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1050160

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration: EU Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the funding for advertising the settled status scheme was spent on online advertising in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	213251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office is putting in place measures to ensure that the EU Settlement Scheme is streamlined, user-friendly and accessible to all prospective applicants. That is why we are working in partnership with vulnerable group representatives, local authorities and other experts to make sure we reach everyone.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Since November 2017, we have held monthly meetings with representatives of EU citizens on the design and development of the scheme and communications plans. We have been working closely with these groups to identify the needs of potentially vulnerable applicants including the disabled, elderly and isolated. There will be a broad range of support in place; for those who need non-specialist support there is the assisted digital service for technological support, and the Settlement Resolution Centre which will be able to assist with questions relating to the application process.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">When the scheme fully opens by 30 March, there will be further routes available to have identity documents checked. This includes posting passports or ID cards to the Home Office to be checked and returned, and there will be over 50 locations all over the country where applicants can have their document scanned.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office is committed to supporting vulnerable EU citizens to obtain UK immigration status and we will continue to engage with representative groups to ensure the needs of vulnerable citizens are taken into account.</del></p><p><br /><ins class="ministerial">All EU Settlement Scheme advertising since March 2018 has been digital, using online channels. (This was a campaign from March 2018 to July 2018).</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">A broader range of channels will be used for advertising from March 2019.</ins></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/02/2019 16:27:05 question first ministerially corrected 06/02/2019 14:47:34 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes previous answer version 99811 answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1002140

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Action Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of reports to Action Fraud are referred to a (a) local police force and (b) Regional Organised Crime Unit.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	188204
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>In the period up to March 2018 Action Fraud recorded 277,561 crimes (Source: ONS – April 17 to March 18). The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), which analyses crimes recorded by Action Fraud, cannot directly task Regional Organised Crime Units.</p><p>In light of which crimes are allocated to forces as per the rules set out in the Home Office Counting Rules. In the same period (April 17 to March 18) the NFIB disseminated 53,574 crimes to Police forces (a), a further 120 crimes were sent direct to Regional Organised Crime Units as a result of the NFIB being aware of an ongoing investigation which was being undertaken by them.</p><p>A considerable number of the crimes will have been perpetrated by the same criminal group.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/02/2019 16:25:36 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1014996

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Offences against Children: Organised Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate he has made of the number of victims of child sexual exploitation by organised groups in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	195583
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>We are working to build the national picture of the nature and scale of child sexual exploitation by organised groups. Child sexual abuse and exploitation are under-reported crimes, which means it is challenging to develop accurate assessment of the number of victims. However, best estimations in-dicate that approximately 5-15% of children have experienced child sexual abuse in their lifetime.</p><p>We have introduced new requirements for the police to record information re-lating to these offences which, along with the establishment of a new na-tional Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse, will help us to build a more informed picture of the scale of these crimes and the best ways to tackle and prevent them in the future.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 05/02/2019 14:20:56 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1017484

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Motorcycles: Antisocial Behaviour
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reports of anti-social behaviour were made in relation to mopeds in (a) Salford and Eccles constituency and (b) Greater Manchester in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	197644
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office collects data on the number of anti-social behaviour incidents recorded by the police forces in England and Wales. From this information it is not possible to identify how many of such incidents related to mopeds.</p><p>Anti-social behaviour incidents recorded by the police are published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesotherrelatedtables/yearendingjune2018/otherrelateddatatables.yearendingjune2018v2.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesotherrelatedtables/yearendingjune2018/otherrelateddatatables.yearendingjune2018v2.xlsx</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 05/02/2019 13:21:35 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1027610

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his Department has plans to increase the number of police officers after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	203267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>We reviewed the changing and increasingly complex demands on the police. We are proposing a funding settlement that will provide total funding of up to £14 billion for 2019-20 in England and Wales, an increase of up to £970m compared to 2018/19, including precept, pensions funding and national investment. Funding for the police in Northern Ireland is a devolved matter.</p><p><br>It is for Chief Constables in conjunction with their Police and Crime Commis-sioners as part of their forward planning to determine the amount of police officers they will require to help them deal with any emerging pressures.</p><p><br>The Government is already supporting the police sector to respond to pres-sures arising from the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. We have provided £2.4 million to the National Chiefs’ Police Council and have also paid £845k to Kent Police for their European Union Exit planning.</p><p><br>We are engaging closely with the police sector in relation to planning and funding pressures in relation to the United Kingdom leaving the European Union.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 05/02/2019 13:23:09 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1027612

	registered interest
	date	18/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Antisocial Behaviour: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to combat youth antisocial behaviour.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	203269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 provides the police and local authorities with a range of flexible powers that they can use to tackle and prevent anti-social behaviour, including to combat anti-social behaviour by young people. To support local agencies decide when and how to use these powers, the Home Office refreshed its statutory guidance for frontline practitioners on the use of the statutory powers in December 2017.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 05/02/2019 14:23:04 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1046298

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 21 January (HL12624) that “the Home Office does not electronically record the grounds on which an individual claims asylum” and that they cannot identify the origins of persecuted minorities, whether they intend to (1) review that policy, and (2) collect such data in the future.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL13008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The basis of a person’s asylum claim is recorded on their individual Home Office file, but not in a way that can be easily aggregated, so we cannot provide figures on how many claims are brought by particular persecuted minorities, or the nature of claims brought by those attempting to travel to the UK in small vessels.</p><p>As such, this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost because it would require a manual search through individual records.</p><p>We keep all policy under regular review.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL13009 question first answered 05/02/2019 15:17:50 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1046299

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 21 January (HL12624) that “the Home Office does not electronically record the grounds on which an individual claims asylum”, whether they record that information by other means; if so, whether data are available for those that attempted to travel to the UK on small vessels in 2018; and if so, whether they will publish any such data.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL13009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The basis of a person’s asylum claim is recorded on their individual Home Office file, but not in a way that can be easily aggregated, so we cannot provide figures on how many claims are brought by particular persecuted minorities, or the nature of claims brought by those attempting to travel to the UK in small vessels.</p><p>As such, this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost because it would require a manual search through individual records.</p><p>We keep all policy under regular review.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL13008 question first answered 05/02/2019 15:17:50 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1050102

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Undocumented Migrants: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been prosecuted in relation to illegal immigration in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017 and (d) 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	213219
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Information on defendants proceeded against for offences under Immigration Acts 1971 to 2009 in England and Wales is available in table pr_01 within the detention tables in the latest release of ‘Immigration Statistics, year ending September 2018’, available from the Home Office website at:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/758249/detention-sep-2018-tables.ods." target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/758249/detention-sep-2018-tables.ods.</a></p><p>Information for 2018 will be available in August 2019.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/02/2019 15:03:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1050125

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Durham Constabulary: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will provide additional funding to Durham Constabulary to reverse the central funding reduction since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	213333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s proposed funding settlement for the police for 2019/20 provides additional funding of up to £970 million, including additional Government grant funding, council tax precept and investment in national priorities. This substantial increase will enable forces to meet their genuine financial pressures as well as to invest in key capabilities. The Durham Police and Crime Commissioner will receive a cash funding increase of £7.5m in 2019-20 if he uses the full council tax flexibility. The Home Secretary has been clear that police funding will be a priority for the next spending review.</p><p>Through the reforms introduced by this Government, the system architecture is in place to allow all forces to benefit from learning and innovation across the sector. The College of Policing, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of the Constabulary and Fire &amp; Rescue Services and the Independent Office for Police Conduct are collectively engaged in promoting and monitoring best practice and continuous improvement in policing, to ensure public confidence.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 213334 question first answered 05/02/2019 18:20:24 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris