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174437

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on (a) recruitment agency fees, (b) outplacement agency fees for displaced or redundant staff and (c) staff training in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	221227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The Home Department does not hold centrally details of expenditure on recruitment agency fees so this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Expenditure on outplacement agency fees for displaced or <br>redundant staff for the financial years prior to 2014/15 was not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The fully audited figures for 2014/15 will be available in July 2015.<br><br>The total staff training costs for the financial years 2010/11 to 2013/14 are set out below:<br><br>2010-11 - £13,598,237<br>2011-12 - £14,860,807<br>2012-13 - £16,986,868<br>2013-14 - £24,715,417<br><br>The full-year audited figures for total staff training expenditure for 2014-15 will be available in July 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/01/2015 15:01:08 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 39696 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

167529

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her officials last met officials from the Department for Health to consider the effect of late Disclosure and Barring clearances on the employment of hospital and care home workers.
	tabling member constituency	Aldridge-Brownhills
	tabling member printed	Sir Richard Shepherd
	uin	216894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The DBS hold quarterly meetings with NHS Professionals, a DBS Registered Body which supports applicants from the hospital and care home sectors in making disclosure applications. No complaints have been raised by this Registered Body with <br>regard to delays with applications.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/12/2014 12:10:39 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 31891 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	295 label Biography information for Sir Richard Shepherd

167527

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department last reviewed the time taken by the West Midlands Constabulary to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service application.
	tabling member constituency	Aldridge-Brownhills
	tabling member printed	Sir Richard Shepherd
	uin	216892
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department receives monthly updates from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) on the time taken by police forces, including West Midlands police, to complete local police checks as part of the disclosure application process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 16/12/2014 14:34:28 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 31894 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	295 label Biography information for Sir Richard Shepherd

64544

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to the Answer of 25 June 2014, Official Report, column 210W, on human trafficking, how many calls in each of the years from 2011 to 2014 came from (a) victims, (b) other police forces, (c) the UK border force, (d) other professionals and (e) the public; and how many (i) traffickers were arrested and (ii) victims rescued as a result of information provided by those calls.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	202902
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>This information is recorded by the Trafficking and Kidnap Unit at the <br>Metropolitan Police Service. The breakdown of data requested is only available <br>from 2013 onwards. This is detailed in the tables below:</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/07/2014 16:07:04 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name 202902 PQ Tables.doc title Breakdown of calls received previous answer version 7584 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

92667

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Slavery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who has been appointed to the role of Designate Anti-Slavery Commissioner, advertised in August 2014; and on the basis of what job description they were appointed.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	209271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>The open competition to appoint a Designate Anti-slavery Commissioner is expected to conclude shortly, at which point an announcement will be made. The job description provided to candidates is attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/10/2014 14:48:44 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name Designate Anti-Slavery Commissioner - Job Description.doc title Anti-slavery commissioner - job description previous answer version 21958 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

384400

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Living Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) direct employees, (b) agency staff and (c) outsourced staff working for her Department and its subsidiary agencies are paid less than the living wage.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	3317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2015 answer text <p>All permanent members of staff directly employed by the Home Office are paid the Living Wage or above.</p><p>All temporary agency staff are employed in accordance with the Agency Workers Regulations which ensures parity with directly employed staff after 12 weeks.</p><p>The Home Office only keeps information on the legal minimum standards of pay of staff employed by organisations contracted to provide services within the Home Office, not the living wage.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/06/2015 14:30:14 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 7796 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

169551

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Freezing of Assets
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many restraint orders to freeze assets were imposed in each of the last seven financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	uin	218127
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The table below provides the number of restraint orders obtained in England and <br>Wales in each of the last seven years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p>Number of Restraint Orders in England &amp; Wales</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1,497</p></td><td><p>1,796</p></td><td><p>1,665</p></td><td><p>1,856</p></td><td><p>1,593</p></td><td><p>1,466</p></td><td><p>1,417</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As shown in the table below, more assets have been recovered since 2010 than <br>previously, although prosecutors now face greater difficulties in obtaining <br>restraint orders following the impact of the Court of Appeal decision in <br>Windsor &amp; Ors v Crown Prosecution Service [2011] EWCA Crim 143.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p>Value of assets recovered in England &amp; Wales</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£148.86m</p></td><td><p>£159.90m</p></td><td><p>£170.53m</p></td><td><p>£177.40m</p></td><td><p>£193.86m</p></td><td><p>£182.44m</p></td><td><p>£188.97m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has taken steps to address this by bringing forward provisions <br>in the Serious Crime Bill, which is currently before Parliament, to lower the <br>legal test for restraint to make it easier to obtain restraint orders earlier in <br>investigations. We are also working with operational partners to ensure that <br>the use of restraint orders is considered at the outset of all appropriate investigations.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 16/12/2014 17:17:48 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 33440 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

426822

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) the amount of any underspend expected against departmental expenditure limits in the current fiscal year and (b) her Department's latest forecast of total AME spend for this year are; and what the forecasts were for those two sums at the time of the Summer Budget 2015 and March Budget 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	uin	15315
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2015 answer text <p>(a) At the close of September 2015, we were not forecasting an underspend of Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit (RDEL)</p><p>At the close of September 2015, we were not forecasting an underspend of Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (CDEL)</p><p>(b) At the close of September 2015, we were forecasting a total Annual Managed Expenditure (AME) spend for 2015-16 of £1,616 million.</p><p>At the time of the Summer Budget 2015 – when we had closed the accounts for June – we were forecasting:</p><p>• £9,805 million RDEL for the whole of 2015-16</p><p>• £363 million CDEL for the whole of 2015-16</p><p>• £1,618 million AME for the whole of 2015-16</p><p>At the time of the Spring Budget we were forecasting:</p><p>• £9,805 million RDEL for the whole of 2015-16</p><p>• £363 million CDEL for the whole of 2015-16</p><p>• £1,616 million AME for the whole of 2015-16</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 20/11/2015 14:45:24 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 29887 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

426821

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on (a) temporary agency staff, (b) consultants, (c) non-payroll staff, (d) administration and (e) marketing and advertising in real terms in each year since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	uin	15305
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes monthly spending data for temporary agency staff, consultants and non-payroll staff. This information is available online, and can be found here:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-management-information-2015 &gt;</p><p>Transparency Data was introduced by the coalition government in 2010, to enable the public to hold the Government to account, with the aim of reducing administration costs. The information available online through Transparency Data includes departmental spending on temporary staff, consultants and non-payroll staff. The previous administration did not compile or collate that information, and it is therefore not possible to provide comparative figures, or to establish what was previously spent, on the same basis.</p><p>The Home Office has reduced administration expenditure budgets by 50 per cent since 2010-11 in real terms. The Home Office is committed to a further 30 per cent reduction by 2019-20 over Spending Review 2015 period.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 16/12/2015 17:31:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 29886 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

174776

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the average length of time each police force has taken to return Disclosure and Barring Service checks since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	221314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2015 answer text <p>The average number of days taken by each police force to return disclosure <br>checks is provided in the table below. The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) <br>works closely with any forces which miss their service level agreements. The <br>DBS was established in December 2012. Data prior to this date relates to the <br>Criminal Records Bureau.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 04/02/2015 16:17:03 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 221314 _ table.xls title Police force disclosure checks previous answer version 39934 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe