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1350858

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
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: Females
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 potential merits of funding a public awareness campaign on male violence against women and girls.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	41068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>We have recently published the <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Ftackling-violence-against-women-and-girls-strategy&amp;data=04%7C01%7CHelen.Fielder2%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C11357129b42e414d951b08d962f6cbe9%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637649634381120586%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=rIoilVk7SXbVF6ccv0ecocU9vR%2Bdaj%2BgROOPi5WpA9c%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy</a> to help ensure that women and girls are safe everywhere - at home, online and on the streets. The new strategy commits this government to using communications to create behaviour change that targets and challenge perpetrators, educates young people about healthy relationships and consent, and ensures victims can recognise abuse and non-contact sexual offending. The Strategy was informed by an unprecedented 180,000 responses from the general public and stakeholders as part of our Call for Evidence.</p><p>The campaign follows the swift action at the beginning of the pandemic last year where the Government launched the #YouAreNotAlone campaign. The campaign raised awareness of domestic abuse and the support available to those suffering from it, signposting those seeking support to the gov.uk domestic abuse support page <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-abuse-how-to-get-help" target="_blank">Domestic abuse: how to get help - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a> where they can access support services, including Refuge’s National Domestic Abuse Helpline. The campaign reached millions of people through digital advertising, and specialist community engagement activity with campaign materials translated into 16 languages.</p><p>We also launched and promoted the ‘Ask for ANI’ codeword scheme which provides a simple and discreet way for domestic abuse victims to signal that they need immediate help using a codeword in participating pharmacies. Almost half of all pharmacies across the UK, including Boots, are now participating in the scheme, following the launch in January 2021.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/09/2021 11:57:53 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1351479

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration: Afghanistan
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 make it her policy to expand the Afghan Interpreters Scheme to include people engaged in UK-linked initiatives and human rights activists who are at risk of being targeted by the Taliban.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	41185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>The Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) launched on 1 April 2021. The scheme enables any current or former locally employed staff who are assessed to be under serious threat to life priority relocation to the UK regardless of their employment status, rank or role, or length of time served.</p><p>Our Afghan relocation policy is one of the most generous in the world and has already supported over 8,000 directly employed former Afghan staff and their families to start new lives in the UK.</p><p>The Home Office is committed to providing protection for vulnerable people fleeing Afghanistan. The Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme will welcome up to 5,000 vulnerable Afghans to the UK, who have been forced to flee the country, in its first year, with up to a total of 20,000 in the long-term.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/09/2021 15:42:12 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1351480

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Afghanistan
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 take steps to establish humanitarian visas and a means for people to apply for those visas from Afghanistan to reduce dangerous journeys for people seeking asylum.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	41186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>On Wednesday 18 August, the Government announced the launch of a new bespoke Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), to welcome up to 20,000 vulnerable Afghans to the UK. The scheme will focus on those most at risk and in its first year will resettle up to 5,000 vulnerable Afghans. This scheme delivers on the Government’s commitment in the New Plan for Immigration to create safe and legal routes for those in fear of persecution and oppression in their home country. The Government is working urgently to open this route and further details will be announced in due course on <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fafghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cresettlementpolicy%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca9be65ff77af4d5811dd08d9631c425e%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637649795277172676%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=6sX9%2FP5X4P%2Ff%2FHZpSmOlxqpOmNeoP6l%2BZisVeHJuXVs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p><p>The new route is separate from, and in addition to, the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), which offers any current or former locally employed staff who are assessed to be under serious threat to life priority relocation to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/09/2021 15:27:05 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1351507

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the visa status is of Afghan staff who have worked, or currently work, for British non-governmental organisations.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	40823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>Our Afghan relocation policy is one of the most generous in the world and has already supported over 8,000 directly employed former Afghan staff and their families to start new lives in the UK through the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP).</p><p>The Home Office is committed to providing protection for vulnerable people fleeing Afghanistan. The Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme will welcome up to 5,000 vulnerable Afghans to the UK, who have been forced to flee the country, in its first year, with up to a total of 20,000 in the long-term.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/09/2021 15:46:22 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1351509

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Afghanistan
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 make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing humanitarian visas for people seeking asylum from Afghanistan to avoid people making dangerous journeys to pursue asylum.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	41335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>On Wednesday 18 August, the Government announced the launch of a new bespoke Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), to welcome up to 20,000 vulnerable Afghans to the UK. The scheme will focus on those most at risk and in its first year will resettle up to 5,000 vulnerable Afghans. This scheme delivers on the Government’s commitment in the New Plan for Immigration to create safe and legal routes for those in fear of persecution and oppression in their home country. The Government is working urgently to open this route and further details will be announced in due course on <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fafghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cresettlementpolicy%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca9be65ff77af4d5811dd08d9631c425e%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637649795277172676%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=6sX9%2FP5X4P%2Ff%2FHZpSmOlxqpOmNeoP6l%2BZisVeHJuXVs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p><p>The new route is separate from, and in addition to, the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), which offers any current or former locally employed staff who are assessed to be under serious threat to life priority relocation to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/09/2021 15:35:07 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1351536

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the proportion of the 20,000 refugees under the new resettlement scheme that will come from (a) within Afghanistan's borders and (b) neighbouring countries in which Afghan refugees are residing.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	41341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>On Wednesday 18 August, the Government announced the a new bespoke Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), to welcome up to 20,000 vulnerable Afghans to the UK. The scheme will focus on those most at risk, and in its first year will resettle up to 5,000 vulnerable Afghans. This scheme delivers on the Government’s commitment in the New Plan for Immigration to create safe and legal routes for those in fear of persecution and oppression in their home country. The Government is working urgently to open this route and further details will be announced in due course on <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fafghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cresettlementpolicy%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca9be65ff77af4d5811dd08d9631c425e%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637649795277172676%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=6sX9%2FP5X4P%2Ff%2FHZpSmOlxqpOmNeoP6l%2BZisVeHJuXVs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p><p>The new route is separate from, and in addition to, the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), which offers any current or former locally employed staff who are assessed to be under serious threat to life priority relocation to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/09/2021 14:27:26 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1351555

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Afghanistan
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 UK resettlement programmes will offer protection to women and children still in Afghanistan.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	40955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>On Wednesday 18 August, the Government announced the launch of a new bespoke Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), to welcome up to 20,000 vulnerable Afghans to the UK. The scheme will focus on those most at risk and in its first year will resettle up to 5,000 vulnerable Afghans. This scheme delivers on the Government’s commitment in the New Plan for Immigration to create safe and legal routes for those in fear of persecution and oppression in their home country. The Government is working urgently to open this route and further details will be announced in due course on <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fafghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cresettlementpolicy%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca9be65ff77af4d5811dd08d9631c425e%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637649795277172676%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=6sX9%2FP5X4P%2Ff%2FHZpSmOlxqpOmNeoP6l%2BZisVeHJuXVs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p><p>The new route is separate from, and in addition to, the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), which offers any current or former locally employed staff who are assessed to be under serious threat to life priority relocation to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 40956 question first answered 06/09/2021 15:21:49 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1351557

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her policy to resettle 5,000 vulnerable people from Afghanistan in the next 12 months is in addition to her pre-existing plan to resettle about 5,000 refugees in the first year of operation of the UK Resettlement Scheme.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	40956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>On Wednesday 18 August, the Government announced the launch of a new bespoke Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), to welcome up to 20,000 vulnerable Afghans to the UK. The scheme will focus on those most at risk and in its first year will resettle up to 5,000 vulnerable Afghans. This scheme delivers on the Government’s commitment in the New Plan for Immigration to create safe and legal routes for those in fear of persecution and oppression in their home country. The Government is working urgently to open this route and further details will be announced in due course on <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fafghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cresettlementpolicy%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca9be65ff77af4d5811dd08d9631c425e%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637649795277172676%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=6sX9%2FP5X4P%2Ff%2FHZpSmOlxqpOmNeoP6l%2BZisVeHJuXVs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p><p>The new route is separate from, and in addition to, the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), which offers any current or former locally employed staff who are assessed to be under serious threat to life priority relocation to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins grouped question UIN 40955 question first answered 06/09/2021 15:21:49 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

1351571

registered interest
date	18/08/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Afghanistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the news story entitled Bespoke resettlement route for Afghan refugees announced, published by her Department on 18 August 2021, whether the 20,000 Afghan nationals who will be resettled in the UK will include Afghan staff and volunteers who have worked for or with international NGOs to support efforts to extend democracy or education in the last twenty years.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	40917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>On Wednesday 18 August, the Government announced the launch of a new bespoke Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme (ACRS), to welcome up to 20,000 vulnerable Afghans to the UK. The scheme will focus on those most at risk and in its first year will resettle up to 5,000 vulnerable Afghans. This scheme delivers on the Government’s commitment in the New Plan for Immigration to create safe and legal routes for those in fear of persecution and oppression in their home country. The Government is working urgently to open this route and further details will be announced in due course on <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fafghan-citizens-resettlement-scheme&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cresettlementpolicy%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ca9be65ff77af4d5811dd08d9631c425e%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C637649795277172676%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=6sX9%2FP5X4P%2Ff%2FHZpSmOlxqpOmNeoP6l%2BZisVeHJuXVs%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p><p>The new route is separate from, and in addition to, the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), which offers any current or former locally employed staff who are assessed to be under serious threat to life priority relocation to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/09/2021 15:02:10 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1349450

registered interest
date	22/07/2021
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, following the UK's exit of the EU, whether she plans to review the regulatory requirements that necessitated the 24 per cent of regulatory testing on animals that was reported to have caused moderate or severe suffering in 2020.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	38428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2021 answer text <p>The requirements for regulatory testing are set by regulatory bodies across Government. The Home Department regulates the use of animals in science through administration and enforcement of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA) which describes that the evaluation of a programme of work is favourable if it is required by law.</p><p>All UK regulations and regulators abide by the principles of the 3Rs (the replacement, reduction and refinement of animal use) and therefore only require animal testing where there are no alternatives and where pain, suffering, distress and lasting harm are minimised to the degree needed to meet the scientific requirements of the regulations.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 06/09/2021 12:08:46 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson