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1662749

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Young Offenders: Northern Ireland
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 hold discussions with the Police Service of Northern Ireland on tackling physical abuse between people under the age of 18 in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	200603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>Policing, including the response to physical abuse, is a <del class="ministerial">delegated</del> <ins class="ministerial">devolved</ins> matter for consideration by the Northern Ireland Executive.</p><p> </p><p>We are open to discussions with the Police Service of Northern Ireland to share knowledge on tackling physical abuse amongst young people.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 20/10/2023 13:50:03 question first ministerially corrected 23/10/2023 09:15:34 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines previous answer version 99450 answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1664035

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Antisemitism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department are taking to protect Jewish people from hate crimes.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	201888
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government is clear that all forms of hate crime, including antisemitic hate crime, are completely unacceptable. We expect the police fully to investigate these abhorrent offences and make sure those who commit them feel the full force of the law.</p><p>In March 2023, the Home Secretary, announced the continuation of the Jewish Community Protective Security Grant and increased funding for 2023/24 by £1 million, to a total of £15 million. This grant provides protective security measures at Jewish schools, colleges, nurseries, and some other Jewish community sites, as well as a number of synagogues.</p><p>In light of the horrific Hamas terrorist acts in Israel and related reports of increased incidents of antisemitism in the UK, the Prime Minister has announced additional funding of £3 million for the Community Security Trust to provide additional security at Jewish schools, synagogues and other sites.</p><p>The Home Secretary chairs the Jewish Community Crime, Policing and Security Taskforce. This meeting brings together Government, law enforcement and the Community Security Trust in order to address Jewish community security concerns.</p><p>The Home Secretary also meets the Metropolitan Police Commissioner regularly, along with senior officers across the country, to ensure the police are doing everything they can to protect Jewish people from these crimes.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 23/10/2023 14:30:21 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1658544

registered interest
date	06/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Internet: Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department are taking to tackle Artificial Intelligence generating child sexual abuse material online.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	198042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government remains firmly committed to tackling all forms of child sexual abuse online and in our communities across the UK and internationally. Our approach is underpinned by the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy which sets out firm commitments to drive action across the whole system.</p><p>The law in the UK is very clear with regards to production of child sexual abuse material. It is an offence to produce, store, share or search for any material that contains or depicts child sexual abuse, regardless of whether the material depicts a ‘real’ child or not. This prohibition also includes pseudo-imagery that may have been computer-generated.</p><p>Home Office investment supports the National Crime Agency to use its unique capabilities to disrupt the highest harm offenders, safeguard children and remove the most horrific child sexual abuse material from the internet, including on the dark web.</p><p>The Government not only works closely with law enforcement but also child protection agencies to develop a robust assessment of the threat posed by child sexual offenders and therefore create technological and legislative solutions to target offenders and safeguard children.</p><p>It is not only the duty of the government to take this threat seriously, but also that of the technology companies that utilise Artificial Intelligence. They must incorporate safety measures to ensure their technology cannot be exploited by child sexual offenders.</p><p>That is why this Government is currently driving forward the Online Safety Bill which seeks to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online. The Online Safety Bill will, for the first time, place clear legal duties on technology companies to take proactive steps to identify, remove and prevent users encountering illegal content, including child sexual abuse content from platforms/services. This includes AI-generated child sexual abuse content. Companies who fail to fulfil their legal duties will be held to account by an independent regulator, Ofcom, who will have strong enforcement powers.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 13/09/2023 11:28:09 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1653800

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the Northern Ireland Department of Justice on human trafficking in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	194716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>The Home Secretary chairs an Interministerial Group on safety and security with the devolved administrations to consider matters of shared interest. Senior officials from the Northern Ireland Civil Service attend the group in observer capacity in the absence of NI Executive Ministers.</p><p>Further, the Home Office engages regularly with officials in the Northern Ireland Department of Justice on modern slavery, as well as hosts quarterly meetings on modern slavery between senior Home Office officials and representatives of the devolved administrations.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 24/07/2023 16:41:07 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1642510

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to prevent grooming by gangs.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>In April the Prime Minister and Home Secretary announced a package of measures to improve our response to child sexual exploitation, including a new Child Sexual Exploitation Police Taskforce. The Police Taskforce will help improve how the police investigate child sexual exploitation, providing practical, expert, on the ground support for forces on all forms of child sexual abuse, with a particular focus on complex and organised child sexual exploitation, including grooming gangs.</p><p>Through the Government’s Drug Strategy, we are bolstering our flagship County Lines Programme, investing up to £145m over three years to tackle the most violent and exploitive distribution model yet seen.</p><p>To strengthen the policing response and prevent grooming by gangs, we fund several national programmes to develop and deliver an effective and victim-focused response to these crimes. This includes the Prevention Programme, delivered by The Children’s Society, which works with a range of partners across the statutory, charitable and private sectors, to tackle and prevent child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation, child financial exploitation and modern slavery, both nationally and regionally.</p><p>The Government also funds the Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme which identifies and shares best practice across police forces, the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme which helps police to uncover more of this offending, as well as a range of officer training programmes across all ranks to improve their confidence and capability to investigate these crimes. The Government’s Child Exploitation Disruption Toolkit was also re-developed and updated in September 2022 to provide frontline agencies and all those who engage with children further knowledge on how these abhorrent crimes can be disrupted.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 14/06/2023 16:14:51 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1640037

registered interest
date	24/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children in the UK are suspected of being victims of trafficking gangs.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	186627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes statistics of potential victims of modern slavery referred to the National Referral Mechanism (NRM). The data shows the number of potential victims referred into the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) where exploitation occurred when they were a child</p><p><br> It also shows the number of referrals received which are linked to County Lines. <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fnational-referral-mechanism-statistics&amp;data=05%7C01%7CSCAFOI%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cb372debfa45f4028285a08db5d07d45b%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638206060418456396%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=gTLFwwzXfzPQiuu%2BcLj1GKYho3vMv4OGixDFAZ1MZZY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">National Referral Mechanism statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 07/06/2023 16:27:05 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1639572

registered interest
date	23/05/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rape: Convictions and Prosecutions
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 reports of rape resulted in a (a) charge and (b) conviction in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	186345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes official statistics on the investigative outcomes, including charges, of rape offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, on a quarterly basis.</p><p>These can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</a></p><p>The Ministry of Justice collects and publishes information on outcomes (including convictions) by offence, which can be accessed here:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fcriminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2022&amp;data=05%7C01%7CChristopher.Linehan%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1e40732191f444aec7d308db5c390f7e%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638205172361328991%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=kpDqFqeKArZDS2zpuaOrjOWZFkC2UYI4uqyoHCcQv8M%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-december-2022</a></p><p>The number of charged/summonsed, and as % of the total number of outcomes, for rape offences recorded in the period by the police in England and Wales, 2019/20 to year ending December 2022 (excluding GMP and Devon and Cornwall police), source: Home Office, Police recorded crime:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Charged</p></td><td><p>Proportion (%) of investigative outcomes which result in charged/summonsed</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2,330</p></td><td><p>4.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2,904</p></td><td><p>5.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>2,911</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>YE Dec 2021</p></td><td><p>2,840</p></td><td><p>5.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>YE Dec 2022</p></td><td><p>3,446</p></td><td><p>5.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 01/06/2023 14:11:21 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1611127

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Spiking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle the spiking of people in social places in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	180756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office is leading the cross-government approach to understanding and tackling spiking in England and Wales. In 2021, the then Home Secretary asked the National Police Chief's Council to urgently review and coordinate the national policing response to spiking. Since then:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Spiking has been incorporated into the Government's communications campaign to tackle violence against women and girls, known as 'ENOUGH'. This includes providing important information about the crime on the campaign website and signposting victims to support services.</li><li>We have worked closely with the Festivals and Outdoor Events sector to ensure the safety of the public at summer events, ensuring that sufficient protocols, training, communications, and guidance was in place for event organisers, the police, security personnel and audiences.</li><li>Government have supported Universities UK to provide guidance to universities on spiking published ahead of the Autumn 2022 term and the ‘freshers’ period. We provided further communications on spiking to local authorities and supported NPCC targeted communications.</li><li>The Police have produced a forensic strategy and have worked with the forensic provider Eurofins to develop an accredited, rapid testing capability, enabling law enforcement to better support victims, and also build our understanding of what drugs are being used and how common they are. The Home Office has provided £70,000 in additional funding to enable the police to submit an additional 200 samples through the accredited process.</li></ul><p> </p><p>This is just a snapshot of action being taken to address spiking and the Home Secretary will be publishing a report on the nature and prevalence of spiking, and action that government has taken, and will take, to tackle it. This report is now expected to be published following the May local elections.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 25/04/2023 14:38:21 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1611147

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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 steps she is taking to encourage people to report domestic violence against women.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	180776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2023 answer text <p>Domestic abuse is a horrific crime and improving the response to domestic abuse is a key priority. As highlighted in the Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan 2022, we want to make it easier for victims to ask for help and report crimes.</p><p> </p><p>It is important that victims know domestic abuse will be taken seriously. Significant progress has been made by the National Police Chiefs Council and College of Policing since the 2021 HMICFRS report on policing of VAWG, including a Framework standardising a policing focus on prevention, action to pursue perpetrators and help build women’s trust in policing.</p><p>To further strengthen the police response to disclosures of domestic abuse, we have committed up to £3.3 million up to 2025 to bolster and encourage the uptake of the Domestic Abuse Matters training in police forces. And VAWG (including domestic abuse) has been added to the Strategic Policing Requirement (SPR), meaning it is set out as a national threat for forces to respond to alongside other threats such as terrorism, serious and organised crime and child sexual abuse.</p><p>To make it easier for victims to ask for help in their local communities, we are now piloting the Ask for ANI (Action Needed Immediately) codeword scheme in 18 Jobcentres across the UK. The scheme has been available in participating pharmacies since January 2021. A postcode checker has been published on GOV.UK where victims can check for their nearest Ask for ANI location.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 25/04/2023 14:36:10 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1605413

registered interest
date	20/03/2023
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 steps her Department are taking to encourage male victims to report incidences of domestic abuse.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	169289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to supporting all victims of domestic abuse, regardless of sex.</p><p>The commitments set out in the Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy and Tackling Domestic Abuse Plan apply to all victims of these crimes, including male victims. These documents aim to transform the whole of society's response to these crimes with actions to prevent abuse, pursue perpetrators, and support victims.</p><p>We do understand that there are specific challenges that male victims of domestic abuse face. We published the refreshed Supporting Male Victims policy document in 2022, which strengthens the government's response to male victims and includes information on the myths and stereotypes that can act as a barrier to reporting for male victims.</p><p>Whilst the Government fully acknowledges the range of barriers many male victims face, we encourage all victims to report incidents to the police, so perpetrators can be brought to justice. We also recognise that it is important for all victims to have confidence in policing. To support policing, we are:</p><p>· Providing up to £3.3 million to fund the rollout of Domestic Abuse Matters training to police forces which have yet to deliver it, or do not have their own specific domestic abuse training.</p><p>· Published updated guidance on the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (DVDS), which enables the police to disclose information to a victim or potential victim of domestic abuse about their partner's or ex partner's previous abusive or violent offending.</p><p>In the Domestic Abuse Plan, we committed to a Home Office review into closed VAWG cases that have outcome 15 of 16 (evidential difficulties prevent further actions or victim does not support police action or withdraws support) to identify opportunities for improvements in the way these are used.</p> answering member constituency Derbyshire Dales answering member printed Miss Sarah Dines question first answered 28/03/2023 14:51:10 answering member 4816 label Biography information for Miss Sarah Dines
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon