration to create safe and legal routes for those in fear of persecution and oppression in their home country. The Government is working urgently to open this route and further details will be announced in due course on <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fafghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cresettlementpolicy%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca9be65ff77af4d5811dd08d9631c425e%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637649795277172676%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=6sX9%2FP5X4P%2Ff%2FHZpSmOlxqpOmNeoP6l%2BZisVeHJuXVs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p><p>The new route is separate from, and in addition to, the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), which offers any current or former locally employed staff who are assessed to be under serious threat to life priority relocation to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/09/2021 15:27:05 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden