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535557

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Croydon
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of hate crime were reported in Croydon in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	42545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office collects information on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police at the police force area level. The Metropolitan police force recorded 13,889 hate crimes in 2014/15.</p><p>Further information on hate crime can be found in Hate Crimes, England and Wales, 2014/15, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2014-to-2015</p><p>Data for 2015/16 are due to be published in October 2016.</p><p>This Government is committed to tackling hate crime. The UK has one of the strongest legislative frameworks in the world to tackle hate crime. We are working across Government with police, (including National Community Tensions Team), the Crown Prosecution Service and community partners to send out a clear message that hate crime will not be tolerated and we will vigorously pursue and prosecute those who commit these crimes.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 18/07/2016 16:25:15 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

535552

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Modern Slavery Act 2015
	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 to publish the implementation plan and monitoring framework for the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Stockport
	tabling member printed	Ann Coffey
	uin	42479
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>While there are no plans to publish an additional plan or monitoring framework, the Government has several mechanisms overseeing implementation and monitoring of the Modern Slavery Act and Strategy. The Inter-Departmental Group for Modern Slavery, chaired by the Hoe Secretary, publishes an annual report on Government work to tackle modern slavery. The Modern Slavery Threat Group chaired by the National Policing Lead, oversees the operational response. And the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner will publish his first annual report about the UK's response this Autumn.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 19/07/2016 12:10:01 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	458 label Biography information for Ann Coffey

536490

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Lancashire
	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 human trafficking of women (a) from and (b) into Lancashire have taken place over the past five years.
	tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
	uin	42877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>Data on the number of cases of human trafficking of women a) from and b) into Lancashire is not collated centrally. The available data on the number and profile of potential victims of human trafficking referred to the National Referral Mechanism can be found on the NCA website:</p><p>http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/about-us/what-we-do/specialist-capabilities/uk-human-trafficking-centre/national-referral-mechanism</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 19/07/2016 13:10:38 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans

536491

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crime: Victims
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with police forces on policing strategies to help protect older and more vulnerable citizens against crime.
	tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
	uin	42876
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>It is for democratically accountable Police and Crime Commissioners to establish priorities for their area based on local community needs and to set these out in their Police and Crime Plan.</p><p>The Government recognises that older and more vulnerable citizens can be particularly vulnerable to a range of crimes from domestic and sexual abuse to fraud and organised crime, and routinely engages with police forces on improving the response to these crimes in line with the relevant Government strategies and programmes.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 19/07/2016 12:53:50 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans

536492

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Hate Crime: Liverpool City Region
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of each type of hate crime were recorded in (a) Liverpool, Wavertree constituency and (b) the Liverpool City Region in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	42871
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office have collected information on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police since 2011/12 at the police force area level. The data for Merseyside police for each of the currently monitored hate strands are given in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Number of hate crimes recorded by Merseyside police, by monitored strand, 2011/12 to 2014/15 <sup>1</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Hate crime strand</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Race</p></td><td><p>1,107</p></td><td><p>1,047</p></td><td><p>1,358</p></td><td><p>1,653</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Religion</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>41</p></td><td><p>119</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sexual orientation</p></td><td><p>138</p></td><td><p>141</p></td><td><p>193</p></td><td><p>65</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disability</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>99</p></td><td><p>186</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gender-identity</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total number of hate crimes<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>1,318</p></td><td><p>1,679</p></td><td><p>1,914</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><em>Source: Police recorded crime, Home Office</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p><a href="http://www.report-it.org.uk/files/hate_crime_definitions_-_v3_0.pdf" target="_blank">1. Hate crimes are taken to mean any crime where the perpetrator's hostility or prejudice against an identifiable group of people is a factor in determining who is victimised. For the agreed definition of hate crime see: http://www.report-it.org.uk</a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5" rowspan="2"><p>2. It is possible for a hate crime to have more than one motivating factor (for example an offence may be motivated by hostility towards the victim’s race and religion). Therefore, the total number of hate crimes may be lower than the individual strands combined. Total number of hate crimes was not collected in 2011/12.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Further information on hate crime can be found in Hate Crimes, England and Wales, 2014/15, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2014-to-2015 Data for 2015/16 are due to be published in October 2016.</p><p>This Government is committed to tackling hate crime. The UK has one of the strongest legislative frameworks in the world to tackle hate crime. We are working across Government with police, (including National Community Tensions Team), the Crown Prosecution Service and community partners to send out a clear message that hate crime will not be tolerated and we will vigorously pursue and prosecute those who commit these crimes.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 19/07/2016 15:50:47 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

535284

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	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 the average waiting time is for a Disclosure and Barring Service local intelligence check to be completed by the Metropolitan Police Service.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	42334
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2016 answer text <p>From June 2015 to May 2016, the average time taken to complete Disclosure checks by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) was 94 days and for the police as a whole, 22 days.</p><p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is working closely with the small number of forces, including the MPS, whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets. The performance of police disclosure units is an operational issue for individual police forces and the MPS has established a Gold Group to oversee the recovery plan which they have in place to reduce the time taken. I have made clear to the MPS that its current delays must be addressed as a matter of priority and I continue to maintain close oversight of the progress being made.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 42335 question first answered 20/07/2016 13:14:58 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

535285

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2016
	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 the average waiting time is for a Disclosure and Barring Service local intelligence check to be completed by the police.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	42335
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2016 answer text <p>From June 2015 to May 2016, the average time taken to complete Disclosure checks by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) was 94 days and for the police as a whole, 22 days.</p><p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is working closely with the small number of forces, including the MPS, whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets. The performance of police disclosure units is an operational issue for individual police forces and the MPS has established a Gold Group to oversee the recovery plan which they have in place to reduce the time taken. I have made clear to the MPS that its current delays must be addressed as a matter of priority and I continue to maintain close oversight of the progress being made.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 42334 question first answered 20/07/2016 13:14:58 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

536175

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Slavery: Victims
	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 has taken to raise awareness among public authorities of their statutory duty to notify her where they have reasonable grounds to believe that a person may be a victim of slavery or human trafficking under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	42651
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2016 answer text <p>We published guidance on the Modern Slavery Act on GOV.UK and a circular was sent to all bodies who are subject to the duty. We will publish data on notifications received and carry out further awareness-raising activity later this year.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 42652 question first answered 20/07/2016 12:45:29 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

536176

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Slavery: Victims
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many notifications her Department has received under section 52 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 relating to slavery or human trafficking of (a) children and (b) adults.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	42652
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2016 answer text <p>We published guidance on the Modern Slavery Act on GOV.UK and a circular was sent to all bodies who are subject to the duty. We will publish data on notifications received and carry out further awareness-raising activity later this year.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 42651 question first answered 20/07/2016 12:45:29 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

536683

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	42878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2016 answer text <p>The previous Government signed the Istanbul Convention to show the strong commitment it placed on tackling violence against women and girls and this Government remains committed to ratifying it.</p><p>The UK already complies with the vast majority of the Convention’s articles but further amendments to domestic law, to take extra-territorial jurisdiction over a range of offences (as required by Article 44), are necessary before the Convention can be ratified. We are currently considering the approach to implementing the extra-territorial jurisdiction requirements in England and Wales and will seek to legislate when the approach is agreed and Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 20/07/2016 12:50:45 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West