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1018775

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to tackle domestic abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Colchester
	tabling member printed	Will Quince
	uin	907972
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>This Government is committed to transforming the response to domestic abuse. We have provided £100 million to support victims and organisations working to combat domestic abuse and violence against women and girls.</p><p>Our consultation on domestic abuse closed on 31 May, with over 3200 responses. We will be publishing a response to the consultation and a draft Domestic Abuse Bill later this session.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 03/12/2018 16:16:44 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince

1019466

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Chief Scientific Advisers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many meetings he had with his Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser between 1 September and 30 November 2018.
	tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
	tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
	uin	198245
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2018 answer text <p>The Home Secretary has met, Professor John Aston, the Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser, as part of the process of policy development and delivery. During the period in question, The Home Secretary with him on two occasions.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/12/2018 16:28:39 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

1017496

	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	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, what estimate his Department has made of the number of women that were (a) victims of and (b) considered to be at risk of female genital mutilation since the introduction of the Serious Crime Act 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	197584
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a crime and it is child abuse. The Government is clear that we will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong suffering to women and girls.</p><p>Data on FGM includes a 2015 City University and Equality Now study, part funded by the Home Office, which estimated that 137,000 women and girls who had migrated to England and Wales were living with the consequences of FGM, and approximately 60,000 girls aged 0-14 were born in England and Wales to mothers who had undergone FGM. The study also provides a breakdown of FGM prevalence estimates by local authority area which is available online at <a href="http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/12382/%20" target="_blank">http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/12382/</a>.</p><p>In addition, NHS Digital publishes data on the prevalence of FGM within the NHS in England. The most recent quarterly statistics were published in September 2018. A detailed breakdown of these statistics, including by local authority and age, is available online at <a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/female-genital-mutilation.%20" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/female-genital-mutilation.</a></p><p> </p><p>To improve understanding of the prevalence of so-called ‘Honour Based Violence’ including FGM, we amended the police Annual Data Requirement (ADR) to allow police forces the opportunity from April 2018 to record on a voluntary basis where a crime has been committed in the context of preserving the ‘honour’ of a family or community. This new voluntary collection is also capturing police recorded offences of FGM which were initially reported to the police under the duty.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 05/12/2018 17:44:10 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1017501

	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	Asylum: Slavery
	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 November 2018 to Question 193378, how many victims of slavery (a) have been paid a full back payment and (b) are due arrears.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	197595
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tacking the scourge of modern slavery and supporting those affected by this crime.</p><p>In 2017, Home Office Ministers agreed a comprehensive package of reforms to the National Referral Mechanism, which included the introduction of places of safety for those leaving situations of exploitation, trebling the period of move on support to assist victims moving out of government funded support and aligning the subsistence rates paid to potential victims of modern slavery with those received by asylum seekers.</p><p>In light of the judgment in K and AM, the Home Office has immediately reinstated the top up paid to those in the Victim Care Contract who are also receiving support from the asylum support system, so that they receive a total of £65 per week.</p><p>We are currently putting in place processes to ensure that those who have been affected receive a full back payment as soon as possible, and will set out how we plan to respond in due course, including our communications with all those affected.</p><p>We are committed to reforming the National Referral Mechanism to ensure that as many victims of modern slavery as possible get the support they need.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 197596 question first answered 05/12/2018 17:46:00 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1017503

	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	Asylum: Slavery
	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 November 2018 to Question 193378, with reference to the High Court Judgement in respect of K & Anor, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department of 8 November 2018, whether all victims of slavery have automatically received the new subsistence rate since that judgment.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	197596
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tacking the scourge of modern slavery and supporting those affected by this crime.</p><p>In 2017, Home Office Ministers agreed a comprehensive package of reforms to the National Referral Mechanism, which included the introduction of places of safety for those leaving situations of exploitation, trebling the period of move on support to assist victims moving out of government funded support and aligning the subsistence rates paid to potential victims of modern slavery with those received by asylum seekers.</p><p>In light of the judgment in K and AM, the Home Office has immediately reinstated the top up paid to those in the Victim Care Contract who are also receiving support from the asylum support system, so that they receive a total of £65 per week.</p><p>We are currently putting in place processes to ensure that those who have been affected receive a full back payment as soon as possible, and will set out how we plan to respond in due course, including our communications with all those affected.</p><p>We are committed to reforming the National Referral Mechanism to ensure that as many victims of modern slavery as possible get the support they need.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 197595 question first answered 05/12/2018 17:46:00 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1017349

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2018
	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 estimate he has made of the number of EU victims of modern slavery in the UK with a (a) positive conclusive grounds decision or (b) reasonable grounds decision under the National Referral Mechanism; and what estimate he has made of the potential cost to the public purse of waiving the EU Settlement Scheme registration fee for people with those decisions.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	197486
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2018 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency (NCA) is responsible for publishing National Referral Mechanism (NRM) data and does so on a quarterly basis. <br>Published data on the referrals to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is available via the following link:<br><a href="http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics" target="_blank">http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics</a>. The 2017 Annual Report of NRM statistics includes data on the outcomes of NRM decisions by nationality.</p><p><br>I am content that our approach to fees is reasonable, proportionate and fair to all EU citizens. However, I will keep the approach on fees under review. More broadly, we are also considering how the EU Settlement Scheme can take into account the specific circumstances of victims of modern slavery and how to support the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) service providers to link victims up with the Scheme while they are in NRM support.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 04/12/2018 16:21:22 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1016234

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Slavery: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to provide additional funding to ensure the 2020 modern slavery victim care contract complies with the Human Trafficking Foundation's slavery and trafficking survivor care standards.
	tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
	tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
	uin	196679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to introducing minimum standards of care in the new victim care contract.</p><p>These standards will be monitored using an inspection regime, based on the Human Trafficking Foundation’s Slavery and Trafficking Survivor Care Standards. The tender of the new contract will include the standards and any costs associated will be incorporated as part of the contact procurement process.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/12/2018 12:45:44 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1016235

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Home Office's national referral mechanism reform guidance published in October 2018 and the High Court judgement on AM & K versus SSHD, whether the plans to make the cuts proposed as part of the national referral mechanism reforms will still go ahead in February and March 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
	tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
	uin	196680
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office has paused the staged implementation of the alignment of subsistence rates for potential victims of modern slavery with those received by asylum seekers, which was due to start in February 2019, whilst it considers the implication of the judgment in AM and K vs SSHD.</p><p>We will work through the implications of the judgment in respect to our future approach to financial support, and will share further details as soon as we are able. The Home Office has immediately reinstated the top up paid to those in the Victim Care Contract who are also receiving support from the asylum support system, so that they receive a total of £65 per week whilst this work is carried out.</p><p>We are committed to reforming the National Referral Mechanism to ensure that as many victims of modern slavery as possible</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/12/2018 11:35:59 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1016292

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: 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 much funding has been provided by his Department for (a) domestic violence prevention programmes and (b) services for victims of domestic violence in (i) St Helens and (ii) Liverpool City Region.
	tabling member constituency	St Helens North
	tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
	uin	196798
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government published a Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy on 8 March 2016 setting out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybody’s business, ensure victims and survivors get the support they need and inspire confidence in the Criminal Justice System to bring more perpetrators to justice as well as doing more to rehabilitate offenders.</p><p>Over this spending review period, we are providing £100m of dedicated funding to tackle VAWG. VAWG services are mainly commissioned at a local level by PCCs, local authorities and health commissioners. The Government’s VAWG National Statement of Expectations encourages service provision decisions to be taken, by commissioners, at a local level and driven by local need.</p><p>We have allocated £17 million of funding to establish the 3-year VAWG Service Transformation Fund, which is supporting projects across 41 areas in England and Wales to support, promote and embed the best local practice and drive major change across all services so that early intervention and prevention, not crisis response, is the norm.</p><p>Liverpool City Council is being supported by the VAWG Transformation Fund to deliver the ‘Liverpool Early Help for Victims of VAWG’ project. We have awarded over £400,000 to support the Council to deliver a complex needs perpetrator programme, ‘Inner Strength’, and create Early Help Hubs to improve the multi-agency response to victims of domestic abuse.</p><p>The Home Office also supports the national VAWG Helplines and recently committed funding of up to £1.1m per annum for these services until 2021. The Helplines provide essential advice and support to victims of violence and abuse; advice to friends and family who are worried about someone; guidance to those wishing to stop perpetrating abuse; as well as assisting professionals seeking specialist support for victims.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 03/12/2018 17:26:00 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1016312

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the High Court Judgment K & Anor, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department of 8 November 2018, whether plans set out in the NRM reforms, announced in October 2017 to align subsistence rates for victims of trafficking with asylum seekers will not be implemented through the statutory guidance on victim support, Section 49 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	196808
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government recognises the importance of publishing guidance under Section 49 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 on the identification of and support for potential victims of modern slavery.</p><p>The Act requires the Secretary of State to publish statutory guidance on indicators of potential trafficking, arrangements for determining whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that a person may be a victim of slavery or human trafficking, and arrangements for providing assistance and support to these victims.</p><p>The guidance will reference subsistence rates as part of the package of support provided to potential victims, however it will not include the specific amount that individuals are entitled to.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will publish this guidance as soon as we are able. We will announce a timetable in due course.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 03/12/2018 17:27:06 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris