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1336544

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2021
	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, what steps she is taking to tackle the exploitation of children through domestic servitude, sex trading and drug trading; and what plans her Department has to bring forward proposals to strengthen protections for children.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	16108
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government recognises the devastating impact of exploitation on children. There are a number of ways that we are tackling these types of exploitation. The Modern Slavery Act 2015, gives law enforcement agencies the tools to tackle modern slavery, such as sex trafficking and domestic servitude, including maximum life sentences for perpetrators and enhanced protection for victims, including children.</p><p>Where children are found to be potential victims of human trafficking or modern slavery their safety and welfare are addressed as a priority. Local authorities are responsible for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children in their area, including child victims of modern slavery.</p><p>In addition to this statutory support, the Government has rolled out Independent Child Trafficking Guardians (ICTGs) who provide an additional source of advice and support for all potentially trafficked children, irrespective of nationality. As of May 2021, ICTGs are available in two thirds of all local authorities across England and Wales.</p><p>The Government has announced its intention to review the 2014 Modern Slavery Strategy to consider how we can strengthen our approach. This will include considering what further measures can be put in place to reduce the risks of modern slavery exploitation to children.</p><p>On 20 January the Government announced £40m of dedicated investment for 2021/22 to tackle drugs supply and county lines, doubling our investment from last year. This includes funding for the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Orochi, which provides a dedicated taskforce to tackle county lines activity.</p><p>Since it was launched in November 2019, our County Lines Programme has already seen more than 780 lines closed, over 5,100 arrests, £2.9 million in cash and significant quantities of drugs seized, and more than 1,200 vulnerable people safeguarded.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/06/2021 10:30:01 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins previous answer version 8874 answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1541746

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum
	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 impact of the inadmissibility process on (a) the speed of asylum decision making and (b) the provision of asylum accommodation and support.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	86487
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">This system will not introduce significant delays either for individuals entering the asylum system, or the asylum system as a whole.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">In recent years we have made progress in prioritising older claims, high harm cases, those cases with extreme vulnerability, children and new flow cases following the introduction of the Nationality &amp; Borders Act, whilst those in receipt of support are a priority for caseworkers considering legacy cases.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The significant increase in dangerous journeys across the Channel is placing unprecedented strain on our asylum system and it has made it necessary to continue to use hotels to accommodate some asylum seekers. The use of hotels is a short-term solution and we are working hard with local authorities to find appropriate accommodation.</del></p><p>Statistics relating to supported asylum seekers temporarily residing in contingency accommodation are published here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistical-data-sets%2Fasylum-and-resettlement-datasets&amp;data=05%7C01%7CPS.SpecialAdvisers%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca496d0d3d4f74f6ad78b08dacca28a64%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638047295713805596%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=UQ1sf2enuEQfqpFF8raBYrQXdDZHa6baJWew%2F0VSYaQ%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Asylum and resettlement datasets</a>.</p><p>The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of statistics which disaggregates the number of asylum seekers accommodated in specific types of accommodation, or the number at specific stages of the asylum process. These figures are not available in a reportable format and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost. Further information on the inadmissibility process can be here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Finadmissibility-third-country-cases%2Finadmissibility-safe-third-country-cases-accessible&amp;data=05%7C01%7CPS.SpecialAdvisers%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca496d0d3d4f74f6ad78b08dacca28a64%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638047295713805596%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=GSuJUWbJOr1G0lLS6CwBOPkMVK6z4GogDoJbsI8qk%2Fg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Inadmissibility: safe third country cases</a>.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick previous answer version 36442 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick 36460 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick question first answered 22/11/2022 17:56:34 question first ministerially corrected 23/11/2022 09:06:48 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1524004

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fisheries: Vacancies
	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 an assessment of the potential merits of delaying the commencement of Section 43 of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, to help support fish producer organisations to find a workable solution to labour shortages.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	67013
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2022 answer text <p>Section 43 of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 (Working in UK waters) was due to be commenced and implemented in November 2022. However, following careful consideration, and taking on board requests and feedback from key stakeholders, the implementation of Section 43 has been delayed until Spring 2023.</p><p>The additional time before commencement and implementation will allow industries to fully prepare for any changes they need to make to ensure full compliance with the UK immigration system, should they wish to bring in foreign national workers to work in UK waters. Fishermen can currently use the Skilled Worker route, eligible jobs include share fishermen, trawler skippers, fish processors, and deckhands on large fishing vessels (9m+). During this time period, as now, all foreign national workers working wholly or mainly in UK waters will still need permission to work before they come to the UK.</p><p>Further information and guidance will be available in advance of Spring 2023, including the date the new provision will come into force.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 02/11/2022 10:20:58 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick previous answer version 28484 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1662749

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Young Offenders: Northern Ireland
	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 hold discussions with the Police Service of Northern Ireland on tackling physical abuse between people under the age of 18 in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	200603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>Policing, including the response to physical abuse, is a <del class="ministerial">delegated</del> <ins class="ministerial">devolved</ins> matter for consideration by the Northern Ireland Executive.</p><p> </p><p>We are open to discussions with the Police Service of Northern Ireland to share knowledge on tackling physical abuse amongst young people.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 20/10/2023 13:50:03 question first ministerially corrected 23/10/2023 09:15:34 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines previous answer version 99450 answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

456622

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Firearms
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with representatives from shooting and conservation groups on the simplification of firearms legislation.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	29105
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of international partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery. Details of these meetings are published on the Cabinet Office website on a quarterly basis at: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/cabinet-office.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 07/03/2016 16:15:25 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 49098 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

156667

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of sexual abuse against children and young people have been reported to police in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	215208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>The police recorded crime data that the Home Office receives from the police forces of England and Wales relate only to how many crimes are recorded and not how many reports are received. It is only possible to centrally provide figures for certain sexual offences that identify the age of the victim in statute, namely: <br><br> Rape of a female child under 16<br> Rape of a female child under 13<br> Rape of a male child under 16<br> Rape of a male child under 13<br> Sexual assault on a female child under 13<br> Sexual assault on a male child under 13<br> Sexual activity involving a child under 13<br> Sexual activity involving child under 16<br> Sexual grooming (the victim must be under 16)<br> Abuse of children through prostitution and pornography (under 18)<br> Abuse of position of trust in a sexual nature (under 18)<br><br>Data for these offences are shown in Table A4 of the ONS quarterly release, the most recent of which is available here<br><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/period-ending-june-2014/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/period-ending-june-2014/index.html</a><br><br>Recent increases in the overall number of recorded sexual offences have been attributed by the Office for National Statistics to a) the willingness of victims to come forward and report these crimes to the police, partly due to wider ‘operation Yewtree effect, where victims of sexual offences that are not directly connected to Yewtree are now reporting these offences to the police, and b) an improvement in crime recording by the police for these offences.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 01/12/2014 18:04:06 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone attachment 1 file name PQ215208- table.xls title Sexual and rape offences involving children previous answer version 29393 answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

174771

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Animal Experiments
	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 Answer by Viscount Younger of Leckie on 25 February 2014, Official Report, House of Lords, column WA239, how many organisms of which species have been generated following pronuclear transfer by researchers at Newcastle in each year of the last decade according to records held by her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	221476
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government does not hold this information and has neither funded or licensed pronuclear transfer in non-human primates.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 29/01/2015 16:35:25 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone previous answer version 39939 answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

226342

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2015
	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, what steps she is taking to ensure that sex offenders are monitored and that their whereabouts is always known.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	226893
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>Anyone convicted of a relevant offence automatically becomes subject to the sex <br>offender notification requirements to manage the risk they pose. Such offenders <br>are monitored and managed by the police under the Multi-Agency Public <br>Protection Arrangements (MAPPA). Monitoring the whereabouts of these <br>individuals is an operational matter for the police and a range of checks and <br>legislative measures, including civil preventative orders, are available so the <br>police know where these offenders are and can manage them effectively.<br><br>We work closely with the police to continually monitor the system of <br>notification requirements and civil orders in order to ensure officers have the <br>powers they need to protect the public.<br><br>This Government has strengthened the system for monitoring sex offenders. In <br>2012, we extended the notification requirements, and on 8 March 2015, we <br>replaced the previous powers used by police to protect the public from sexual <br>harm with two new orders: the sexual harm prevention order and the sexual risk <br>order. The grounds upon which these orders can be made are now wider, and for <br>the sexual harm prevention order, the threshold applied to protect people from <br>harm has been lowered. The available prohibitions which can be attached to both <br>orders are also wider, allowing for foreign travel restrictions to be imposed. <br>In addition, for the first time, both orders can be applied for by the National <br>Crime Agency, as well as the police.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 17/03/2015 15:22:24 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone previous answer version 50335 answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1464870

	registered interest
	date	23/05/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Freedom of Expression: Russia
	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 is taking steps in response to pro-Putin campaigners within the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	6767
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2022 answer text <p>Freedom of expression is a fundamental right in the UK, even for those with views that this Government and the wider British public do not agree with. This is one of the many differences which make the UK a vibrant democracy, in contrast to Putin’s regime.</p><p>The National Security Bill (introduced into Parliament on 11 May) will create a new offence of Foreign Interference to deter and disrupt illegitimate activity carried out on behalf of, or conducted with the intention to benefit foreign states, which harms UK interests and undermines our institutions, political system, rights and ultimately UK interests and our national security.</p><p>This will not impact legitimate campaigning.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/06/2022 16:35:20 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 4045 answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster answering member 4451
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

387086

	registered interest
	date	01/07/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Universities: Radicalism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with universities on ensuring that lecturers do not encourage the development of extremist views.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	5042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office, in conjunction with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, has met with universities and Higher Education representative bodies, such as Universities UK, to discuss tackling extremism. Full public consultation was carried out in the course of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act in which the Higher Education sector and universities were directly consulted.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/07/2015 10:00:21 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 11384 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon