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1000231

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	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, whether the workforce size of the National Crime Agency in Northern Ireland is expected to change in the next six months.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	187309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The NCA allocates resources based on priorities in Investigations. Serious and Organised Crime activity in Northern Ireland continues to feature in NCA and PSNI plans.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 12/11/2018 17:43:47 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1007162

	registered interest
	date	14/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Companies: Ownership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department has taken since the passing of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 to encourage Crown dependencies to introduce public registers of beneficial ownership.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
	uin	191478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office leads on the Government’s relationship with the Crown Dependencies on beneficial ownership. The Crown Dependencies have confirmed they will develop public registers of company beneficial ownership once it has been established as a global norm.</p><p>The Government recently launched the global beneficial ownership transparency campaign to shift the global norms on beneficial ownership transparency by 2023.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 19/11/2018 16:55:12 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1007839

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	National Economic Crime Centre
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the National Economic Crime Centre is planned to help increase the number of prosecutions for crimes such as bribery and corruption.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	191903
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) will deliver a step change in the UK's response to - and impact on economic crime, including bribery and corruption.</p><p>For the first time, the NECC brings together enforcement and justice agencies (HM Revenue and Customs, the City of London Police, the National Crime Agency, the Serious Fraud Office and the Crown Prosecution Service), other government departments, regulatory bodies and the private sector with a shared objective of driving down economic crime in the UK.</p><p>It will leverage the 'whole system' approach to enhance and coordinate our collective capabilities to target, pursue and dismantle the highest harm serious and organised criminals, including corrupt elites. Where appropriate this will include prosecutions.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 23/11/2018 12:12:03 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1010393

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Radicalism: 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 estimate he has made of the number of people investigated under Prevent for (a) Islamic extremism and (b) far-right extremism in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	192932
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>No investigations are carried out under the Prevent strand of CONTEST, the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy. Prevent exists instead to safeguard people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.</p><p>Figures for those who have been referred to Prevent and subsequently supported under the Channel programme have been published by the Home Office and are available on the <a href="http://Gov.uk" target="_blank">Gov.uk</a> website at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/individuals-referred-to-and-supported-through-the-prevent-programme-april-2016-to-march-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/individuals-referred-to-and-supported-through-the-prevent-programme-april-2016-to-march-2017</a>.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 23/11/2018 12:36:24 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1010315

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Action Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the number of people who attempted to make reports of fraud to Action Fraud over the latest 12-month period for which data is available; of those who attempted to make such reports how many were successful over that period; how much enforcement activity was undertaken as a result of those reports; by which police authorities such action was undertaken; how many telephone calls were made to Action Fraud over that period; and, of those calls, how many were answered by Action Fraud.
	tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
	uin	192788
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2018 answer text <p>Action Fraud provide online and telephone based services which enable the reporting of both fraud and cyber dependent crime.</p><p>Between October 2017 and September 2018 the service received 505,497 calls.</p><p>Of these callers, 314,668 callers spoke to a member of staff. The 190,829 callers that did not speak to a member of staff will include callers that chose to use the online service or callers who waited but did not receive an answer.</p><p>505,587 reports were made in this period, by phone or online, of which 318,629 were classified as crimes as set out in the Home Office Counting Rules. In the same period 57,181 crimes were disseminated for enforcement, by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), which analyses reports of crime made via Action Fraud. The NFIB disseminated a further 20,075 reports in this period either as intelligence or as a result of concern for the victim, this is in addition to victim based referrals made by contact centre staff direct to their local police force.</p><p>Force breakdown for outcomes are also available at this webpage <br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2017-to-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 27/11/2018 17:29:47 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

1015019

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2018
	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, what steps he is taking to monitor the effectiveness of the National Crime Agency’s Thinkuknow education programme in protecting children from online abuse.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	195489
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency’s Thinkuknow education programme endeavours to help children and young people identify the risks they may face online, build resilience against the threat of child sexual abuse and exploitation and know where to seek further support, including where appropriate, reporting directly to the NCA.</p><p>The NCA’s performance is monitored quarterly through the NCA’s internal governance structure and overseen by the NCA Board. It is then reported directly to the Home Secretary. This performance reporting includes information on ThinkuKnow.</p><p>There was an external evaluation of ThinkuKnow in 2009. CEOP took on board the recommendations, and the NCA continues to develop its education tools and resources in conjunction with young people, as well as its Ambassador network.</p><p>Following the implementation of new ThinkuKnow resources for eight to ten year olds in November 2016, new resources for four to seven year olds will be launched in January 2019. These have been designed in line with best practice agreed with the PSHE association and have been developed following consultation with over 2000 parents, carers and professionals, and 25 sessions in 12 schools.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 29/11/2018 16:27:56 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1015062

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Animal Experiments: Animal Breeding
	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 statement in the document entitled Additional Statistics on Breeding and Genotyping of Animals for Scientific Procedures, Great Britain 2017, published on 8 November 2018, that 1.81 million non–genetically altered animals were bred for but not used in regulated procedures, if the Government will bring forward plans to achieve a significant reduction in such breeding.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	195537
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office will publish a framework for the efficient breeding of animals shortly. The framework has been piloted and used for at least the last year by both the Home Office Inspectorate and scientific establishments to drive best practice for efficient breeding. The framework is <br>focussed on the efficient breeding of genetically altered animals, yet also applies to non genetically altered animals.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 30/11/2018 12:55:25 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1015464

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Financial Intelligence Unit: 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 people employed by his Department work in the UK Financial Intelligence Unit.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	196263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) is a department within the National Crime Agency (NCA). At the start of 2017/18, the UKFIU had the equivalent of 81 full-time staff. Since then, the NCA has increased its staff numbers to 109, with further appropriate increases to take place in the following years.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/12/2018 17:07:22 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1015465

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	UK Financial Intelligence Unit: Finance
	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 annual budget for the UK Financial Intelligence Unit is for the financial year 2018-19.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	196264
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The NCA does not currently have a budget figure available for 2018/19.</p><p>The budgetary figures for previous years (released under a prior PQ) are as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2015/16 £3.36m</p><p>2016/17 £3.37m</p><p>2017/18 £3.49m</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/12/2018 17:06:11 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1015466

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	International Corruption Unit: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the 2018-19 budget is for the National Crime Agency's international corruption unit.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
	tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
	uin	196265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The annual budget for the National Crime Agency's International Corruption Unit for 2018-19 is £4.32 million.</p><p>In addition to Department for International Development funding, the NCA significantly enhances the International Corruption Unit's capability by the use of NCA funded resources across all areas of business both in the UK and overseas. It is not possible to quantify this additional funding from across the NCA.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/12/2018 17:09:41 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell