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227910

	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	ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which news applications staff in her Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	227828
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>Home Office information technology policy precludes the downloading of unauthorised applications to Home Office-issued equipment and in most cases, such equipment is modified to prevent the downloading of any applications at all. A limited number of approved communications staff (such as press office) have access to social media or news sites via downloaded applications on mobile devices and while this is subject to standard rules governing appropriate use of Home Office technology, there are no restrictions on which news sites may be accessed in this manner.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 19/03/2015 15:54:51 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

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

228323

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Forced Labour Convention
	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 14 January 2015 to Question 220089, what assessment her Department has made of the UK's compliance with the provisions of the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	228224
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The 2014 Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention includes six specific articles with action for governments. We are confident that the UK already meets the requirements of these six articles in existing laws and regulations, which will be further strengthened through the provisions in the Modern Slavery Bill. UK compliance was thoroughly assessed as part of the negotiations of the Protocol in May and June 2014, at which the UK was represented.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/03/2015 16:30:14 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

228325

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Forced Labour Convention
	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 14 January 2015 to Question 220089, whether the UK plans to ratify the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention before the Dissolution of Parliament.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	228289
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government supports the Protocol to the 2014 Forced Labour Convention and intends to ratify it. A Written Ministerial Statement indicating the Government’s intention to ratify the Protocol was laid before Parliament on 7 January 2015. The Protocol was subsequently laid before Parliament on 6 February and must remain for 21 sitting days to allow scrutiny by both Houses.</p><p>On 24 March, at the end of the 21 sitting days, if neither House has indicated an objection to ratification of the Protocol, the next stage of the process may begin. There will not be sufficient time to complete this process prior to the dissolution of Parliament. However there is no deadline for ratifying the Protocol.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/03/2015 16:23:40 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

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

229185

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2015
	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, what assessment her Department has made of the (a) accessibility of legal aid for victims of human trafficking and (b) number of matter starts available for victims to pursue compensation and immigration claims.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	228674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>Victims of human trafficking can apply for civil legal aid for advice and representation in relation to immigration matters and for damages and employment claims arising from their trafficking exploitation. Through provisions in the Modern Slavery Bill, victims of slavery, servitude and forced or compulsory labour will also be eligible for civil legal aid in the same situations.<br><br>The recent review of the National Referral Mechanism recommended that legal aid should be available from the point of referral. The Government has committed to piloting a range of changes to the National Referral Mechanism in light of recommendations made by the review, which will include the provision of legal aid at this earlier point.<br><br>'Matter starts' are the mechanism used by the Legal Aid Agency to monitor the amount of work conducted by its legal aid providers and do not limit legal aid availability for applicants. Where they are eligible, victims of human trafficking will always be able to access legal aid.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 26/03/2015 10:16:56 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

229187

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which reports commissioned by her Department from external bodies between 1 September 2010 and 31 December 2014 have not yet been published; when each such report was commissioned; what the nature of the research so commissioned was; from which individual or body each such report was commissioned; what the value was of each report so commissioned; on what date each such report was received by her Department; for what reasons the research has not yet been published; and when she plans to publish each such report.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Mr David Blunkett
	uin	228654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>The available centrally held information is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 26/03/2015 10:17:50 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ228654_Table 1.xlsx title Reports commissioned by the Home Department
	tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

346850

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: LGBT+ People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what needs-specific support her Department provides for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender victims of domestic abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	2
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government is determined to tackle the appalling crime of domestic violence and abuse. Funding and service support is available to all victims including those from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. In 2015/16, the Home Office is providing £120,000 in 2015/16 to the charity Broken Rainbow to run a dedicated national helpline specifically for the LGBT community. In addition, in 2015/16 the Home Office is providing £4.3 million to fund specialist services with direct support offered by 144 Independent Domestic Violence Advisers which is available to everybody who is a victim of domestic violence and abuse, irrespective of their age, race, sexuality or gender.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/06/2015 14:05:42 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

347257

	registered interest
	date	28/05/2015
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress has been made by investigations into cases of historical child abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	326
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>No case of child abuse is ‘historical’ for victims and survivors. They must live with the consequences of their abuse each and every day of their lives. The Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has been set up to determine whether state and non-state institutions take, and have taken, seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse within England and Wales. Any specific allegation to the Inquiry will, where necessary, be referred to law enforcement bodies for consideration for criminal investigation. The Home Office has funded Operation Hydrant, which is the national policing response to the oversight and co-ordination of all child abuse investigations concerning persons of public prominence or those offences which have taken place in institutional settings. The day-to-day investigation into cases of child sexual abuse, including abuse that has taken place in the past, is an operational matter for the police and law enforcement.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/06/2015 14:10:45 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

346940

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	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: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the £7 million Child Abuse Support Victims Fund dispersed in May 2015 has been allocated to non-statutory organisations which specifically provide long-term counselling support to adults who were sexually abused as children.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	146
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government announced an extra £7m funding to help victims of sexual violence in December 2014. £2.15m was allocated to the 84 existing Female Rape Support Centres and two funds were established to allocate the remainder: a £2m fund to non-statutory organisations reporting an increase in demand as a direct result of the announcement of the Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry (Fund 1), and a £2.85m fund for non-statutory organisations providing support across England and Wales to victims of sexual abuse to help meet the increased demand on those services (Fund 2). Organisations that applied to Fund 2 were asked whether they supported adults who were sexually abused as children. £2.33m of the £2.85m has been allocated to organisations that showed they provide support to adults who were sexually abused as children; this includes over £1.6m to organisations offering counselling services. These two funds are being administered by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk, supported by the Home Office. Aside from the attendance of the Chief Constable for Norfolk at the Oversight Board, no police time has been spent on assessment or allocation. We do not centrally hold information on the number of non-statutory organisations providing counselling without pre-determined time limits to adults who were sexually abused as children.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 147 148 question first answered 04/06/2015 15:21:40 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

346941

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	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: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much police time was spent assessing child abuse victims funding applications and dispersing these to the chosen non-statutory organisations in the last year.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	147
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government announced an extra £7m funding to help victims of sexual violence in December 2014. £2.15m was allocated to the 84 existing Female Rape Support Centres and two funds were established to allocate the remainder: a £2m fund to non-statutory organisations reporting an increase in demand as a direct result of the announcement of the Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry (Fund 1), and a £2.85m fund for non-statutory organisations providing support across England and Wales to victims of sexual abuse to help meet the increased demand on those services (Fund 2). Organisations that applied to Fund 2 were asked whether they supported adults who were sexually abused as children. £2.33m of the £2.85m has been allocated to organisations that showed they provide support to adults who were sexually abused as children; this includes over £1.6m to organisations offering counselling services. These two funds are being administered by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk, supported by the Home Office. Aside from the attendance of the Chief Constable for Norfolk at the Oversight Board, no police time has been spent on assessment or allocation. We do not centrally hold information on the number of non-statutory organisations providing counselling without pre-determined time limits to adults who were sexually abused as children.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 146 148 question first answered 04/06/2015 15:21:41 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

346942

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	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: Victim Support Schemes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-statutory organisations providing counselling without pre-determined time-limits to adults who were sexually abused as children were funded by her Department in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government announced an extra £7m funding to help victims of sexual violence in December 2014. £2.15m was allocated to the 84 existing Female Rape Support Centres and two funds were established to allocate the remainder: a £2m fund to non-statutory organisations reporting an increase in demand as a direct result of the announcement of the Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry (Fund 1), and a £2.85m fund for non-statutory organisations providing support across England and Wales to victims of sexual abuse to help meet the increased demand on those services (Fund 2). Organisations that applied to Fund 2 were asked whether they supported adults who were sexually abused as children. £2.33m of the £2.85m has been allocated to organisations that showed they provide support to adults who were sexually abused as children; this includes over £1.6m to organisations offering counselling services. These two funds are being administered by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk, supported by the Home Office. Aside from the attendance of the Chief Constable for Norfolk at the Oversight Board, no police time has been spent on assessment or allocation. We do not centrally hold information on the number of non-statutory organisations providing counselling without pre-determined time limits to adults who were sexually abused as children.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 146 147 question first answered 04/06/2015 15:21:40 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

347429

	registered interest
	date	29/05/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Radicalism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to include provisions in the planned legislative proposals on tackling extremism and terrorism to ensure that statements which are based on fact or evidence will not be classed as extremist.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
	uin	481
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The legislation will clearly set out the circumstances in which the new counter-extremism powers may be used, including any safeguards that are appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 04/06/2015 15:34:47 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

348000

	registered interest
	date	02/06/2015
	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, what estimate she has made of the number of people that have been trafficked to the UK to have their organs harvested in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	817
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p>Trafficking to or within the UK for organ harvesting is a hidden crime and so its prevalence can only be roughly estimated. The National Crime Agency produces annual strategic assessments of the nature and scale of human trafficking in the UK. Whilst the assessment for 2014 has yet to be produced, the previous assessments recorded two reported cases of trafficking for organ harvesting in 2013, one reported case in 2012 and two reported cases in 2011. There was no strategic assessment in 2010, but there were no cases of trafficking for organ harvesting referred to the National Referral Mechanism in that year.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/06/2015 14:16:43 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

347428

	registered interest
	date	29/05/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Radicalism
	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 planned legislative proposals on tackling extremism and terrorism, what the Government's definition is of extremism.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
	uin	480
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s definition of extremism, published in the Extremism Task Force report, Tackling Extremism in the UK (2013), is vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. It includes calls for the death of members of our armed forces, whether in this country or overseas.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/06/2015 15:18:26 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

348753

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons the UK has not ratified the 2011 Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combatting violence against women and domestic violence.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	1296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2015 answer text <p>The UK already complies with the vast majority of the articles to the convention including the criminalisation of forced marriage which was one of the pre-requisites of ratification as required by Article 37. Primary legislation will be needed to comply with the remaining extra-territorial jurisdiction provisions in Article 44 of the Convention before it can be ratified. The UK Government is liaising with the devolved administrations about ratification, including any further legislative steps that may be necessary.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/06/2015 15:18:42 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 3586 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

348873

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2015
	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 recent assessment she has made of the appropriateness of the length of time taken to process Disclosure and Barring Service checks; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	1466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) receives around 4 million disclosure applications a year and provides the Home Office with monthly updates on the length of time taken to process disclosure checks. Latest figures relating to May 2015 show that 94.6% of disclosure applications were processed within 56 days against a DBS service standard to issue 95% of all disclosures within this time. Most disclosure applications are processed in a shorter timescale and, in May 2015, 87.3% of applications were processed within 21 days. The average time taken to process applications nationally in May 2015 was 14.2 days and in the West Midlands 24.7 days.</p><p>A key aspect of DBS administration is to ensure that disclosure checks are both accurate and completed within service standard timescales. In the small proportion of cases where checks have not been completed within these timescales, the DBS is expected to take the necessary steps to progress the case including, as appropriate, working with the police and other parties involved in the checking process.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 1467 question first answered 11/06/2015 13:29:11 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

348874

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2015
	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 her Department has made of the average length of time taken to process Disclosure and Barring Service checks (a) in the West Midlands and (b) nationally.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	1467
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) receives around 4 million disclosure applications a year and provides the Home Office with monthly updates on the length of time taken to process disclosure checks. Latest figures relating to May 2015 show that 94.6% of disclosure applications were processed within 56 days against a DBS service standard to issue 95% of all disclosures within this time. Most disclosure applications are processed in a shorter timescale and, in May 2015, 87.3% of applications were processed within 21 days. The average time taken to process applications nationally in May 2015 was 14.2 days and in the West Midlands 24.7 days.</p><p>A key aspect of DBS administration is to ensure that disclosure checks are both accurate and completed within service standard timescales. In the small proportion of cases where checks have not been completed within these timescales, the DBS is expected to take the necessary steps to progress the case including, as appropriate, working with the police and other parties involved in the checking process.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 1466 question first answered 11/06/2015 13:29:11 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

348888

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2015
	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, what steps she is taking to eliminate people trafficking into the UK; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
	tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
	uin	1478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>This Government is determined to tackle the scourge of human trafficking and modern slavery. We will do this by supporting the victims and relentlessly pursuing the perpetrators of theses horrendous crimes.</p><p>We are now focused on implementing the provisions of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the wider Modern Slavery Strategy, which was published in November last year. These include measures to bring into effect modern slavery offences with potential life sentences; a statutory defence for victims; an independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner; improving transparency in supply chains; and working with international partners to disrupt the threat across the world.</p><p>This work will make a real difference in our fight against modern slavery and will help to protect many more vulnerable people from lives of servitude.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 11/06/2015 13:14:31 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

349177

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner
	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 publish the terms of the independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner's appointment.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	1668
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2015 answer text <p>Information about the terms of the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner's appointment will be published the same time as the appointment.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/06/2015 10:49:51 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

349715

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Racial Violence
	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 has taken to prevent racist attacks on people with young families.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	1983
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government takes all forms of hate crime very seriously and deplores all racially motivated attacks. Crime that is motivated by hostility or hatred towards the victim is particularly corrosive and can have devastating consequences for victims and their families.</p><p>In 2012, we published a hate crime action plan and a total of 23 actions were dedicated to preventing hate crime. This includes work to tackle racist material on the internet, development of targeted materials to promote community cohesion and reduce racist attacks, and supporting working groups on anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hatred to tackle negative attitudes towards those groups within communities.</p><p>Our comprehensive new Counter-Extremism strategy, which will set out a range of measures to identify and defeat extremism in all of its forms, including racial hate crime, will be published in the summer.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 16/06/2015 15:57:12 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

350007

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
	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 intends to ratify the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.
	tabling member constituency	Ashfield
	tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
	uin	2278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2015 answer text <p>The UK already complies with the vast majority of the articles to the convention including the criminalisation of forced marriage which was one of the pre-requisites of ratification as required by Article 37. Primary legislation will be needed to comply with the remaining extra-territorial jurisdiction provisions in Article 44 of the Convention before it can be ratified. The UK Government is liaising with the devolved administrations about ratification, including any further legislative steps necessary.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 16/06/2015 15:55:28 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

349035

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Radicalism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether under proposed legislation on tackling extremism and terrorism, if a person is found guilty of extremism for expressing certain views, all other people who have expressed those views will be prosecuted.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
	uin	1486
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2015 answer text <p>We are not intending to create a new criminal offence of extremism in the Bill so the issue of being found guilty will not arise. The Counter-Extremism Bill will introduce new civil powers to tackle extremism. These include Banning Orders to outlaw extremist groups, Extremism Disruption Orders to restrict the harmful activities of individual extremists and Closure Orders to close down premises used to promote extremism.</p><p>The proposed powers will be applied on a case by case basis taking into account the specific circumstances and actions involved. The legislation will be subject to safeguards to ensure our new powers are used where they are needed to stop extremism and protect the public, including judicial oversight.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 17/06/2015 11:10:16 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

349252

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Cost Effectiveness
	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 HM Treasury press release, Chancellor announces £4.5 billion of measures to bring down debt, published on 4 June 2015, what efficiency savings her Department plans to make to achieve reductions of £30 million in its budget.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Ladywood
	tabling member printed	Shabana Mahmood
	uin	1627
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2015 answer text <p>The Home Office has already saved the taxpayer £1.5 billion, 23% in real-terms, as part of the 2010 Spending Review, with additional savings made as part of subsequent Autumn Statement and Budget measures.</p><p>This has been achieved whilst reducing crime by more than a quarter, clamping down on sham marriages, removing more than 24,000 foreign criminals, training more than 160,000 frontline workers in our work to counter radicalisation, excluding more preachers of hate than any other government, and taking down on average 1,000 items of online terrorist-related material per week.</p><p>For 2015-16 the Home Office has developed plans to reduce spend by a further £0.5 billion, 6.1% in real terms. The additional £30 million will be achieved as part of the department’s measures to drive further productivity improvements, value from commercial suppliers and efficiency in the running costs of the department. The £30 million of in-year savings will not come from the core police grant, nor from the department’s counter-terrorism funding for the police.</p><p>The Government is getting on with the job of repairing the public finances, and to run a surplus in this Parliament. This will create the best conditions for sustainable growth.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 19/06/2015 13:12:53 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3914 label Biography information for Shabana Mahmood

381240

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2015
	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 her policy is on introducing a single tier Disclosure and Barring Service enhanced disclosure certificate.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
	uin	2473
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2015 answer text <p>Enhanced criminal record certificates are available for a range of posts and activities involving particular sensitivity or trust, including working closely with children or vulnerable adults. Applications are based on the relevant workforce, which ensures that any local police information relevant to that category can be considered for disclosure. There are no plans to move away from this position.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 19/06/2015 13:12:09 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

381920

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
	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 prevent female genital mutilation in communities affected by that practice.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
	uin	2923
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>Female genital mutilation (FGM) is child abuse. We will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong physical and psychological suffering to women and girls.</p><p>The Home Office has provided £100,000 through the FGM Community Engagement Initiative. The fund was open to organisations across all parts of the UK to bid for up to £10,000 to carry out community work to raise awareness of FGM amongst women already affected by FGM, young at-risk girls, as well as men in the community.</p><p>The organisations that were funded were:</p><p>Africa Advocacy Foundation;</p><p>All FM;</p><p>BAWSO (Black Association of Women Step Out);</p><p>Birmingham and Solihull Women’s Aid;</p><p>FORWARD (Foundation for Women’s Health Research and Development);</p><p>Integrate Bristol;</p><p>Katherine Low Settlement;</p><p>Manchester BME Network;</p><p>Manor Garden Welfare Trust;</p><p>NESTAC (New Step for African Community);</p><p>Safe Hands for Mothers;</p><p>and Springfield Community Flat</p><p>The Government’s specialist Home Office-led FGM Unit launched on 5 December 2014. The Unit provides outreach support to local areas and communities in England and Wales, coordinates cross-Government activity, acts as a hub for effective practice and works with the police, voluntary and community sector, survivors and professionals to develop policies and practices to end FGM.</p><p>Additionally, through the Serious Crime Act 2015, we are introducing a new mandatory reporting duty which requires known cases of FGM to be reported to the police.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 2924 question first answered 22/06/2015 15:02:49 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

381919

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what programmes and projects her Department funds that carry out community engagement work to raise awareness of female genital mutilation.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
	uin	2924
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>Female genital mutilation (FGM) is child abuse. We will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong physical and psychological suffering to women and girls.</p><p>The Home Office has provided £100,000 through the FGM Community Engagement Initiative. The fund was open to organisations across all parts of the UK to bid for up to £10,000 to carry out community work to raise awareness of FGM amongst women already affected by FGM, young at-risk girls, as well as men in the community.</p><p>The organisations that were funded were:</p><p>Africa Advocacy Foundation;</p><p>All FM;</p><p>BAWSO (Black Association of Women Step Out);</p><p>Birmingham and Solihull Women’s Aid;</p><p>FORWARD (Foundation for Women’s Health Research and Development);</p><p>Integrate Bristol;</p><p>Katherine Low Settlement;</p><p>Manchester BME Network;</p><p>Manor Garden Welfare Trust;</p><p>NESTAC (New Step for African Community);</p><p>Safe Hands for Mothers;</p><p>and Springfield Community Flat</p><p>The Government’s specialist Home Office-led FGM Unit launched on 5 December 2014. The Unit provides outreach support to local areas and communities in England and Wales, coordinates cross-Government activity, acts as a hub for effective practice and works with the police, voluntary and community sector, survivors and professionals to develop policies and practices to end FGM.</p><p>Additionally, through the Serious Crime Act 2015, we are introducing a new mandatory reporting duty which requires known cases of FGM to be reported to the police.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 2923 question first answered 22/06/2015 15:02:49 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

381531

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police and Crime Commissioners: Norfolk
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the process and criteria was for the appointment of the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Norfolk to adjudicate on the disbursement of the Child Abuse Inquiry Support Fund and The Child and Adult Victims of Sexual Abuse Support Fund; and what qualifications the PCC for Norfolk has to carry out that task.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	2789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>Final decisions on funding were confirmed by an Oversight Group jointly chaired by the Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner and the Home Office. Allocating the funding in this way ensured that all victims of child sexual abuse receive the support they need, when they need it. The process recognises both the urgency of supporting victims now, and the need to ensure that a strategic sustainable national response is established. The Chief Constable for Norfolk is the National Policing Lead for Child Protection and Abuse Investigation and the Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner is committed to supporting victims of sexual abuse as evidenced through its Police and Crime Plan. It is therefore entirely appropriate to draw on this expertise and commitment in the effective allocation of funding to support survivors of child sexual abuse.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 2790 question first answered 22/06/2015 14:50:19 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

381530

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police and Crime Commissioners: Norfolk
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason she has outsourced responsibility for the adjudication of bids for the Child Abuse Inquiry Support Fund and The Child and Adult Victims of Sexual Abuse Support Fund to the Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	2790
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>Final decisions on funding were confirmed by an Oversight Group jointly chaired by the Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner and the Home Office. Allocating the funding in this way ensured that all victims of child sexual abuse receive the support they need, when they need it. The process recognises both the urgency of supporting victims now, and the need to ensure that a strategic sustainable national response is established. The Chief Constable for Norfolk is the National Policing Lead for Child Protection and Abuse Investigation and the Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner is committed to supporting victims of sexual abuse as evidenced through its Police and Crime Plan. It is therefore entirely appropriate to draw on this expertise and commitment in the effective allocation of funding to support survivors of child sexual abuse.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 2789 question first answered 22/06/2015 14:50:19 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

349795

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Welsh Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what resources her Department has allocated to the Wales Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit in 2014-15; and what changes to those resources are expected in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	1823
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The Welsh Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit does receive funding from the Counter Terrorism Policing Grant. The Home Office does not publically provide a breakdown of the Counter Terrorism Policing Grant by region or capability for security reasons.</p><p>In the Spending Round 2013, specific funding for counter-terrorism was protected to 2015-16. A Written Ministerial Statement (WMS) in December 2013 confirmed that the police CT resource budget would be at least £564 million for 2014-15. A WMS in December 2014 confirmed at least the same amount would be available for 2015-16. In addition, HM Treasury has increased funding in 2015-16 for counter terrorism policing by a further £14.9 million to strengthen our capabilities in response to the increased threat from terrorism.</p><p>Whilst budgets have been set for 2015-16, budgets for future years will be determined after the upcoming Spending Review.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/06/2015 14:52:46 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

381538

	registered interest
	date	16/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Radicalism
	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 address the rise in far-right organisations in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	2671
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>The Government takes very seriously the need to respond to the threat from all types of extremism. Our new counter-extremism strategy will create a new partnership to protect people from extremism in all its forms: non-violent and violent, neo-Nazi and Islamist. The strategy will also introduce a comprehensive range of additional measures including additional legislation to tackle extremist individuals, groups and to close premises used for extremist activity.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/06/2015 15:37:07 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

383913

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2015
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2015 to Question 1466, what additional resources her Department plans to make available to ensure that all Disclosure and Barring Service checks are completed on time nationally in the next 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	3256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) operates on a full cost-recovery basis and is expected to make neither a surplus nor a loss. The DBS provides funding to local police forces to process disclosure applications that require local police intelligence checks. In the small proportion of cases where checks are not completed within normal performance standards, the DBS is taking steps to improve performance, working with the police and other parties.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 23/06/2015 15:20:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

383911

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which buildings occupied by her Department are owned or part-owned privately; what the total value is of the rent paid to private landlords for the use of such buildings for official duties; and to whom such rent is paid.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	3105
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2015 answer text <p>A schedule of the buildings occupied by the Department that are owned or part-owned privately will be placed in the House Library. The total rent payable is £45.9 million per annum. The figure given on 21 January 2014, Official Report, column 99W omitted rents of two properties and should have been £46.8 million.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/06/2015 14:30:30 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

384400

	registered interest
	date	19/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Living Wage
	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) direct employees, (b) agency staff and (c) outsourced staff working for her Department and its subsidiary agencies are paid less than the living wage.
	tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
	tabling member printed	Frank Field
	uin	3317
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2015 answer text <p>All permanent members of staff directly employed by the Home Office are paid the Living Wage or above.</p><p>All temporary agency staff are employed in accordance with the Agency Workers Regulations which ensures parity with directly employed staff after 12 weeks.</p><p>The Home Office only keeps information on the legal minimum standards of pay of staff employed by organisations contracted to provide services within the Home Office, not the living wage.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/06/2015 14:30:14 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 7796 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

384715

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Migrants: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much compensation her Department paid following the unlawful detention of individuals under immigration powers in the financial year 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Mr David Burrowes
	uin	3519
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>I am unable to disclose financial data for 2014/15 until the Home Office’s 2014/15 Annual Report and Accounts are audited and published.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 25/06/2015 15:38:10 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1518 label Biography information for Mr David Burrowes

383910

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police and Crime Commissioners: Norfolk
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms there are to appeal against decisions made by the Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk on the Child Abuse Inquiry Support Fund and the Child and Adult Victims of Sexual Abuse Support Fund.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	3087
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2015 answer text <p>The Child Abuse Inquiry Support Fund and the Child and Adult Victims of Sexual Abuse Support Fund were established to ensure that organisations supporting survivors, and those seeing an increase in demand for their services, have the resources they need to do their vital work. The administration of the funds, and final decisions on allocation, have been led by the Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk, with the close support of the Home Office. There is no formal appeal process regarding the decisions on funding, which were confirmed by an Oversight Group which included representatives from the Home Office and was chaired by the Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 26/06/2015 13:13:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

385043

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2015
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the National Crime Agency has made an estimate of the number of women who pose a potential risk of being a child abuser or of seeking out child sex images online.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	3680
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2015 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency (NCA) has not made an estimate of the number of women who pose a potential risk of being a child abuser or of seeking out child sex images online. The NCA’s National Strategic Assessment of Serious and Organised Crime 2015, published on 23 June 2015, states that ‘…lone males known to their victims in some capacity represent the majority of CCSA (Contact Child Sexual Abuse) offenders’.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 26/06/2015 13:12:54 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

385047

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2015
	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, what regulations have been made under section 50 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 to identify and support victims of trafficking.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	3739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2015 answer text No regulations have been made under section 50 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 to identify and support victims of trafficking. The Government will consider the introduction of regulations once the proposed changes to the National Referral Mechanism have been tested. answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 26/06/2015 13:13:12 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

384722

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Directors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-executive directors of her Department who were in post before May 2015 have since left the Department's board; what the names and length of tenure of such directors were; and how many and what non-executive director appointments she has made since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	3560
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>None of the Home Office’s non-executive directors who were in post before May 2015 have since left the Department’s board. Since May 2010 the Secretary of State has made 5 non-executive appointments to the departmental board. Further details on the Department’s non-executives are given in the Annual Report &amp; Accounts. The published accounts from 2010 can be accessed via the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/120048/annual-report-201011.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/120048/annual-report-201011.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/143619/annual-report-2011-12.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/143619/annual-report-2011-12.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/210660/Annual_Report_and_Accounts_FINAL_updated_logo.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/210660/Annual_Report_and_Accounts_FINAL_updated_logo.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/321446/ARA_web_enabled_18_June.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/321446/ARA_web_enabled_18_June.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 29/06/2015 11:41:56 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

384532

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Buildings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the office space owned or leased by her Department is not in regular use; what the total (a) rental and (b) retail value is of all such office space; and if she will place in the Library a copy of her most recent departmental real estate valuation.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	3476
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>While holdings are not classified against frequency of use, 0.34% by area of the Home Office’s office estate can be assessed as not in regular use with an estimated rental value of £125,000 per annum. It is all leased with no retail element and is surplus for disposal. The office estate has been significantly rationalised since 2010 with the priority given to exiting leasehold buildings or sub-lettings to non-Home Office occupiers. The Department fully supports the Governments’ Strategic Land and Property Review which is expected to release land worth £3.5 billion by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 30/06/2015 15:57:05 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

385878

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress the Goddard Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has made in its work; how many meetings it has had; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall North
	tabling member printed	Mr David Winnick
	uin	4235
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2015 answer text <p>The Inquiry is independent of the Government and it is for the Inquiry to report on the progress of its work. Regular updates are posted on the Inquiry’s website.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 30/06/2015 15:57:23 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	316 label Biography information for Mr David Winnick

384737

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Violence
	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) women and (b) men safety officers are employed to work with victims of domestic abuse.
	tabling member constituency	Shipley
	tabling member printed	Philip Davies
	uin	3496
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government does not hold this information centrally. The previous Government ring-fenced nearly £40 million-£10m per year-of stable funding up until 2015 for specialist local domestic and sexual violence support services, rape crisis centres, the national domestic violence helplines and stalking helpline.</p><p>This funding has been extended until April 2016 and includes part-funding for 144 Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (IDVAs) to provide support, including safety advice, to both male and female victims of domestic abuse. The IDVAs are employed by local authorities and third sector organisations. The Home Office does not hold information on the gender of the IDVAs employed by these bodies.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/07/2015 15:20:22 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

385050

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Social Security Benefits
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what measures are in place to support victims of human trafficking who do not pass the Genuine Prospect of Work test.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	3740
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2015 answer text <p>The Genuine Prospect of Work test is critical to the integrity of the benefits system. Where they are exercising EU treaty rights, EEA migrants are eligible for income-based Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) for a period of 3 or 6 months, depending on whether they have a right to reside as a jobseeker or as a worker who has become involuntarily unemployed. At the end of this period all EEA nationals claiming JSA must provide compelling evidence that they have a genuine prospect of work, such as evidence of a job offer, to qualify for a short extension.</p><p>On referral to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), victims of human trafficking are eligible for support through the Government-funded victim care contract, which includes accommodation and subsistence, for at least 45 days, which is longer than required under our international obligations. In many cases victims receive support for a longer period.</p><p>EEA Nationals who are identified as victims of human trafficking through the NRM may qualify for discretionary leave where, for instance, they are helping police with an investigation or where their personal circumstances are such that it would be detrimental for the individual to leave the UK. EEA Nationals granted discretionary leave for those reasons are entitled to JSA for as long as they have that leave.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/07/2015 15:15:20 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

385805

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2015
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish the next progress report on the Government's Tackling child sexual exploitation action plan, published in November 2011; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	4233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2015 answer text <p>Responsibility for leading the Government’s work to tackle child sexual exploitation sits with the Home Office.</p><p>On 3 March 2015, the previous Government published its response to the failures in the Rotherham, which were identified by Professor Alexis Jay and Louise Casey in their reviews. The report, Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation, sets out the Government’s approach to tackling sexual exploitation. It includes a comprehensive, targeted set of actions, bringing together healthcare, social care, education, law enforcement, criminal justice agencies, and local and national government.</p><p>The Government is taking a forward theses actions and we will update Parliament and the public in due course.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/07/2015 14:23:05 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

385877

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what instructions have been issued to government departments regarding the retention of documents pertinent to the Goddard Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	4232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2015 answer text <p>Justice Goddard, the Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, wrote to the Cabinet Secretary on 23 June with document retention guidance. A copy of the letter is available on the Inquiry‘s website.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/07/2015 14:19:16 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

387150

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Forced Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps the Government is taking to tackle (a) forced marriage and (b) female genital mutilation.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
	tabling member printed	James Berry
	uin	900728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2015 answer text <p>The Girl Summit, hosted by the Prime Minister and UNICEF in July 2014, underlined the United Kingdom’s leadership in stamping out forced marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM).</p><p>We made forced marriage a criminal offence and the first conviction was secured last month. We also introduced a package of new measures to tackle FGM through the Serious Crime Act 2015 including victim anonymity, mandatory reporting of FGM, a new offence of parental liability and the introduction of FGM protection orders.</p><p>The Government recognises that legislation alone is not enough to tackle FGM and forced marriage, and our specialist FGM and Forced Marriage Units lead and deliver wide-ranging prevention and awareness-raising work.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/07/2015 16:28:06 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4489 label Biography information for James Berry

386186

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Sexual Offences: Criminal Investigation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost has been of investigations into sexual offences in (a) North Wales and (b) the UK in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	4505
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The cost of investigating specific offences is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 06/07/2015 13:55:06 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

386296

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	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: 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 staff of the National Crime Agency previously worked for the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	4697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>As at 31 May 2015, 3,323 National Crime Agency officers had previously worked for the Serious Organised Crime Agency.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 06/07/2015 13:51:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

387647

	registered interest
	date	30/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Government's policy is on ratifying the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	Natalie McGarry
	uin	900758
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ratifying the Istanbul Convention. The UK already complies with the vast majority of the articles through its comprehensive work to protect women and girls. Primary legislation is needed to comply with the extra-territorial jurisdiction provisions in Article 44 of the Convention before ratification.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 06/07/2015 18:23:53 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	4428 label Biography information for Natalie McGarry

386291

	registered interest
	date	29/06/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Directors
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) names and (b) previous occupations are of the non-executive member of the Home Office Board.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester East
	tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
	uin	4692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2015 answer text <p>Sue Langley, OBE and Alan Brown are the non-executive members of the Home Office Board.</p><p>Sue Langley is currently the CEO of the Government's UK Financial Services Investment Organisation. She is a Non Executive Director for UKAR (Northern Rock Asset Management and Bradford and Bingley) and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.</p><p>Previously she was Director of Market Development and a member of the Executive Team for Lloyd's of London, a Director of Lloyd’s Asia and Chairman of Lloyd’s Japan. Prior to this Sue was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the executive team for the Hiscox Group, holding various board positions. She joined Hiscox from PriceWaterhouseCoopers where she was a Principal Consultant and worked with a range of FTSE 100 companies. Sue is a representative on the Women's Business Council. She is a Vice President of the Insurance Institute of London.</p><p>Alan Brown is currently Chief Executive Officer at ASCO – an international oilfield support services company and a global provider of outsourced logistics services to the oil and gas industry. He is a non- executive director of Intertek, the FTSE 100-listed testing inspection and certification business.</p><p>Previously, Alan was Chief Executive Officer of Rentokil Initial plc for five years until October 2013. Alan spent 25 years at Unilever plc, in various roles in the UK and Europe and then CEO of Unilever’s operations in Taiwan and then China. Following this, Alan returned to the UK as Chief Financial Officer at Imperial Chemical Industries plc.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 07/07/2015 15:54:22 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz