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1506380

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2022
	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, what measures are in place to protect female victims of domestic abuse during a police investigation.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Lee Anderson
	uin	49781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>This Government is committed to protecting all victims of domestic abuse and is working in partnership with police forces across England and Wales to keep victims safe.</p><p>The police have measures at their disposal to protect victims of domestic abuse during a police investigation. These include pre-charge bail conditions and protective orders such as Domestic Violence Protection Orders (DVPO). Following an incident of violence, or the threat of violence, the police can apply for a Domestic Violence Protection Notice (DVPN) to provide immediate protection to the victim for 48 hours by, for example, prohibiting the person subject to the notice from contacting the victim. The DVPN is then followed by a DVPO in a magistrate’s court.</p><p>In the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, the Government committed to launching a new Domestic Abuse Protection Notice and Order, to be piloted from next year. These will go even further in protecting victims from all forms of domestic abuse. This will include making a breach of a new order a criminal offence and having no minimum or maximum duration. The Government is currently undergoing extensive work to prepare the new order for piloting from next year.</p><p> </p><p>To strengthen the police response to cases of domestic abuse and help domestic abuse victims and survivors, the Government also committed in the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan up to £3.3 million over three years to support the rollout of the Domestic Abuse Matters training, to forces which have yet to deliver it, or do not have their own specific domestic abuse training. This training developed by the College of Policing in conjunction with SafeLives and with input from Women’s Aid, aims to ensure the police know how to best respond to victims of domestic abuse, understanding its impact on victims, and standardises the police response to domestic abuse.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to work closely with the College to encourage the remaining forces to take up the Domestic Abuse Matters programme.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office is also planning to double funding for survivors of sexual violence and the National Domestic Abuse Helpline by 2024-25, and further increase funding for all the national helplines it supports. Our Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan invests £140 million to support victims, including over £47 million in ringfenced funding for victims’ services and £27 million is currently ringfenced funding for 700 ISVAs and IDVAs.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 22/09/2022 16:40:57 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4743 label Biography information for Lee Anderson

1518937

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Abortion: Protest
	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 is taking steps to prevent protests outside healthcare facilities providing abortion care in England.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Dame Diana Johnson
	uin	59004
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The existing laws give the police and local authorities the powers they need to deal with harmful protests, and the Government expects the police and local authorities to use their existing powers appropriately to deliver a locally-driven response.</p><p>Given the scale, frequency and nature of abortion-related protests, we believe that national buffer zones outside abortion clinics in England and Wales would be disproportionate.</p><p>The Government is clear that it is unacceptable that patients seeking healthcare advice or staff working in healthcare facilities should feel intimidated or harassed.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/10/2022 15:52:41 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1506809

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Trials
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Department of Justice Answer of 13 September 2022 to Question 47553 on Sexual Offences: Trials, and with reference to The Secretary of State Answer to the Question from the hon. Member for South Shields at Justice Questions on 24 May 2022, Official Report, column 154, how Operation Soteria will help ensure that the focus of investigation is on the accused rather than the victim.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	51704
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office is providing £6.65m to support the Operation Soteria programme, which is developing a new national operating model for the investigation and prosecution of rape. The new model will be made available to all police forces in England and Wales from June 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The investigation of rape must be no different to any other crime, with a focus on the suspect rather than the victim. The new model will support officers to better understand the patterns in behaviour that lead to sexual offending and use this knowledge to guide rape investigations and disrupt offenders.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the programme has worked with the College of Policing to develop, design and pilot a new learning programme for police officers which will strengthen investigative skills and enhance and embed specialist knowledge about sexual offending and victim engagement.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 23/09/2022 08:23:17 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1520560

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Forced Marriage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to (a) monitor and (b) evaluate the impact of the Forced Marriage Unit’s outreach programme in (i) raising awareness of forced marriage and (ii) delivering training to statutory agencies and voluntary and community organisations.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	61025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling forced marriage in all its forms. The Forced Marriage Unit (FMU), a joint Home Office and Foreign, Commonwealth &amp; Development Office unit, leads on the Government’s forced marriage policy, outreach and casework. It operates both inside the UK (where support is provided to any individual) and overseas (where consular assistance is provided to British nationals, including dual nationals).</p><p>One of the FMU’s core activities is to undertake an extensive training and awareness programme targeted at statutory agencies and voluntary and community organisations. This approach aims to ensure that people working with victims are fully informed about how to approach cases of forced marriage. The unit runs monthly workshops, alternately for police officers and social workers, and the FMU also delivers bespoke presentations to individual organisations and fora on request. Through these activities, the FMU reached 1,014 professionals in 2021. The unit has also developed a free online forced marriage e-learning course for relevant professionals, which aims to enable them to recognise the warning signs of forced marriage and ensure that appropriate action is taken to help protect and support all those at risk.</p><p>The FMU solicits feedback from the attendees of its workshops, to help to ensure that it is having the greatest possible impact; as an example, feedback from the last workshop held in September 2022 for social care staff showed that:</p><p>- 76% of those who responded found the workshop extremely useful and 24% found it very useful.</p><p>- 87% of the respondents also stated that they were extremely likely to recommend the workshop to a colleague and 10% said that they were very likely to do so.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 17/10/2022 15:25:50 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

1507828

	registered interest
	date	23/09/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Cost of Living
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the cost of living research by Women’s Aid published on 1 August 2022, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the cost of living crisis on victims of financial domestic abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	55112
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that all victims of domestic abuse receive the support they need, when they need it. In March 2022, we published the cross-Government Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan which invests over £230 million into tackling domestic abuse, including over £140 million for supporting victims.</p><p>We know that economic abuse can often leave victims economically dependent on abusers, making it harder for them to access safety. The Government is committed to tackling this form of abuse which is why for the first time in history, economic abuse is now recognised in law as part of the statutory definition of domestic abuse, included in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (the Act). Economic abuse is also covered by our Domestic Abuse Statutory Guidance, published July 2022, and draft updated Controlling and Coercive Behaviour Statutory Guidance to provide support to professionals that safeguard and support victims of domestic abuse. In the Domestic Abuse Plan, we have committed £200,000 of funding to further support improving the response to economic abuse.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 11/10/2022 11:18:53 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1506222

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to support domestic abuse victims during the cost of living crisis.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	Damien Moore
	uin	49763
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that all victims of domestic abuse receive the support they need, when they need it. In March 2022, we published the cross-Government Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan which invests over £230 million into tackling domestic abuse, including over £140 million for supporting victims.</p><p>To help to ensure victims do not remain with an abuser for fear of not having a roof over their head, the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities introduced a new legal duty within the Act on local authorities to provide support for victims of domestic abuse and their children within safe accommodation, including refuges. This is backed by £125 million of Government funding to ensure that these vital services are available to anyone who needs them, wherever they live.</p><p>Ensuring victims and survivors have the funds to move forward with their lives is crucial. That is why in the Domestic Abuse Plan, the Home Office committed to running a further trial of the flexible funding model. The funds will be made available to charities in selected local authorities, and they will have wide-ranging discretion on what these funds can be used to acquire, based on their first-hand understanding of individual’s needs.</p><p>We also know that economic abuse can often leave victims economically dependent on abusers, creating financial insecurity that makes it harder for them to access safety. The Government is committed to tackling this form of abuse which is why for the first time in history, economic abuse is now recognised in law as part of the statutory definition of domestic abuse, included in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (the Act). In the Domestic Abuse Plan, we have committed £200,000 of funding to further support improving the response to economic abuse.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 22/09/2022 16:43:40 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore

1507109

	registered interest
	date	20/09/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Slavery: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to support victims of human trafficking and modern slavery in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Putney
	tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
	uin	52029
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to delivering personalised, needs-based support to victims of modern slavery, which places the individual victim and their recovery needs at the heart of the support we provide.</p><p>The National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is the process that identifies and supports victims of modern slavery by connecting them with appropriate support; including through the UK government funded Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract (MSVCC), support provided by local authorities, asylum services, and wider state support services such as the NHS.</p><p>The MSVCC is valued at over £300m and helps thousands of victims in England and Wales each year to access vital support they need to assist with their recovery from their modern slavery experience. It provides victims with three core pillars of support: safehouse accommodation, financial support (where necessary), and access to a support worker to assist with accessing wider services such as healthcare, translation services and legal aid. The Government’s comprehensive support offer is set out in full in Annex F of the Modern Slavery Statutory guidance, found <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1104107/Modern_Slavery_Statutory_Guidance__EW__Non-Statutory_Guidance__SNI__v2.11.pdf" target="_blank">modern slavery statutory guidance, non statutory guidance v2.11 (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Support for victims in Scotland and Northern Ireland is provided by the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Executive respectively.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 28/09/2022 15:09:36 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1520561

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Forced Marriage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how her Department is using the 2019 consultation on mandatory reporting of forced marriage to safeguard victims of forced marriage and understand the scale of forced marriage in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
	tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
	uin	61026
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government is absolutely committed to tackling forced marriage in all its forms, and to safeguarding victims. The joint Home Office/Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Forced Marriage Unit provided support for 337 victims or potential victims of forced marriage in 2021, as well as handling 868 general enquiries, and in the same year it delivered training and outreach activity to 1,014 professionals. The Government also provides a free e-learning course about forced marriage for professionals, a victim-focused leaflet available in 12 languages, and a handbook for survivors.</p><p>The Government supported the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022, which expands the scope of the forced marriage offence to cover all instances of causing a child to marry, even when coercion is not used. The Act is planned to come into force on 27 February 2023.</p><p>To understand the scale of forced marriage in the UK, as set out in the July 2021 Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy, the Home Office is exploring options to estimate the prevalence of forced marriage (and female genital mutilation) in England and Wales, given their hidden nature and the lack of robust estimates.</p><p>In working to safeguard victims of forced marriage the Government pays attention to a range of sources of information, including responses to consultations and other engagement with stakeholders and experts.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 17/10/2022 15:22:51 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

1519765

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting: Care Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to address delays to DBS checks for people recruited to the care sector.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	uin	60139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) operates to service standards of completing 80% of Basic check applications within two days, 80% of Standard check applications within 14 days, and 80% of Enhanced check applications within 14 days.</p><p>Year to date performance up to August 2022 is 85.1% for Basic checks, 96% for Standard checks, and 78.4% for Enhanced checks. These attainments apply to applications across all employment sectors, including the care sector.</p><p>DBS Adult First is a service provided by the DBS that can be used in cases where, exceptionally, and in accordance with the terms of Department of Health guidance, a person is permitted to start work with adults before a DBS Certificate has been obtained. This applies to adult services such as care homes, domiciliary care agencies and adult placement schemes where DBS Certificates are required by law.</p><p>Depending on the result from the DBS Adult First, a person can be permitted to start work, under supervision, with vulnerable adults before a DBS certificate has been obtained. Staff working within COVID roles in social and healthcare can also start in advance based on the outcome of the DBS Adult First check.</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.isaadultfirst.co.uk%2Fguidance.aspx&amp;data=05%7C01%7CDietlind.Ramyead1%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C47cd24c68fef40f0d52c08daab6d51b3%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638010783246243167%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=42VD6qBc0uX6QmVJUWljldLSoicTKDcOIc65Hx9W4n8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">More guidance regarding adult first checks can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/10/2022 15:48:39 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1521827

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to research by Women's Aid on the impact of increases in the cost of living on women who have experienced domestic abuse, published on 1 August 2022, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of providing additional financial support, above what has been provided for energy costs, to help support victims of domestic abuse in winter 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	62841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>Tackling domestic abuse is a priority for this Government. As is ensuring all victims and survivors of this heinous crime get the support they need.</p><p>I have discussed with ministerial colleagues how best to tackle domestic abuse.</p><p>An integral part of this work will be to deliver commitments made in The Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan, published in March 2022. The Plan invests over £230 million into tackling domestic abuse, including over £140 million for supporting victims. This funding year, the Home Office has also provided over £190,000 to the Police and Crime Commissioner of Leicestershire to support the delivery of a programme that aims to change perpetrator's behaviour.</p><p>As part of the Plan, my department committed to run trials of the ‘flexible funding model’. This is where funds are given to charities who support victims and survivors. Those charities would then have wide-ranging discretion on how these funds can be used. This includes addressing financial obstacles to victims and survivors moving forward with their lives.</p><p>We are aware the cost of living may exacerbate risk factors for victims and survivors of domestic abuse. We are listening to feedback from stakeholders, including Women’s Aid, and are taking this into account through our work on flexible funding.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/10/2022 16:21:15 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth