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1011487

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles and Vans: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of incidents of theft from (a) commercial vans and (b) commercial HGVs in England in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	South Suffolk
tabling member printed	James Cartlidge
uin	194142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office’s Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS) estimates thefts from vehicles amongst business premises included in the survey each year. However, it is not possible to identify the type of vehicles involved and figures cannot be produced for Suffolk as the sample is not designed to yield sub-national estimates.</p><p>Latest headline figures from the CVS can be found here</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/703371/crime-against-businesses-headline-2017-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/703371/crime-against-businesses-headline-2017-tables.ods</a></p><p>The Home Secretary regularly meets with his Cabinet colleagues to discuss areas of mutual interest.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 194143 194144 question first answered 29/11/2018 16:55:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge

1011488

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of theft from commercial vehicles were reported in (a) Suffolk and (b) England in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	South Suffolk
tabling member printed	James Cartlidge
uin	194143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office’s Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS) estimates thefts from vehicles amongst business premises included in the survey each year. However, it is not possible to identify the type of vehicles involved and figures cannot be produced for Suffolk as the sample is not designed to yield sub-national estimates.</p><p>Latest headline figures from the CVS can be found here</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/703371/crime-against-businesses-headline-2017-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/703371/crime-against-businesses-headline-2017-tables.ods</a></p><p>The Home Secretary regularly meets with his Cabinet colleagues to discuss areas of mutual interest.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 194142 194144 question first answered 29/11/2018 16:55:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge

1011489

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Motor Vehicles: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the number of incidents of theft from commercial vehicles in England.
tabling member constituency	South Suffolk
tabling member printed	James Cartlidge
uin	194144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office’s Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS) estimates thefts from vehicles amongst business premises included in the survey each year. However, it is not possible to identify the type of vehicles involved and figures cannot be produced for Suffolk as the sample is not designed to yield sub-national estimates.</p><p>Latest headline figures from the CVS can be found here</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/703371/crime-against-businesses-headline-2017-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/703371/crime-against-businesses-headline-2017-tables.ods</a></p><p>The Home Secretary regularly meets with his Cabinet colleagues to discuss areas of mutual interest.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 194142 194143 question first answered 29/11/2018 16:55:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge

1011530

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of drug testing at festivals, nightclubs and other large gatherings of young people on the health and safety of those people.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	194012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>Drugs are controlled where there is scientific and medical evidence that they are harmful to health and society. The possession of any amount of a controlled drug is a criminal offence and the supply of a controlled drug is an even more serious offence. No illegal drug taking can be assumed to be safe and there is no safe way to take them.</p><p>The Government’s approach remains clear: we must prevent illicit drug use in our communities and help those dependent on drugs to recover while ensuring our drug laws are enforced. In relation to drug testing at events, chief constables are responsible for operational decisions in their local area and we are not standing in their way.</p><p>The National Policing Lead for Drugs provided updated advice in the summer to all Chief Constables to make them aware of matters that they should consider if working with event organisers who may wish to use drug testing services. He is currently considering this issue further in conjunction with forces.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 29/11/2018 17:18:25 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

1011531

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Organised Crime: Exploitation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to tackle organised sexual exploitation.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	194013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>In February 2017 the Government published its ‘Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation: Progress Report’ and announced a £40m package of measures to tackle all forms of sexual abuse and exploitation, including organised child sexual exploitation. The Progress Report details delivery of the ambitious programme of work set out in the 2015 Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation Report and signals a step change in our national response to sexual violence against children and young people.</p><p>We are helping the police to respond to changing demand and improving capacity and capability through the Police Transformation Fund and with a £460m increase in overall funding 2018/19.</p><p>To support the police to tackle organised sex-trafficking and other forms of modern slavery, the Government has provided £8.5m of additional funding to the police in England and Wales to provide bespoke and dedicated modern slavery capabilities. This police activity is supported at a national level by the National Crime Agency who lead multiagency operations to target key thematic slavery and trafficking threats including organised sexual exploitation.</p><p>In addition, on 3 September 2018, the Home Secretary made clear his personal commitment to tackling child sexual abuse and exploitation in all its forms, demanding industry raise their response to the horrifying scale of online child sexual abuse, and making clear there would be no ‘no-go areas’ of inquiry into the offline grooming, abuse and exploitation of children.</p><p>The Home Secretary announced additional investment in law enforcement capabilities; funding for prevention work through Lucy Faithful Foundation; investment in new technology like the Child Abuse Image Database, and; plans to lead concerted international action.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 29/11/2018 17:11:18 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

1011532

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery: Agriculture
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to combat modern day slavery in agriculture.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	194014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>In the UK, the Gangmasters Labour and Abuse Authority (GLAA) licenses businesses which provide workers to the farming, food processing and shellfish gathering sectors to make sure they meet the employment standards required by law; and carries out inspections and enforcement activity.</p><p>The GLAA has been given police powers to investigate serious cases of labour market exploitation across the entire economy in England and Wales, and in 2016/17 the GLAA directly intervened on behalf of 4,691 workers to prevent them from exploitation. The GLAA also partner with businesses, such as Sainsbury’s, to deliver training sessions to their suppliers, so they can better identify and manage risks in their supply chains.</p><p>Through the Home Office’s Modern Slavery Innovation Fund, we are currently funding Stronger Together to deliver 34 workshops to over 560 workers and employers in South Africa’s fruit and wine industry, so that they are better equipped to identify and address modern slavery.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 29/11/2018 17:16:40 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

1011533

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
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: Internet
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 from the public purse his Department has allocated to the National Crime Agency specialist unit for investigating child sexual abuse online in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	194015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2018 answer text <p>It has been the longstanding policy of successive Governments not to reveal specific details of the budgets or spending of the intelligence agencies.</p><p>However, a recent NCA and NPCC joint bid to the Police Transformation Fund (PTF) secured £2.2 million for an immediate uplift to work to tackle online child sexual exploitation. This will fund a significant expansion of the Joint Operations Team (JOT). Furthermore, in his speech at the NSPCC in September, the Home Secretary announced an extra £21m investment in law enforcement and intelligence agencies over the next 18 months to enable a focus on reducing the volume of offending and pursuing the most hardened and dangerous abusers, which also includes further funding for the JOT.</p><p>The JOT is a jointly managed National Crime Agency (NCA) and GCHQ capability, drawing on the experience and knowledge of the NCA and the high end capabilities and tradecraft of GCHQ to investigate and disrupt online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. <br>Working collaboratively provides a very powerful operating model. The JOT has supported the NCA in bringing offenders such as Dr Matthew Falder the university lecturer who committed 137 offences to justice. He was sentenced to 32 years imprisonment following their investigation.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 29/11/2018 17:14:41 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

1011536

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Rape: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions he has had with the Attorney General on Criminal Prosecution Service charging thresholds in cases for rape.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	194040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2018 answer text <p>The Minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability and the Solicitor General regularly meet to discuss issues related to sexual violence, including improving outcomes for victims of rape and serious sexual offences. The Attorney General also is a member of the Violence Against Women and Girls Inter Ministerial Group, chaired by the Home Secretary, at which issues related to rape and sexual violence are also discussed.</p><p>Rape and sexual violence are devastating crimes and we expect every report to be treated seriously from the point of disclosure, every victim to be treated with dignity and every investigation and every prosecution to be conducted thoroughly and professionally.We continue to work with the police to look at ways to improve police investigations of rape and ensure that their guidance on investigating and prosecuting rape is implemented in every police force area. We are working with the CPS, Ministry of Justice and Attorney General’s Office to better understand these issues, which will be addressed in detail in the upcoming Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy Refresh.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 21/12/2018 17:12:21 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

1011574

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery: Business
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent plans his Department has made to enforce Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	194191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>Last month, the Home Office issued letters directly to the CEOs of approximately 17,000 organisations about obligations under Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.</p><p>The Home Office plans to carry out an audit at the end of this financial year and intends to publicly name non-compliant organisations.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/11/2018 15:14:52 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1011575

registered interest
date	21/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery: Business
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress his Department on creating a registry of businesses that are obligated to produce a slavery and human-trafficking statement as outlined in Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	194192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government has commissioned an independent review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. The Review will identify where the legislation is working well, how implementation can be improved and whether specific areas of the Act need to be strengthened including Section 54 (Transparency in Supply Chains requirements) of the Act.</p><p>The Review is due to report its recommendations to the Home Office at the end of March 2019. Further to these recommendations the Home Office will consider whether further measures are required to improve compliance with Section 54.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 26/11/2018 15:12:58 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris