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174437

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Staff
	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 spent on (a) recruitment agency fees, (b) outplacement agency fees for displaced or redundant staff and (c) staff training in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	221227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The Home Department does not hold centrally details of expenditure on recruitment agency fees so this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Expenditure on outplacement agency fees for displaced or <br>redundant staff for the financial years prior to 2014/15 was not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The fully audited figures for 2014/15 will be available in July 2015.<br><br>The total staff training costs for the financial years 2010/11 to 2013/14 are set out below:<br><br>2010-11 - £13,598,237<br>2011-12 - £14,860,807<br>2012-13 - £16,986,868<br>2013-14 - £24,715,417<br><br>The full-year audited figures for total staff training expenditure for 2014-15 will be available in July 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/01/2015 15:01:08 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 39696 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

227308

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Off-payroll Working
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff in her Department and its executive agencies and associated bodies were engaged off-payroll in each of the last five years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	227549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The number of people engaged off payroll by the Home Office and the Non Departmental Public Bodies, for which it is responsible, are published each year in its Annual report and Accounts. These are available on our website and can be found by following the links set out below:<br><br>2013-14 (Average number of persons employed) (Page 39)<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/321446<br>/ARA_web_enabled_18_June.pdf<br><br>2012-13 (Average number of persons employed) (Page 45)<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/210660<br>/Annual_Report_and_Accounts_FINAL_updated_logo.pdf<br><br>2011-12 (Table 5 Staff in post) (Page 46)<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/143619<br>/annual-report-2011-12.pdf<br><br>2010-11 (Table 5 Staff in post) (Page 45)<br>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/120048<br>/annual-report-201011.pdf</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/03/2015 16:26:55 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

173112

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many equality impact assessments her Department produced in each year since 2006.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	220340
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office considers equality issues in exercising its functions, to comply with equality legislation and to ensure it understands how its activities will affect different people. It provides information about this consideration in various ways. In the specified period since 2006, this information was sometimes published in the form of an equality impact assessment. Information about the number of such documents published by the Home Office is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/01/2015 14:57:43 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

227905

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of employees in her Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	227962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The 2014 Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (ACSES) provided employment data for all Civil Service departments, although this does not break down to all the categories requested. The data revealed that in the Home Department:<br><br>• 18,720 (68.59%) of employees identified as White <br>• 5,760 (21.10%) of employees identified as Black or Minority Ethnic (BME) <br><br>This data is based on a total of 27,290 permanent Home Department employees on payroll. Of these, 2,800 (10.26%) staff had not declared their ethnicity.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/03/2015 16:18:34 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

228617

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average hourly pay is of employees at each grade within her Department identified as (a) White or White British and (b) from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	228313
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>Table 1 shows the average hourly pay of civil servants in the Home Office as of 28th February 2015 by ethnicity.<br><br>Other than at Senior Civil Servant (SCS) level the Home Office have different pay scales for London and National at all grades. 78.2 % of the staff below SCS declaring themselves Black and Minority Ethnic are based in London compared with 33.2 % of staff below SCS declaring themselves White. This explains why (apart from SCS staff) the hourly rate for BME staff is higher than for white staff.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 26/03/2015 10:18:34 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 228313 _Table 1.xlsx title Average hourly pay of civil servants
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

176515

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what further steps she is taking to protect UK citizens from telephone scammers.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast North
	tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
	uin	222361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>The Government takes all types of fraud, including those operating through telephones, extremely seriously. We consider all types of fraud to have been committed by criminals, not scammers. We are working closely with Action Fraud <br>and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau to ensure that the public has the information they need to protect themselves. When a serious threat or a new type of fraud is identified, Action Fraud places an alert on its website with <br>advice for individuals to protect themselves from becoming victims. Members of the public can sign up to receive these alerts by email. We are supporting local forces and agencies to deliver effective protective advice to the public <br>on fraud, including telephone scams, in collaboration with the City of London Police. <br><br>We are also working closely with Financial Fraud Action UK and the British Bankers’ Association who have issued advice to consumers on how to protect themselves from fraudsters who target people on the phone.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/02/2015 14:10:49 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

173216

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	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 investigations into modern slavery have been made in each police force area in 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	220425
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2015 answer text <p>Data showing the number of police investigations for modern slavery in 2014 is not yet available. The National Policing Lead for modern slavery, Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer, is currently developing the approach to improving the management of modern slavery related data across all 43 police forces in England and Wales. These improvements in managing modern slavery data will result in greater cohesion across policing, which in turn will improve our strategic understanding and operational responses.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, modern slavery offences have been added to the Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR) for the first time. The HOCR provides guidance to police forces about how crime reported to the police should be recorded, meaning that from 1st April 2015 all modern slavery crimes reported to the police will be properly recorded.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has introduced a new statutory role, the Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner, responsible for improving awareness and detection by law enforcement, as well as working with partners to increase the number of successful prosecutions of the perpetrators of modern slavery. Kevin Hyland was appointed as the designate Commissioner in November 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 20/01/2015 16:38:40 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

173217

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Merseyside
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much of her Department's budget was allocated to (a) the Wirral and (b) Birkenhead in 2013-14.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
	uin	220426
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not allocate budget or record expenditure according to the location where the funds were spent. <br><br>It is not possible to break down Home Office expenditure in this way as much of the Department's work - for instance on national security or protecting our borders - is done for the benefit of the United Kingdom as a whole.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 19/01/2015 14:29:21 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

222607

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total value of contracts her Department has with private sector providers was in each of the last five years for which records are available.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	224662
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>Details of contracts above the value of £10,000 awarded to private sector <br>providers are published on the Contracts Finder website, <br>www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk .<br><br>The total value of contracts the Home Office has with private sector providers <br>in each of the years for which records are available is as follows:<br><br>Financial Year Aggregated Spend against contracts with private sector providers<br><br>2009/10 Data Not Available<br>2010/11 £2.45 billion<br>2011/12 £2.40 billion<br>2012/13 £2.13 billion<br>2013/14 £1.99 billion<br><br>The aggregated spend data provided shows a reduction in private <br>sector contract spend of £460 million since 2010-11.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/02/2015 14:23:53 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

173433

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2015
	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 guidelines her Department provides for timescales for completing a disclosure and barring check.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	220573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>The current Disclosure and Barring Service service standard is to issue 88% of all Disclosures within 40 working days. The latest published data for the year to date (covering April –November 2014) shows that 95.9% of disclosures were <br>issued within this timeframe.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 16/01/2015 14:03:03 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

173434

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2015
	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 guidance is provided to police forces on timescales for responses to referrals from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	220574
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between the Disclosure and Barring Service and each local police force set out the following service standards:<br>• 85% of police checks must be completed in 14 days;<br>• 90% of police checks must be completed in 18 days;<br>• 95% of police checks must be completed in 25 days; and<br>• 100% of police checks must be completed in 60 days.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 16/01/2015 14:03:28 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

174776

	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	Vetting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the average length of time each police force has taken to return Disclosure and Barring Service checks since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	221314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2015 answer text <p>The average number of days taken by each police force to return disclosure <br>checks is provided in the table below. The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) <br>works closely with any forces which miss their service level agreements. The <br>DBS was established in December 2012. Data prior to this date relates to the <br>Criminal Records Bureau.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 04/02/2015 16:17:03 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 221314 _ table.xls title Police force disclosure checks previous answer version 39934 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

178189

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
	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 2015 to Question 219468, whether her Department received further copies of the letter emailed on 5 December 2014 to Jackie Godwin of the Home Office Correspondence Team and on 18 December 2014 to Dipesh Lakhani in the Private Office Support Team.
	tabling member constituency	Bournemouth West
	tabling member printed	Conor Burns
	uin	223575
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>Copies of the letters emailed on 5 December 2014 to Jackie Godwin and on 18 December to Dipesh Lakhani were received and will respond by Thursday 12 February.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/02/2015 17:13:17 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns

177549

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants receiving support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 have been receiving that support for more than (a) two, (b) four and (c) six years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brent Central
	tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
	uin	223236
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The total number of main applicants supported under Section 4 is now well below the peak of 12,019 in the Quarter 3 of 2009, standing at 3,566 in the Quarter 3 of 2014.<br><br>The number of main asylum claimants receiving Section 4 support for more than two, four and six years is set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Duration</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of people</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>More than 2 years and up to 4 years</strong></p></td><td><p>1,405</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>More than 4 years and up to 6 years</strong></p></td><td><p>869</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>More than 6 years </strong></p></td><td><p>329</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 17:33:31 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name Data Table - PQ 223236.docx title PQ 223236 - Data Table
	tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

175760

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Islamic State
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on (a) academic and (b) other research conducted in (i) the UK and (ii) other European countries that establishes a link between the funding of ISIL and the trade in contraband (A) cigarettes and (B) other goods.
	tabling member constituency	Broxbourne
	tabling member printed	Mr Charles Walker
	uin	221948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold academic or other research of this sort.<br><br>A number of departments are involved in the Government’s efforts to degrade and defeat ISIL and experts from across government have spent considerable time analysing ISIL’s funding flows. Based on the information available, we believe <br>that a substantial share of ISIL’s revenue is derived from the sale of oil and commodities, taxation and extortion. It is likely that revenue generated from the smuggling of tobacco accounts for some of this, although the amount is <br>believed to be relatively small as a share of ISIL’s total revenue.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 03/02/2015 14:39:36 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker

177544

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Dorset Police
	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 performance of Dorset Police in meeting the standards required by its service level agreement with the Disclosure and Barring Service; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Christchurch
	tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
	uin	223269
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department receives monthly updates on the performance of police forces, including Dorset police, in meeting the Service Level Agreement (SLA) standards for the time taken to complete local disclosure checks. The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) works closely with any forces which miss their SLA targets.<br><br>The number and proportion of police disclosure checks completed by Dorset police against the 14, 18, 25 and 60 days SLA targets for the six months from June to November 2014 is provided in the table below.</p><p /> <p> </p><p /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="9" rowspan="2"><strong>Dorset Police: number and proportion of disclosure checks completed in 14, 18, 25 and 60 days</strong></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"><strong>Within 14 Days</strong></td><td colspan="2"><strong>Within 18 Days</strong></td><td colspan="2"><strong>Within 25 Days</strong></td><td colspan="2"><strong>Within 60 Days</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Period</strong></td><td><strong>No.</strong></td><td><strong>%</strong></td><td><strong>No.</strong></td><td><strong>%</strong></td><td><strong>No.</strong></td><td><strong>%</strong></td><td><strong>No.</strong></td><td><strong>%</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>June to November 2014</strong></td><td>460</td><td>4.0%</td><td>1,874</td><td>17.0%</td><td>3,317</td><td>31.0%</td><td>9,016</td><td>84.0%</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 18:10:18 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 43381 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

177545

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Dorset Police
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of police checks commissioned by the Disclosure and Barring Service from Dorset Police were completed within (a) 60, (b) 25, (c) 18 and (d) 14 days in the most recent six months for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Christchurch
	tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
	uin	223270
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department receives monthly updates on the performance of police forces, including Dorset police, in meeting the Service Level Agreement (SLA) standards for the time taken to complete local disclosure checks. The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) works closely with any forces which miss their SLA targets.<br><br>The number and proportion of police disclosure checks completed by Dorset police against the 14, 18, 25 and 60 days SLA targets for the six months from June to November 2014 is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>Dorset Police: number and proportion of disclosure checks completed in 14, 18, 25 and 60 days</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="2"><strong>Within 14 Days</strong></td><td colspan="2"><strong>Within 18 Days</strong></td><td colspan="2"><strong>Within 25 Days</strong></td><td colspan="2"><strong>Within 60 Days</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Period</strong></td><td><strong>No.</strong></td><td><strong>%</strong></td><td><strong>No.</strong></td><td><strong>%</strong></td><td><strong>No.</strong></td><td><strong>%</strong></td><td><strong>No.</strong></td><td><strong>%</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>June to November 2014</strong></td><td>460</td><td>4.0%</td><td>1,874</td><td>17.0%</td><td>3,317</td><td>31.0%</td><td>9,016</td><td>84.0%</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/02/2015 13:47:44 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 43382 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

178573

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	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 has taken to ensure that police forces (a) have a strategy and (b) are properly trained to respond to cybercrime; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	223891
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answers I gave to him on 14 January 2015 in response to questions 220035 and 220043.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 16:00:15 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

178574

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2015
	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: Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investigations into online child abuse have been delayed for 12 months or longer after being reported to the National Crime Agency; and how long the average delay is in investigating such cases.
	tabling member constituency	Croydon North
	tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
	uin	223892
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>Every referral of child sexual abuse reported to the National Crime Agency (NCA) is thoroughly assessed and developed. All cases where potential suspects are identified are disseminated to a UK police force, actioned by the NCA, or disseminated to a foreign jurisdiction via Interpol. It is for each of the recipients to assess the intelligence and potential for prosecution and to take executive action appropriately. Information on these investigations is not held centrally, except for NCA investigations. No investigations by the NCA into <br>online child sexual abuse have been subject to delays of 12 months or longer since its inception on 7 October 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 15:57:55 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

177557

	registered interest
	date	03/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Immigration Controls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of how many (a) pleasure, (b) class XII and (c) other small vessels enter UK ports of entry each year without (i) passport and (ii) physical checks.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	223102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>Border Force adopts an intelligence led approach to responding to General Maritime traffic. Border Force works with the National Crime Agency and other partners to identify threats from General Maritime traffic and uses <br>intelligence to intercept General Maritime craft that are attempting to smuggle contraband material or illegal immigrants into the country. <br><br><br>There is no current legal requirement for advance passenger information for the leisure sector of maritime traffic. Persons arriving directly from within the European Economic Area (EEA) on a pleasure craft are only required to notify <br>Border Force if they have a person onboard who is not a British Citizen or national of the EEA, or if they have goods to declare. It is therefore not possible to estimate the number of vessels that have entered UK ports that do not have a requirement to notify.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 16:01:36 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

179014

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2015
	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 estimate she has made of how many and what proportion of Disclosure and Barring Service applications were returned to applicants within (a) 20, (b) 40, (c) 60, (d) 80 and (e) 100 days and (f) more than 100 days in each of the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	224084
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The number and proportion of disclosure applications completed within 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 days, and the number and proportion completed in more than 100 days, for each month from February 2014 to January 2015 is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/02/2015 15:32:03 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 224084 data _table.xls title Disclosure applications completed
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

179015

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2015
	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 assessment she has made of application backlogs at the Disclosure and Barring Service.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	224088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) receives around 4 million disclosure <br>applications a year and provides the Home Office with monthly updates on its<br>performance. Latest data for the 2014-15 operational year, covering the period <br>from April 2014 to January 2015, shows that 95.4% of disclosure certificates <br>were issued within 40 working days - well above the DBS service standard to <br>issue 88% of all disclosures within this time. <br><br>A key aspect of DBS administration is to ensure that disclosure checks are both <br>accurate and completed within service standard timescales. In the small <br>proportion of cases where checks have not been completed within these <br>timescales, the DBS is expected to take the necessary steps to progress the <br>case including, as appropriate, working with the police and other parties <br>involved in the checking process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/02/2015 14:00:05 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

179016

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2015
	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 the dates are of the oldest applications currently being processed by the Disclosure and Barring Service.
	tabling member constituency	Dudley North
	tabling member printed	Ian Austin
	uin	224089
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service is currently processing 36 applications that were received more than 12 months ago. No case is older than 19 months. <br><br>There are a number of reasons why some cases may take longer than others to process.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/02/2015 15:33:16 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

176129

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Internet
	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 bring forward legislative proposals to ban the sale of spyware to individuals across the internet.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Mr Elfyn Llwyd
	uin	222228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>Installing spyware on a computer without the owners consent is already covered by the offences in the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Any unauthorised access to a computer however that is achieved, whether by spyware or another programme is an offence under the Computer Misuse Act. It is also an offence to make or supply an article (which includes spyware) intending it to be used to gain unauthorised access to a computer. Similarly, it is an offence to obtain an article with a view to it being supplied for use to commit such an offence. Amendments to section 3A of the Computer Misuse Act in the Serious Crime Bill will also make it an offence to obtain an article intending it to be used to commit such an offence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/02/2015 14:16:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	549 label Biography information for Mr Elfyn Llwyd

176131

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of spyware devices sold to residents of England and Wales in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Mr Elfyn Llwyd
	uin	222227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 222226 question first answered 02/02/2015 14:15:38 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	549 label Biography information for Mr Elfyn Llwyd

176137

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of spyware downloads by residents of Engand and Wales in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Mr Elfyn Llwyd
	uin	222226
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 222227 question first answered 02/02/2015 14:15:38 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	549 label Biography information for Mr Elfyn Llwyd

177742

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	National Crime Agency: Northern Ireland
	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 vote in the Northern Ireland Assembly on 3 Feburary 2015, on the National Crime Agency, when she expects that Agency to be fully operational in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	223348
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency operates UK-wide, including in Northern Ireland, and provides support to its partner agencies there in relation to customs and immigration matters whilst continuing to exchange information with the PSNI. The NCA has, to date, been unable fully to target serious and organised crime groups in Northern Ireland involved in activities which require policing powers to tackle them. <br><br>The draft Crime and Courts Act 2013 (National Crime Agency and Proceeds of Crime) (Northern Ireland) Order 2015, was laid before Parliament on 29 January 2015. It makes provision for the NCA to operate in Northern Ireland with full powers including the ability to recover criminal assets in relation to offences that are devolved, together with the ability to request the recovery of assets overseas in civil recovery cases. This will make Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK a safer place and means the most serious criminals can be pursued wherever they are. The Order details commencement of the provisions, some of which will come into force the day after it is made, including the extension to Northern Ireland of all of the relevant civil recovery provisions relating to freezing and recovery orders. The related civil recovery investigation powers will require further secondary legislation relating to a Code of Practice. <br><br>A number of provisions that relate to the NCA’s operational use of constable powers and covert techniques, which will be subject to a Memorandum of Understanding, which will come into force at the end of two months beginning with the day on which the Order is made. The Order may not be made until it has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/02/2015 17:10:41 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 43379 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

177894

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	National Crime Agency: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what practical arrangements will be made for co-operation between the National Crime Agency and security services in the Irish Republic when that agency becomes fully operational in Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	223351
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (National Crime Agency and Proceeds of Crime) (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 was laid before Parliament on 29 January. The Order makes provision for the National Crime Agency to operate in Northern Ireland with full powers. If approved by each House, it will allow NCA officers to be able to exercise constable powers and it also provides the NCA the ability to recover criminal assets in relation to offences that are devolved, together with the ability to request the recovery of assets overseas in civil recovery cases. <br><br>This will make Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK a safer place and means the most serious criminals can be pursued wherever they are. The NCA has dedicated resources currently working with Irish law enforcement agencies to tackle the threat from organised crime that affects both our countries.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/02/2015 16:52:18 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 43380 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

178180

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Business: 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 she is taking to strengthen police action against business fraud.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield North
	tabling member printed	Nick de Bois
	uin	223602
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>Action Fraud is the national reporting point for fraud and cyber crime. It takes reports of crimes from members of the public and businesses online or via its dedicated helpline. These reports are then analysed by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), which looks for links between separate victims of the same scams, and matches information in Action Fraud reports with other data it holds. The NFIB then prepares intelligence packages and sends these to the police force best placed to consider enforcement action. It also carries out work to disrupt the enablers of this criminality, such as having websites used by criminals taken down.<br><br>Both Action Fraud and the NFIB are part of the City of London Police, which is the national lead force for fraud. The Government brought Action Fraud into the City of London Police in April 2014 to strengthen the end-to-end process for reporting and analysis of these crimes. Action Fraud also has two dedicated single points of contact for business, and continues to host open days for industry and attend business events to ensure understanding, share protective advice and foster close relationships. Action Fraud also circulates real-time information on the latest fraud threats via its website, social media channels and though police forces and businesses.<br><br>The Government is also working closely with law enforcement agencies, industry and third sector partners to support individuals and businesses to be better protected. This includes national and local level action to increase their awareness of the risks and adopting safe online behaviours. The Cyber Streetwise awareness campaign, funded by the National Cyber Security Programme, helps individuals and businesses understand how to stay safe online. The second phase of the campaign, including a refreshed website and online materials, launched in October last year. The Government’s Cyber Information Sharing Partnership, within CERT-UK, is also enabling industry to share <br>information on online threats including fraud, helping to reduce their vulnerability and the impact of online fraud on UK businesses.<br><br>The Home Office has introduced the Commercial Victimisation Survey to better understand and monitor crime against businesses, including fraud and online crime. Findings from the 2012 and 2013 surveys have been published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-against-businesses" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-against-businesses</a></p><p>Findings from the 2014 survey will be published on 23rd April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 15:23:44 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4002 label Biography information for Nick de Bois

179027

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Modern Slavery Bill
	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 potential merits of removing the reasonable person test in defence for children from the Modern Slavery Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Foyle
	tabling member printed	Mark Durkan
	uin	224001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The statutory defence is an important additional protection for victims of <br>modern slavery who have been compelled to commit certain offences as a direct <br>consequence of their slavery or trafficking situation. In addition, the Crown <br>Prosecution Service will continue to use its discretion to not charge an <br>offence or discontinue a prosecution which is not required, in the public <br>interest. <br><br>It is imperative that the defence protects child victims of modern slavery from <br>being inappropriately criminalised whilst also avoiding providing complete <br>immunity for the most serious categories of offending. The reasonable person <br>test is an important safeguard in ensuring that the defence cannot be abused.<br><br>The defence for child victims has been amended in the House of Lords to remove <br>the requirement for compulsion and we have also tabled an amendment at Lord’s <br>Report of the Modern Slavery Bill to the reasonable person test for child <br>victims to make it easier for child victims to gain protection from the <br>statutory defence. This amendment will remove the reference to the child having <br>no realistic alternative to committing the offence and will mean that once the <br>defence is raised, the prosecution would have to show beyond reasonable doubt <br>that the child acted unreasonably in committing the offence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/02/2015 13:59:37 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1594 label Biography information for Mark Durkan

222608

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrant Workers: Domestic Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what account she took of the recommendations of (a) the Report of the Modern Slavery Bill Evidence Review presented to her on 16 December 2013 and (b) the report from the Joint Committee on the Draft Modern Slavery Bill published on 3 April 2014, HC 1019, when establishing the review of migrant domestic worker arrangements.
	tabling member constituency	Foyle
	tabling member printed	Mark Durkan
	uin	224810
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>Both reports were considered carefully when establishing the review of the <br>Overseas Domestic Worker visa. That is why the review will focus on all aspects <br>of this visa regime, including the support available to those who are subject <br>to modern slavery offences whilst holding these visas. The Government is <br>determined to ensure that our visa regime does not encourage or facilitate <br>abuse. James Ewins was asked to conduct the review in light of his significant <br>background in tackling modern slavery, including as specialist adviser to the <br>pre-legislative scrutiny Committee and as a member of the steering committee <br>for the Modern Slavery Bill Evidence Review Panel. The Review will report by <br>the end of July 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 25/02/2015 15:24:36 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1594 label Biography information for Mark Durkan

177204

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Medway
	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 tackle human trafficking in the Medway towns.
	tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
	tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
	uin	222885
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>We do not collect information about specific activity in specific towns. However this Government is determined to stamp out modern slavery, including human trafficking, in all its forms and wherever it occurs. The landmark Modern Slavery Bill will give law enforcement agencies the tools they need to tackle modern slavery, ensure that perpetrators can receive suitably severe sentences for these appalling crimes, and enhance support and protection for victims. The modern slavery strategy, published on 29 November 2014, sets out our comprehensive programme of activity, including actions that we expect from Government departments, agencies and national and international partners.</p><p>To drive improvements in our operational response to modern slavery across the UK, Kevin Hyland OBE has been appointed as ‘designate’ Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner. His role will ensure that more perpetrators are caught and brought to justice and more victims are effectively identified and supported.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/02/2015 17:30:44 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

175119

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	EU Justice and Home Affairs
	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 exercise a block opt-out from the 131 pre-Lisbon EU policing and criminal justice laws.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Mike Weatherley
	uin	221552
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>In July 2013, following votes in both Houses of Parliament endorsing the Government’s decision, the Prime Minister formally exercised the opt-out. This decision took effect on 1 December 2014 and on that date the United Kingdom <br>opted out of more than 100 EU police and criminal justice powers.<br><br>On 20 November 2014, following votes in both Houses of Parliament endorsing the Government’s package, the Prime Minister wrote notifying the President of the Council of Ministers of the United Kingdom’s wish to rejoin the 35 vital police <br>and criminal justice measures set out in Command Paper 8897: Decision pursuant to Article 10(5) of Protocol 36 to The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The EU level Decisions required to give effect to the United <br>Kingdom’s application to rejoin the measures were adopted in Brussels on 1 December 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 26/01/2015 14:04:00 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3984 label Biography information for Mike Weatherley

175770

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances of online (a) stalking, (b) harassment, (c) fraud and (d) identity theft were reported to the police in the most recent year for which figures are available; and how many of each category of reported instance resulted in a criminal charge.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	221994
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the requested information. Information on the number of crimes that take place online or involve an online element is not routinely collected from all police forces.<br><br>In order to understand the scale of online offences the Home Office has introduced a voluntary ‘online flag’ as part of the police recorded crime data collection. This allows police forces to record online instances of crimes such <br>as stalking and harassment. These offences could have taken place solely online, or had an online element to them.<br><br>The ‘online flag’ was introduced at the beginning of 2014/15, and data have been provided by a small number of forces on a voluntary basis since then. These data are currently still in development. The online flag will become <br>mandatory for all police forces from the start of 2015/16, allowing statistics to be published once the data have been quality assured.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 221992 question first answered 02/02/2015 14:12:51 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

175771

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in what proportion of complaints of crime reported to the police there was a digital or cyber element in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	221992
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the requested information. Information on the number of crimes that take place online or involve an online element is not routinely collected from all police forces.<br><br>In order to understand the scale of online offences the Home Office has introduced a voluntary ‘online flag’ as part of the police recorded crime data collection. This allows police forces to record online instances of crimes such <br>as stalking and harassment. These offences could have taken place solely online, or had an online element to them.<br><br>The ‘online flag’ was introduced at the beginning of 2014/15, and data have been provided by a small number of forces on a voluntary basis since then. These data are currently still in development. The online flag will become <br>mandatory for all police forces from the start of 2015/16, allowing statistics to be published once the data have been quality assured.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 221994 question first answered 02/02/2015 14:12:50 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

223664

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2015
	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, how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there were for human trafficking offences in 2014; and how many such cases involved a victim who was a child.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
	tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
	uin	225481
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>Prosecution and conviction data for human trafficking offences for 2014 has not yet been published. The data is expected to be published in May 2015. The data for 2013 is in the table below.The Crown Prosecution Service does not separately record the number of cases where the victim was a child.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/03/2015 14:20:38 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name 285481 Diana Johnson table of 2013 data.doc title Table 225481
	tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

225666

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's advertising and communications expenditure was in each month since September 2014; and what that expenditure is forecast to be in March 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	226602
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>My Department is responsible for cross-Government communication as set out in <br>the Annual Government Communication Plan. As part of our long-term economic <br>plan we have substantially reformed Government communications since the 2010 <br>General Election, abolishing the Central Office of Information and ensuring <br>that Government communications activity is better coordinated and more <br>effective. Thanks to these reforms we have halved the cost to taxpayers of <br>government communications since the 2010 General Election. The NAO has <br>confirmed that Government made savings of £378 million in each of the last two <br>financial years on proactive paid-for communications, compared to a 2009-10 <br>baseline. This is based on proactive (paid-for) communications spend of £589 million<br>in 2009/10, £216million in 2012/13 and £210m in 2013/14.<br><br>My department regularly publishes data on: www.data.gov.uk showing how public <br>money has been spent and how government is performing against its objectives <br>and goals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 17/03/2015 15:08:24 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

175775

	registered interest
	date	26/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Employment Agencies
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many recruitment and employment agencies her Department has used to source staff in each year since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	222088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>The Home Department does not centrally hold details of recruitment and employment agencies who are engaged to source staff so this information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p /> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 03/02/2015 14:41:03 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

179634

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Training
	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 provides to its managers on how many days training should be made available to staff.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	224429
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>Managers in the Home Department have received the following guidance on the number of days learning and development, including formal training, that should be provided to staff :&quot;Every civil servant should be spending at least 5 days a year on their own learning and development targeting those skills they most need for their current and future roles.&quot;<br><br>We do not collect data centrally on all aspects of learning and development that are used to develop staff skills nor on training budgets so this could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. <br><br>Expenditure in the Home Department on training for the past 3 financial years was:<br><br>2011/12: £14,860,807 <br>2012/13: £16,986,868<br>2013/14: £24,715,417<br><br>The increase in training expenditure figures in the last two years was a result of developing skills across the Home Office and in particular training new officers recruited in UK Visas and Immigration, Immigration Enforcement, Her Majesty’sPassport Office and Border Force.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 224478 224497 224516 question first answered 25/02/2015 17:58:02 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179644

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average number of days training of full-time equivalent staff employed in her Department was in each of the last three financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	224478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>Managers in the Home Department have received the following guidance on the number of days learning and development, including formal training, that should be provided to staff :&quot;Every civil servant should be spending at least 5 days a year on their own learning and development targeting those skills they most need for their current and future roles.&quot;<br><br>We do not collect data centrally on all aspects of learning and development that are used to develop staff skills nor on training budgets so this could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. <br><br>Expenditure in the Home Department on training for the past 3 financial years was:<br><br>2011/12: £14,860,807 <br>2012/13: £16,986,868<br>2013/14: £24,715,417<br><br>The increase in training expenditure figures in the last two years was a result of developing skills across the Home Office and in particular training new officers recruited in UK Visas and Immigration, Immigration Enforcement, Her Majesty’sPassport Office and Border Force.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 224429 224497 224516 question first answered 25/02/2015 17:58:02 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179645

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's training budget was in each of the last three financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	224497
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>Managers in the Home Department have received the following guidance on the number of days learning and development, including formal training, that should be provided to staff :&quot;Every civil servant should be spending at least 5 days a year on their own learning and development targeting those skills they most need for their current and future roles.&quot;<br><br>We do not collect data centrally on all aspects of learning and development that are used to develop staff skills nor on training budgets so this could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. <br><br>Expenditure in the Home Department on training for the past 3 financial years was:<br><br>2011/12: £14,860,807 <br>2012/13: £16,986,868<br>2013/14: £24,715,417<br><br>The increase in training expenditure figures in the last two years was a result of developing skills across the Home Office and in particular training new officers recruited in UK Visas and Immigration, Immigration Enforcement, Her Majesty’sPassport Office and Border Force.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 224429 224478 224516 question first answered 25/02/2015 17:58:02 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

179646

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Training
	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 spent on training in each of the last three financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	224516
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>Managers in the Home Department have received the following guidance on the number of days learning and development, including formal training, that should be provided to staff :&quot;Every civil servant should be spending at least 5 days a year on their own learning and development targeting those skills they most need for their current and future roles.&quot;<br><br>We do not collect data centrally on all aspects of learning and development that are used to develop staff skills nor on training budgets so this could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. <br><br>Expenditure in the Home Department on training for the past 3 financial years was:<br><br>2011/12: £14,860,807 <br>2012/13: £16,986,868<br>2013/14: £24,715,417<br><br>The increase in training expenditure figures in the last two years was a result of developing skills across the Home Office and in particular training new officers recruited in UK Visas and Immigration, Immigration Enforcement, Her Majesty’sPassport Office and Border Force.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 224429 224478 224497 question first answered 25/02/2015 17:58:02 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

176505

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's advertising budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	222575
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The table below outlines the allocated advertising budget for the Department over the past five financial years. It is the Government's priority to reduce spending in these areas and this budget has been reduced by 71% since May 2010.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£17,196,000</p></td><td><p>£8,141,000</p></td><td><p>£9,000,000</p></td><td><p>£4,900,000</p></td><td><p>£5,013,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By comparison the advertising budget was £18,670,000 in 2008/09 and £18,500,000 in 2009/10.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/02/2015 17:09:13 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176506

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Communication
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's communications budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	222589
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The table below outlines the allocated advertising budget for the Department over the past five financial years. It is the Government's priority to reduce spending in these areas and spend on communications has been reduced by 40% since May 2010.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£28,327,000</p></td><td><p>£17,738,000</p></td><td><p>£18,763,890</p></td><td><p>£13,976,000</p></td><td><p>£18,461,800</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>By comparison the communications budget was £30,927,000 in 2008/09 and £30,324,000 in 2009/10.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/02/2015 17:04:50 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176132

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Money Laundering
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which trustees or directors of organisations subject to suspicious activity reports who have subsequently become trustees or directors of other organisations have received public funds in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
	uin	222224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>The requirement to submit suspicious activity reports related to money laundering is set out in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA). The information in the suspicious activity reports provided to the NCA is used for intelligence <br>or investigative purposes. The contents of the reports are not disclosed, in order to prevent prejudicing investigations which may be taking place.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/02/2015 14:11:14 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

176796

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many British nationals were subject to (a) regulatory fines, (b) civil penalties or (c) criminal penalties because of their involvement with the proceeds of crime arising from international crude oil theft in each year for which records are available.
	tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
	uin	222653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this information. Involvement with the proceeds of crime arising from crude oil theft is not a separately identifiable offence. Furthermore, The Home Office only collects statistics on crimes committed in <br>England and Wales, and not on international crime.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 03/02/2015 14:40:04 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

175484

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
	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 2015 to Question 219531, what recommendations have been made by the policy review undertaken by the Asset Recovery Task Force.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
	uin	221837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The Asset Recovery Task Force policy review identified legislative, policy and operational changes that could be made to improve the UK’s response to overseas grand corruption cases following regime change. The review’s recommendations <br>included actions that could help prevent the proceeds of corruption coming to the UK in the first place, as well as what could be done to identify, freeze and recover stolen assets. It has been implemented through measures in the <br>Serious Crime Bill (including the lowering of the legal test for restraint orders and extending investigative powers so that they may be used after a confiscation order has been made) and the UK Anti-Corruption Plan (including <br>the commitment to review the Suspicious Activity Report regime).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 29/01/2015 16:39:11 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

173220

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Social Media: Arrests
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests were made last year as a result of alleged crimes committed using social media.
	tabling member constituency	Pendle
	tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
	uin	220431
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collect information to this level of detail. The Home Office collects arrest data at offence group level. It does not collect details on specific circumstances of an arrest, such as whether crimes were committed using social media.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/01/2015 17:44:59 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

175284

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	European Arrest Warrants
	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) requests, (b) arrests and (c) surrenders have been made relating to people wanted from the UK or wanted by the UK for human trafficking offences through the European Arrest Warrant since that mechanism was introduced.
	tabling member constituency	Perth and North Perthshire
	tabling member printed	Pete Wishart
	uin	221757
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>For the financial years 2009-10 to 2013-14, the following table sets out the numbers of a) requests, b) arrests and c) surrenders relating to people in England , Wales and Northern Ireland wanted by other EU Member States for human <br>trafficking and immigration and human trafficking offences, under a European Arrest Warrant.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Requests to England, Wales and Northern Ireland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human Trafficking</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration &amp; Human Trafficking</p></td><td><p>117</p></td><td><p>196</p></td><td><p>414</p></td><td><p>344</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>1,215</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Arrests in England, Wales and Northern Ireland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human Trafficking</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration &amp; Human Trafficking</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>143</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Surrenders from England, Wales and Northern Ireland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration &amp; Human Trafficking</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>115</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br>Since 2012, in addition to the figures above, ten requests were made to Scotland, three people were arrested and three people were surrendered from Scotland to other EU Member States for human trafficking offences under a <br>European Arrest Warrant. <br><br>For the financial years 2009-10 to 2013-14, the following table sets out the numbers of a) requests, b) arrests and c) surrenders relating to people who are wanted in England, Wales and Northern Ireland from other EU Member States for <br>human trafficking and immigration and human trafficking offences, under a European Arrest Warrant.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Requests to other EU Member States</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human Trafficking</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration &amp; Human Trafficking</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Arrests in other EU Member States</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human Trafficking</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration &amp; Human Trafficking</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Surrenders to England Wales and Northern Ireland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Human Trafficking</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Immigration &amp; Human Trafficking</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since 2012, in addition to the figures above, no people were arrested or surrendered to Scotland from other EU Member States for human trafficking offences under a European Arrest Warrant. <br><br>Prior to the financial year 2013-14, figures for human trafficking offences were not collected separately from immigration offences for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 27/01/2015 15:00:23 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1440 label Biography information for Pete Wishart

178183

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: North West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current average waiting time is for her Department to process applications for people who are seeking British nationality.
	tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Hancock
	uin	223523
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The average processing time for applications for British citizenship is 70 days from receipt of application to decision.<br><br>These figures are for the year 1 October 2013 – 30 September 2014, in line with the latest published data.<br><br>This compares with a peak average waiting time of 100 days from 1 October 2008 – 30 September 2009.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 15:58:50 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	59 label Biography information for Mr Mike Hancock