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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

93615

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	National Crime 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, on how many occasions she or Ministers in her Department have visited Northern Ireland in the last 12 months to discuss the full implementation of the operations of the National Crime Agency in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	210626
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>We are committed to resolving this to ensure that the people and communities of Northern Ireland benefit from the full range of the NCA’s capabilities like the rest of the UK. Home Office Ministers have regular meetings with Ministerial colleagues and others. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 21/10/2014 16:13:09 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 22861 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

100213

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Judicial Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many judicial review cases have been successfully brought against her Department in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	211302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>No central records are kept of the number of judicial reviews successfully brought against the department since 2010 and it would incur disproportionate cost to try to acquire this information.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/10/2014 16:02:04 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 24146 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

93616

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	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 much funding her Department has allocated for campaigns to promote awareness of human trafficking in the 2014-15 financial year; how much of that funding was spent sponsoring an article in the Daily Mail; and whether her Department has placed sponsored articles placed in any other newspapers.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	210663
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office has allocated a budget of £2.3 million to raise awareness of Modern Slavery in the UK and promote a new Modern Slavery helpline and website. The objective is to increase reporting of slavery so that more victims can be supported and protected and more perpetrators of this heinous and hidden crime are brought to justice. We have paid for a number of sponsored online and print articles in the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday to raise awareness of the issue and encourage reporting at a cost of £154,000. We are unable to give a cost for individual articles because of commercial confidentiality. We have also placed a number of sponsored articles in The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph at a cost of £125,000.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/10/2014 16:48:58 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 22876 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

93312

	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	Schengen Agreement: ICT
	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 whether Chapter VIII of Council Decision 2007/533/JHA will place police and border control checks conducted by UK authorities within the scope of EU law for the purposes of EU fundamental rights, if the UK connects to the Schengen Information System II.
	tabling member constituency	North East Somerset
	tabling member printed	Jacob Rees-Mogg
	uin	210427
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>A full impact assessment has been conducted on Council Decision 2007/533/JHA. Details of this assessment can be found in Command Paper 8897 published on 3 July 2014: <br><br>(<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/326698/41670_Cm_8897_Accessible.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/326698/41670_Cm_8897_Accessible.pdf</a>), <br><br><br>Chapter VIII of Council Decision 2007/533/JHA only requires the UK to notify the issuing Member State that the individual has come to our attention. <br><br>With regards to border control checks the UK does not participate in the border control elements of Schengen (including Regulation 1987/2006) and are not bound by those provisions. <br><br>Concerning police checks, Article 276 TFEU is clear that the Court of Justice shall have no jurisdiction to review the validity or proportionality of <br>operations carried out by the police or the exercise of the responsibilities incumbent upon Member States with regard to the maintenance of law and order and the safeguarding of internal security. This is further supported by Article 4(2) TFEU which explicitly states that issues relating to national security are the sole responsibility of the Member States.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/10/2014 16:20:42 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 22525 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg

93313

	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	Organised Crime: EU Law
	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 whether the UK may be obliged to provide sensitive security or law enforcement information to EU evaluation teams under Joint Action 97/827/JHA if it opts back into that Joint Action after it has come under full CJEU jurisdiction.
	tabling member constituency	North East Somerset
	tabling member printed	Jacob Rees-Mogg
	uin	210426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>A full assessment has been conducted on the sharing of advice and best practice between EU member states through Joint Action 97/827/JHA. Details of this assessment can be found in Command Paper 8897 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/326698" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/326698/41670_Cm_8897_Accessible.pdf</a>), published on 3 July 2014. <br><br>Joint Action 97/827/JHA provides a forum in which to share advice and best practice on topics agreed between Member States. There are no obligations to share sensitive security or law enforcement information.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/10/2014 15:05:24 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 22526 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg

93587

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Schengen Agreement: ICT
	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 effect that Article 37(3) of Council Decision 2007/533/JHA would have on police and border control checks by UK authorities if the UK were to connect to the Schengen Information System II.
	tabling member constituency	North East Somerset
	tabling member printed	Jacob Rees-Mogg
	uin	210811
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>Council Decision 2007/533/JHA is legislative basis for governing the second generation of the Schengen Information System (SIS II) for the purposes of police and judicial co-operation in criminal matters. <br><br>The communication of relevant data to the issuing State under Article 37(3) will take place on the basis of centralised electronic forms. In the UK that will be coordinated by the National Crime Agency and will have a minimal impact on operational resources. <br><br>The Government makes no distinction between discreet checks and specific checks under Article 37(4) because, under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, UK authorities can only treat these alerts as discreet. However, if there has been a domestic offence committed, or the person is of interest to UK national security agencies, then the person would be dealt with under national legislation. <br><br>Article 38 provides that Member States shall enter data onto SISII on objects sought for seizure or use as evidence in criminal proceedings. For the UK, SISII will be integrated into the Police National Computer (PNC) infrastructure and will allow officers easy access to create and check lost and stolen objects subject to SISII alerts. Article 39 provides that when a SISII search identifies a &quot;hit&quot; i.e. the database shows that the object has been located, the relevant authority should be contacted in order to agree on next steps. <br>This will be coordinated by the NCA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/10/2014 16:19:28 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 22884 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg

93590

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Schengen Agreement: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the usual practice of UK authorities will be with regard to checking whether an object covered by Article 38 of Council Decision 2007/533/JHA is associated with an alert under that article, if the UK were to connect to the Schengen Information System II.
	tabling member constituency	North East Somerset
	tabling member printed	Jacob Rees-Mogg
	uin	210808
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>Council Decision 2007/533/JHA is legislative basis for governing the second generation of the Schengen Information System (SIS II) for the purposes of police and judicial co-operation in criminal matters. <br><br>The communication of relevant data to the issuing State under Article 37(3) will take place on the basis of centralised electronic forms. In the UK that will be coordinated by the National Crime Agency and will have a minimal impact on operational resources. <br><br>The Government makes no distinction between discreet checks and specific checks under Article 37(4) because, under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, UK authorities can only treat these alerts as discreet. However, if there has been a domestic offence committed, or the person is of interest to UK national security agencies, then the person would be dealt with under national legislation. <br><br>Article 38 provides that Member States shall enter data onto SISII on objects sought for seizure or use as evidence in criminal proceedings. For the UK, SISII will be integrated into the Police National Computer (PNC) infrastructure and will allow officers easy access to create and check lost and stolen objects subject to SISII alerts. Article 39 provides that when a SISII search identifies a &quot;hit&quot; i.e. the database shows that the object has been located, the relevant authority should be contacted in order to agree on next steps. <br>This will be coordinated by the NCA.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/10/2014 16:18:20 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 22883 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg

93592

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Organised Crime: EU Law
	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 2 September 2014 to Question 207073, whether the UK could take part, through membership of the relevant EU Council working groups, in the sharing of advice and best practice between EU member states on fighting organised crime if it did not opt back into Joint Action 97/827/JHA.
	tabling member constituency	North East Somerset
	tabling member printed	Jacob Rees-Mogg
	uin	210803
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>If the UK did not opt back into Joint Action 97/827/JHA it may, in theory, continue to attend the relevant Council of the European Union working groups. However, there are no alternative methods open to the UK that are considered to be as effective as cooperation under the EU measure in order to evaluate the application and implementation at national level of international undertakings in the fight against organised crime.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/10/2014 16:19:27 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 22880 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg

93593

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	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: Internet
	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 2 September 2014 to Question 207065, in which rulings the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) or its predecessor courts has interpreted or applied (a) Article 72 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or the same provision in previous versions of the EU treaties and (b) Article 276 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or the same provision in previous versions of the EU treaties; and on what provisions of those rulings the Government bases its assertion that opting back into Council Decision 2000/375/JHA will not bring the UK's strategy for tackling indecent images of children online or any action by UK law enforcement pursuant to that strategy under the jurisdiction of the CJEU.
	tabling member constituency	North East Somerset
	tabling member printed	Jacob Rees-Mogg
	uin	210805
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of indecent images of children very seriously, and is working with a wide range of international partners to tackle these appalling images. We work with both EU and non-EU States, and will continue to do so. As explained in the Government’s answer of 2 September 2014 to PQ 207065, the Government has considered the potential impacts of CJEU jurisdiction very carefully in deciding which of the pre-Lisbon police and criminal justice measures it is in the interests of the UK to rejoin.</p><p><br>While the CJEU has not yet ruled in a relevant case, Article 72 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) makes clear that the maintenance of law and order and the safeguarding of internal security is a responsibility for Member States. In addition, Article 276 of the TFEU states that the CJEU shall have no jurisdiction to review the validity or proportionality of operations carried out by the police or other law enforcement services of a Member State, or the exercise of responsibilities incumbent upon Member States with regard to the maintenance of law and order and the safeguarding of internal security.</p><p><br>The decision to seek to opt in to Council Decision 2000/375/JHA will therefore not bring the Government’s strategy in tackling indecent images of children under the jurisdiction of the CJEU or any action taken by UK law enforcement pursuant to that strategy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/10/2014 15:24:42 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 22881 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg