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1104823

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Mosques: Security
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if his Department will allocate additional funding for the security and protection of mosques and Muslim faith schools.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	236530
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2019 answer text <p>Last week, we announced an uplift of funding for the 2019/20 Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme to £1.6 million. This is double the amount awarded in 2018/19. Under the 2016 Hate Crime Action Plan, we committed £2.4m over three years to provide protective security measures to places of worship which have been subject to or are vulnerable to hate crime attacks, and so far we have awarded grants to just under 50 mosques. The 2019/20 scheme was announced as a fourth year of funding in October 2018.</p><p><br>The Home Office also announced last week a new £5 million fund over 3 years to provide security training for Places of Worship in England and Wales. This will enable staff and volunteers to develop the security understanding necessary to make physical security measures work effectively.</p><p><br>We are already engaging with faith representatives and organisations including the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group, Tell Mamma and the Independent Advisory Group on Hate Crime, and will open a consultation shortly to review what more can be and should be done to protect faith communities more widely.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 28/03/2019 16:17:43 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

994540

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Violent and Sex Offender Register: Unemployment
	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 unemployed people with convictions are registered sex offenders.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	183951
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The UK has some of the toughest powers in the world to deal with sex offenders and we are committed to ensuring that the system is as robust as it can be.</p><p>Registered sex offenders are managed by the police, who are in the best position to identify the risk posed by individuals. There is a range of legislative measures available to the police including civil orders to manage known sex offenders living in the community.</p><p>Other criminal justice partners and social care agencies contribute to the effective management of sex offenders through Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA). These are statutory arrangements that seek to reduce the serious re-offending behaviour of sexual and violent offenders by the sharing of information. The MAPPA annual report contains statistical information on Registered Sex Offenders, including those who breach their notification requirements. The report can be found on the GOV.UK website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/multi-agency-public-protection-arrangements-mappa-annual-report-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/multi-agency-public-protection-arrangements-mappa-annual-report-2017-to-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 183949 183950 question first answered 30/10/2018 15:40:25 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

994539

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Violent and Sex Offender Register: Reoffenders
	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 registered sex offenders have reoffended as a result of a breach of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	183950
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The UK has some of the toughest powers in the world to deal with sex offenders and we are committed to ensuring that the system is as robust as it can be.</p><p>Registered sex offenders are managed by the police, who are in the best position to identify the risk posed by individuals. There is a range of legislative measures available to the police including civil orders to manage known sex offenders living in the community.</p><p>Other criminal justice partners and social care agencies contribute to the effective management of sex offenders through Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA). These are statutory arrangements that seek to reduce the serious re-offending behaviour of sexual and violent offenders by the sharing of information. The MAPPA annual report contains statistical information on Registered Sex Offenders, including those who breach their notification requirements. The report can be found on the GOV.UK website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/multi-agency-public-protection-arrangements-mappa-annual-report-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/multi-agency-public-protection-arrangements-mappa-annual-report-2017-to-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 183949 183951 question first answered 30/10/2018 15:40:25 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

994538

	registered interest
	date	25/10/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Violent and Sex Offender Register: Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many registered sex offenders are in full time employment.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	183949
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The UK has some of the toughest powers in the world to deal with sex offenders and we are committed to ensuring that the system is as robust as it can be.</p><p>Registered sex offenders are managed by the police, who are in the best position to identify the risk posed by individuals. There is a range of legislative measures available to the police including civil orders to manage known sex offenders living in the community.</p><p>Other criminal justice partners and social care agencies contribute to the effective management of sex offenders through Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA). These are statutory arrangements that seek to reduce the serious re-offending behaviour of sexual and violent offenders by the sharing of information. The MAPPA annual report contains statistical information on Registered Sex Offenders, including those who breach their notification requirements. The report can be found on the GOV.UK website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/multi-agency-public-protection-arrangements-mappa-annual-report-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/multi-agency-public-protection-arrangements-mappa-annual-report-2017-to-2018</a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 183950 183951 question first answered 30/10/2018 15:40:25 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

931883

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of commissioning a comprehensive independent review of the Government's approach to drugs policy.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	158348
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The evaluation of the 2010 Drug Strategy was undertaken to fulfil the National Audit Office’s recommendations that the Government should develop an evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness and value of money of activities aimed at tackling the misuse of drugs under the 2010 Drug Strategy. Building on the findings from the 2010 Drug Strategy Evaluation, we published the 2017 Drug Strategy which takes a smarter, coordinated approach to tackling the complexity and pervasiveness of substance misuse at a national, local and individual level. <br>We are monitoring the progress of the Strategy, building on existing datasets to reflect our increased ambition to reduce drug misuse and improve rates of recovery, and are reviewing the impact of the strategy through the Home Secretary chaired Drug Strategy Board.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 02/07/2018 14:01:33 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

874640

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Radicalism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies on counter extremism of the report from the organisation Hope Not Hate, The state of hate 2018, published in March 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	134942
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling all forms of extremism. The 2015 Counter-Extremism Strategy sets out a four year programme of work for defeating extremism at source by countering extremist ideology; supporting mainstream voices, especially in faith communities and civil society; disrupting the most harmful extremists; and building more cohesive communities by tackling segregation.</p><p>The Government has established an Extremism Analysis Unit (EAU) to support government and the wider public sector to understand the threat from extremism. The EAU will continue to learn from existing capabilities to analyse extremism, including external experts.</p><p>In March 2018 the Government launched an independent Commission for Countering Extremism. The Commission has a clear remit to identify and challenge extremism in all its forms, and it will be engaging widely with stakeholders.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 16/04/2018 16:27:39 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

870188

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that all employers with over 250 employees report their gender pay gap statistics by 4 April 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	134058
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2018 answer text <p>We have written to all employers in scope of the gender pay gap reporting regulations that have not yet registered to report, on four separate occasions, ensuring they are aware of the requirement and urging them to report.</p><p>In recent weeks we have telephoned all organisations who have not yet registered on the gender pay gap website to ensure that they are on track to report.</p><p>We have also run an intensive social media campaign, and placed advertisements in national newspapers.</p><p>To date, more than 9,000 organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors have registered to report on the government portal, a clear indication that they are aware of their responsibility.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 03/04/2018 16:30:14 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

866989

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fascism
	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 findings of the recent report by Hope Not Hate, The state of hate 2018, what steps her Department plans to take to tackle neo-Nazism in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	133107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling all forms of extremism and terrorism, whether Islamist or far and extreme right-wing.</p><p>In December 2016, the neo-Nazi group National Action became the first extreme right-wing group to be proscribed. Additionally, our latest published statistics showed that around a quarter of all those who received support through Channel were referred because of far right concerns. Channel is a voluntary and confidential programme which supports individuals who are vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism.</p><p>Through the 2016 Hate Crime Action Plan the Government has funded additional security measures in 129 places of worship, including places targeted by far and extreme right-wing extremists. The Action Plan will be refreshed later in 2018. The Government has also created a network of 160 civil society partners that are confronting extremism in their communities and is supporting Local Authorities to tackle far and extreme right-wing extremism.</p><p>The Government’s new Commission for Countering Extremism has been given a clear remit to identify and challenge extremism in all its forms.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 22/03/2018 17:23:49 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

861041

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2018
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Asylum: Human Trafficking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum submitted by victims of trafficking are awaiting a decision to date.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	132190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2018 answer text <p>The number of asylum claims submitted by potential victims and victims of trafficking, is not held in a format which is reportable and would require a manual check of each record.</p><p>Data on the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is published regularly by the National Crime Agency and in the UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery. These reports are available via the following links:<br> <a href="http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics" target="_blank">http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/national-referral-mechanism-statistics</a><br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2017-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2017-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery</a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/03/2018 16:45:09 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

845504

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Females: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to promote Sustainable Development Goal 5.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	128476
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text The UK was instrumental in securing agreement for a stand-alone goal and dedicated targets for gender equality and women’s empowerment within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The promotion of SDG5, and other related targets, remains a priority for the Government both domestically and internationally. Government policies, such as those to eliminate the gender pay gap and to end violence against women and girls, will help us achieve the implementation of the goals. answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/02/2018 11:19:32 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel