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792127

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	Whether her Department plans to review the effectiveness of the Prevent strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	901926
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2017 answer text <p>The Prevent Programme is fundamentally about safeguarding and supporting vulnerable individuals to stop them from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. In June, the Prime Minister outlined the Government’s commitment to review the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy (CONTEST), drawing on lessons learned from the recent attacks earlier this year. As the threat we face from terrorism becomes more complex, our strategy needs to evolve with it. The Prevent Strategy is being assessed as part of this review.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/11/2017 15:28:40 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

732612

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Places of Worship Security Funding Scheme
	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 her oral contribution of 22 June 2017, Official Report, column 211, on terror attacks, whether (a) the requirement for a hate crime to have occurred within two years before a place of worship can apply for security funding has been removed and (b) any new requirements for such applications have been put in place; and when she plans to publish updated application information.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	1114
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>On the 22 June, the Home Secretary announced an additional £1 million of funding for places of worship who are vulnerable to attack.</p><p>The new scheme will not require the applicant to demonstrate that they have been subject to a hate crime attack within the last two years. Full details of the criteria for the scheme and how to apply will be published on GOV.UK in the near future.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 29/06/2017 16:17:32 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

722305

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: Females
	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 the Government has made of the ability of local commissioners to fulfil the aims of the National Statement of Expectations for Violence Against Women and Girls.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	909783
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>Through our Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy we have published a National Statement of Expectations (NSE) setting out a clear blueprint for local action. We consulted widely with commissioners, the voluntary and community sector and statutory stakeholders in the development of the NSE, which is based on existing best practice. The NSE will help promote better local collaboration and joint leadership, encourage new approaches incorporating early intervention, and establish and embed the best ways to help victims, survivors and their families.</p><p>To support local implementation we have published a Commissioning Toolkit, which provided practical advice and launched the £15 million VAWG Service Transformation fund, which will encourage better collaboration and new, joined-up approaches between local commissioners and specialist VAWG service providers. We are actively developing mechanisms for monitoring implementation of the NSE, working with commissioners and experts from the specialist VAWG sector, to ensure that local services across the country provide the best support for victims and survivors of VAWG.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 24/04/2017 13:59:45 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

782827

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Nurseries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what childcare facilities her Department makes available for its staff; how much her Department spent (a) overall and (b) per child on those facilities in the last 12 months; and how many of her Department's staff use those facilities.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	111064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>Staff in the Department can utilise the Westminster Holiday Play Scheme. This is a childcare facility that takes place during school holidays, open to children from the age of 4 years and 9 months up to 15 years’ old. It is run by a private company on behalf of a consortium of departments, through a contract led and administered by BEIS. It currently operates at 4 London locations. Parents/guardians meet more than half of the costs for children attending this scheme, but the Department pays either £14.78 or £15.68 (dependent on the age of the child) towards each day’s use of the scheme.</p><p>During FY 2016/17, Home Office has recorded spend of £4045.84 on this play scheme. The Department does not collate details on the number of individual staff members who made use of the scheme or on the amounts spent per child.</p><p>More widely, the Home Office operates a Childcare Voucher Salary Sacrifice Scheme for staff. Staff can choose to take part of their salary (up to £243 per month) in the form of childcare vouchers. As the vouchers are exempt from Tax and NI, a saving is made. The vouchers can be used to help meet the costs of a range of registered childcare.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 07/11/2017 14:59:42 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

720667

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Home Office: Secondment
	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 are seconded to her Department; and how many such staff are seconded from which companies and organisations.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	70952
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office currently has 387 people on loan or secondment to it from a variety of different public and private sector organisations (as at 31<sup>st</sup> March 2017).</p><p> </p><p>The information on which company or organisation they are on loan or secondment from is not held centrally, the information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 24/04/2017 11:50:06 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

731825

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Counter-terrorism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many referrals under the Prevent strategy concerned far-right motives; and how many of those referrals have been acted upon.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	864
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong>A small number of Prevent referrals that require more considered Intervention are referred into the Channel Programme. At present around a third of these are related to the Extreme Right Wing.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 27/06/2017 16:59:01 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

731791

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Places of Worship Security Funding Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many places of worship that have applied for security support from the scheme for security funding for places of worship have had work completed in (a) Batley and Spen, (b) each region of the UK and (c) total.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	765
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The First year of the places of worship scheme was open from 26 July to 4 October 2016. Work has been completed at 54 places of worship, which can be broken down by region as follows: Kent (1), Devon (3), Lincolnshire (2), Hertfordshire (3), Wales (2), Shropshire (1), Staffordshire (2), London (9), Cheshire (1), Birmingham (7), Yorkshire (9), Gloucestershire (4), Worcestershire (1), Tyne &amp; Wear (1), Hampshire (1), Bedfordshire (2), Dorset (1), West Midlands (1), County Durham (1), Norfolk (1)</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/06/2017 13:21:25 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

731800

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Places of Worship Security Funding Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many places of worship applied for security support from the scheme for security funding for places of worship in (a) Batley and Spen, (b) each region and constituent part of the United Kingdom and (c) total.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The first year of the places of worship scheme was open from 26 July to 4 October 2016.</p><p>286 places of worship applied, which can be broken down by region as follows:</p><p> </p><p>First Year – 286</p><p>Bedfordshire (10), Birmingham (14), Cambridgeshire (2), Cheshire (7), County Durham (2), Devon (4), Dorset (4), Derbyshire (2), Essex (8), Gloucestershire (15), Hampshire (1), Hertfordshire (5), Kent (7), Lancashire (15), London (68), Leicestershire (5), Lincolnshire (4), Merseyside (7), Northamptonshire (1), Oxfordshire (3), Sussex (4), Surrey (6), Staffordshire (70, Tyne and Wear (9), West Midlands (19), Wiltshire (6), Worcestershire (2), Wales (13) and Yorkshire (33).</p><p> </p><p>In the second year of the scheme, 54 places of worship applied broken down as follows:</p><p>Second Year – 54</p><p>Kent (1), Devon (3), Lincolnshire (2), Hertfordshire (3), Wales (2), Shropshire (1), Staffordshire (2), London (9), Cheshire (1), Birmingham (7), Yorkshire (9), Gloucestershire (4), Worcestershire (1), Tyne &amp; Wear (1), Hampshire (1), Bedfordshire (2), Dorset (1), West Midlands (1), County Durham (1), Norfolk (1)</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/06/2017 15:21:22 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

792664

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Universal Credit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2017 to Question 70208, if he will provide information on how the estimated savings from the minimum income floor for universal credit were calculated for (a) 2017-18; (b) 2018-19; (c) 2019-20; (d) 2020-21, and (e) 2021-22.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	114591
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>The Minimum Income Floor is expected to encourage those reporting very low self-employed income to increase their earnings. Some people will respond to this by increasing their earnings from self-employment, others will look for other employment to increase their income and it is applied equally across all sectors of self-employment.</p><p> </p><p>The Minimum Income Floor is modelled using the Policy Simulation Model and Integrated Microsimulation Model (INFORM) where we apply it to the Universal Credit award calculation for the projected population of Universal Credit self-employed claimants.</p><p>The Minimum Income Floor is calculated, as per policy, based on claimants characteristics i.e. National Minimum Wage/National Living Wage (which is a function of age), tax bracket and maximum work search requirement for a given claimant type.</p><p>A more detailed modelling methodology of Universal Credit forecasts is likely to be published by Office for Budget Responsibility in 2018 as a part of their Welfare Trends Report series.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 23/11/2017 16:30:14 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

792665

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2017
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Universal Credit: Self-employed
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2017 to Question 9283, what the evidential basis is for the statement that flaws in the current system allow some self-employed claimants to receive full State support while declaring low or zero earnings.
	tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
	tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
	uin	114592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>Tax Credits for the self-employed lack a strong incentive for claimants to grow their earnings and reduce their dependency on welfare. The rules for eligibility for Working Tax Credit (WTC) are set out in the Tax Credits Act 2002 and the associated regulations, in particular the Working Tax Credit (Entitlement and Maximum Rate) Regulations 2002. These do not include a requirement for those claiming WTC to increase their earnings, or to earn more than a specified amount.</p><p> </p><p>The Government introduced the strengthened self-employment test into Working Tax Credit in 2015 to address the risk of individuals continuing to claim WTC, despite not working on a commercial and with a view to a profit basis. HMRC advice on this is in the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revenue-and-customs-brief-7-2015-new-rules-for-the-self-employed-claiming-working-tax-credit/revenue-and-customs-brief-7-2015-new-rules-for-the-self-employed-claiming-working-tax-credit" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revenue-and-customs-brief-7-2015-new-rules-for-the-self-employed-claiming-working-tax-credit/revenue-and-customs-brief-7-2015-new-rules-for-the-self-employed-claiming-working-tax-credit</a></p><p> </p><p>Historically, a high proportion of self-employed Tax Credit claimants saw little progression in their earnings over several years, including many of the lowest earners.</p><p> </p><p>Recently, HMRC and DWP have published data from a survey of self-employed tax credit claimants. These data confirm that many such claimants have low earnings and demonstrate the need to support and incentivise claimants to grow their earnings:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/self-employment-working-tax-credits-claimant-survey-and-follow-up-research" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/self-employment-working-tax-credits-claimant-survey-and-follow-up-research</a></p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 23/11/2017 16:26:25 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin