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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

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

389226

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	National Asset Management Agency: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions have taken place between her Department and relevant authorities in the Republic of Ireland on co-operation with the National Crime Agency's investigation into allegations made in the Irish Parliament on the sale of properties in Northern Ireland owned by the National Asset Management Agency.
	tabling member constituency	Fermanagh and South Tyrone
	tabling member printed	Tom Elliott
	uin	6564
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2015 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers undertake visits and have regular meetings with Ministerial colleagues and others as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings or visits.</p><p>Following a request from PSNI, the National Crime Agency has confirmed that it has agreed to lead the investigation, with support from PSNI as required, into the sale of Northern Ireland assets owned by the Republic of Ireland's National Assets Management Agency.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 17/07/2015 10:32:26 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4367 label Biography information for Tom Elliott

388958

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what payments have been made to Ben Emmerson QC for his work on the historic child abuse inquiry to date; and what the terms are of his contract for that work.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	6456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p>Ben Emmerson QC was appointed on 5 September 2014 as Counsel to the Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. On Thursday 12 March 2015, the Inquiry was set up with statutory powers under the 2005 Inquiries Act. Ben Emmerson QC has remained as Counsel to the statutory Inquiry.</p><p>From 5 September 2014 to 31 March 2015, payments to Mr Emmerson accounted to £177,480 including VAT.</p><p>He is employed on standard terms of appointment. His remuneration is £1,700 per full day and £850 per half day and he is expected to be available to advise the Inquiry for up to 4 days a week.</p><p>The Independent Inquiry is now responsible for publishing its costs on a regular basis.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 16/07/2015 16:21:13 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

388963

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Ministerial Policy Advisers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the name, responsibilities and pay band are of each special adviser in her Department.
	tabling member constituency	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
	tabling member printed	Stuart Blair Donaldson
	uin	6332
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to Parliamentary Question 5983, by my Rt Hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office on 13th July 2015.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/07/2015 11:37:35 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4377 label Biography information for Stuart Blair Donaldson

416720

	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	Taxis: Vetting
	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 reducing the time taken for disclosure checks for taxi drivers in London.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	8917
	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 attached table. 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> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/09/2015 10:39:07 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name DBS funding to police forces 2013-14 20 14-15 07 09 15.xlsx title DBS funding to police forces
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

416721

	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: Police
	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 was provided to each police force by the Disclosure and Barring Service in each of the last two financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	8918
	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 attached table. 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> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/09/2015 10:39:07 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name DBS funding to police forces 2013-14 20 14-15 07 09 15.xlsx title DBS funding to police forces
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

416722

	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	Metropolitan Police: Disclosure and Barring Service
	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 ensure that vacancies in the Metropolitan Police Service's Disclosure Unit are filled.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	8919
	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 attached table. 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> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/09/2015 10:39:07 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name DBS funding to police forces 2013-14 20 14-15 07 09 15.xlsx title DBS funding to police forces
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

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

389214

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2015
	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: 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 23 June 2015 to Question 3680, if she will ask the National Crime Agency to estimate the number of women who pose a potential risk of being a child abuser or of seeking out child sex images online.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	6864
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2015 answer text <p>As described in the Crime and Courts Act 2013 , the National Crime Agency (NCA) is responsible for a criminal intelligence function that includes analysing and disseminating information relevant to combating serious and organised crime.</p><p>It is for them to decide what information is included in assessments of the threat from serious and organised crime.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 17/07/2015 10:39:06 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies