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1020642

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date	06/12/2018
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	Government Equalities Office: Meetings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2018 to Question 194662 and Question 194663 on Government Equalities Office: Meetings, on how many occasions (a) she and (b) officials in her Department have held meetings with (i) Mermaids UK, (ii) Stonewall and (iii) Gendered Intelligence, (iv) Transgendered Trend, (v) Fair Play for Women and (vi) A Woman's Place in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	199833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>A) Since becoming the Minister for Women and Equalities in April this year, The Minister has had one introductory meeting with Stonewall to discuss LGBT policy, and one meeting with The Founder of a Women’s Place.</p><p>B) Since beginning its consultation engagement work in September 2017, the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) consultation team have met with the named organisations on the following number of occasions:</p><p>i. Mermaids: once</p><p>ii. Stonewall: four times</p><p>iii. Gendered Intelligence (GI): three times</p><p>iv. Transgender Trend: twice</p><p>v. Fair Play For Women (FPFW): twice</p><p>vi. A Woman’s Place (WP): three times</p><p>During the GRA consultation, officials in the Government Equalities Office also held roundtables with various groups, including: one on the topic of prisons and offender management, which was attended by FPFW; one with women’s organisations and charities, which was attended by FPFW and WP; one with LGBT organisations, which was attended by Stonewall, GI and Mermaids; and one focused on Wales, which was attended by Stonewall Cymru.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2018 17:15:02 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

1019888

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
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	EnAble Fund for Elected Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, with reference to the Written Statement of 17 May 2018 on Access to Elected Office for Disabled People, HCWS695, when she plans to publish further information on the scheme; and how candidates for the English local elections in 2019 can apply to the new fund.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	198797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>On 3 December, the Minister for Women and Equalities launched the £250,000 EnAble Fund for Elected Office to support disabled candidates, primarily for the forthcoming English local elections in 2019.</p><p>This is an interim fund while the Government undertakes a programme of work with disability stakeholders to help major and smaller political parties better support disabled candidates. Disability Rights UK, the largest pan-disability organisation in the UK, supported by the Local Government Association, will deliver the fund.</p><p>The EnAble Fund is now open for candidates to apply and political parties have been notified. Further information is available via this link: <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.disabilityrightsuk.org%2Fenablefund&amp;data=02%7C01%7CK-Fleming%40dfid.gsx.gov.uk%7Ca83811582c854972abef08d6560dbe3a%7Ccdf709af1a184c74bd936d14a64d73b3%7C0%7C0%7C636791014374268948&amp;sdata=37EH5RdTTrxNwH%2FtZDEscPNn3b8hnd3a%2FWPNttcRRqk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/enablefund</a>.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2018 17:16:33 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1019958

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Internet: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to publish the joint White Paper with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on online harms.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	198820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government intends to publish a White Paper in Winter 2018/19, which will set out our plans to tackle online harms and set clear responsibilities for tech companies to keep UK citizens safe.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2018 17:31:25 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1019450

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse: Greater London
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 has been provided by his Department for (a) domestic violence prevention programmes and (b) services to support victims of domestic violence in (i) London and (ii) the London borough of Lewisham.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	198335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy sets out an ambitious programme to make tackling VAWG everybody’s business.</p><p>Over this spending review period, we are providing £100 million of dedicated funding to tackle VAWG. VAWG services are mainly commissioned at a local level by Police and Crime Commissioners, local authorities and health commissioners. The Government’s VAWG National Statement of Expectations encourages such decisions to be taken at a local level and driven by local need.</p><p>We created a £17 million 3-year VAWG Service Transformation Fund, which is funding projects across 41 areas in England and Wales to embed local best practice and ensure that early intervention and prevention, not crisis response, is the norm.</p><p>Over £2.4m is supporting six London Boroughs, including Lewisham, to deliver domestic abuse focused projects aiming to prevent future or further perpetration and protect victims and survivors.</p><p>£900,000 is supporting three innovative prevention programmes, in Sutton, Lambeth and Waltham Forest, and £1.4m of the funding is supporting projects to enhance the support and response for victims of domestic abuse. More details of the funding are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/violence-against-women-and-girls-service-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/violence-against-women-and-girls-service-transformation-fund-successful-bids-2017-to-2020</a></p><p>Additionally, the Mayors Office of Policing and Crime (MOPAC) are being provided with £2.86M to 2020 from the Police Transformation Fund to support the Drive project, a preventative response to priority high risk perpetrators of domestic abuse</p><p>The Home Office also supports the national VAWG Helplines and recently committed funding of up to £1.1m per annum for these services until 2021.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2018 17:29:31 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1019518

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fireworks: Injuries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases are known to officials of his Department of people who have been injured due to the misuse of fireworks since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Alyn and Deeside
tabling member printed	Mark Tami
uin	198264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not collect the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2018 17:21:14 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1383 label Biography information for Mark Tami

1019525

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Missing Persons
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 are registered as missing in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	198180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this data centrally. Individual police forces hold information about current missing persons incidents. Annual missing people statistics, broken down to police force level, are published by the National Crime Agency’s Missing Person’s Unit <a href="http://missingpersons.police.uk/en/resources/downloads)." target="_blank">(http://missingpersons.police.uk/en/resources/downloads).</a></p><p>We are working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) to deliver a National Register of Missing Persons (NRMP) which will enable us to have a snapshot of live missing incidents across police forces in England and Wales. This will assist officers when they encounter a missing person particularly if that missing person is outside their home force area.</p><p>We are currently working towards the NRMP to be in use operationally in 2020/2021.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2018 17:25:45 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1019536

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Serious Violence Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions the Serious Violence Taskforce has met.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	198366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Serious Violence Taskforce has met 5 times since it was established. The first meeting was on 26 April and the Home Secretary has since chaired four meetings of the Taskforce on 11 June, 17 July, 22 October and 21 No-vember. The Taskforce is next due to meet on 9 January 2019.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2018 17:23:19 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1019538

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Crimes of Violence: International Cooperation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has plans to host an international violent crime symposium.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	198367
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the Serious Violence Strategy, the Home Office hosted an International Violent Crime Symposium on 14 November.</p><p>The event brought together around 100 leading international and UK academics, senior police leaders, experts and practitioners, including academics and senior law enforcement officers from the United States, Sweden, Canada, Netherlands and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The Symposium provided an opportunity to hear how other countries are responding to the increases in violence that they have experienced.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/12/2018 17:27:07 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh