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1007839

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Economic Crime Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the National Economic Crime Centre is planned to help increase the number of prosecutions for crimes such as bribery and corruption.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	191903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2018 answer text <p>The National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) will deliver a step change in the UK's response to - and impact on economic crime, including bribery and corruption.</p><p>For the first time, the NECC brings together enforcement and justice agencies (HM Revenue and Customs, the City of London Police, the National Crime Agency, the Serious Fraud Office and the Crown Prosecution Service), other government departments, regulatory bodies and the private sector with a shared objective of driving down economic crime in the UK.</p><p>It will leverage the 'whole system' approach to enhance and coordinate our collective capabilities to target, pursue and dismantle the highest harm serious and organised criminals, including corrupt elites. Where appropriate this will include prosecutions.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 23/11/2018 12:12:03 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

968098

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
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 take steps to end severe suffering as a research category for all research animals after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	170766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>There are no plans to remove the category “severe” for procedures authorised under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, as amended in 2012 (ASPA). The regulatory system ensures that animal research and testing is carried out under controls which keep suffering to the minimum. Following EU exit, the principles of the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction and Refinement) will be fully retained in ASPA.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 13/09/2018 16:53:21 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

968099

registered interest
date	05/09/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
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 ensure that applications for Government-funded research require that animal research conducted in third countries is conducted at standards permitted in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	170767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office only grants licences for animal research which is to be undertaken in the UK. The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, as amended in 2012, regulates the use of animals for research in the UK and does not apply to research undertaken in third countries.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 13/09/2018 16:51:59 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

944087

registered interest
date	18/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animal Experiments
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 undertake a review of defined areas in regulatory animal testing that includes the use of second species and multiple routes of administering substances with the aim of identifying and eliminating avoidable tests.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	165555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2018 answer text <p>Second species testing is required to ensure drugs are safe for patient use. The standards for second species testing, and other types of regulatory testing, are regularly reviewed, updated and set by experts as part of our UK commitment to international regulation.</p><p> </p><p>The UK maintains a rigorous regulatory system which ensures that animal research and testing is carried out only where no practicable alternatives exist and under controls which keep suffering to a minimum. The Home Office ensures all research proposals are compliant with the principles of Replacement, Reduction and Refinement (the 3Rs).</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 27/07/2018 11:59:57 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

872422

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Bank Services: Fraud
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 bring forward legislative proposals to enable people to claim compensation from banks when monies are fraudulently transferred from their accounts.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	134336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>When an individual has had money fraudulently taken from their account, such as an unauthorised payment or ‘card not present’ fraud, in most circumstances the payment services provider must reimburse the customer for their loss.</p><p> </p><p>In other types of fraud, where an individual has been tricked into authorising the payment to the fraudster, commonly known as Authorised Push Payment scams (APP), consumers have less protection. The Government recognises that fraudulent transactions of this type can significantly impact those affected.</p><p> </p><p>The Joint Fraud Taskforce (JFT) and Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) have work in hand which will make it easier for victims of this type of fraud to claim compensation or receive a reimbursement following their loss.</p><p> </p><p>The PSR has now consulted on a ‘contingent reimbursement model’ for victims of APP scams and has established a steering group of consumer representatives and banks, including the Home Office, to design an industry code by September 2018, with a view to the final code being in place in early 2019. The aim of this code is to reduce the incidence of APP scams, and set out rules on how industry should reimburse consumers in certain scenarios.</p><p> </p><p>The long term ambition of the JFT is to introduce a funds repatriation scheme. The scheme will enable banking providers to trace, freeze then return stolen money back to the victims of fraud. We are currently working with the private sector to assess the legal and regulatory issues with implementing a fully functioning scheme.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 16/04/2018 12:12:25 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

869500

registered interest
date	22/03/2018
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, what steps she is taking to ensure that the effectiveness of anti-terror (a) legislation and (b) policies, including financial sanctions will be maintained after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	134014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s future partnership paper on security, law enforcement and criminal justice published on 18 September 2017 set out how the UK is seeking a future relationship with the EU and its Member States that provides for practical operational cooperation; facilitates data driven law enforcement; and supports multilateral cooperation through EU agencies.</p><p>We continue to value our cooperation and information sharing through measures such as the European Arrest Warrant (EAW), Europol, the European Criminal Record Information System (ECRIS) and the Schengen Information System (SIS II) in our efforts to fight cross-border crime and terrorism.</p><p>The Government’s counter-terrorism legislation and policies will continue to remain comprehensive and effective following the UK’s exit from the EU.</p><p>The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill is progressing through the House of Commons. The Bill provides the UK with the ability to make a variety of sanctions regimes, including for complying with a UN obligation. The Bill will also give the UK powers to create UK autonomous sanctions regimes. The Prime Minister has said that we will look to carry over all EU sanctions at the time of our departure, and we will all be stronger if the UK and EU have the means to co-operate on sanctions now, and potentially to develop them together in the future.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 04/04/2018 15:29:45 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

850967

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Intelligence Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Deptartment, what the Government's policy is on the destruction of security service files on the political activities of private individuals.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	130171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>It has been the policy of successive Governments neither to confirm nor deny matters relating to the activities of the security and intelligence services.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 07/03/2018 15:00:24 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

792982

registered interest
date	21/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Bank Services: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many acts of bank fraud against an individual were recorded in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	114767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>Data for banking and credit card industry fraud are published by ONS on a quarterly basis. These data will cover frauds against individuals as well as industry bodies. The latest data are for year to June 2017 and are available in Table A5 at the link below:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables</a></p><p> </p><p>The way in which fraud offences are reported and subsequently recorded has changed in recent years. Previously, police forces were responsible for recording fraud offences, however, from April 2011 Action Fraud began gradually taking over the recording of fraud offences on behalf of individual police forces, completing in March 2013. Action Fraud is the UK’s national fraud and cybercrime reporting centre. The industry bodies Cifas and FFA UK also record data on fraud offences committed against their members.</p><p> </p><p>Information on fraud offences prior to the switch to Action Fraud can be found in Table A4 in the same link as provided above.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 27/11/2017 17:36:08 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

747547

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Community Security Trust: Grants
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 maintain at the same level or increase the annual grant to the Community Security Trust.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	2455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2017 answer text <p>Yes. Careful consideration will be given to the funding level for the grant in future years.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 11/07/2017 12:36:55 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

637949

registered interest
date	16/11/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hezbollah
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 proscribe the political wing of Hezbollah under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	53381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2016 answer text <p>Whilst we keep list of proscribed groups under review, we do not routinely comment on whether an organisation is or is not under consideration for proscription.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 23/11/2016 17:11:55 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord