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1122884

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2019
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what information leaflets they publish about female genital mutilation; and whether any of these are in an easy read format for people with limited literacy.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Hamwee
	uin	HL15275
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 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>The Home Office’s FGM unit is driving a step change in our nationwide out-reach on FGM. The Unit is providing outreach support to local areas and working to raise awareness of resources available to professionals, including training, best practice examples and information on legislation and policy. Resources include an e-learning package, various communication materials such as leaflets and posters highlighting the legislation and health impacts of FGM and an online resource pack for local areas. These materials are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/female-genital-mutilation-leaflet" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/female-genital-mutilation-leaflet</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statement-opposing-female-genital-mutilation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statement-opposing-female-genital-mutilation</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fact-sheet-on-mandatory-reporting-of-female-genital-mutilation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fact-sheet-on-mandatory-reporting-of-female-genital-mutilation</a></p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/female-genital-mutilation-resource-pack</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fgm-campaign-materials.</p><p>The FGM communications campaign and materials were developed following consultation with the FGM sector and the need for easy read materials was not raised during this consultation. These materials are not available in Easy Read format but have been drafted to be accessible to those with a basic understanding of English.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford attachment 1 file name 6_1639_HO_SP_FGM_mandatory_reporting_Fact_sheet_Web.pdf title FGM Mandatory Reporting - Fact Sheet 2 file name 2905975_FGM_Passport_v1_0A.PDF title FGM Passport 3 file name FGM_The_Facts_A6_v4_web.pdf title FGM - The Fact Sheet question first answered 09/05/2019 15:21:12 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2652 label Biography information for Baroness Hamwee

1122887

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Forced Labour: Car Washes
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the prevalence of forced labour exploitation in the hand car wash sector in England and Wales.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Leeds
	uin	HL15278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to raising awareness and tackling labour exploitation in hand car washes. We have reformed the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, giving it a wider remit and police powers to investigate labour market offences, including modern slavery across all sectors of the economy.</p><p>Tackling labour exploitation at hand car washes has been the focus of increased law enforcement activity in recent years, with 195 operations led by the police and 19 led by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority since 2016.</p><p>We are also improving our evidence base to better understand the extent of the issue across the country and encourage reporting, so that the police and the GLAA can focus resources where they are needed. The Clewer Initiative’s Safe Car Wash App is supporting this work.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL15279 HL15280 question first answered 09/05/2019 15:03:46 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4349 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Leeds

1122888

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Forced Labour: Car Washes
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to address forced labour exploitation in the hand car wash sector.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Leeds
	uin	HL15279
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to raising awareness and tackling labour exploitation in hand car washes. We have reformed the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, giving it a wider remit and police powers to investigate labour market offences, including modern slavery across all sectors of the economy.</p><p>Tackling labour exploitation at hand car washes has been the focus of increased law enforcement activity in recent years, with 195 operations led by the police and 19 led by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority since 2016.</p><p>We are also improving our evidence base to better understand the extent of the issue across the country and encourage reporting, so that the police and the GLAA can focus resources where they are needed. The Clewer Initiative’s Safe Car Wash App is supporting this work.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL15278 HL15280 question first answered 09/05/2019 15:03:46 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4349 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Leeds

1122889

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Forced Labour: Car Washes
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings of the report by the University of Nottingham Rights Lab Safe Car Wash App Report, published on 7 April.
	tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of Leeds
	uin	HL15280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to raising awareness and tackling labour exploitation in hand car washes. We have reformed the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, giving it a wider remit and police powers to investigate labour market offences, including modern slavery across all sectors of the economy.</p><p>Tackling labour exploitation at hand car washes has been the focus of increased law enforcement activity in recent years, with 195 operations led by the police and 19 led by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority since 2016.</p><p>We are also improving our evidence base to better understand the extent of the issue across the country and encourage reporting, so that the police and the GLAA can focus resources where they are needed. The Clewer Initiative’s Safe Car Wash App is supporting this work.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL15278 HL15279 question first answered 09/05/2019 15:03:46 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4349 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of Leeds

1122932

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Organised Crime: Rural Areas
	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 8 April (HL15089), whether organised acquisitive crime in rural areas is rising.
	tabling member printed	Lord Birt
	uin	HL15323
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Crime Survey for England and Wales which the independent Office for National Statistics cites as the most reliable measure of long-term trends in crime does not capture whether or not crime is perpetrated by organised criminal gangs.</p><p><br>Some information about organised crime committed against businesses is available from the Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS). Victims of crime interviewed by the CVS are asked whether they perceived crimes to have been committed by “an organised group of criminals”, a “loosely knit group”, or “someone working alone”. It is important to note the subjective nature of this question and findings should be interpreted with caution.</p><p><br>The 2017 CVS showed that 39% of business premises in the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing sector that had been victims of burglary thought it was committed by “an organised group of criminals”, an increase of 16 percentage points compared with the previous survey in 2013. Estimates for other acquisitive crimes are not available due to small sample sizes in the survey.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 09/05/2019 15:35:54 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	2533 label Biography information for Lord Birt

1123878

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	National Economic Crime Centre
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made on the work plan of the National Economic Crime Centre, announced in September 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	249262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) is part of a new, wider, &quot;whole system&quot; approach which will deliver a significant improvement in the UK's response to serious and organised crime. For the first time, the NECC brings together law enforcement and justice agencies, government departments, regulatory bodies and the private sector with a shared objective of driving down serious organised economic crime, protecting the public and safe-guarding the prosperity and reputation of the UK as a financial centre.</p><p>The NECC was formally launched on 5 November 2018. It includes officers from the NCA, HM Revenue and Customs, City of London Police, Serious Fraud Office, Financial Conduct Authority, Crown Prosecution Service and the Home Office. As the NECC evolves throughout 2019 and beyond it will build wider partnerships across the public sector, with regulators and the private sector, particularly with those businesses at risk from economic crime.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 09/05/2019 14:41:26 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1123879

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	National Economic Crime Centre: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding his Department has allocated to the National Economic Crime Centre in financial year (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	249263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) is part of a new, wider, &quot;whole system&quot; approach which will deliver a significant improvement in the UK's response to serious and organised crime. For the first time, the NECC brings together law enforcement and justice agencies, government departments, regulatory bodies and the private sector with a shared objective of driving down serious organised economic crime, protecting the public and safe-guarding the prosperity and reputation of the UK as a financial centre.</p><p>The NECC was formally launched on 5 November 2018. The government recognises that the NECC forms an integral part of an enhanced system-wide response to tackling economic crime. For financial year 2019/20, the government has committed an additional £48 million investment to tackle illicit finance. This investment will fund the development of new capabilities including the NECC. Funding for financial years 2020-21 and 2021-22 will be subject to the outcome of the spending review.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 09/05/2019 14:42:16 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

1124531

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugee family reunion visas have been granted in exceptional circumstances for dependent children over 18 in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	250457
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office publish data on the number of family reunion visas granted to over 18s and under 18s in the quarterly <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics</a>.</p><p>The latest data covering the year ending December 2018, can be found in as_21_q in <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/781310/asylum5-dec-2018-tables.ods" target="_blank">volume 5</a> of the asylum tables.</p><p>The data does not separately identify those which have been granted in exceptional circumstances for dependent children over 18.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 09/05/2019 15:24:21 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1124532

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the review of the eligibility of adult children, who were part of the family unit when they were forced to flee, to automatically join their family in the UK under part 11 of UK immigration rules, will be completed.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	250458
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>The Government provides a safe and legal route to bring families together through its family reunion policy. This allows a partner and children under 18 of those granted protection in the UK to join them here, if they formed part of the family unit before the sponsor fled their country.</p><p>Our policy makes clear that there is discretion to grant visas outside the Immigration Rules, which caters for extended family members in exceptional circumstances – including young adult sons or daughters who are dependent on family here and living in dangerous situations.</p><p>Refugees can also sponsor adult dependent relatives living overseas to join them where, due to age, illness or disability, that person requires long-term personal care that can only be provided by relatives in the UK.</p><p>The Government believes the best interests of children is reflected in staying with their families, claiming asylum in the first safe country they reach – that is the fastest route to safety – and relying on safe and legal routes under the Immigration Rules or through resettlement schemes.</p><p>Nonetheless, the Government is listening to calls to extend our current family reunion policy and has been following closely the passage of the two Private Members’ Bills. We will continue our productive discussions with key partners on this complex and sensitive issue.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 09/05/2019 15:32:15 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1124554

	registered interest
	date	02/05/2019
	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, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of detectives in the police force.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	250423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2019 answer text <p>I welcome the co-ordinated action that police forces, working with the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council, are taking to ensure all forces have adequate numbers of detectives required to investigate crime. It is clear that innovative solutions must be sought to support forces and this is why we have funded the development of the new Police Now Detective Scheme which aims to help bridge the gap in detective numbers.</p><p>In September 2018, the Home Secretary announced that he had approved proposals from the NPCC to introduce time-limited and targeted payments for ‘hard to fill’ roles, including detectives, following the recommendations of the Police Remuneration Review Body.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 09/05/2019 14:50:28 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham