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1077565

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions his Department has had with social media companies to encourage them to prevent the display of knife crimes on their platforms.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	226086
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office chairs a Social Media Action Group which brings together Government, social media companies, police and community groups to discuss and take action against violence related content online.</p><p>We are also providing £1.4m to support a new national police capability to tackle gang related activity on social media. The new social media hub will be established within MPS, transforming the current capability and will take action against online material, focusing on investigative, disruption and enforcement work against specific gang targets, as well as making referrals to social media companies so illegal and harmful content can be taken down. It will be fully operational this spring.</p><p>We recognise though that more needs to be done to tackle online harms and we are committed to further legislation. A joint DCMS-Home Office White Paper will be published shortly. This will set out a range of legislative and non-legislative measures, detailing how we tackle online harms, setting clear responsibilities for technology firms to keep UK citizens safe.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 226088 question first answered 12/03/2019 16:48:41 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1077573

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits on bringing forward legislative proposals for the regulation of social media platforms in relation to the removal of knife crime content.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	226088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office chairs a Social Media Action Group which brings together Government, social media companies, police and community groups to discuss and take action against violence related content online.</p><p>We are also providing £1.4m to support a new national police capability to tackle gang related activity on social media. The new social media hub will be established within MPS, transforming the current capability and will take action against online material, focusing on investigative, disruption and enforcement work against specific gang targets, as well as making referrals to social media companies so illegal and harmful content can be taken down. It will be fully operational this spring.</p><p>We recognise though that more needs to be done to tackle online harms and we are committed to further legislation. A joint DCMS-Home Office White Paper will be published shortly. This will set out a range of legislative and non-legislative measures, detailing how we tackle online harms, setting clear responsibilities for technology firms to keep UK citizens safe.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 226086 question first answered 12/03/2019 16:48:41 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1111203

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-disclosure agreements his Department has entered into with departmental staff in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	243415
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2019 answer text <p>We have checked the records that the department has kept since the introduction of the Cabinet Office guidance on settlement agreements on 1 February 2015 and confirm that we have one record, of using an NDA with a departmental staff member in July 2015.</p><p>The use of this NDA was unintentional i.e. the standard NDA paragraph was accidently left in the template by mistake. We are not aware of the Home Office using NDA for departmental staff other than this since the new guidance was introduced. However, the records examined were cross-matched from several different data sets, assembled for different purposes. As there were some gaps in the data sets, while we are confident this was the only instance, we cannot guarantee that we were able to identify every case.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/06/2019 16:22:23 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1125151

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Bullying
	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 cases of bullying and harassment that have been recorded against managers in his Department in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	251302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>The total number of recorded grievances alleging bullying, harassment or dis-crimination (BHD) raised by Home Office employees in each of the last five years is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td>Year</td><td>Number of Grievances</td></tr><tr><td>2014-15</td><td>101</td></tr><tr><td>2015-16</td><td>148</td></tr><tr><td>2016-17</td><td>141</td></tr><tr><td>2017-18</td><td>117</td></tr><tr><td>2018-19</td><td>121</td></tr><tr><td>Total</td><td>628</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>These are total figures which do not differentiate between BHD allegations brought against managers acting a management capacity and those brought against other employees. Establishing the figures relating specifically to managers could only be done at disproportionate cost. Not all grievances will be upheld following investigation.</p><p><br>The Home Office makes it clear to employees that bullying, harassment and discrimination are unacceptable behaviours that will not be tolerated. A range of support is available to any employee who has been affected by BHD.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 15/05/2019 09:34:01 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1274285

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Slavery: Seized Articles
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the financial value of assets seized in each of the last five years under the Modern Slavery Act.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	133794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>The full breakdown of statistical data reflecting the above financial value of assets recovered between 2015 and 2020 is reported in the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/923194/asset-recovery-financial-years-2015-to-2020-hosb2320.pdf" target="_blank">Asset Recovery Statistical Bulletin in Annex A in Table 4</a>.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 15/01/2021 15:00:02 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1274288

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Slavery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the compliance rate of eligible businesses in publishing annual statements of Transparency in Supply Chain Provisions under the Modern Slavery Act in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	133796
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 established the UK as the first country in the world to require businesses to report annually on steps taken to prevent modern slavery in their operations and supply chains. Organisations which have taken no steps must state this clearly in their statement, which must be published in a prominent place on their website. Currently, organisations are not required to submit their modern slavery statement directly to the Home Office.</p><p>To assess compliance rates, the Home Office contracted the Business &amp; Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) from September 2019 to January 2020 to undertake an audit of compliance on the Home Office’s behalf. The audit findings on levels of compliance were published on 17 September 2020 in the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner’s annual report (available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-anti-slavery-commissioners-annual-report-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-anti-slavery-commissioners-annual-report-2019-to-2020</a></p><p>To improve the quality and detail of reporting and accelerate action to prevent modern slavery, the Government recently announced an ambitious package of changes to strengthen and future-proof section 54, including requiring organisations to report against specific topics and creating a Government modern slavery statement registry to make all statements available in one place. The new registry, which is due to launch this year, will improve the transparency, accessibility and comparability of statements published under the Act, empowering investors, consumers and civil society to scrutinise progress and enabling Government to continually monitor compliance.</p><p>These measures, including requiring organisations to publish their statement on the Government modern slavery registry, require primary legislation and will be introduced when parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 133797 question first answered 15/01/2021 13:43:42 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1274293

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Slavery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many eligible businesses have advised her Department that they have taken no steps to confirm the existence of slavery or trafficking in their supply chains as required under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	133797
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 established the UK as the first country in the world to require businesses to report annually on steps taken to prevent modern slavery in their operations and supply chains. Organisations which have taken no steps must state this clearly in their statement, which must be published in a prominent place on their website. Currently, organisations are not required to submit their modern slavery statement directly to the Home Office.</p><p>To assess compliance rates, the Home Office contracted the Business &amp; Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) from September 2019 to January 2020 to undertake an audit of compliance on the Home Office’s behalf. The audit findings on levels of compliance were published on 17 September 2020 in the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner’s annual report (available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-anti-slavery-commissioners-annual-report-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-anti-slavery-commissioners-annual-report-2019-to-2020</a></p><p>To improve the quality and detail of reporting and accelerate action to prevent modern slavery, the Government recently announced an ambitious package of changes to strengthen and future-proof section 54, including requiring organisations to report against specific topics and creating a Government modern slavery statement registry to make all statements available in one place. The new registry, which is due to launch this year, will improve the transparency, accessibility and comparability of statements published under the Act, empowering investors, consumers and civil society to scrutinise progress and enabling Government to continually monitor compliance.</p><p>These measures, including requiring organisations to publish their statement on the Government modern slavery registry, require primary legislation and will be introduced when parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 133796 question first answered 15/01/2021 13:43:42 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1285102

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2021
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many sexual offences were committed against minors in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	151681
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2021 answer text <p>The latest published crime stats can be found here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ons.gov.uk%2Fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2Fcrimeandjustice%2Fbulletins%2Fcrimeinenglandandwales%2Fyearendingseptember2020%2Frelateddata&amp;data=04%7C01%7CSophie.Furniss%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C96d8450c827049ee934308d8cdddd936%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637485700019446993%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=93IwHYHJu4LLc5wrX6sS59L%2BFbk206VqWbbLEfhg%2BRM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingseptember2020/relateddata</a> (Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables, Table A4) and please see below for a table of recorded CSA offences for the last five financial years, up to March 2020.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Offence code</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Offence</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Apr '15 to Mar '16</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Apr '16 to Mar '17</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Apr '17 to Mar '18</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Apr '18 to Mar '19*</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Apr' 19 to Mar' 20*</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19D</p></td><td><p>Rape of a female child under 16</p></td><td><p>5,321</p></td><td><p>5,989</p></td><td><p>7,622</p></td><td><p>7,387</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>6,779</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19E</p></td><td><p>Rape of a female child under 13</p></td><td><p>4,327</p></td><td><p>4,539</p></td><td><p>5,483</p></td><td><p>5,386</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4,771</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19G</p></td><td><p>Rape of a male child under 16</p></td><td><p>692</p></td><td><p>839</p></td><td><p>889</p></td><td><p>907</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>923</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19H</p></td><td><p>Rape of a male child under 13</p></td><td><p>1,853</p></td><td><p>2,165</p></td><td><p>2,571</p></td><td><p>2,442</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2,143</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17B</p></td><td><p>Sexual assault on a male child under 13</p></td><td><p>2,656</p></td><td><p>3,368</p></td><td><p>3,802</p></td><td><p>3,545</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>3,519</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20B</p></td><td><p>Sexual assault on a female child under 13</p></td><td><p>7,501</p></td><td><p>8,134</p></td><td><p>9,713</p></td><td><p>9,485</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>9,164</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>Sexual activity involving a child under 13</p></td><td><p>5,945</p></td><td><p>7,906</p></td><td><p>8,633</p></td><td><p>9,123</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>9,260</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22B</p></td><td><p>Sexual activity involving a child under 16</p></td><td><p>11,515</p></td><td><p>13,335</p></td><td><p>14,763</p></td><td><p>14,752</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>14,217</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>71</p></td><td><p>Abuse of children through sexual exploitation (formerly prostitution or pornography)</p></td><td><p>571</p></td><td><p>629</p></td><td><p>1,192</p></td><td><p>956</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>894</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>Abuse of position of trust of a sexual nature</p></td><td><p>239</p></td><td><p>273</p></td><td><p>285</p></td><td><p>268</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>340</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>88A</p></td><td><p>Sexual grooming</p></td><td><p>963</p></td><td><p>1,158</p></td><td><p>4,449</p></td><td><p>5,334</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>5,878</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>86</p></td><td><p>Obscene publications, etc and protected sexual material**</p></td><td><p>13,037</p></td><td><p>18,826</p></td><td><p>23,136</p></td><td><p>23,859</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>25,311</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Total CSA offences</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>54,620</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>67,161</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>82,538</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>83,444</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>83,199</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* Figures for Greater Manchester are not included for the years ending March 2019 and 2020 due to data supply issues.</p><p>** Obscene publications is used as a proxy for indecent images of children offences.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 17/02/2021 16:54:24 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1285103

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2021
	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: Convictions
	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 implications for her policies of the increase in the number of convictions for sexual offences against minors in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	151682
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2021 answer text <p>The total number of convictions for contact child sexual abuse offences and indecent images of children offences have fallen from a high of around 7,300 in 2016 to 5,200 in 2019, despite increases in recorded crime. We have a better understanding of child sexual abuse than ever before and, as a result, we have seen steep increases in reporting of child sexual abuse to the police. We want reporting of child sexual abuse to keep rising to continue to bring this heinous crime out of the shadows.</p><p>We know that child sexual abuse is evolving and that perpetrators are increasing utilising technology and the internet to offend. The NCA report that, in the year ending March 2020, arrests relating to online child sexual abuse increased by 50% compared to the previous year, reaching 7,212 arrests, and 8,329 children safeguarded.</p><p>In January 2021, we published the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy. The Strategy sets out our long-term ambition alongside the immediate steps we will take to drive collective action across government, frontline responders and society as a whole to tackle all forms of child sexual abuse and bring offenders to justice, whether it takes place online or in families, institutions or communities, here in this country or overseas.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 19/02/2021 10:20:15 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1346935

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Community Security Trust: Finance
	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 the Government has allocated to the Community Security Trust for security at Jewish institutions in the 2021-22 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	33207
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2021 answer text <p>£14m has been set aside for the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant for the 2021-22 financial year. This grant provides funding for protective security measures at all Jewish state, free and independent schools, colleges, nurseries and some other Jewish community sites, including a number of synagogues.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 23/07/2021 11:27:49 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord