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446013

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has taken steps to liaise with police and crime commissioners and local authorities on the proposed ban on novel psychoactive substances.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	23101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>On 17 September 2015, the Minister for Policing, Crime, Criminal Justice and Victims wrote to all chief constables, copied to police and crime commissioners, to inform them of the Psychoactive Substances Bill and to invite them to operational workshops for enforcement partners taking place in February. The Local Government Association, Trading Standards and other law enforcement partners have been engaged through the cross government implementation working group as well as the police psychoactive substances enforcement working group over the last few months in preparation for the commencement of the Bill.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 25/01/2016 17:17:22 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

445990

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting
	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 applications for Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks (a) nationally, (b) in London and (c) in Dulwich and West Norwood constituency met each of the service's published service standards for waiting times in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	23009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>The following tables show (a) the proportion of applications for enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks that met the Published Service Standards for waiting times nationally and (b) for applications received from people residing in London postcodes in each Financial Year from April 2010 to November 2015.</p><p><strong>Table A</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Total Apps Despatched</p></td><td><p>21 Calendar Day Target</p></td><td><p>21 Day Achievement</p></td><td><p>56 Calendar Day Target</p></td><td><p>56 Day Achievement</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-10 to Mar-11</p></td><td><p>4,124,609</p></td><td><p>85%</p></td><td><p>65.8%</p></td><td><p>95%</p></td><td><p>86.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-11 to Mar-12</p></td><td><p>3,813,114</p></td><td><p>85%</p></td><td><p>88.4%</p></td><td><p>95%</p></td><td><p>96.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-12 to Mar-13</p></td><td><p>3,801,064</p></td><td><p>85%</p></td><td><p>86.5%</p></td><td><p>95%</p></td><td><p>98.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-13 to Mar-14</p></td><td><p>3,715,222</p></td><td><p>85%</p></td><td><p>84.3%</p></td><td><p>95%</p></td><td><p>97.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-14 to Mar-15</p></td><td><p>3,833,149</p></td><td><p>85%</p></td><td><p>84.3%</p></td><td><p>95%</p></td><td><p>94.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-15 to Nov-15</p></td><td><p>2,704,993</p></td><td><p>85%</p></td><td><p>85.5%</p></td><td><p>95%</p></td><td><p>94.6%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Table B</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Total Apps Despatched</p></td><td><p>21 Calendar Day Target</p></td><td><p>21 Day Achievement</p></td><td><p>56 Calendar Day Target</p></td><td><p>56 Day Achievement</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-10 to Mar-11</p></td><td><p>395,164</p></td><td><p>85%</p></td><td><p>28.5%</p></td><td><p>95%</p></td><td><p>55.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-11 to Mar-12</p></td><td><p>363,887</p></td><td><p>85%</p></td><td><p>76.6%</p></td><td><p>95%</p></td><td><p>88.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-12 to Mar-13</p></td><td><p>358,900</p></td><td><p>85%</p></td><td><p>78.7%</p></td><td><p>95%</p></td><td><p>97.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-13 to Mar-14</p></td><td><p>356,883</p></td><td><p>85%</p></td><td><p>78.0%</p></td><td><p>95%</p></td><td><p>95.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-14 to Mar-15</p></td><td><p>371,608</p></td><td><p>85%</p></td><td><p>79.5%</p></td><td><p>95%</p></td><td><p>87.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-15 to Nov-15</p></td><td><p>257,410</p></td><td><p>85%</p></td><td><p>81.9%</p></td><td><p>95%</p></td><td><p>85.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The DBS is working closely with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) to improve its performance. An MPS Gold Group is overseeing the recovery plan and exploring all opportunities to process cases quickly, including the recruitment of additional staff. It is not possible to provide the figure for applications from Dulwich and West Norwood as this information is not collected.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/02/2016 17:41:59 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 40629 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

445991

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting: Nurses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make support available to trainee nurses unable to complete their courses because of delays in the processing of their applications for Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
	tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
	tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
	uin	23010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) aims to process all applications within the shortest time possible. The vast majority of applicants do receive their certificates in a timely manner and in December the average processing time for DBS applications was 15.3 days.</p><p>It is important that checks undertaken are thorough and sometimes the DBS needs to refer an application to one or more local police forces as part of the enhanced certificate checking process. Unfortunately, a small number of forces have been experiencing difficulties in completing their checks within expected timescales.</p><p>Where delays occur in the processing of DBS certificates, prospective employers of trainee nurses and other healthcare employees who will be working with adults only are able to use a service known as Adult First. Adult First is an online facility provided for healthcare workers by the DBS that can be used in cases where, exceptionally, and in accordance with the terms of Department of Health guidance, a person is permitted to start work with adults before a DBS Certificate has been obtained.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/01/2016 16:04:41 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 40632 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

446007

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting
	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 5 January 2016 to Question 21044, how many applicants who applied for both a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Adult First Check and a DBS check subsequently failed their DBS check after receiving (a) No Match Found responses and (b) wait for full disclosure responses in their DBS Adult First checks in each year since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	23158
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2016 answer text <p>The DBS is establishing the complex data required for this answer and this involves interrogating key systems to establish the correct information.</p><p>I will write to the Honourable Member separately as soon as their work is concluded.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/02/2016 17:52:19 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 40679 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

446014

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Legal Systems: Islam
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to publish her Department's review of Sharia courts; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Mr Stewart Jackson
	uin	23212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>The Home Secretary has commissioned a full, independent review to enhance our understanding of any misuse of Sharia law. The review will report to the Home Secretary before the end of this year.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 26/01/2016 17:21:46 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 40634 answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes answering member 350
	tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

446017

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Foreign Nationals: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has produced to assist police forces in apprehending foreign-born minors and their transfer into the care of local authorities; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Peterborough
	tabling member printed	Mr Stewart Jackson
	uin	23213
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>Guidance to the police on the identification and support of unaccompanied minors from overseas currently exists in two complementary guidance documents, both produced by the then Association of Chief Police Officers and currently supported by the National Policing Lead and the College of Policing: Guidance on the Management, Recording and Investigation of Missing Persons (2010) and Interim Guidance on the Management, Recording and Investigation of Missing Persons (2013). Advice to practitioners, including the police, is also contained within two pieces of statutory guidance from the Department for Education: Care of unaccompanied and trafficked children (2014) and Safeguarding Children who may have been trafficked (2011).</p><p>The College of Policing ran a public consultation in 2015 on revisions to the Authorised Professional Practice (APP) guidance to the police on the handling of missing persons investigations. This is currently being developed following consultation. The APP is expected to contain reference to unaccompanied foreign children, highlighting their vulnerabilities and the potential danger of exploitation, and re-affirm the need to investigate these cases effectively, considering the risks to the child, particularly from adults who may purport to be relatives.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 25/01/2016 17:02:20 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 40637 answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes answering member 350
	tabling member	1551 label Biography information for Lord Jackson of Peterborough

445996

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Sexual Harm Prevention Orders and Sexual Risk Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) sexual harm prevention orders and (b) sexual risk orders have been made by courts in England; and how many people subject to each such order were under the age of 18.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	22989
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collate central figures on the number of Sexual Harm Prevention Orders and Sexual Risk Orders issued in England. Figures collated by the police for management purposes, and provided to the Home Office, on the overall number of orders show that in the period between 8 March and 29 September, 2,425 full and 40 interim Sexual Harm Prevention Orders and 32 full and 13 interim Sexual Risk Orders were issued in England and Wales. This data is not broken down by age.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 22991 22992 question first answered 28/01/2016 16:01:09 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

445998

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) sexual harm prevention orders and (b) sexual risk orders have been made by courts in England to protect children aged 16 and 17.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	22991
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collate central figures on the number of Sexual Harm Prevention Orders and Sexual Risk Orders issued in England. Figures collated by the police for management purposes, and provided to the Home Office, on the overall number of orders show that in the period between 8 March and 29 September, 2,425 full and 40 interim Sexual Harm Prevention Orders and 32 full and 13 interim Sexual Risk Orders were issued in England and Wales. This data is not broken down by age.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 22989 22992 question first answered 28/01/2016 16:01:09 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

445999

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) sexual harm prevention orders and (b) sexual risk orders have been made by courts in England.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	22992
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collate central figures on the number of Sexual Harm Prevention Orders and Sexual Risk Orders issued in England. Figures collated by the police for management purposes, and provided to the Home Office, on the overall number of orders show that in the period between 8 March and 29 September, 2,425 full and 40 interim Sexual Harm Prevention Orders and 32 full and 13 interim Sexual Risk Orders were issued in England and Wales. This data is not broken down by age.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 22989 22991 question first answered 28/01/2016 16:01:09 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

446000

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will take steps to assist with the backlog of Disclosure and Barring Service applications.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	22998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) aims to process all certificates within 56 calendar days and nationally DBS meets this target. The vast majority of applicants do receive their certificates in a timely manner and in December the average processing time for DBS applications was 15.3 days.</p><p>It is important that checks undertaken are thorough and sometimes the DBS needs to refer an application to one or more local police forces as part of the enhanced certificate checking process. Unfortunately, a small number of forces have been experiencing difficulties in completing their checks within expected timescales.</p><p>DBS has been working closely with forces who are not meeting performance targets to ensure that their performance improves as quickly as possible. The Home Office is taking a keen interest in this work.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/01/2016 16:07:11 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight