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447258

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Domestic Visits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which parliamentary constituencies she has visited in her official capacity since the May 2015 general election; and on which dates and for what purposes those visits were made.
	tabling member constituency	Ilford North
	tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
	uin	23843
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of international partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery.</p><p>Details of Ministerial meetings are passed to the Cabinet Office on a quarterly basis and are subsequently published on the Gov.uk website: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/ministerial-data-home-office</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 28/01/2016 16:27:10 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 41649 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

422684

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Greater London
	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 tackle the rise in cases of domestic violence in London.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	12649
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>Tackling domestic abuse is a key priority for this Government.</p><p>The Office for National Statistics has ascribed national increases in police recorded violent crime to improvements in police recording.</p><p>The Government is providing £10 million to fund specialist domestic and sexual violence services and national helplines up to April 2016, including part-funding to 23 Independent Domestic Violence Advocates and eight Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Coordinators in London. New guidance for the police has been published by the College of Policing, new training has been piloted and for the first time police are collating domestic violence data against a national standard.</p><p>The Government recognises that local areas are best placed to meet local need.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/10/2015 16:19:09 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

420425

	registered interest
	date	17/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Children
	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 make an assessment of the effect of domestic violence on children.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
	tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
	uin	901500
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government recognises the life changing impact domestic abuse can have on the lives of children. That is why we have expanded the Troubled Families Programme to reach up to an additional 400,000 families from 2015/16, including those affected by domestic abuse.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/10/2015 16:03:46 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

155517

	registered interest
	date	11/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many buildings her Department sold in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	214220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>Two Home Office owned buildings were sold in 2010 and one in 2013. Contracts have been exchanged in 2014 for the sale of two sites, one subject to grant of satisfactory planning consent, and both for completion in 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/11/2014 15:02:16 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 28164 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

89748

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Telephone Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under what timetable her Department plans to phase-out the use of telephone lines with the prefix (a) 0845, 0844 and 0843 in accordance with the Cabinet Office guidance on customer service lines published in December 2013 and (b) 03 and 08, where 03 is the primary number under a dual numbering system.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	207454
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The use of telephone lines with the prefix 0843, 0844 and 0845 will be phased out in accordance with the Cabinet Office guidance on customer service lines both where these have been the primary number or have been temporarily retained as secondary number behind a new 03 number.</p><p>The Home Office and Her Majesty's Passport Office operates no 0843/0844 numbers. <br><br>The Home Office's 0845 Nationality Contact / European Enquiry Line and Asylum support line has been migrated to 0300 prefix in March 2014. The original 0845 number will be fully decommissioned by 31 December 2014.<br><br>Her Majesty's Passport Office 0845 number for Customer letters migrated to 0300 prefix on 1 September 2014. The original 0845 number will be fully decommissioned by 31 December 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 03/09/2014 16:38:28 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

517951

	registered interest
	date	06/05/2016
	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, pursuant to the Answers of 1 February 2016 to Questions 23158 and 23749, on vetting, what progress she has made in compiling the data.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	36717
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The relevant data is being finalised and I will write to the Honourable Member shortly with the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/05/2016 11:35:26 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

456178

	registered interest
	date	29/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
	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 Answer of 11 February 2016 to Questions 26129 and 26130, how much community engagement funding to tackle female genital mutilation (a) was allocated in 2013-14 and (b) has been allocated for 2015-16 through schemes operated by (i) her Department and (ii) the Department for Communities and Local Government; how many and which community projects applied for funding in these years; and which such applications were (A) accepted and (B) rejected.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	28884
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>In 2014-15, the Government provided over £380,000 to community organisations through the Home Office’s female genital mutilation (FGM) Community Engagement Initiative and the Department for Communities and Local Government’s FGM and forced marriage prevention projects.</p><p>A total of 179 applications were received, and 29 of these applications were funded. The Answer of 11 February 2016 to Questions 26129 and 26130 provides a list of the organisations whose applications were successful. The Government did not provide specific funding for FGM community engagement projects in 2013-14 or 2015-16.</p><p>We know that changing attitudes within communities is key to ending FGM and we will continue to work with community organisations and survivors through the FGM Unit’s stakeholder group and ongoing outreach programme to drive this work forward.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 28881 question first answered 08/03/2016 17:23:46 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

456179

	registered interest
	date	29/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
	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 Answer of 3 February 2016 to Question 24958, how much funding the Government allocated for the provision of (a) domestic abuse services, (b) female rape support centres, (c) independent domestic violence advisers (IDVAs) and (d) independent sexual violence advisers (ISVAs) in each year from 2009-10 to 2015-16; and how many (i) rape support centres, (ii) IDVAs and (iii) ISVAs were supported with that funding in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	28882
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>The previous Government provided £40 million of dedicated funding for domestic and sexual violence services between 2011 and 2015 equating to £10 million per year. This funding was extended until April 2016, supplemented by an additional £10 million for refuges, a £3.5 million fund to boost the provision of domestic violence services including refuges, and an uplift of £7 million for victims of sexual violence and child sexual abuse.</p><p>This funding included £1.7 million per year to part-fund 87 Independent Sexual Violence Advisers (ISVAs), an increase from £860,000 in 2009-10 and 2010-11 which supported 43 and 44 posts respectively, and £2.5 million per year to part-fund 144 Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVAs), an increase from £1.5 million in 2009-10 and £2.3 million in 2010-11 which supported 63 and 114 posts respectively.</p><p>While it is not fully possible to disaggregate funding for domestic abuse services from support for wider violence against women and girls services, the attached table provides a detailed breakdown of funding to support the provision of IDVAs, ISVAs and Rape Support Centres for each year from 2009/10 to 2015/16.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 08/03/2016 16:14:12 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 28882 IDVA, ISVA and Rape Support Centre funding.doc title Funding for IDVAs, ISVAs and Rape Support Centres
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

456181

	registered interest
	date	29/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
	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 Answer of 11 February 2016 to Questions 26129 and 26130, how many and which organisations applied for funding for community projects to tackle female genital mutilation through schemes operated by (a) her Department and (b) the Department for Communities and Local Government in 2014-15; and which such applications were (i) accepted and (ii) rejected.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	28881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>In 2014-15, the Government provided over £380,000 to community organisations through the Home Office’s female genital mutilation (FGM) Community Engagement Initiative and the Department for Communities and Local Government’s FGM and forced marriage prevention projects.</p><p>A total of 179 applications were received, and 29 of these applications were funded. The Answer of 11 February 2016 to Questions 26129 and 26130 provides a list of the organisations whose applications were successful. The Government did not provide specific funding for FGM community engagement projects in 2013-14 or 2015-16.</p><p>We know that changing attitudes within communities is key to ending FGM and we will continue to work with community organisations and survivors through the FGM Unit’s stakeholder group and ongoing outreach programme to drive this work forward.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 28884 question first answered 08/03/2016 17:23:46 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

456182

	registered interest
	date	29/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding the Government provided to the Female Genital Mutilation Helpline in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16; how many full-time equivalent staff have been employed by that helpline; how many calls that helpline has received; and how much funding the Government plans to allocate to that helpline in financial year 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	28894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) runs the UK’s 24-hour female genital mutilation helpline in partnership with the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police Service. The Government does not fund the helpline, but works closely with the NSPCC to raise awareness of the helpline. A total of 1,129 calls and enquiries have been received by the helpline between November 2013 and the end of January 2016.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 08/03/2016 16:04:59 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq