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786236

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	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 and Forced Marriage: Southwark
	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 children under the age of 18 living in the London Borough of Southwark who have (a) undergone female genital mutilation in the UK, (b) undergone female genital mutilation abroad and (c) been subjected to a forced marriage in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	111921
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2018 answer text <p>So called 'honour-based' violence, including Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage, is a terrible form of abuse, and this Government is clear that we will not allow political or cultural sensitivities to get in the way of tackling it. Work to tackle these crimes is an integral part of our cross-Government Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy, published last year.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS FGM Enhanced Dataset provides information on the number of women and girls with FGM who are being cared for by the NHS in England and has been published quarterly and annually by NHS Digital since 2014. A detailed breakdown of these statistics by local authority, age at which FGM was carried out and country where FGM was undertaken is available online at <a href="http://content.digital.nhs.uk/fgm" target="_blank">http://content.digital.nhs.uk/fgm</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The joint Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office and Home Office Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) operates a public helpline to provide advice and support to victims of forced marriage as well as to professionals dealing with cases. Statistics on the number of cases dealt with by the FMU are published annually, including a breakdown by region and age and are available online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/forced-marriage#statistics-on-forced-marriage-collected-by-fmu" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/forced-marriage#statistics-on-forced-marriage-collected-by-fmu</a>. The statistics are available for the region of London. However, they cannot be broken down into specific London boroughs for data protection reasons. For example, the number of cases from a specific borough may be low enough to allow a victim to be identified, and the FMU must safeguard those it supports.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/04/2018 09:42:26 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

786443

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Violence Protection Orders: Southwark
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how a many domestic violence orders have been issued by courts to people in (a) Camberwell and Peckham constituency and (b) the London Borough of Southwark in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	112043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>Domestic Violence Protection Orders (DVPOs), which can prevent the perpetrator from returning to a residence and from having contact with the victim for up to 28 days, were rolled out across England and Wales from March 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Latest Ministry of Justice figures show that between April 2015 and March 2016, 3,951 DVPOs have been issued by Magistrates’ Courts. The Home Office does not hold data disaggregated to constituency or London borough level.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 15/11/2017 10:54:50 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

833780

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Voting Rights: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to mark the centenary of women getting the right to vote in 1918.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	125538
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2018 answer text <p>The government has set aside £5m to celebrate this milestone in British democracy. Goverment wants to ensure that we support a range of organisations and communities to get involved.</p><p>£1.5million will be available to organisations and communities through a grants scheme. Further information can be found at: <a href="http://www.womensvotecentenaryfund.co.uk" target="_blank">www.womensvotecentenaryfund.co.uk</a></p><p>In the Autumn budget, the Chancellor announced that £1.2million of the centenary fund would go directly to seven Centenary Cities and towns in England with a strong suffrage history, to strengthen the reach and legacy of regional activity to inspire a new generation with this story.</p><p>My Officials in the Government Equalities Office are developing an exciting national programme to celebrate and remember the suffrage movement. This includes funding the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, and a suite of education programmes in partnership with the Department for Education and the Cabinet Office.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 02/02/2018 13:12:16 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

873649

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Knives: Crime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent on tackling knife crime in each of the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	134763
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>It is not possible to disaggregate all funding for tackling knife crime as it is provided through a number of routes. This includes funding for police forces in England and Wales and our overall investment in policing will grow from £11.9 billion in 2015/16 to around £13 billion in 2018/19. Our work to tackle knife crime has been taken forward through the Ending Gang and Youth Violence programme and the subsequent Ending Gang Violence and Exploitation programme.</p><p>In October 2017, we launched our anti-knife crime Community Fund through which we awarded £765,000 to 47 successful projects to support local communities tackle knife crime, and we announced in March up to a £1million for a new round of the Community Fund in 2018/19 and this will be launched later this Spring. We have also just launched a new £1.3 million national media campaign under the banner of #knifefree which is aimed at 10 -21 years old and is aimed at bringing home the consequences of carrying a knife and to inspire young people to take up more positive activities.</p><p>On 9 April, we published the Serious Violence Strategy to take action to address serious violence and in particular the recent increases in knife crime, gun crime and homicide. The strategy represents a step change in the way we think and respond to serious violence. Our approach is not solely focused on law enforcement, very important as that is, but depends also on partnerships across a number of sectors such as education, health, social services, housing, youth services, victim services and others.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 16/04/2018 16:30:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

604873

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Rape: Trials
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the effect on the preparedness of complainants to report rape of the use of complainants' previous sexual history in evidence in rape trials; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	49065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2016 answer text <p>This Government has made protecting women and girls from violence and supporting victims and survivors of sexual violence a key priority.</p><p>The most recent Crime Statistics published on 20 October by the Office for National Statistics show that police recorded rape increased by 16% (to 36,438) in the year ending July 2016 compared with the previous year. The ONS state that the increases are believed to result from an improvement in the recording of sexual offences by the police and an increased willingness of victims to come forward and report these crimes to the police. In addition, the Crown Prosecution Service annual Violence Against Women and Girls Report, published in September 2016, shows the highest volumes ever recorded of charged defendants, prosecutions and convictions for rape.</p><p>We welcome the fact that more victims of rape are coming forward and reporting these crimes to the police. Victims must have the confidence to report these crimes, knowing that they will get the support they need to go through the criminal justice process and that everything will be done to bring offenders to justice.</p><p>Section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 places a statutory restriction on introduction of evidence and questioning of complainants about their sexual history. Section 41 was introduced to protect complainants in proceedings for sexual offences, introducing a presumption that such evidence and questioning will only be allowed in exceptional circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 21/10/2016 17:45:48 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton previous answer version 15765 answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

674859

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Homicide
	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 were killed by a current or former partner in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	60533
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office Homicide Index contains information on partner / ex-partner homicides. Information on the number of women and men aged 16 or over killed by a partner or ex-partner in England and Wales for each of the last five years is given in the table.</p><p>This information is taken from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) publication Focus on Violent Crime and Sexual Offences: Year ending March 2015, available here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/compendium/focusonviolentcrimeandsexualoffences/yearendingmarch2015" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/compendium/focusonviolentcrimeandsexualoffences/yearendingmarch2015</a></p><p>Information for 2015/16 will be published by the ONS in February 2017.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 23/01/2017 17:08:09 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

679749

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2017
	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, if her Department will centrally publish the (a) companies who are required to report and (b) companies who have reported under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	62004
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>We are not currently planning to publish a list of businesses who are required to report or who have reported under the Modern Slavery Act 2015. A number of non-governmental organisations are already collating and monitoring statements from businesses that are required to report. We are considering whether any additional steps might be necessary to make this monitoring more consistent and transparent, without duplicating the work already undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 01/02/2017 15:55:04 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

707302

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting: Greater London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Disclosure and Barring Service applications from (a) Camberwell and Peckham constituency and (b) London took more than 60 days to process in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	66393
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The total number of applications to the Disclosure and Barring Service issued to people living in (a) Camberwell and Peckham constituency and (b) London that have taken more than 60 days to process in each of the last five financial years are listed in table A below.</p><p>The average time for a Disclosure and Barring Service application to be processed from (a) Camberwell and Peckham constituency and (b) London in each of the five financial years is listed in table B below.</p><p> </p><p>Table A:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Camberwell &amp; Peckham</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>London</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total disclosures despatched</p></td><td><p>Disclosures taking more than 60 Days</p></td><td><p>Total disclosures despatched</p></td><td><p>Disclosures taking more than 60 Days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>14,467</p></td><td><p>274</p></td><td><p>681,931</p></td><td><p>9,883</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>14,082</p></td><td><p>682</p></td><td><p>666,318</p></td><td><p>22,721</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>14,144</p></td><td><p>1,769</p></td><td><p>701,169</p></td><td><p>68,264</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>13,957</p></td><td><p>2,364</p></td><td><p>713,438</p></td><td><p>94,907</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17 to 31-Jan-17</p></td><td><p>12,205</p></td><td><p>2,528</p></td><td><p>624,040</p></td><td><p>101,721</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>Table B</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Camberwell &amp; Peckham</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total Disclosures Despatched</p></td><td><p>Average Turnaround Time (days)</p></td><td><p>Total Disclosures Despatched</p></td><td><p>Average Turnaround Time (days)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>14,467</p></td><td><p>12.28</p></td><td><p>681,931</p></td><td><p>11.13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>14,082</p></td><td><p>14.83</p></td><td><p>666,318</p></td><td><p>12.79</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>14,144</p></td><td><p>19.87</p></td><td><p>701,169</p></td><td><p>17.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>13,957</p></td><td><p>26.62</p></td><td><p>713,438</p></td><td><p>21.87</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17 to 31-Jan-17</p></td><td><p>12,205</p></td><td><p>37.78</p></td><td><p>624,040</p></td><td><p>30.49</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 66394 question first answered 24/04/2017 11:13:40 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

707303

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Vetting: Greater London
	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 time for a Disclosure and Barring Service application to be processed from (a) Camberwell and Peckham constituency and (b) London was in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	66394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>The total number of applications to the Disclosure and Barring Service issued to people living in (a) Camberwell and Peckham constituency and (b) London that have taken more than 60 days to process in each of the last five financial years are listed in table A below.</p><p>The average time for a Disclosure and Barring Service application to be processed from (a) Camberwell and Peckham constituency and (b) London in each of the five financial years is listed in table B below.</p><p> </p><p>Table A:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Camberwell &amp; Peckham</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>London</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total disclosures despatched</p></td><td><p>Disclosures taking more than 60 Days</p></td><td><p>Total disclosures despatched</p></td><td><p>Disclosures taking more than 60 Days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>14,467</p></td><td><p>274</p></td><td><p>681,931</p></td><td><p>9,883</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>14,082</p></td><td><p>682</p></td><td><p>666,318</p></td><td><p>22,721</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>14,144</p></td><td><p>1,769</p></td><td><p>701,169</p></td><td><p>68,264</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>13,957</p></td><td><p>2,364</p></td><td><p>713,438</p></td><td><p>94,907</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17 to 31-Jan-17</p></td><td><p>12,205</p></td><td><p>2,528</p></td><td><p>624,040</p></td><td><p>101,721</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>Table B</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Camberwell &amp; Peckham</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total Disclosures Despatched</p></td><td><p>Average Turnaround Time (days)</p></td><td><p>Total Disclosures Despatched</p></td><td><p>Average Turnaround Time (days)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>14,467</p></td><td><p>12.28</p></td><td><p>681,931</p></td><td><p>11.13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>14,082</p></td><td><p>14.83</p></td><td><p>666,318</p></td><td><p>12.79</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>14,144</p></td><td><p>19.87</p></td><td><p>701,169</p></td><td><p>17.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>13,957</p></td><td><p>26.62</p></td><td><p>713,438</p></td><td><p>21.87</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17 to 31-Jan-17</p></td><td><p>12,205</p></td><td><p>37.78</p></td><td><p>624,040</p></td><td><p>30.49</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton grouped question UIN 66393 question first answered 24/04/2017 11:13:40 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

715110

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
	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 regional variations in levels of funding for services for domestic and sexual violence survivors; and if she will place a copy of that assessment in the Library.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	69679
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government's Violence against Women and Girls Strategy (VAWG), published in March 2016, found that while some areas provision of services for VAWG survivors is excellent, too many still fall short of the best. Our ambition is to reform services to support earlier models of intervention with victims, perpetrators and their families, at the same time as maintaining crisis provision.</p><p>The strategy commits us to providing funding of £80 million for VAWG services to continue to provide a bedrock of critical services for VAWG, delivering a secure future for rape support centres, refuges and Female Genital Mutilation and Forced Marriage Units. We have set out a clear blueprint for local action though our new National Statement of Expectations (NSE) and Commissioning Toolkit, which is available to local commissioning bodies and groups.</p><p>Our move to support local services through our £15 million VAWG Service Transformation Fund will encourage better collaboration and new, joined-up approaches between local commissioners, and with specialist VAWG service providers. This will help promote better collaboration and joint leadership, encourage new approaches incorporating early intervention, and establish and embed the best ways to help victims, survivors and their families so that early intervention and prevention, not crisis response, is the norm. We will ensure that victims get the help they need when they need it.</p><p>We consulted widely with the voluntary and community sector and statutory stakeholders in the development of the strategy, the NSE and the Transformation Fund and we will continue to work with the women’s sector and local areas to monitor the level of support provided to survivors of domestic and sexual violence. We will shortly be announcing successful bids to the Service Transformation Fund.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister has announced a new programme of work to transform the way we think about and tackle domestic abuse and to support this programme further funding of £20 million was announced in the Budget, bringing our total support for victims of VAWG to £100 million over the course of this Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 18/04/2017 16:42:59 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman