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	registered interest
	date	20/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Unexplained Wealth Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Office, how many Unexplained Wealth Orders have been invoked in each month since they were introduced.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	204624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2019 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office does not comment on particular cases. The SFO investigates and prosecutes only the most serious or complex fraud, bribery and corruption cases.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The decision to commence an investigation is that of the Director alone. Government cannot interfere with the operational independence of investigative or prosecutorial agencies. As new tools, it is important that courts and law enforcement establishes the use and process to ensure that they deliver the correct objectives.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">Three UWOs have been applied for, and all granted, since the UWO power came into force in January. The UWOs concern two assets under one investigation in relation to an Azerbaijan national. As new tools, it is important that courts and law enforcement establishes the use and process to ensure that they deliver the correct objectives. </ins></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 25/01/2019 16:05:32 question first ministerially corrected 28/01/2019 15:29:02 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace previous answer version 97424 answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

638399

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2016
	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: Russia
	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 has subjected (a) Dimitry Klyuev, (b) Pavel Karpov or (c) Andrey Pavlov to an (i) asset freeze or (ii) asset recovery in the last eight years.
	tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
	tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
	uin	53636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office is responsible for the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. The powers in the Proceeds of Crime Act may be exercised by law enforcement agencies such as the NCA, SFO, constables and HMRC. <ins class="ministerial">It is Home Office policy not to comment on individual cases. </ins></p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 21/12/2016 12:29:16 question first ministerially corrected 21/12/2016 16:12:02 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace previous answer version 28177 answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

485698

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the total cost of resettling refugees from Syria in each of the next five years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	32410
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The first 12 months of each refugee’s resettlement costs under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement (VPR) Scheme will be funded using Official Development Assistance. At the Spending Review the Government committed £129 million to assist with local authority costs over years 2-5 of the scheme.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The total estimated cost of the scheme in each of the next five years is: £99 million in 2016-2017, £129 million in 2017-2018, £149 million in 2018-2019 and £83 million in 2020-2021.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">At the Spending Review, the Chancellor announced an estimated £460m over the spending review period to cover the first 12 months’ costs for each of the 20,000 refugees being resettled in the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">He also announced an estimated £129m to assist with local authority costs for years two to five of each refugee’s stay in the UK.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The cost of the scheme since inception is subject to audit by the National Audit Office as part of the finalisation of the 2015-16 Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, which are expected to be published this summer.</ins></p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/04/2016 12:20:07 question first ministerially corrected 19/04/2016 18:20:54 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford previous answer version 54155 answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

652732

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Travel
	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 travel that was not standard class in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	56233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2016 answer text <p>Total spend on travel that was not standard class (£<ins class="ministerial">m, rounded</ins>) is set out in the table below (this includes Eurostar Standard Premier):</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2011-2012: <ins class="ministerial">0.9</ins> <del class="ministerial">900,000<del class="ministerial"></del></del></p><p>2012-2013: <ins class="ministerial">0.7</ins> <del class="ministerial">700,000</del></p><p>2013-2014: <ins class="ministerial">1.1</ins> <del class="ministerial">1,100,000</del></p><p>2014-2015: <ins class="ministerial">0.9</ins> <del class="ministerial">900,000</del></p><p>2015-2016: <ins class="ministerial">0.6</ins> <del class="ministerial">600,000</del></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 22/12/2016 13:26:07 question first ministerially corrected 16/01/2017 16:20:36 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 28350 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

681222

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2017
	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, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of proposals by the Anti-Slavery Commissioners to establish a central repository for modern slavery statements; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
	uin	62209
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2017 answer text <p>We have not received a proposal from the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner regarding the establishment of a central repository for modern slavery statements. We have not endorsed a particular repository for such statements. So far, two repository websites have been set up to collect the ‘slavery and human trafficking statements’ published by businesses in one place<del class="ministerial">. These are being run by Unseen and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre</del>.<ins class="ministerial"> These are being run by Semantrica and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre.</ins></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 02/02/2017 16:41:43 question first ministerially corrected 21/02/2017 14:16:34 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 33834 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

168978

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	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 has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	217779
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>Expenditure incurred by the Home Department and its agencies on consultants, <br />temporary staff and contingent labour in the last five years is published <br />annually in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, copies of which are <br />held in the House Library and available from these links.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014</a> <br /><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2012-to-2013</a> <br /><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2011-to-2012" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2011-to-2012</a><br /><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ho-annual-report-and-accounts-2010-to-2011" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ho-annual-report-and-accounts-2010-to-2011</a><br /><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-resource-accounts-2009-to-2010" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-resource-accounts-2009-to-2010</a><br /><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247694/0193.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/247694/0193.pdf</a><br /><br />The Department did not separately account for Agency Staff (Temporary Workers) <br />in these years as the costs associated with this category are included in the <br />overall Contingent Labour figures. <br /><br />Spend on contingent and consultancy labour has decreased significantly overall <br />since 09/10.<br /><br /></p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>FY09/10 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY10/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY11/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY12/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY13/14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>£m</p></td><td><p>£m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Consultancy</strong></p></td><td><p>£227.470</p></td><td><p>£64.194</p></td><td><p>£33.301</p></td><td><p>£14.762</p></td><td><p>£18.014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Contingent Labour </strong></p></td><td><p>£134.000</p></td><td><p>£51.472</p></td><td><p>£37.772</p></td><td><p>£50.672</p></td><td><p>£72.430</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department engages Temporary Staff at AA, AO, EO, HEO and SEO equivalent <br />Grades, the vast majority at the AA to EO grades. Contractors are engaged in <br />grade equivalents EO to SCS PB1 with the vast majority at SEO and G6/7.<br /><br />The Department buys consultancy as a service and therefore does not engage <br />consultants individually.<br /><br />To provide details of contract durations and equivalent grades would require <br />analysis of individual contracts and disparate datasets, the time taken to <br />undertake this task would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 05/01/2015 11:40:14 question first ministerially corrected 06/01/2015 11:32:10 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone previous answer version 36668 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

416723

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Disclosure and Barring Service: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the performance of the Disclosure and Barring Service.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	8920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2015 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) provides the Home Office with monthly updates on performance. Latest figures (relating to July 2015) show that the average processing time for disclosure applications was 14.3 days. The DBS operates to a target to issue 95% of disclosure certificates within 56 days (8 weeks) and in July 95.2% were issued within this time.</p><p>DBS funding for police disclosure units in 2013-14 and 2014-15 is set out in the <del class="ministerial">attached table.</del> <ins class="ministerial">attached table.</ins> Decisions on the operational deployment of resources, including vacancy filling, are matters for Chief Constables in association with Police and Crime Commissioners.</p><p>The DBS is working closely with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to help reduce the time taken to process disclosure checks for all applicants including taxi drivers in London. The MPS has established a Gold Group, which includes DBS representation, to develop and implement a plan to improve MPS disclosure turnaround times.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/09/2015 10:39:08 question first ministerially corrected 21/09/2015 11:00:28 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 8918 DBS funding to police forces 2013-14 20 14-15 07 09 15 (1).xlsx title DBS Table previous answer version 22168 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

452043

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	HM Passport Office: Closures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what public consultation there has been on the proposed closure of 15 HM Passport Office interview offices.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	26844
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>Under the planned changes to HM Passport Offices <ins class="ministerial">the vast majority of passport application interviewees will see no change to their travel time. In a small number of cases passport application interviewees will have to travel further but this should not be more than 65 miles or one and a half hours from their previous closest office.</ins> <del class="ministerial">no customer will need to travel for more than either one and a half hours or 65 miles and the vast majority of passport application interviewees will see no change to their travel time.</del> The decision to deliver greater value for money by reducing surplus capacity for interviews was clear, therefore public consultation on the changes was not applicable.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/02/2016 16:46:01 question first ministerially corrected 22/03/2016 11:41:48 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 46104 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

62098

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	DNA: Databases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests for information held on the National DNA Database were received by her Department from other countries in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
	uin	200768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The first category relates to searches carried out against the National DNA <br />Database (NDNAD) of DNA profiles from outstanding serious crimes or for the <br />identification of an unknown deceased person believed to be a UK national.<br />The below figures are for requested searches undertaken on the basis of a <br />direct request from the National Crime Agency (NCA) formerly Serious Organised<br />Crime Agency (SOCA), with the report as to the outcome of each profile<br />search being issued directly to the United Kingdom National Central Bureau <br />for Interpol (UK NCB).</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year</strong></td><td><strong>Number of searched profile responses provided to NCA/SOCA<sup>[1][2][3]</sup></strong></td></tr><tr><td>2009/10*</td><td>377[4]</td></tr><tr><td>2010/11</td><td>548</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>469</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>443</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>409<del class="ministerial">4</del></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">*Data are not available for the period Oct 2009 – Jan 2010.</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The second category includes requests for the DNA profile held for a subject on <br />the NDNAD, where fingerprints have been provided to the country that the <br />individual currently resides in. Again this is information provided to NCA/ <br />SOCA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year</strong></td><td><strong>Number of requests for subject profiles release to NCA/SOCA<sup>123</sup></strong></td></tr><tr><td>2009/10</td><td>138<del class="ministerial">4</del></td></tr><tr><td>2010/11</td><td>85</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">[1] The data have been extracted from logs produced by NDNAD (validated as the only source of this information) by the application of the specified criteria (requests directly received from NCA/SOCA). The data were extracted by the manual filtering of Excel Spreadsheets.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">[2] The UK NCB is not currently able to provide data on the number of requests received from other countries so these data relate solely to information supplied by the National DNA Database Delivery Unit (NDU).</td></tr><tr><td>[3] The data were extracted on 17th June.</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>[4] These figures have been verified on a 1:1 comparison basis.</p><p>The third category relates to database management information. This provides <br />the number of subject and crime scene DNA profile records held on the database <br />and the number of match reports generated. Countries which do not have a DNA <br />database use this information to demonstrate the success of the UK Database to <br />support their case for legislation in their own country for a DNA database.</p><p>Requestors are directed to the most recent published statistics on the Home <br />Office NDNAD website, at: <br />https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-dna-database-statistics <br />thus no figures are kept for the numbers of such requests.</p></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/07/2014 16:04:09 question first ministerially corrected 04/09/2014 13:52:48 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 10428 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

93083

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2014
	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, how many confiscation orders were imposed by the CPS on individuals convicted of offences related to human trafficking in each of the last five years; what the size of these orders was; and how much has been recovered under such orders.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	210496
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to fighting human trafficking. Over £5.5 million has been recovered from those convicted of human trafficking offences in the last five years. Full available details are shown in the following table. <br /><br />A human trafficker may, as an alternative, be charged and prosecuted for a different offence, such as prostitution or money laundering, which could incur a confiscation order. But this would not be recorded as a trafficking offence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/10/2014 16:18:51 question first ministerially corrected 03/11/2014 17:22:06 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name 2014_10 HT PQ Thornberry table.docx title Table 1 - human trafficking previous answer version 24409 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry