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1127771

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Mosques: Security
	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 his oral statement of 7 May 2019 on Places of Worship: Security Funding, Official Report,column 468, how much funding his Department has allocated to date from the Ramadan Package.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	257055
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2019 answer text <p>Following the attacks in New Zealand, we recognised the increased security anxieties being felt by mosques as we approach Ramadan. A security training scheme commenced on the 5 May. We originally committed to 12 workshops but following significant interest we have agreed to fund an additional 10 workshops during Ramadan.</p><p>These workshops have been open to faith leaders and have not been restricted to those who have experienced a previous hate crime. We have also made available funds to pay for the distribution of written advice to mosques, community centres and madrassahs. This is a short-term project for which we have awarded grant funding of £74,725 that will sit alongside the wider £5m fund that has been announced for security training for all faiths.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 257052 257054 question first answered 07/06/2019 13:24:02 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1127770

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Mosques: Security
	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 his oral statement of 7 May 2019 on Places of Worship: Security Funding, Official Report, column 468, whether places of worship will be required to demonstrate proof of a previous attack to qualify for the Ramadan Package.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	257054
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2019 answer text <p>Following the attacks in New Zealand, we recognised the increased security anxieties being felt by mosques as we approach Ramadan. A security training scheme commenced on the 5 May. We originally committed to 12 workshops but following significant interest we have agreed to fund an additional 10 workshops during Ramadan.</p><p>These workshops have been open to faith leaders and have not been restricted to those who have experienced a previous hate crime. We have also made available funds to pay for the distribution of written advice to mosques, community centres and madrassahs. This is a short-term project for which we have awarded grant funding of £74,725 that will sit alongside the wider £5m fund that has been announced for security training for all faiths.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 257052 257055 question first answered 07/06/2019 13:24:02 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1127768

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Mosques: Security
	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 his oral statement of 7 May 2019 on Places of Worship: Security Funding, Official Report, column 468, whether places of faith other than places of worship will qualify for funding for the Ramadan Package.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	257052
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2019 answer text <p>Following the attacks in New Zealand, we recognised the increased security anxieties being felt by mosques as we approach Ramadan. A security training scheme commenced on the 5 May. We originally committed to 12 workshops but following significant interest we have agreed to fund an additional 10 workshops during Ramadan.</p><p>These workshops have been open to faith leaders and have not been restricted to those who have experienced a previous hate crime. We have also made available funds to pay for the distribution of written advice to mosques, community centres and madrassahs. This is a short-term project for which we have awarded grant funding of £74,725 that will sit alongside the wider £5m fund that has been announced for security training for all faiths.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 257054 257055 question first answered 07/06/2019 13:24:02 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1128828

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Dentistry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to exclude (a) dentists and (b) dental nurses from the cap on Tier 2 visas.
	tabling member constituency	Canterbury
	tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
	uin	259393
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>On 6 July 2018, an Immigration Rules change to the Tier 2 (General) cap came into effect, to address particular pressures facing the NHS.</p><p>This change exempted doctors and nurses from the cap and freed up more spaces for other sponsored high-skilled occupations, including dentists. Since this exemption, no dentist has been refused a Tier 2 (General) place and the cap has not been breached. There are no current plans to make further changes to the operation of the Tier 2 cap within the current immigration system.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/06/2019 15:27:14 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1129261

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has carried out an impact assessment of the crime threshold of £200 on levels of crime.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	259107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>For all police forces in England and Wales, shoplifting is recorded under a single crime code according to the Home Office counting rules; the Theft Act 1968.</p><p>The Home Office holds information on all offences recorded by police, including the offence of Shoplifting, which is published by Police Force Area (PFA). Information on the number of shoplifting offences recorded in each financial year from April 2012 to December 2018 can be found in the Open Data tables, which can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</a></p><p>An impact assessment was carried out for the crime threshold of £200 on levels of crime, which can be found here: <br><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/252650/Annex_A_Overarching_IA_Lords.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/252650/Annex_A_Overarching_IA_Lords.pdf</a></p><p>The Government recognises the cost and disruption that shoplifting can cause to businesses, as well as to communities and consumers. It is important that retailers continue to report incidents of shoplifting and violence to the police so that effective action can be taken against offenders.</p><p>The Minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability co-chairs the National Retail Crime Steering Group which brings together Government, enforcement and key retail partners to identify and tackle the issues facing retailers in England and Wales. The Group’s key areas of focus include work to tackle shop theft and work to address violence and abuse toward retail staff.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd grouped question UIN 259106 259108 question first answered 06/06/2019 14:55:02 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1128994

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Airguns
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when his Department plans to publish the results of its review into air weapons which was launched in October 2017; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	259349
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>We intend to publish the conclusions of the review of air weapons alongside a consultation on firearms safety issues as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 06/06/2019 15:17:35 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

1127649

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Mortgages: Fraud
	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 prevent joint mortgages being used as a method of financial abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	256396
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2019 answer text <p>Following our public consultation last year, on 21 January we published a landmark draft Domestic Abuse Bill, consultation response and research on the societal costs of domestic abuse. This work contains a ground-breaking series of measures to transform our response to all forms of domestic abuse – including economic abuse – by promoting awareness, supporting victims, tackling perpetrators and improving services.</p><p>We are explicitly including economic abuse in the proposed new statutory definition of domestic abuse in the draft Bill to acknowledge the life-changing impact that economic abuse can have on a victim’s life and to raise awareness of this issue amongst criminal justice agencies and frontline professionals.</p><p>In our Government consultation response published alongside the draft Bill we set out our commitment to fund the National Skills Academy £200,000 to develop and deliver financial capability training for frontline workers to support individuals who are experiencing economic abuse. We are also providing approximately £250,000 until 2020 to create a national advice service for banks and building societies, increase the capacity of existing telephone casework services for victims of domestic abuse and develop resources to help people identify if they are experiencing economic abuse.</p><p>In addition, we are working closely with UK Finance to support their work to encourage banks and the wider financial services sector to improve the support they provide to victims of domestic abuse accessing their services, such as the voluntary Code of Conduct for banks to sign up to and a Consumer Information Pack setting out for victims what support they can expect from their bank. We will continue to work with UK Finance to encourage banks and financial authorities to do more to support victims of domestic abuse and help them move forward to escape debt, joint accounts, and mortgages.</p><p>More widely, the Joint Fraud Taskforce is leading an ambitious programme of work to prevent all forms of fraud and protect the most vulnerable in our society who are often targeted by fraudsters.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/06/2019 13:40:58 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1127535

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Nottinghamshire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to reduce youth-related violence in (a) Mansfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire.
	tabling member constituency	Mansfield
	tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
	uin	256343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s Serious Violence Strategy sets out 61 actions and commitments to tackle serious violence. It places an emphasis on prevention and early intervention to tackle the root causes and steer young people away from crime in the first place alongside a robust law enforcement response.</p><p>Action delivered through the Strategy to date includes:</p><p>• Our Early Intervention Youth Fund of £22m which is already supporting 29 projects in England and Wales to deliver interventions to young people at risk of criminal involvement, gang exploitation and county lines;<br>• A new National County Lines Co-ordination Centre to tackle violent and exploitative criminal activity associated with county lines;<br>• The new Offensive Weapons Act which strengthens legislation on firearms, knives and corrosive substances;<br>• Delivering our national knife crime media campaign - #knifefree - to raise awareness of the consequences of knife crime among young people.</p><p>On 2 October 2018 the Home Secretary also announced further measures to address violent crime in the UK including:</p><p>• The £200 million Youth Endowment Fund, which will be delivered over the next 10 years to support interventions with children and young people at risk of involvement in crime and violence, focusing on those most at risk. The charity Impetus, working in partnership with the Early Intervention Foundation and Social Investment Business, is now operating the Fund</p><p>• An Independent Review of Drug Misuse, to be chaired by Dame Carol Black, which will look into ways in which drugs are fuelling serious violence. <br>• A consultation on a new legal duty to underpin a ‘public health’ approach to tackling serious violence. This consultation launched on 1 April 2019 and closes on 28 May.</p><p>The Home Office has funded five knife crime prevention projects in Nottinghamshire through the Anti-Knife Crime Community Fund since 2017 to support those most at risk of involvement in knife crime. The Home Office has also provided funding to the charity Redthread to support the expansion of their youth violence intervention scheme in hospital emergency departments and we have supported the development of this service at the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham.</p><p>On 13 March, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an additional £100 million to tackle serious violence, which includes £80m of new funding from the Treasury. The majority of the investment will go towards supporting the police forces most affected by the violence we are seeing, but the funding will also support Violence Reduction Units, bringing together a range of agencies, including health, education, social services and others, to develop a multi-agency approach to preventing serious violence. £63.4 million of this funding has been allocated to 18 police forces most affected by serious violence to pay for surge operational activity, including increased patrols, and £1.6 million to help improve the quality of data on serious violence, particularly knife crime, to support planning and operations. Nottinghamshire Police has been allocated £1,540,000 from the serious violence fund.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/06/2019 13:37:55 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1129115

	registered interest
	date	03/06/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: 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 his Department is taking to ensure that the age of child asylum seekers is assessed accurately.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	258977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>Age assessment is a highly complex and challenging area of work. There is no single method or combination of methods which can accurately predict age.</p><p>Where clear and credible documentary evidence of age is not available, criteria including physical appearance and demeanour are used as part of the process to assess whether a person is under 18. When there is doubt about an individual’s claim to be a child, Home Office policy is to refer them to the relevant local authority to carry out a careful “Merton” compliant age assessment. A “Merton compliant” age assessment must be carried out by two social workers and should adhere to guidelines set out by the Courts.</p><p>The Home Office keeps its policies and processes under review and we remain committed to striking the right balance between ensuring that children who claim asylum are appropriately supported and maintaining the integrity of the asylum system by preventing adults being treated as children.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/06/2019 14:50:51 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1127877

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking: 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 he is taking to increase the availability and quality of specialist care and support for child victims of trafficking.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea East
	tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
	uin	257104
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2019 answer text <p>Independent Child Trafficking Advocates (ICTAs) are an independent source of advice for trafficked children and somebody who can speak up on their behalf.</p><p>The Government has successfully rolled out ICTAs to one third of all local authorities in England and Wales, in line with the commitment made in July last year. Where the service is available, all children that are potential victims of trafficking are eligible for support.</p><p>The Independent Review of the Modern Slavery Act led by Frank Field, Baroness Butler-Sloss and Maria Miller has recently considered Section 48 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which makes provisions for ICTAs. The Review’s final report can be found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-modern-slavery-act-final-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-modern-slavery-act-final-report</a></p><p>The Government is currently carefully considering the recommendations of the review on the improvements we can make to the ICTA service, and we remain committed to rolling ICTAs out nationally.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 07/06/2019 13:16:45 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris