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1546811

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gender Based Violence: Public Transport
	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 Transport Champions for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls strategy published in March 2022, what steps her Department are taking to implement that report's recommendation to enhance the functions of StreetSafe to allow the reporting of unsafe transport infrastructure; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	99957
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>Since the StreetSafe online tool was launched on 2 September 2021 to date (1 December 2022), 22,939 reports have been submitted. The Home Office does not hold information on how many reports have resulted in action. Addressing concerns reported via the tool is an operational matter for the Police and other agencies, such as Local Authorities.</p><p>StreetSafe has been developed in cooperation with the Home Office and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC). It is managed by the NPCC Digital Public Contact Programme, funded by the Home Office. I can confirm that enhancing StreetSafe to enable reporting of public transport/infrastructure is being considered by policing as a high priority item and timescales will be agreed with the Home Office as part of the Programme’s Grant funding process for 2023/24.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 99953 question first answered 22/12/2022 14:40:06 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546810

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gender Based 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 cost to the public purse has been of online advertising for the Enough campaign website in each month for which records are available since that website's launch.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	99956
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>‘Enough’ is the UK Government's landmark campaign to tackle violence against women and girls. It is one of the key commitments in the government’s Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy and uses a range of communications channels to help deliver a generational shift in attitudes and behaviours.</p><p> </p><p>The campaign comprises three strands:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Challenging perpetrators – to ensure bystanders know how to challenge abuse when they see it, as well as increasing the unacceptability of VAWG behaviours;</li><li>Educating young people – to establish healthy attitudes and behaviours around VAWG; and</li><li>Supporting victims – to ensure they know how and where to access support and, where appropriate, to report their experiences.</li></ol><p> </p><p>‘Enough’ was developed in close consultation with over 40 organisations and academics working on this issue, and they have kindly supported and helped to publicise the campaign. Results from the first phase of campaign activity demonstrated strong progress towards achieving the campaign’s ambitions.</p><p> </p><p>Online advertising is used on different platforms including social media, search engines, online video, video on demand and digital audio. It aims to achieve a range of objectives, including deepening understanding of different types of violence against women and girls, and demonstrating different methods for safely intervening and disrupting abuse. All online assets are designed to deliver key campaign messages and information without the need to visit the website, so it is not strictly accurate to describe it as ‘online advertising for the ‘Enough’ campaign website’.</p><p> </p><p>The website is designed to deepen people’s understanding of violence against women and girls and the different methods for challenging abuse. It also includes a comprehensive summary of different support services, guidance on how to report abuse to the police, and advice for perpetrators who want to change their behaviour after seeing the campaign.</p><p> </p><p>The total cost of digital advertising for the Enough campaign - which is intended in part, but not solely, to drive visitors to the campaign website - was £1,198,627. This activity took place over the following months:</p><p> </p><p>March 2022 - £620,804</p><p>October 2022 - £109,133</p><p>November 2022 - £468,690</p><p>December 2022 – Costs are still being consolidated</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 22/12/2022 16:08:34 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines previous answer version 40740 answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546809

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gender Based 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 unique visits have been recorded at the Enough campaign website; and how many and what proportion of these visits were (a) organic and (b) paid for in each month for which records are available since that website's launch.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	99955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>‘Enough’ is the UK Government's landmark campaign to tackle violence against women and girls. It is one of the key commitments in the government’s Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy and uses a range of communications channels to help deliver a generational shift in attitudes and behaviours.</p><p> </p><p>The campaign comprises three strands:</p><ol><li>Challenging perpetrators – to ensure bystanders know how to challenge abuse when they see it, as well as increasing the unacceptability of VAWG behaviours;</li><li>Educating young people – to establish healthy attitudes and behaviours around VAWG; and</li><li>Supporting victims – to ensure they know how and where to access support and, where appropriate, to report their experiences.</li></ol><p> </p><p>‘Enough’ was developed in close consultation with over 40 organisations and academics working on this issue. Results from the first phase of campaign activity demonstrated strong progress towards achieving the campaign’s ambitions. A significant number of campaign recognisers said they took action as a result of seeing the campaign, and the campaign is deepening people’s understanding of what constitutes abuse and how to take action safely if they witness VAWG. The campaign website has driven over 2,000 interactions with support services and assisted people to report abuse to the police.</p><p> </p><p>The campaign receives high levels of public and private sector support from police forces, local councils, VAWG sector organisations, and national businesses including Uber, Tesco, Mitchells &amp; Butlers pubs, Fitness First and the English Football League.</p><p> </p><p>From the Enough campaign website’s launch on 1 March 2022 to 30 November, analytics indicate there have been over 133,000 sessions on the site.</p><p> </p><p>The campaign has had paid marketing activity live in March 2022, October, November and December 2022. In March 2022, 65% of traffic was driven directly from paid activity and 35% was organic. During October (when paid activity was re-launched on 26th) paid activity drove 59% of traffic and organic drove 41%. In November, 67% of traffic was driven directly by paid activity and 33% was organic. December statistics are not yet consolidated.</p><p> </p><p>However, these figures only capture the individuals who have actively consented to cookies, meaning they are only indicative of the total figure. It is probable the number is significantly higher and the split between organic and paid could be different.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 22/12/2022 16:12:17 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines previous answer version 40828 answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546808

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Radicalism: Social Media
	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 research paper entitled Super- (and hyper-) posters on extremist forums, published in the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism on 30 July 2022, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of that paper's findings; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	99954
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government draws on a broad range of analysis and evidence to understand the scale and nature of the online terrorism threat and inform our approach to tackling terrorist and extremist exploitation of the internet.</p><p>The authors of the report have presented their research to Home Office officials. The findings will help us further increase our understanding of the role of extremist networks in creating permissive and radicalising online environments. Tackling terrorist ideologies and radicalising influences is a core component of HMG’s Prevent strategy.</p><p>We are committed to working with domestic and international partners, civil society organisations, tech companies, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and others to review the operation of algorithms and other online features that may drive users towards terrorist and violent extremist content.</p><p>We do not believe a Written Ministerial or Oral statement is necessary at this time.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 07/12/2022 16:49:04 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546807

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gender Based 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 reports of unsafe areas made to the StreetSafe service have (a) been made and (b) resulted in action aimed at making people feel safer in that area.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	99953
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>Since the StreetSafe online tool was launched on 2 September 2021 to date (1 December 2022), 22,939 reports have been submitted. The Home Office does not hold information on how many reports have resulted in action. Addressing concerns reported via the tool is an operational matter for the Police and other agencies, such as Local Authorities.</p><p>StreetSafe has been developed in cooperation with the Home Office and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC). It is managed by the NPCC Digital Public Contact Programme, funded by the Home Office. I can confirm that enhancing StreetSafe to enable reporting of public transport/infrastructure is being considered by policing as a high priority item and timescales will be agreed with the Home Office as part of the Programme’s Grant funding process for 2023/24.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines grouped question UIN 99957 question first answered 22/12/2022 14:40:06 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines previous answer version 40825 answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp answering member 4503
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546802

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gender Based Violence
	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 with Cabinet colleagues of trends in the level of violence against women and girls in the UK; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	99948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>Violence Against Women and Girls crimes are often hidden and can go unreported to the police.</p><p>This means that police recorded crime data do not provide a reliable measure of trends in levels of Violence Against Women and Girls. Recently, levels of reporting have gone up. This may in part be due to improvements in police recording practices, but also simply because more victims and survivors are coming forward. We want to see these increase so that more victims and survivors can be supported, and so more perpetrators are brought to justice.</p><p>The Crime Survey for England and Wales provides a more reliable measure of prevalence and covers crimes that may not have been reported to the police. In the year to March 2022,</p><ul><li>5.7% of adults aged 16 to 59 experienced domestic abuse in the year ending March 2022.</li><li>2.7% of adults aged 16 to 59 were victims of sexual assault</li><li>0.4% of adults aged 16 to 59 had experienced rape, including attempts.</li><li>4.7% of adults aged 16 to 59 had experienced stalking,</li></ul><p>There were no significant change compared with the year ending March 2020, the last period for which data were published.</p><p>For domestic abuse, rape and stalking, longer-term trends have also remained relatively stable. Whereas, sexual offences have seen fluctuations with no clear trends.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 08/12/2022 12:52:23 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546801

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Gender Based 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 the Government took to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls on 25 November.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	99947
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2022 answer text <p>Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is a government priority. VAWG is unacceptable and preventable.</p><p>To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Home Secretary visited Refuge – a charity providing specialist services to victims and survivors of domestic abuse. The Home Secretary saw, first-hand, the National Domestic Violence Helpline the Home Office funds, which offers support and advice to victims and survivors of domestic abuse.</p><p>I visited Project Foundation at the Hampshire Fire and Police Headquarters to learn more about the methods they are using to disrupt and address abusive behaviour, whilst also protecting victims and survivors from further harm.</p><p>In the week leading up to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we launched the VAWG Support and Specialist Services competition for ‘by and for’ services to ensure support is in place for victims and survivors which best serves their needs. This will award up to £8.4 million over two years.</p><p>The ‘Enough’ campaign is our national communications campaign to challenge the harmful behaviours that exist within wider society, educate young people about healthy relationships and consent, and ensure victims can recognise abuse and receive support. To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, it collaborated with influencers and commercial partners to share pledges in support of the day via social media and public relations activity.</p><p>In relation to tackling violence against women and girls internationally, the Foreign Secretary hosted a conference on ‘sexual violence in conflict’. Over 1,000 delegates from over 57 countries came together to reaffirm their commitment to preventing sexual violence in conflict. At the conference, the UK launched a new three-year Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative Strategy, announcing further funding of up to £12.5 million to deliver its objectives.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 07/12/2022 12:01:44 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

1546848

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Visas: Overseas Students
	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 28 November 2022 to Question 90860 on Visas: Overseas Students, whether her Department holds data it will not publish on the number of recipients of international student visas that are accompanied by five or six dependents for the 2022-23 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	99944
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>As part of the visa application process the Home Office records the details of the sponsored migrant a dependant is travelling with or joining.</p><p>The Home Office does not routinely publish data on the number of recipients of international student visas who are accompanied by dependants.</p><p>Information on our immigration routes is available as part of our transparency data and can be found at: Visas and Citizenship data: Q2 2022.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 08/12/2022 16:40:24 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1149859

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Convictions: Biometrics
	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 accuracy of different facial composite methods and the subsequent effect on conviction rates.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2019 answer text <p>The Home Office has made no assessment of the accuracy of different facial composite methods and any effect it has on conviction rates.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 25/10/2019 11:01:53 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

1546953

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Agency Workers
	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 staff currently working as asylum decision makers are agency staff; and what was the total cost to her Department of employing agency staff as asylum decision makers in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Aberavon
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kinnock
	uin	99874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office currently employs c.1276 Decision Makers.</p><p>Of staff currently working as asylum Decision Makers.</p><p>We do not have any agency staff working as asylum decision makers therefore there is no cost attributed for employing such staff.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 99873 question first answered 08/12/2022 17:13:21 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
	tabling member	4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock