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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

1050382

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	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, how many investigations resulting from information being passed to the police by Action Fraud have taken place in each year since 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	213951
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Action Fraud reports are passed on to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), who are responsible for reviewing and allocating offences to forces for investigation.</p><p><br>The Home Office collects information on the number of fraud cases disseminated by the NFIB to police forces and also the number of fraud outcomes recorded by the police. These data are published annually as part of the Home Office’s ‘Crime Outcomes in England and Wales’ publication. The latest data can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740625/prc-fraud-open-data-march2018-tables.ods." target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740625/prc-fraud-open-data-march2018-tables.ods.</a></p><p>In order to improve our understanding of how forces are responding to fraud, we, last year, asked HMIC to inspect forces. We will study the report when it is published.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/02/2019 16:21:58 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

1051368

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Seasonal Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether workers coming to the UK under the forthcoming Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme pilot will be provided with pre-departure information on UK labour laws before arrival in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
	tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
	uin	214633
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Seasonal Workers Pilot will be managed by two licenced scheme operators. These licencing arrangements place a clear responsibility on the scheme operators to ensure the well-being of participating migrant workers, including ensuring that their employment rights are protected.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/02/2019 18:52:51 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

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

1050534

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Lanark and Hamilton East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum cases his Department has identified as complex in Lanark and Hamilton East constituency in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
	tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
	uin	214102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office does not publish data relating to the number of asylum cases identified as complex (non-straightforward) in Lanark and Hamilton East constituency in the last 12 months</p><p><br>Furthermore, whilst we can provide data on the current addresses of asylum claimants, data on the place of residence and whether or not their case is identified as non-straightforward can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p>However, data on the number of non-straightforward cases awaiting an initial asylum decision can be found in tabs labelled ASY_10 and ASY_11 in the Asylum Transparency Data contained in the link below:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-november-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-november-2018</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/02/2019 18:40:55 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

999352

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the causes of radicalisation of lone-actors in relation to extreme right-wing terrorism in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	186392
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>There is no single pathway to radicalisation for Islamist inspired, far-right, or any other form of terrorism, and our radicalisation model applies to all forms of terrorism.</p><p>People become radicalised when background factors, together with radicalising influences combine during a period in a person’s life where there is an ideological opening and, crucially, where there is a lack of protective factors.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/02/2019 13:19:05 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

993727

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria his Department uses for the allocation of funding under the Prevent programme.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
	tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
	uin	182861
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Prevent funding is prioritised based on threat and risk across the country where we assess the risk of radicalisation to be highest.</p><p><br>A number of factors, including local and national intelligence / information, the number of TACT arrests and disrupted plots, as well as Channel referral data, are used to help determine the locations where the threat from terrorism and radicalisation is greatest.</p><p>Each priority area receives funding for a dedicated Prevent Coordinator and for civil society organisations to deliver campaigns and activity that counter terrorist narratives and build resilience in communities against radicalisation. We do not provide detailed information about the funding allocation of local Prevent projects by area.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/02/2019 13:13:33 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

1050126

	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he is taking steps to use Durham Constabulary as an example of best practice to improve national policing services.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	213334
	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 213333 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