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155462

registered interest
date	11/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gangmasters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many gangmasters have been prosecuted for offences created by the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004 in 2014 to date; and what the results were of those prosecutions.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	214228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>To date in 2014, a total of 15 people have been charged with, or summons in relation to, a section 12 offence for acting as a gangmaster without a licence. <br><br>Of these, only one case has been concluded and resulted in a conviction. The individual received a £500 fine and was ordered to pay £46 costs and a £15 offender’s levy. The other cases are still progressing through the legal system.<br><br>A further case was concluded in 2014 of a section 12 offence by an individual whose prosecution started in 2013. The result of this prosecution was a Community Payback Order for 180 hours to be completed within a nine month period.<br><br>GLA enforcement activity has also resulted in charges for a range of other offences, for example trafficking and fraud, during 2014. Over time the GLA has undertaken a reduced number of more complex investigations which focus more effectively on serious and organised crime. This reflects a targeting and risk-based enforcement approach by the GLA.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/11/2014 14:57:20 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

155492

registered interest
date	11/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
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 investigate the request for the European Arrest Warrant issued for the parents of Ashya King.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	214177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p>No Ministers or Home Office officials have any involvement in decisions about whether to issue Arrest Warrants, nor did they have any involvement in the decision to issue an Arrest Warrant for Ashya King’s parents. The decision to seek an Arrest Warrant is an operational matter for the Police and the prosecuting authorities, in this case the Crown Prosecution Service. Any decision about whether to issue a warrant is a matter for a judge. The Director of Public Prosecutions told the Home Affairs Committee in her evidence on this matter on 14 October 2014 that at the time, the Crown Prosecution Service &quot;reviewed the case&quot; and &quot;upon further evidence, reviewed it again&quot; which led to them contacting Spain to request that the Arrest Warrant be discharged, which it was.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 214176 question first answered 20/11/2014 14:33:44 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

155509

registered interest
date	11/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what total amount her Department spent on ministerial travel by (a) the Government Car and Despatch Agency and (b) other car hire in (i) 2007-08, (ii) 2008-09 and (iii) 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Salisbury
tabling member printed	John Glen
uin	214277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>Information on expenditure on the Government Car and Dispatch Agency is published annually in a Written Ministerial Statement and can be found in the Official Record:<br><br>2007/08 (Column 118WS):<br>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080722/wmstext/8072<br>2m0008.htm#08072253000045<br><br>2008/09 (Column 80WS):<br>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/cm090716/wmstext/9071<br>6m0009.htm#09071651000059<br><br>2009/10 (Column 23WS): <br>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm101028/wmstext/1010<br>28m0001.htm#10102827000372<br><br>The Home Department does not use other car hire outside of the Government Car and Dispatch Agency for Ministerial travel.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/11/2014 14:58:30 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen

155510

registered interest
date	11/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how often her Department reviews its processes regarding the logging of emails, letters and other correspondence received; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	214252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>Emails, letters and other correspondence are currently logged on a correspondence tracking system. However, processes are under continuous review and a replacement IT system, which will also cover Parliamentary Questions and Freedom of Information requests, is under development with implementation scheduled for early 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/11/2014 14:57:51 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

155512

registered interest
date	11/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to her contribution of 10 November 2014, Official Report, column 1248, on criminal law, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the European Arrest Warrant in assisting the extradition from the Republic of Ireland of fugitives from the UK; and if she will give a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	214392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government believes the Arrest Warrant has greatly improved extradition relations with Ireland, and has considered this matter extensively. <br><br>Between 1973 and 1999 eight people in total were extradited to the UK from Ireland for terrorism offences. However, during this period the UK made 110 extradition requests to the Republic of Ireland in relation to terrorist offences, meaning that less than 10% of UK requests were successful during this period.<br><br>Since April 2010, one person has been surrendered after being charged with a terrorist offence and two people have been surrendered after being charged with terrorist-related offences. <br><br>Patrick Gordon was arrested in Ireland in May 2013 and surrendered to the United Kingdom in May 2014. He is charged with possessing documents containing information of a kind likely to be used by terrorists - bomb making recipes to produce napalm type weapons.<br><br>Liam Rainey was surrendered to the UK in 2011. He was convicted of kidnapping a well-known republican in Belfast.<br><br>Ryan McKenna was arrested in Ireland in September 2013 and surrendered to the UK in February 2014. He is charged with conspiracy to cause explosions and possessing explosives. Along with four individuals he is accused of trying to bomb a railway line using an IED and a home-made mortar.<br><br>We are not aware of any UK requests to Ireland for terrorist and terrorism-related offences being refused under the Arrest Warrant.<br><br>The Government has also listened carefully to the views expressed by Irish and Northern Irish Minister in this regard. In an article in the Irish Independent on 6 November 2014, Irish Justice Minister Francs Fitzgerald emphasised that the Arrest Warrant had &quot;greatly assisted our mutual efforts to fight cross-border crime and to bring serious criminals, including terrorists, to justice&quot;. <br><br>The Irish Government also made clear in a letter dated 4 September 2014 from the Justice Minister to the Home Secretary, that if the UK failed to opt in to the package of the Arrest Warrant by 1 December 2014, there would have been no guarantee that the courts would consider their obligations under previously issued Arrest Warrants to be ongoing. This could result in those being held in Irish prisons as a result of a UK issued Arrest Warrant walking free.<br><br>Between April 2010 and March 2014, of the 537 people who were surrendered to the United Kingdom from all Member States, 88 were surrendered from Ireland. This represents 16% of all surrenders to the United Kingdom during this period, and is the second highest overall surrender figure of all Member States. The following table sets out the numbers surrendered in each financial year:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p> </p><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Arrest Warrant surrenders to the UK from all Member States</strong></p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>123</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p><strong>537</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Arrest Warrant surrenders from the Republic of Ireland to the UK</strong></p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p><strong>88</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The total of 88 surrenders includes:<br><br>• Four for murder;<br>• Two for rape;<br>• 17 for child sex offences;<br>• One for kidnapping;<br>• Two for armed robbery; and<br>• 11 for Grievous Bodily Harm<br><br>During this same period the UK (excluding Scotland) surrendered 114 people to Ireland, including for offences of murder, rape and child sex offences.<br><br>Although extradition to and from Ireland was previously covered by the Backing of Warrants scheme, if the UK were not to rejoin the Arrest Warrant it would rely on the 1957 European Convention on Extradition (ECE) in its relations with Ireland and all other EU member states. The Arrest Warrant offers the UK distinct advantages over the ECE. <br><br>Firstly, the process of extradition under the Arrest Warrant is quicker and cheaper than under the ECE. It takes approximately three months to surrender someone using an Arrest Warrant. However, it takes ten months on average using the ECE. On average it costs £13,000 to extradite someone using the EAW, and £62,000 using the ECE. This means that it would have cost the UK more than £5.5million more to extradite the same number of people to Ireland between 2010 and 2013.<br><br>Secondly, under the ECE certain countries can refuse to extradite their own nationals. This is not possible under the Arrest Warrant. <br><br>Thirdly, under the ECE, extradition can also be refused due to the length of time that has passed since the offence was committed. Again this is not possible under the Arrest Warrant.<br><br>Fourthly, Article 3 of the ECE allows refusals for ‘political offences’. It would be possible for terrorists to argue that their activities fell within the <br>scope of this ground for refusal.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 214393 question first answered 19/11/2014 16:03:50 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

155513

registered interest
date	11/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
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 since May 2010 a European Arrest Warrant been used to bring fugitives from the Republic of Ireland to the UK; and if she will give a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	214393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government believes the Arrest Warrant has greatly improved extradition relations with Ireland, and has considered this matter extensively. <br><br>Between 1973 and 1999 eight people in total were extradited to the UK from Ireland for terrorism offences. However, during this period the UK made 110 extradition requests to the Republic of Ireland in relation to terrorist offences, meaning that less than 10% of UK requests were successful during this period.<br><br>Since April 2010, one person has been surrendered after being charged with a terrorist offence and two people have been surrendered after being charged with terrorist-related offences. <br><br>Patrick Gordon was arrested in Ireland in May 2013 and surrendered to the United Kingdom in May 2014. He is charged with possessing documents containing information of a kind likely to be used by terrorists - bomb making recipes to produce napalm type weapons.<br><br>Liam Rainey was surrendered to the UK in 2011. He was convicted of kidnapping a well-known republican in Belfast.<br><br>Ryan McKenna was arrested in Ireland in September 2013 and surrendered to the UK in February 2014. He is charged with conspiracy to cause explosions and possessing explosives. Along with four individuals he is accused of trying to bomb a railway line using an IED and a home-made mortar.<br><br>We are not aware of any UK requests to Ireland for terrorist and terrorism-related offences being refused under the Arrest Warrant.<br><br>The Government has also listened carefully to the views expressed by Irish and Northern Irish Minister in this regard. In an article in the Irish Independent on 6 November 2014, Irish Justice Minister Francs Fitzgerald emphasised that the Arrest Warrant had &quot;greatly assisted our mutual efforts to fight cross-border crime and to bring serious criminals, including terrorists, to justice&quot;. <br><br>The Irish Government also made clear in a letter dated 4 September 2014 from the Justice Minister to the Home Secretary, that if the UK failed to opt in to the package of the Arrest Warrant by 1 December 2014, there would have been no guarantee that the courts would consider their obligations under previously issued Arrest Warrants to be ongoing. This could result in those being held in Irish prisons as a result of a UK issued Arrest Warrant walking free.<br><br>Between April 2010 and March 2014, of the 537 people who were surrendered to the United Kingdom from all Member States, 88 were surrendered from Ireland. This represents 16% of all surrenders to the United Kingdom during this period, and is the second highest overall surrender figure of all Member States. The following table sets out the numbers surrendered in each financial year:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p> </p><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Arrest Warrant surrenders to the UK from all Member States</strong></p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>123</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p><strong>537</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Arrest Warrant surrenders from the Republic of Ireland to the UK</strong></p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p><strong>88</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The total of 88 surrenders includes:<br><br>• Four for murder;<br>• Two for rape;<br>• 17 for child sex offences;<br>• One for kidnapping;<br>• Two for armed robbery; and<br>• 11 for Grievous Bodily Harm<br><br>During this same period the UK (excluding Scotland) surrendered 114 people to Ireland, including for offences of murder, rape and child sex offences.<br><br>Although extradition to and from Ireland was previously covered by the Backing of Warrants scheme, if the UK were not to rejoin the Arrest Warrant it would rely on the 1957 European Convention on Extradition (ECE) in its relations with Ireland and all other EU member states. The Arrest Warrant offers the UK distinct advantages over the ECE. <br><br>Firstly, the process of extradition under the Arrest Warrant is quicker and cheaper than under the ECE. It takes approximately three months to surrender someone using an Arrest Warrant. However, it takes ten months on average using the ECE. On average it costs £13,000 to extradite someone using the EAW, and £62,000 using the ECE. This means that it would have cost the UK more than £5.5million more to extradite the same number of people to Ireland between 2010 and 2013.<br><br>Secondly, under the ECE certain countries can refuse to extradite their own nationals. This is not possible under the Arrest Warrant. <br><br>Thirdly, under the ECE, extradition can also be refused due to the length of time that has passed since the offence was committed. Again this is not possible under the Arrest Warrant.<br><br>Fourthly, Article 3 of the ECE allows refusals for ‘political offences’. It would be possible for terrorists to argue that their activities fell within the <br>scope of this ground for refusal.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 214392 question first answered 19/11/2014 16:03:51 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

155516

registered interest
date	11/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
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 investigate the circumstances of a European Arrest Warrant being issued for the parents of Ashya King.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	214176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p>No Ministers or Home Office officials have any involvement in decisions about whether to issue Arrest Warrants, nor did they have any involvement in the decision to issue an Arrest Warrant for Ashya King’s parents. The decision to seek an Arrest Warrant is an operational matter for the Police and the prosecuting authorities, in this case the Crown Prosecution Service. Any decision about whether to issue a warrant is a matter for a judge. The Director of Public Prosecutions told the Home Affairs Committee in her evidence on this matter on 14 October 2014 that at the time, the Crown Prosecution Service &quot;reviewed the case&quot; and &quot;upon further evidence, reviewed it again&quot; which led to them contacting Spain to request that the Arrest Warrant be discharged, which it was.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 214177 question first answered 20/11/2014 14:33:44 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

155517

registered interest
date	11/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Buildings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many buildings her Department sold in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	214220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>Two Home Office owned buildings were sold in 2010 and one in 2013. Contracts have been exchanged in 2014 for the sale of two sites, one subject to grant of satisfactory planning consent, and both for completion in 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/11/2014 15:02:16 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 28164 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

155518

registered interest
date	11/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of incidents marked as domestic violence incidents related to (a) male perpetrators against female partners and (b) all other forms of domestic violence in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	214189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not available centrally. The domestic abuse incident data that the police supply to the Home Office does not provide information on the gender of victims and perpetrators or the type of abuse.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 03/12/2014 15:17:36 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

155519

registered interest
date	11/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the Soc 2000 classification of overhead lines workers changed from 5243-line repairers and cable jointers to Soc 2019 5239-electrical and electronic trades not classified elsewhere; and what effect this change has had on the Shortage Occupation List.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	214204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>This change was made solely due to the move from the SOC 2000 system to the updated SOC 2010 system. The SOC code system was updated by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in 2010 to better reflect the current make-up of the UK labour market. A number of jobs were reclassified by ONS under the updated system.<br><br>This change has had no effect on the inclusion of linesworkers on the Shortage Occupation List. The list was updated at the same time as the SOC 2010 system was applied to Tier 2, to reflect the new SOC codes. Overhead linesworkers remain on the list.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 17/11/2014 16:34:52 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper