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516315

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of female genital mutilation have been reported in (a) London and (b) England and Wales in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	35905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a crime and it is child abuse. We will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong physical and psychological suffering to women and girls.</p><p>The most recent NHS data published on 8 March shows that between October – December 2015 there were 1,316 newly identified cases of FGM within the NHS. A breakdown of this information by region is available at: www.hscic.gov.uk, as are earlier reports.</p><p>In addition, data released by the Ministry of Justice on 31 March shows that since their introduction in July 2015, 32 FGM Protection Orders were issued between July and December 2015.</p><p>A new mandatory reporting duty requiring regulated health and social care professionals and teachers to report known cases of FGM in under 18s to the police came into force on 31 October 2015. The duty will help increase the number of referrals to the police in order to deter perpetrators and in turn prevent this appalling crime from happening.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 04/05/2016 15:49:44 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

516316

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Russia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the 35 individuals named under the US Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act 2012 have been granted UK visas since the murder of Sergei Magnitsky in 2009.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	35845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2016 answer text <p>The UK has a long-established practice of not routinely commenting on the details of individual immigration cases.</p><p>As we have previously made clear, the Magnitsky case remains of serious concern to the UK Government.</p><p>Wherever we have evidence that individuals were involved in the Magnitsky case that evidence is taken very carefully into account in considering visa applications.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 06/05/2016 14:31:05 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

516318

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Females
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 establish an asylum programme for young Yazidi and other women who wish to relocate to the UK.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	35818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>There are a number of resettlement schemes the UK operates that young Yazidi and other women may qualify for, subject to meeting the schemes’ varying criteria. These are Gateway, Mandate, the Syrian Resettlement Scheme and the Government’s new Children at Risk Resettlement Scheme. All schemes see the UK working closely with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to identify cases that they deem in need of resettlement according to agreed criteria. Only UNHCR registered refugees are eligible under these schemes.</p><p>The Syrian Resettlement Scheme is only for Syrian nationals. Gateway, Mandate and the Children at Risk Resettlement Scheme are not nationality specific.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/05/2016 10:56:29 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

516319

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	EU Common Foreign and Security Policy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the European Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs on the applicability of the European Security Strategy to the UK since recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels; and what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the wider use of the EU Radicalisation Awareness Network Centre of Excellence in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	35782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The European Agenda on Security is a European Commission communication, and has no legal force or application to the UK. Where there are individual Justice and Home Affairs measures, the Government will take an opt-in decision on a case-by-case basis, putting the national interest at the heart of the decision making process. The UK has a national counter terrorism strategy, CONTEST, which informs its counter terrorism activity. The Home Office engages closely with policy makers and practitioners elsewhere to share expertise.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 04/05/2016 15:17:50 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

516320

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Money Laundering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total value was of criminal assets laundered abroad identified by British law enforcement agencies in each year since 2009 by country; and how much of those assets in each such country (a) has been recovered and (b) is recoverable.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	35790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>As the Government set out in the Action Plan for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance, there is no definitive measure of the scale of money laundering, but the best available international estimate, by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC), of amounts laundered globally are equivalent to 2.7% of global GDP or US$1.6 trillion in 2009.</p><p>Criminal assets recovered since 2009 under asset sharing arrangements are set out below for England and Wales. The figures below do not contain the amounts recovered by police in England and Wales as a result of their investigations, as these figures are not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 03/05/2016 13:25:16 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes attachment 1 file name Table 35790.doc title Asset sharing arrangements
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

516321

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Money Laundering
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 (a) effect of the Criminal Justice and Data Protection Regulations 2014 have had in assisting enforcement agencies in EU member states to recover money laundered abroad and (b) potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the UK's ability to tackle money laundering internationally.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	35791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The Criminal Justice and Data Protection Regulations 2014 implement two EU Framework Decisions on the mutual recognition of freezing orders (freezing evidence, the proceeds of crime or the instrumentalities of crime) and confiscation orders. The Regulations provide that these orders are sent under a certificate with the presumption that an order issued in one EU Member State will be recognised and enforced quickly against relevant property in another Member State, with a limited ability to refuse to cooperate.</p><p>The UK believes that the ability to recognise and enforce such orders quickly is an important tool for seizing criminal assets, and the UK has strongly encouraged other Member States to implement these decisions to allow them to be used to recover criminal assets across the EU. The process for leaving the EU is set out in Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. The process is unprecedented. There is more detail set out in the Government’s White Paper on the process for withdrawing from the EU, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/504216/The_process_for_withdrawing_from_the_EU_print_ready.pdf</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 04/05/2016 16:54:34 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

516322

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Money Laundering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests for mutual legal assistance have been made to foreign jurisdictions to recover criminal assets laundered abroad in each year since 2009; and what the jurisdictions are to which those requests were made.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	35786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>Outgoing requests for restraint and confiscation transmitted via the Home Office are set out in the tables below. The data does not include requests transmitted directly under Council Framework Decisions 2003/577/JHA (Freezing Orders) and 2006/783/JHA (Confiscation Orders).</p><p>These figures only show countries where 5 or more requests have been made for restraint or confiscation. This is because disclosure of figures where 5 or fewer requests have been made may lead to the identification of an individual Mutual Legal Assistance request.</p><p>Please note that these figures are taken from local management information, and have not been quality assured to the level of published National Statistics. As such it should be treated as provisional and therefore subject to change.</p><p>2009</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Country</p></td><td><p>Requests</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>58</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>2010</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Country</p></td><td><p>Requests</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cyprus</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jersey</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>92</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>2011</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Country</p></td><td><p>Requests</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cyprus</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>79</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>2012</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Country</p></td><td><p>Requests</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jersey</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>53</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>2013</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Country</p></td><td><p>Requests</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>2014</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Country</p></td><td><p>Requests</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Isle of Man</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>2015</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Country</p></td><td><p>Requests</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Arab Emirates</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jamaica</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>83</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 04/05/2016 16:03:08 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

516323

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Serious Organised Crime Agency: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspicious activity reports the ELMER database was designed to be capable of processing on an annual basis.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	35756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>As is set out in the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Regime Annual Report, the SARs IT infrastructure processed 381,882 SARs in 2014/15. The Report can be found at:</p><p>http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/677-sars-annual-report-2015/file</p><p>In the National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, which the Government published on 15 October 2015, it was recognised that the suspicious activity reports (SARS) IT infra structure is coming to the end of its life, and will need to be replaced. The Government launched the Action Plan for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance on 21 April, which sets out a programme to deliver a significantly improved anti-money laundering regime for the UK. As part of these improvements we will be working with public and private stakeholders to develop a replacement SARs IT infrastructure.</p><p>In the Action Plan for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, the Government set out that a replacement for the existing SARS IT infrastructure will be designed to support a significant improvement in the UK’s anti-money laundering regime. The benefits will include; more effective processing of SARs, including; automated cross-checking with law enforcement databases; development of intelligence on those responsible for money laundering; and better information on threats for sharing with the private sector. We are consulting on the proposals to improve the anti-money laundering regime.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes grouped question UIN 35757 35758 question first answered 03/05/2016 13:24:52 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

516324

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Serious Organised Crime Agency: Databases
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 of the potential benefits of replacing the ELMER database as part of the implementation of the Government's Action Plan for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance, published in April 2016.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	35757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>As is set out in the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Regime Annual Report, the SARs IT infrastructure processed 381,882 SARs in 2014/15. The Report can be found at:</p><p>http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/677-sars-annual-report-2015/file</p><p>In the National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, which the Government published on 15 October 2015, it was recognised that the suspicious activity reports (SARS) IT infra structure is coming to the end of its life, and will need to be replaced. The Government launched the Action Plan for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance on 21 April, which sets out a programme to deliver a significantly improved anti-money laundering regime for the UK. As part of these improvements we will be working with public and private stakeholders to develop a replacement SARs IT infrastructure.</p><p>In the Action Plan for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, the Government set out that a replacement for the existing SARS IT infrastructure will be designed to support a significant improvement in the UK’s anti-money laundering regime. The benefits will include; more effective processing of SARs, including; automated cross-checking with law enforcement databases; development of intelligence on those responsible for money laundering; and better information on threats for sharing with the private sector. We are consulting on the proposals to improve the anti-money laundering regime.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes grouped question UIN 35756 35758 question first answered 03/05/2016 13:24:52 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

516325

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Serious Organised Crime Agency: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspicious activity reports the ELMER database processed in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	35758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>As is set out in the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Regime Annual Report, the SARs IT infrastructure processed 381,882 SARs in 2014/15. The Report can be found at:</p><p>http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/677-sars-annual-report-2015/file</p><p>In the National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, which the Government published on 15 October 2015, it was recognised that the suspicious activity reports (SARS) IT infra structure is coming to the end of its life, and will need to be replaced. The Government launched the Action Plan for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance on 21 April, which sets out a programme to deliver a significantly improved anti-money laundering regime for the UK. As part of these improvements we will be working with public and private stakeholders to develop a replacement SARs IT infrastructure.</p><p>In the Action Plan for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, the Government set out that a replacement for the existing SARS IT infrastructure will be designed to support a significant improvement in the UK’s anti-money laundering regime. The benefits will include; more effective processing of SARs, including; automated cross-checking with law enforcement databases; development of intelligence on those responsible for money laundering; and better information on threats for sharing with the private sector. We are consulting on the proposals to improve the anti-money laundering regime.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes grouped question UIN 35756 35757 question first answered 03/05/2016 13:24:52 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz