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225467

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the UK will oppose restrictions on the availability of ketamine at the meeting of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs from 9 to 17 March 2015.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	226461
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The Coalition Government does not believe that controlling ketamine internationally is appropriate, as it could result in reduced access to a substance listed as an essential medicine by the World Health Organisation, and widely used as an anaesthetic in low and middle income countries. We will be adopting this position at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs.<br><br>However, we are determined to clamp down on the criminal misuse of ketamine, which leaves young people in the UK hospitalised with serious bladder and kidney damage every year.<br><br>To prevent its misuse, we have made ketamine a Class B drug and taken action to ensure its availability for health and veterinary care in the UK is properly regulated.<br><br>We continue to discuss our concerns over the impact of international control with a range of civil society groups and professional bodies, including bodies representing anaesthetists.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone grouped question UIN 226462 question first answered 10/03/2015 14:39:27 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

225468

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs
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 advice from anaesthetists familiar with the needs of developing countries before voting at the meeting of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs from 9 to 17 March 2015.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	226462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The Coalition Government does not believe that controlling ketamine internationally is appropriate, as it could result in reduced access to a substance listed as an essential medicine by the World Health Organisation, and widely used as an anaesthetic in low and middle income countries. We will be adopting this position at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs.<br><br>However, we are determined to clamp down on the criminal misuse of ketamine, which leaves young people in the UK hospitalised with serious bladder and kidney damage every year.<br><br>To prevent its misuse, we have made ketamine a Class B drug and taken action to ensure its availability for health and veterinary care in the UK is properly regulated.<br><br>We continue to discuss our concerns over the impact of international control with a range of civil society groups and professional bodies, including bodies representing anaesthetists.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone grouped question UIN 226461 question first answered 10/03/2015 14:39:27 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

225492

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans that the independent panel inquiry into child sexual abuse will assume statutory status.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	226477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse will assume statutory status when the Home Secretary notifies parliament of the appointment of the Chairman, the revised Terms of Reference for the Inquiry, and how many Panel members she proposes to appoint. The Home Secretary will do this before the end of March.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 10/03/2015 14:32:40 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

225495

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to commemorate the centenary of the first recruitment of women police officers in 1915.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Sir Bob Russell
uin	226512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>I am aware of this milestone and I think it is very important to mark it. In doing so we recognise the successes of women in policing over the last 100 years. <br><br>I am in discussions over how best to celebrate this significant anniversary, working in conjunction with the British Association of Women in Policing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 10/03/2015 15:09:17 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	35 label Biography information for Sir Bob Russell

225496

registered interest
date	05/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gangmasters Licensing Authority
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's planned consultation on the Gangmasters' Licensing Authority (GLA) will consider (a) extension of the remit of the GLA into further labour sectors and (b) how the core licence-monitoring and intelligence-gathering function of the GLA can be protected.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	226551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The purpose of the consultation is to examine the role of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) and to help develop the evidence base needed to make effective changes to the Gangmasters Licensing Authority. This will include all relevant aspects of the GLA's work.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/03/2015 14:34:23 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

225216

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Mark Jenner
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the decision to send Mark Jenner of the Special Demonstration Squad into a covert long-term surveillance operation in the 1990s was approved by (a) officials and (b) Ministers in her Department.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	226443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this information. On 10 March 2014 the Permanent Secretary commissioned Stephen Taylor, a former Director of Audit at the Audit Commission, to carry out a forensic review to establish the full extent of the Home Office’s knowledge of the Special Demonstration Squad for the 40 year period from 1968 to 2008. This review will be published soon.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 10/03/2015 15:10:07 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 48548 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

225217

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Oxfordshire
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 implications for her policies of each of the recommendations relating to her Department in the report of the Serious Case Review into Child Sexual Exploitation in Oxfordshire; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	226239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>On 3 March, the Children’s Minister, Health Minister and I wrote to the chair <br>of Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board, welcoming the publication of the <br>Serious Case Review and outlining our response. The Government has looked <br>carefully at recent cases of child sexual exploitation with many similarities <br>to the accounts of abuse in Oxfordshire. Our response is set out in ‘Tackling <br>Child Sexual Exploitation’, which we published on 3 March. We will continue to <br>develop and deliver our responses to these serious and devastating crimes, and <br>will consider carefully the emerging lessons from cases as they emerge.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 09/03/2015 12:27:37 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

225221

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when full details of the new police pension scheme CARE 2015 were communicated to serving police officers.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Robert Flello
uin	226285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The 2015 Police Pension Regulations were laid before Parliament on Thursday 5 <br>March to allow the new pension scheme for police officers to come into force on <br>1 April. The Home Office is publishing guidance for members of the scheme <br>alongside this which is available at:<br>https://www.gov.uk/police-pension-reform<br><br>Information about the principles of the reforms has been in the public domain <br>for some time. This includes: the Reform Design Framework which was published <br>on the Home Office Website in September 2012; an online calculator which allows <br>officers to determine what benefits they might receive under the new <br>arrangements; and guidance that specifies which officers qualify for <br>transitional protection.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 09/03/2015 15:25:33 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

225223

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many UK nationals who travelled to fight in the Iraq-Syria conflict zone have been previously (a) a subject of interest in an investigation of the intelligence agencies, (b) arrested for terrorism related offences, (c) charged with any other criminal offence and (d) convicted of any other criminal offence.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	226294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>It is a longstanding UK Government policy not to comment on intelligence matters, however the security services have confirmed that there are around 600 subjects of interest, who have travelled to the region of the Syria/ Iraq conflict from the UK. <br><br>During 2014 a total of 165 Syria-related arrests were made by Police officers across the country for suspected offences including terrorist financing, preparation of acts to commit terrorism and attending a terrorist training camp. This compares to 25 Syria related arrests for the whole of 2013. Of the 165 arrested last year, over 60 have so far been charged with terrorism-related offences and 13 convicted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 226292 226293 question first answered 10/03/2015 15:06:13 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 48543 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis

225224

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of UK nationals who have travelled to participate in terrorist activity in (a) Iraq, (b) Syria, (c) Yemen, (d) Libya, (e) Pakistan, (f) Somalia, (g) Kenya, (h) Tanzania, (i) Nigeria and (j) another country.
tabling member constituency	Haltemprice and Howden
tabling member printed	Mr David Davis
uin	226292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>It is a longstanding UK Government policy not to comment on intelligence matters, however the security services have confirmed that there are around 600 subjects of interest, who have travelled to the region of the Syria/ Iraq conflict from the UK. <br><br>During 2014 a total of 165 Syria-related arrests were made by Police officers across the country for suspected offences including terrorist financing, preparation of acts to commit terrorism and attending a terrorist training camp. This compares to 25 Syria related arrests for the whole of 2013. Of the 165 arrested last year, over 60 have so far been charged with terrorism-related offences and 13 convicted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 226293 226294 question first answered 10/03/2015 15:06:13 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 48537 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis