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730972

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/07/2017
	date	21/06/2017
	date tabled	21/06/2017
	ddp created	21/06/2017 21:55:20
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	ddp modified	21/06/2017 21:55:20 26/06/2017 12:29:03
	house id	2
	identifier	HL5
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	26/06/2017 11:57:24
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what co-operation exists between customs, immigration and border authorities in Kent and the Pas de Calais, including local authorities, central government agencies, universities and voluntary organisations; and what plans they have to enhance such co-operation.
	session	2017/19 (57/1)
	session number	2
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57/1) HL5
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL5
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>UK authorities continue to work in close cooperation with the French authorities within the framework of the Joint Ministerial declarations of September 2014 and August 2015, and the Amiens summit declaration of March 2016 to secure the joint border, tackle irregular migration and address wider humanitarian issues in Northern France.</p><p><br>The UK has worked closely with the French Ministry of Interior, the regional Prefecture, the Ville de Calais, and port authorities to bolster physical security and upgrade screening technology at the juxtaposed ports in Calais, Dunkirk and at the Channel Tunnel. We have also increased joint intelligence work to tackle the trafficking and smuggling networks behind cross-Channel illegal migration, including enhanced police investigation cooperation at local and national level.</p><p><br>On 24 October 2016, the British government announced a £36 million package of support to further enhance the security of the juxtaposed controls and reduce irregular migrant pressures in the Calais area and we are currently working to establish a Joint Operation Command and Coordination Centre (JOCCC) in Northern France to better support joint law enforcement initiatives, whilst looking at what more can be done jointly to tackle migration pressures upstream in source and transit countries.</p>
	creator	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

730991

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/07/2017
	date	21/06/2017
	date tabled	21/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	ddp created	21/06/2017 21:55:33 21/06/2017 21:55:33
	ddp modified	21/06/2017 21:55:33 26/06/2017 16:12:03
	house id	2
	identifier	HL15
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	26/06/2017 15:40:45
	question text	Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 27 July 2016 (HL1382), whether, in cases of grooming gangs, they will identify the perpetrators as they are classified in law by reference to their specific ethnic and religious identity, and not as “Asians”.
	session	2017/19 (57/1)
	session number	2
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57/1) HL15
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL15
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold information on the ethnicity or religion of suspects. The police record the self-defined ethnicity of suspects using the 16+1 Self Defined Ethnicity Codes as defined by the Office for National Statistics. The ethnicity of suspects who define themselves as Asian or British Asian are broken down under the Codes into the following more detailed ethnic groups: Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or Any Other Ethnic Background.</p><p>Child sexual exploitation is not exclusive to any single culture, community, race or religion. It happens in all areas of the country and can take many forms.</p><p>The Government has made significant progress in tackling child sexual exploitation and the ‘Tackling Child Exploitation: Progress Report’ published in February 2017 sets out the progress that has been made and what further action we will be taking.</p>
	creator	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch

731014

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/07/2017
	date	21/06/2017
	date tabled	21/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	ddp created	21/06/2017 21:55:47 21/06/2017 21:55:47
	ddp modified	21/06/2017 21:55:47 05/07/2017 15:26:05
	house id	2
	identifier	HL28
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	05/07/2017 14:53:31
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many Suspicious Activity Reports are outstanding on the Elmer Database.
	session	2017/19 (57/1)
	session number	2
	tabling member printed	Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57/1) HL28
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL28
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>There are 2.11 million suspicious activity reports (SARs) on the Elmer database. These SARs remain on the system either as result of ongoing activity from a law enforcement agency, or because the SAR is within the six year period for which data can be held on Elmer, in line with the ECHR and Data Protection legislation. In 2015/16 the UKFIU received over 400,000 SARs. Each SAR may include detail of the activities of a number of persons, and it is therefore not possible to determine how many nominal subjects are within the database.</p><p> </p><p>Following the House of Lords European Union Committee Inquiry into Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism in July 2009, and the Information Commissioner’s review of the ELMER database in 2010, the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) has implemented the Retention and Deletion policy for Suspicious Activity Reports. This sets the following criteria for the removal of SARs:</p><p> </p><p>o If definitive feedback is received from law enforcement end users that states a SAR is not connected with criminality, that SAR is deleted.</p><p>o Otherwise, the retention period for SARs is six years from the date of submission. After that time they are automatically deleted from the SARs database (ELMER) and other derivative systems, on a rolling daily deletion programme.</p><p>o When a SAR is deleted, an audit record showing the SAR Unique Reference Number (URN), date of creation and date of deletion is retained for all SARs. This record contains no personal data, but is used to confirm, if necessary, that a SAR has been submitted.</p><p>o There are occasions when, after six years, a SAR still forms part of an on-going case, investigation or appeal and is entirely the responsibility of the end user to ensure that copies of the required SARs are transferred to the investigating agency’s ‘case record’. The data control responsibility for those records is then transferred from the NCA to that agency.</p><p> </p><p>The UKFIU has access to the entire Elmer database, which includes ‘sensitive’ SARs such as those submitted on terrorism, integrity and some politically exposed persons.</p><p> </p><p>SARs are only directly available to agencies with officers with powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act, or under the Terrorism Act (for terrorist finance), and only with officers who have an accreditation enabling them to see SARs. All such access is governed by user agreements at both an agency and individual level. For other organisations to qualify for access to the non-sensitive version of ELMER, they must accept the terms of ‘The Organisation Agreement for Direct Access to Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)’ which sets the objectives, responsibilities and conditions within which both the NCA and the end user must comply.</p>
	creator	1651 label Biography information for Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	1651 label Biography information for Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

731016

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	05/07/2017
	date	21/06/2017
	date tabled	21/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	ddp created	21/06/2017 21:55:48 21/06/2017 21:55:48
	ddp modified	21/06/2017 21:55:48 05/07/2017 15:26:04
	house id	2
	identifier	HL29
	legislature	25277
	parliament number	56
	question first answered	05/07/2017 14:53:31
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what policies apply to the removal of entries on the Elmer database.
	session	2017/19 (57/1)
	session number	2
	tabling member printed	Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57/1) HL29
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL29
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>There are 2.11 million suspicious activity reports (SARs) on the Elmer database. These SARs remain on the system either as result of ongoing activity from a law enforcement agency, or because the SAR is within the six year period for which data can be held on Elmer, in line with the ECHR and Data Protection legislation. In 2015/16 the UKFIU received over 400,000 SARs. Each SAR may include detail of the activities of a number of persons, and it is therefore not possible to determine how many nominal subjects are within the database.</p><p> </p><p>Following the House of Lords European Union Committee Inquiry into Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism in July 2009, and the Information Commissioner’s review of the ELMER database in 2010, the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) has implemented the Retention and Deletion policy for Suspicious Activity Reports. This sets the following criteria for the removal of SARs:</p><p> </p><p>o If definitive feedback is received from law enforcement end users that states a SAR is not connected with criminality, that SAR is deleted.</p><p>o Otherwise, the retention period for SARs is six years from the date of submission. After that time they are automatically deleted from the SARs database (ELMER) and other derivative systems, on a rolling daily deletion programme.</p><p>o When a SAR is deleted, an audit record showing the SAR Unique Reference Number (URN), date of creation and date of deletion is retained for all SARs. This record contains no personal data, but is used to confirm, if necessary, that a SAR has been submitted.</p><p>o There are occasions when, after six years, a SAR still forms part of an on-going case, investigation or appeal and is entirely the responsibility of the end user to ensure that copies of the required SARs are transferred to the investigating agency’s ‘case record’. The data control responsibility for those records is then transferred from the NCA to that agency.</p><p> </p><p>The UKFIU has access to the entire Elmer database, which includes ‘sensitive’ SARs such as those submitted on terrorism, integrity and some politically exposed persons.</p><p> </p><p>SARs are only directly available to agencies with officers with powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act, or under the Terrorism Act (for terrorist finance), and only with officers who have an accreditation enabling them to see SARs. All such access is governed by user agreements at both an agency and individual level. For other organisations to qualify for access to the non-sensitive version of ELMER, they must accept the terms of ‘The Organisation Agreement for Direct Access to Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)’ which sets the objectives, responsibilities and conditions within which both the NCA and the end user must comply.</p>
	creator	1651 label Biography information for Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
	publisher	25277
	tabling member	1651 label Biography information for Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

100438

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	27/10/2014
	date	22/10/2014
	date tabled	22/10/2014
	ddp created	22/10/2014 22:51:31
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 03:34:25
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	101 Calls
	house id	1
	identifier	211488
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	27/10/2014 16:49:45
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Scottish Government on the 101 non-emergency number.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 211488
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211488
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>There have been no discussions between the Secretary of State and the Scottish Government on the 101 non-emergency number.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

100439

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	27/10/2014
	date	22/10/2014
	date tabled	22/10/2014
	ddp created	22/10/2014 22:51:32
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 03:34:31
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	101 Calls
	house id	1
	identifier	211489
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	27/10/2014 16:48:58
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of calls to the 101 non-emergency number originate in Scotland.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 211489
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211489
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Police Scotland launched the 101 non-emergency service on 1 April 2013. During the period 1 April 2013 to 30 September 2014, 3.3 million calls originated from Scotland. This constitutes 9.3% of total calls to the 101 non-emergency number during this period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

100441

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	27/10/2014
	date	22/10/2014
	date tabled	22/10/2014
	ddp created	22/10/2014 22:51:32
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 03:34:42
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	101 Calls
	house id	1
	identifier	211487
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	27/10/2014 16:50:43
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the cost to the caller for the 101 non-emergency number.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 211487
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211487
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>We are currently considering options to review the impact of 101, including the cost. <br><br>Research by Ofcom shows that a small fixed charge does not deter people from calling the service and reduces the likelihood of it being used <br>inappropriately. <br><br>The latest Crime Survey (published July 2013) shows that use of the 101 number has increased since 2011.</p><p> </p>
	creator	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

100442

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	27/10/2014
	date	22/10/2014
	date tabled	22/10/2014
	ddp created	22/10/2014 22:51:33
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 03:34:48
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	101 Calls
	house id	1
	identifier	211490
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	27/10/2014 16:51:44
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received on the cost to callers of the 101 non-emergency number.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 211490
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211490
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department has received 49 representations about the charge for using the 101 police non-emergency number in the last three years. <br><br>The public have always paid to contact the police for non-emergencies and the 15 pence per call charge is a competitive and transparent rate, especially when compared to previous police non-emergency numbers (such as 0845 numbers) which could cost up to 40 pence per minute.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

100444

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	27/10/2014
	date	22/10/2014
	date tabled	22/10/2014
	ddp created	22/10/2014 22:51:33
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 03:35:01
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	101 Calls
	house id	1
	identifier	211491
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	27/10/2014 16:48:10
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department's contract for provision of the 101 non-emergency number is due to be reviewed.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 211491
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211491
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The contract for the 101 service is due to expire on 31 March 2016. The Department plans to start the process of evaluating options for the future <br>delivery of the service in January 2015.</p><p> </p>
	creator	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

155970

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	20/11/2014
	date	17/11/2014
	date tabled	17/11/2014
	ddp created	18/11/2014 01:54:20
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 09:12:06
	answering body	Home Office
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	101 Calls
	house id	1
	identifier	214698
	legislature	25259
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	20/11/2014 14:40:26
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with Ministers in the Scottish Government on the contract for the operation of the 101 non-emergency number.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 214698
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	214698
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>There have been no discussions between the Secretary of State and Ministers from the Scottish Government on the contract for the operation of the 101 non-emergency number.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson
	publisher	25259
	tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson