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387150

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Forced Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to tackle (a) forced marriage and (b) female genital mutilation.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
	tabling member printed	James Berry
	uin	900728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>The Girl Summit, hosted by the Prime Minister and UNICEF in July 2014, underlined the United Kingdom’s leadership in stamping out forced marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM).</p><p>We made forced marriage a criminal offence and the first conviction was secured last month. We also introduced a package of new measures to tackle FGM through the Serious Crime Act 2015 including victim anonymity, mandatory reporting of FGM, a new offence of parental liability and the introduction of FGM protection orders.</p><p>The Government recognises that legislation alone is not enough to tackle FGM and forced marriage, and our specialist FGM and Forced Marriage Units lead and deliver wide-ranging prevention and awareness-raising work.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/07/2015 16:28:06 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4489 label Biography information for James Berry

386186

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Criminal Investigation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost has been of investigations into sexual offences in (a) North Wales and (b) the UK in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	4505
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The cost of investigating specific offences is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 06/07/2015 13:55:06 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

386287

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Teleperformance
	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 is of contracts currently held with her Department by Teleperformance Ltd; and what each such contract relates to.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	4615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>The Home Department currently holds two contracts with Teleperformance Ltd.</p><p>The Next Generation Outsourced Visa Services contract, which has a total value of £33.3 million exc. VAT per annum for a maximum of 9 years and a minimum of 5 years. This contract is for the provision of services (to supplement the Home Department’s own in-house resources and services) for the support and delivery of the Home Department’s visa application services in 79 countries across Africa and Europe.</p><p>The Contact Centre Services contract for Her Majesty’s Passport Office, which has a total value of £10 million exc. VAT per annum for a maximum of 5 years and a minimum of 3 years. This contract is for the provision of contact centre services for phone and e-mail contacts from UK and International passport customers.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/07/2015 13:55:48 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

386291

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Directors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) names and (b) previous occupations are of the non-executive member of the Home Office Board.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	4692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>Sue Langley, OBE and Alan Brown are the non-executive members of the Home Office Board.</p><p>Sue Langley is currently the CEO of the Government's UK Financial Services Investment Organisation. She is a Non Executive Director for UKAR (Northern Rock Asset Management and Bradford and Bingley) and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.</p><p>Previously she was Director of Market Development and a member of the Executive Team for Lloyd's of London, a Director of Lloyd’s Asia and Chairman of Lloyd’s Japan. Prior to this Sue was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the executive team for the Hiscox Group, holding various board positions. She joined Hiscox from PriceWaterhouseCoopers where she was a Principal Consultant and worked with a range of FTSE 100 companies. Sue is a representative on the Women's Business Council. She is a Vice President of the Insurance Institute of London.</p><p>Alan Brown is currently Chief Executive Officer at ASCO – an international oilfield support services company and a global provider of outsourced logistics services to the oil and gas industry. He is a non- executive director of Intertek, the FTSE 100-listed testing inspection and certification business.</p><p>Previously, Alan was Chief Executive Officer of Rentokil Initial plc for five years until October 2013. Alan spent 25 years at Unilever plc, in various roles in the UK and Europe and then CEO of Unilever’s operations in Taiwan and then China. Following this, Alan returned to the UK as Chief Financial Officer at Imperial Chemical Industries plc.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 07/07/2015 15:54:22 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

386295

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: 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 officials were employed in her Department on 1 January (a) 2010 and (b) 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	4696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>The number of officials working in the Home Office is recorded at the end of each month; therefore the numbers of officials provided in tables 1 and 2 is as on 31 December in 2009 and 2014.</p><p> </p><p>It is important to note as context that Machinery of Government changes have taken place during this period, including 4,639 FTE officials transferring from HMRC to join the Home Office on 1st April 2010 to undertake functions previously carried out by HMRC. Excluding these machinery changes, the Home Office reduced the number of staff by almost 2000 officials by 2014 compared to 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/07/2015 14:01:41 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ4696 No of HO Officials 1st Jan 2015 table 1 and table 2(1).xlsx title The number of officials working in the Home Dept.
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

386296

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	National Crime Agency: 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 of the National Crime Agency previously worked for the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	4697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>As at 31 May 2015, 3,323 National Crime Agency officers had previously worked for the Serious Organised Crime Agency.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 06/07/2015 13:51:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

386298

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Sick Leave
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many days of sick leave employees in her Department took in 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	4701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>Each Department reports its sick leave to Cabinet Office as part of a twelve month rolling year figure; this allows for comparisons to be made across the civil service, taking into account both the size and employee profile of each Department.</p><p>In 2014 176,665 working days were lost due to sick absence, an average working days lost of 6.88 per staff year. The Department was amongst the best across government when compared to other 'large' and 'very large' Departments and the civil service average was 7.4 for the same period.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 07/07/2015 15:53:30 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

386299

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Directors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) names and (b) salaries are of officials of director general rank in her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	4702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>The names and salaries of officials of director general rank are published in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts. These are available for the 2013/14 financial year at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/321446/ARA_web_enabled_18_June.pdf</p><p>I am unable to disclose financial data for 2014/15 until the Home Office’s 2014/15 Annual Report and Accounts are published. These will be published on www.gov.uk in due course.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 07/07/2015 15:53:50 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz