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1701876

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Online Capability Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled New tech partnership to stop the boats, published on 6 August 2023, when the Online Capability Centre became operational.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	22276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Following the announcement by the Prime Minister of the new tech partnership to stop the boats on 6 August 2023, the Home Office and National Crime Agency (NCA) have strengthened the voluntary partnership with social media companies, Meta, YouTube, X/Twitter, to accelerate action to tackle people smuggling content online. We continue to explore further options, such as a ‘hackathon’ model to develop our innovative approach to break the business model of people smugglers advertising their services online.</p><p>To date we have successfully removed 98% of content flagged to social media companies, with over 9000 posts, pages and accounts removed since November 2021.</p><p>The Online Communications Centre (previously known as the Online Capability Centre) has been operational since October 2023 and with expertise in policy, investigations and intelligence and with access to a range of niche capabilities in tackling the online threat. We cannot comment on individual numbers of officers in classified roles.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 22277 22278 22279 22280 question first answered 22/04/2024 11:29:12 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1701878

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Online Capability Centre: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff are currently employed at the Online Capability Centre.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	22277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Following the announcement by the Prime Minister of the new tech partnership to stop the boats on 6 August 2023, the Home Office and National Crime Agency (NCA) have strengthened the voluntary partnership with social media companies, Meta, YouTube, X/Twitter, to accelerate action to tackle people smuggling content online. We continue to explore further options, such as a ‘hackathon’ model to develop our innovative approach to break the business model of people smugglers advertising their services online.</p><p>To date we have successfully removed 98% of content flagged to social media companies, with over 9000 posts, pages and accounts removed since November 2021.</p><p>The Online Communications Centre (previously known as the Online Capability Centre) has been operational since October 2023 and with expertise in policy, investigations and intelligence and with access to a range of niche capabilities in tackling the online threat. We cannot comment on individual numbers of officers in classified roles.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 22276 22278 22279 22280 question first answered 22/04/2024 11:29:12 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1701880

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	People Smuggling: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled New tech partnership to stop the boats, published on 6 August 2023, when the hackathon event took place.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	22278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Following the announcement by the Prime Minister of the new tech partnership to stop the boats on 6 August 2023, the Home Office and National Crime Agency (NCA) have strengthened the voluntary partnership with social media companies, Meta, YouTube, X/Twitter, to accelerate action to tackle people smuggling content online. We continue to explore further options, such as a ‘hackathon’ model to develop our innovative approach to break the business model of people smugglers advertising their services online.</p><p>To date we have successfully removed 98% of content flagged to social media companies, with over 9000 posts, pages and accounts removed since November 2021.</p><p>The Online Communications Centre (previously known as the Online Capability Centre) has been operational since October 2023 and with expertise in policy, investigations and intelligence and with access to a range of niche capabilities in tackling the online threat. We cannot comment on individual numbers of officers in classified roles.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 22276 22277 22279 22280 question first answered 22/04/2024 11:29:12 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1701881

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	People Smuggling: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled New tech partnership to stop the boats, published on 6 August 2023, with which social media companies his Department is in partnership.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	22279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Following the announcement by the Prime Minister of the new tech partnership to stop the boats on 6 August 2023, the Home Office and National Crime Agency (NCA) have strengthened the voluntary partnership with social media companies, Meta, YouTube, X/Twitter, to accelerate action to tackle people smuggling content online. We continue to explore further options, such as a ‘hackathon’ model to develop our innovative approach to break the business model of people smugglers advertising their services online.</p><p>To date we have successfully removed 98% of content flagged to social media companies, with over 9000 posts, pages and accounts removed since November 2021.</p><p>The Online Communications Centre (previously known as the Online Capability Centre) has been operational since October 2023 and with expertise in policy, investigations and intelligence and with access to a range of niche capabilities in tackling the online threat. We cannot comment on individual numbers of officers in classified roles.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 22276 22277 22278 22280 question first answered 22/04/2024 11:29:12 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1701882

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	People Smuggling: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled New tech partnership to stop the boats, published on 6 August 2023, how many (a) posts, (b) pages and (c) accounts have been (i) removed and (ii) suspended as a result of the partnership with social media companies.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	22280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Following the announcement by the Prime Minister of the new tech partnership to stop the boats on 6 August 2023, the Home Office and National Crime Agency (NCA) have strengthened the voluntary partnership with social media companies, Meta, YouTube, X/Twitter, to accelerate action to tackle people smuggling content online. We continue to explore further options, such as a ‘hackathon’ model to develop our innovative approach to break the business model of people smugglers advertising their services online.</p><p>To date we have successfully removed 98% of content flagged to social media companies, with over 9000 posts, pages and accounts removed since November 2021.</p><p>The Online Communications Centre (previously known as the Online Capability Centre) has been operational since October 2023 and with expertise in policy, investigations and intelligence and with access to a range of niche capabilities in tackling the online threat. We cannot comment on individual numbers of officers in classified roles.</p> answering member constituency Mid Dorset and North Poole answering member printed Michael Tomlinson grouped question UIN 22276 22277 22278 22279 question first answered 22/04/2024 11:29:12 answering member 4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1699011

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Care Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the time taken for care providers to receive Certificates of Sponsorship for (a) overseas and (b) senior care workers.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	20561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>The Defined Certificate of Sponsorship process for carers and senior carers from overseas is the same and frequently requires an assessment to establish whether or not the sponsor is able to offer a genuine vacancy. This usually requires the sponsor to submit additional documentation, while the timeframes involved are adequate for the purposes of preventing the exploitation of proposed migrant workers.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 15/04/2024 08:54:59 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1688134

registered interest
date	07/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proscribed Organisations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which organisations have been removed from the proscribed list since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	13517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>Information on proscription, including deproscription, is available on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations--2/proscribed-terrorist-groups-or-organisations-accessible-version#deproscription" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</p><p>Since 2015, three organisations have been deproscribed. The International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF) was removed from the list of proscribed groups in March 2016, Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) was removed in December 2017 and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) was removed in November 2019. All were removed following receipt of an application to deproscribe.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 22/02/2024 15:49:34 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1688135

registered interest
date	07/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any county lines reported as closed in 2023 have re-opened as of 7 February 2024.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	13518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>This Government is determined to crack down on county lines gangs which is why we are investing up to £145m over three years in our County Lines Programme to tackle the most violent and exploitative distribution model yet seen.</p><p>Since the Programme was launched in 2019, police activity has resulted in over 5,100 line closures, 15,600 arrests and 8,000 safeguarding referrals. This includes over 2,100 line closures by the Programme taskforces since April 2022, meeting the HMG Drugs Strategy commitment of closing over 2,000 by April 2025 in half the time.</p><p>The National County Lines Co-ordination Centre determines a line to be closed where there is evidence that the controlling gang is no longer capable of distributing drugs using that telephone number, with check backs to ensure the telephone number remains out of use.</p><p>Delivery of the County Lines Programme is overseen by the County Lines Task and Finish Group, which meets regularly to drive forward progress, monitor the impact of the funding, and identify challenges. The Task and Finish Group was established by the Home Office in October 2019 and has met 47 times to date.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 13519 question first answered 22/02/2024 17:44:16 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1688136

registered interest
date	07/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	County Lines Task and Finish Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times the County Lines Task and Finish Group met in each calendar year since it was established.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	13519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2024 answer text <p>This Government is determined to crack down on county lines gangs which is why we are investing up to £145m over three years in our County Lines Programme to tackle the most violent and exploitative distribution model yet seen.</p><p>Since the Programme was launched in 2019, police activity has resulted in over 5,100 line closures, 15,600 arrests and 8,000 safeguarding referrals. This includes over 2,100 line closures by the Programme taskforces since April 2022, meeting the HMG Drugs Strategy commitment of closing over 2,000 by April 2025 in half the time.</p><p>The National County Lines Co-ordination Centre determines a line to be closed where there is evidence that the controlling gang is no longer capable of distributing drugs using that telephone number, with check backs to ensure the telephone number remains out of use.</p><p>Delivery of the County Lines Programme is overseen by the County Lines Task and Finish Group, which meets regularly to drive forward progress, monitor the impact of the funding, and identify challenges. The Task and Finish Group was established by the Home Office in October 2019 and has met 47 times to date.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 13518 question first answered 22/02/2024 17:44:16 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1688140

registered interest
date	07/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: Prisoners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people referred to Prevent whilst in prison subsequently committed a terror offence in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	13523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>We do not hold data on the number of people referred to Prevent in prison that subsequently committed a terror offence. The below data shows the number of referrals to Prevent from HMPPS since 2015/2016.</p><p><strong>Table 1: Number of referrals to the Prevent programme from HMPPS each year, 2015/16 to 2022/23</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>2022/23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of referrals to Prevent made by HMPPS</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>283</p></td><td><p>269</p></td><td><p>297</p></td><td><p>373</p></td><td><p>335</p></td><td><p>287</p></td><td><p>267</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>This data is taken from the annual statistical release ‘Individuals referred to and supported through the Prevent programme’ which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/individuals-referred-to-prevent%20" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/individuals-referred-to-prevent </a>HMPPS includes staff working for HM Prison and Probation Service, including Youth Offender Services.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 19/02/2024 11:13:46 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne