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1178478

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date	13/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Prostitution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the timeframe is for the publication of the Home Office funded research by the University of Bristol on prostitution policy.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	2005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>As part of the Government’s response to the 2016 Home Affairs Select Committee report into prostitution, the Home Office provided £150,000 to fund research specifically into the nature and prevalence of prostitution in England and Wales.</p><p>This independent research was led by the University of Bristol and was published on 30 October 2019. It is available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nature-of-prostitution-and-sex-work-in-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nature-of-prostitution-and-sex-work-in-england-and-wales</a></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/02/2020 16:33:10 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1178676

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were recorded as victims of modern slavery in (a) York Central constituency, (b) City of York Local Authority and (c) North Yorkshire in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	15039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics regarding the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) which can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-referral-mechanism-statistics-quarter-3-2019-july-to-september" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-referral-mechanism-statistics-quarter-3-2019-july-to-september</a> and the UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery which can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2019-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2019-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery</a></p><p>NRM statistics were previously recorded at: <a href="https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications?search=&amp;category%5B%5D=3&amp;limit=15&amp;tag=&amp;tag" target="_blank">https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications?search=&amp;category%5B%5D=3&amp;limit=15&amp;tag=&amp;tag</a></p><p>The latest statistics show the number of NRM referrals sent to North Yorkshire Police for crime recording purposes and the number of referrals made by York and North Yorkshire Local Authorities broken down by whether the Potential Victim was an adult or minor at the time of exploitation. However, the statistics do not contain data on a constituency level.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/02/2020 16:37:16 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1178677

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many child victims of modern slavery and human trafficking were recorded in (a) York Central constituency, (b) City of York Local Authority and (c) North Yorkshire in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	15040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics regarding the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) which can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-referral-mechanism-statistics-quarter-3-2019-july-to-september" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-referral-mechanism-statistics-quarter-3-2019-july-to-september</a> and the UK Annual Report on Modern Slavery which can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2019-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2019-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery</a></p><p>NRM statistics were previously recorded at: <a href="https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications?search=&amp;category%5B%5D=3&amp;limit=15&amp;tag=&amp;tag" target="_blank">https://nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications?search=&amp;category%5B%5D=3&amp;limit=15&amp;tag=&amp;tag</a></p><p>The latest statistics show the number of NRM referrals sent to North Yorkshire Police for crime recording purposes and the number of referrals made by York and North Yorkshire Local Authorities broken down by whether the Potential Victim was an adult or minor at the time of exploitation. However, the statistics do not contain data on a constituency level.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 24/02/2020 16:37:46 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1178725

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: 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 her Department is taking to prevent the exploitation by county lines drug gangs of looked-after children placed out-of-borough.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Ms Marie Rimmer
uin	15073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2020 answer text <p>County lines have a devastating impact on our communities, and we are determined to crack down on these gangs and put an end to the exploitation of vulnerable children.</p><p>The National County Lines Co-ordination Centre (NCLCC), established with £3.6m of Home Office funding, has been vital to strengthening our response to this issue by enhancing the intelligence picture and enabling police forces to work together to tackle this complex, cross border threat. Since it became operational in September 2018 the NCLCC has coordinated four weeks of intensive law enforcement action resulting in over 2,500 arrests and over 3,000 individuals engaged for safeguarding.</p><p>The Home Office has also announced £25m of targeted investment across 2019/20 and 2020/21 to uplift the law enforcement response to county lines and increase the support available to children, young people and families that are affected.</p><p>In addition, the Government provides a range of support for county lines victims including: funding Young People’s Advocates in Birmingham, Manchester and London to provide help and support for young people exploited through county lines, and funding through the £13m Trusted Relationships fund to help foster relationships between frontline professionals and young people at risk of exploitation including county lines.</p><p>The needs of the child are paramount when deciding the right care placement and Local Authorities have a statutory duty to ensure that there is sufficient provision for their looked after children.</p><p>Lack of sufficient placements to meet young people’s needs can lead to children being placed out of area. The Government is helping to improve commissioning of placements, including providing funding through the Department for Education’s £200 million children’s social care Innovation Programme.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 25/02/2020 17:50:14 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

1177596

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the prevalence of child sexual abuse in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on crimes recorded by the police, including crimes related to child sexual abuse. These are published quarterly in the Office for National Statistics bulletin “Crime in England and Wales”. The latest data are available here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingseptember2019" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingseptember2019</a></p><p>The ONS have recently published additional statistics and commentary on child sex abuse. There are available here <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/childsexualabuseinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2019" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/childsexualabuseinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2019</a>. The most recent survey estimates that in the year ending March 2019, approximately 3.1 million adults aged 18 to 74 years experienced child sexual abuse before the age of 16 years. This is equivalent to 7.5% of the population aged 18 to 74 years.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 19/02/2020 16:26:13 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1177708

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: LGBT+ People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding was allocated to the specialist LGBT+ sector for the provision of domestic abuse services in each year between 2016 and 2020.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office has provided over £980,000 of funding to specialist LGBT+ organisations for the provision of domestic abuse services between 2016 and 2020.</p><p>The financial year breakdown spend is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>FY 2016-2017 – £120,000</p><p>FY 2017-2018 – £120,000</p><p>FY 2018-2019 – £370,000</p><p>FY 2019-2020 – £370,000</p><p> </p><p>This includes £120,000 of funding each year since 2016 for the National LGBT Domestic Abuse helpline, which provides emotional and practical support for LGBT+ people who are experiencing or have experienced domestic abuse.</p><p>It also includes £500,000 funding provided to Galop, a specialist LGBT+ domestic abuse service. This funding includes the provision of training and consultancy to deliver knowledge and understanding of the needs and experiences of LGBT+ victims of domestic abuse to statutory organisations that work with victims of domestic abuse.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 19/02/2020 16:10:10 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1177709

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: LGBT+ People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether statutory agencies have received funding to provide training to increase staff understanding of the experience of domestic abuse for LGBT+ people.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office has provided over £980,000 of funding to specialist LGBT+ organisations for the provision of domestic abuse services between 2016 and 2020. The financial year breakdown spend is as follows:</p><p>FY 2016-2017 – £120,000</p><p>FY 2017-2018 – £120,000</p><p>FY 2018-2019 – £370,000</p><p>FY 2019-2020 – £370,000</p><p> </p><p>This includes £120,000 of funding each year since 2016 for the National LGBT Domestic Abuse helpline, which provides emotional and practical support for LGBT+ people who are experiencing or have experienced domestic abuse.</p><p>It also includes £500,000 funding provided to Galop, a specialist LGBT+ domestic abuse service. This funding includes the provision of training and consultancy to deliver knowledge and understanding of the needs and experiences of LGBT+ victims of domestic abuse to statutory organisations that work with victims of domestic abuse.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 09/07/2020 16:29:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1177746

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress her Department has made on its research on the profiling of the perpetrators of child sexual exploitation.
tabling member constituency	Telford
tabling member printed	Lucy Allan
uin	695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office has considered evidence from a range of sources including existing research, published and unpublished data, and insight from investigators and safeguarding professionals to better understand the characteristics of group-based child sexual offending. These include the nature and modus operandi of the networks involved, the backgrounds and motivations of individual offenders, and the characteristics of victims. Emerging findings have been shared with relevant partners in law enforcement agencies.</p><p>In early 2020 the Government will publish a national strategy, the first of its kind, to tackle all forms of child sexual abuse.</p><p>Our new strategy will set out our whole system response to tackling child sexual abuse, including group-based sexual offending drawing on this internal work. It will set out how we will work across government, law enforcement, safeguarding partners and industry to root out offending, protect victims and help victims and survivors rebuild their lives. We will work tirelessly to tackle all forms of sexual abuse; there will be no no-go areas.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 19/02/2020 16:16:13 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4411 label Biography information for Lucy Allan

1177785

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Work Experience
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people aged (a) 16 and under and (b) over 16 years old undertook work experience in his Department in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not offer any formal work experience opportunities to individuals aged 16 and under.</p><p>The Department participates in a number of programmes open to individuals over 16 years old.</p><p>The Summer Diversity Internship Programme is a six to nine-week paid internship for individuals in their last year of undergraduate study, organised by Cabinet Office. The Early Diversity Internship Programme is a one-week shadowing opportunity for first year undergraduates, organised by Cabinet Office.</p><p>There is also a shorter Work Experience programme for individuals aged 17 to 18, organised by Cabinet Office. We also participate in Movement to Work, a work experience programme for young people (18-30 years old) who are not in education, employment or training.</p><p>In 2019 we also ran a Smart Futures programme for young people (16-17 years old). Placements numbers for the last three years are detailed in the below table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Programme</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Summer Diversity Internship Programme</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Early Diversity Internship Programme</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Work experience programme</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Movement to Work</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Smart Futures</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 19/02/2020 16:20:02 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1177840

registered interest
date	11/02/2020
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	Period Poverty Task Force
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her Department plans to continue the work of the Period Poverty Taskforce.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2020 answer text <p>The cross-sectoral Period Poverty Taskforce has provided a clearer understanding of the problem of period poverty and the expert solutions to address the barriers faced by all who have periods. Alongside this, work across government will ensure that people in schools, colleges, hospitals and police custody can access period products with dignity. Further announcements on the plans and the work of the Taskforce will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 13/02/2020 16:17:04 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel