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455756

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting: 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 she plans to take to reduce the time taken for London applicants to receive a response from Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
	tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
	tabling member printed	Robert Neill
	uin	28736
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is working closely with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to help MPS meet its Service Level Agreement targets. The performance of police disclosure units is an operational issue for individual police forces and the Disclosure and Barring Service.</p><p>The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has established a Gold Group, on which DBS is represented, to oversee the recovery plan in place to reduce the time taken for applicants awaiting a response to Disclosure and Barring checks. I have made clear to the MPS that its current delays must be addressed as a matter of priority and I continue to maintain close oversight of the progress being made.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 28735 question first answered 02/03/2016 15:22:37 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

455757

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting: Greater London
	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 Disclosure and Barring Service Statistics, published on 28 January 2016, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the performance of the Metropolitan Police disclosure unit against the Disclosure and Barring Service service standards.
	tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
	tabling member printed	Robert Neill
	uin	28735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is working closely with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to help MPS meet its Service Level Agreement targets. The performance of police disclosure units is an operational issue for individual police forces and the Disclosure and Barring Service.</p><p>The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has established a Gold Group, on which DBS is represented, to oversee the recovery plan in place to reduce the time taken for applicants awaiting a response to Disclosure and Barring checks. I have made clear to the MPS that its current delays must be addressed as a matter of priority and I continue to maintain close oversight of the progress being made.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 28736 question first answered 02/03/2016 15:22:37 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

455755

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Nature Conservation: Crime
	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 reduce crimes against wildlife in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	28748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>We fully understand the importance of tackling wildlife crime. This is reflected in the fact that, along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Home Office provides specific funding to support the work of the National Wildlife Crime Unit.</p><p>The funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit is in addition to the funding central Government provides to the police in England and Wales to tackle all types of crime, including wildlife crime. Additionally, Border Force leads the operational response in respect of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/03/2016 15:32:54 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

455751

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	National Wildlife Crime Unit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the National Wildlife Crime Unit on reducing wildlife-related crimes.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	28766
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office has not conducted an assessment of the effect the Unit has made on reducing wildlife-related crimes.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/03/2016 15:34:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

454883

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2016
	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, what steps the Government is taking to counter people trafficking.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	28270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>We are committed to tackling people trafficking and all forms of modern slavery. The Modern Slavery Act 2015 gives law enforcement agencies the tools they need to tackle modern slavery, ensures that perpetrators can receive suitably severe sentences up to life imprisonment, enhances support and protection for victims and places a duty on large businesses to report on what they are doing to stop modern slavery occurring in their global supply chains. We have successfully lobbied for the establishment of the first ever UN Sustainable Development Goal to end modern slavery and are working with a range of international partners to tackle slavery and its causes. We are also piloting a new approach to identifying and supporting potential victims of slavery through the National Referral Mechanism and we have appointed an Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner to spread best practice in the UK and overseas.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/03/2016 15:26:20 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

455386

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Overtime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has paid to staff in overtime in each of the last 24 months.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	28691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>&quot;Home Office overtime expenditure on overtime is published as part of the transparency data.</p><p>Figures for January 2014 to December 2015 (the latest available month) can be found here:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-management-information-2015</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workforce-management-information-2014</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/03/2016 15:31:26 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

454242

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	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 Advisors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) policy and (b) other responsibilities are of each special adviser in her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
	tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
	uin	27955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The Code of Conduct for Special Advisers sets out the role of special advisers and describes the range of activities they may undertake. Copies of the Code of Conduct are available in the Libraries of the House and on-line at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/468340/CODE_OF_CONDUCT_FOR_SPECIAL_ADVISERS_-_15_OCTOBER_2015_FINAL.pdf</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/03/2016 15:17:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

455374

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Consultants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many consultants' contracts were terminated early in each of the last six years for which figures are available; and what the cost of each such termination was in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	28659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The Home Department procures consultancy as a service against deliverables and outputs and not in terms of individuals. The Home Department has not terminated any consultancy service engagements early in any of the last six years and therefore has not incurred any such costs.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/03/2016 15:27:42 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

454964

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Animal Experiments: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many project licence applications under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were (a) granted and (b) refused on the basis of the results of the harm-benefit analysis carried out on those applications by the Animals in Science Regulation Unit.
	tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
	tabling member printed	Angela Smith
	uin	28258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the response I previously provided to her question on 4 February 2016 (24508). The Home Office does not keep records of applications that have been rejected / refused or withdrawn at the concept or at the drafting stage.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/03/2016 15:55:35 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

455753

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Animal Experiments: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many inspectors appointed under section 18 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 are currently in post; what the complement for such inspectors is; how many of the inspectors are former personal or project licence holders; and what the turnover of inspectors so appointed has been over the last three calendar years.
	tabling member constituency	Luton North
	tabling member printed	Kelvin Hopkins
	uin	28762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>There are 19 inspectors currently in post appointed under Section 18 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. This figure includes the position of Chief Inspector. The Home Office is in the process of recruiting three further inspectors to bring the headcount to a complement of 22.</p><p>The turnover of inspection staff over the last three years is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of inspectors left post</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of inspectors recruited</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>We do not hold information on whether inspectors are former project or personal licence holders. None of our inspectors currently hold either a personal or project licence.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/03/2016 15:51:43 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	2 label Biography information for Kelvin Hopkins