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428190

registered interest
date	13/11/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Criminal Investigation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investigations have been commenced by the National Crime Agency into human trafficking, in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	16287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency was established on 7 October 2013 and, at that time there were eight human trafficking investigations under way.</p><p>Between 7 October 2013 and 6 October 2014 the NCA commenced a further eight NCA human trafficking investigations.</p><p>Between 7 October 2014 and 7 Oct 2015 the NCA commenced a further 11 human trafficking investigation. In addition, over the same period, the NCA has provided specialist support to over 60 investigations led by other law enforcement agencies involving human trafficking.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 19/11/2015 17:28:23 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 30601 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

428191

registered interest
date	13/11/2015
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 many cases of online child abuse were referred from the National Crime Agency to individual police forces in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	16288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2015 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency (NCA) disseminates intelligence and information relating to child sexual exploitation for police forces to investigate on a regular basis.</p><p>The NCA made the following number of disseminations in relation to child sexual exploitation and abuse, which includes on-line abuse, to territorial police forces in the UK:</p><p>2014 - 3664</p><p>2015 (to 30 September) - 4071</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 20/11/2015 14:53:24 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 30602 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

172572

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2014 to Question 216266, what the total cost of employing non-frontline staff in her Department has been in each of the past four years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	220058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>The total salary cost of employing non-frontline staff in the Home Department for the past 3 years is set out in Table 1. The comparative cost for frontline staff is also included. <br><br>The Home Office did not collect this data prior to March 2012.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/01/2015 12:54:13 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 220058 Table.xlsx title Table - PQ 220058 previous answer version 37863 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

168320

registered interest
date	05/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Legal Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department spent on (a) external legal advice and counsel and (b) internal legal services in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	217472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p>Home Office Legal Costs, by financial year <br><br>Year Total £000s <br>2013-14 80,591 <br>2012-13 65,436 <br>2011-12 44,048 <br>2010-11 39,485 <br><br>Note <br>On 1 October 2013, the Home Office legal branch transferred to the Treasury Solicitor’s Department (as part of a wider consolidation of government legal services). Thus, all historic spend on the Home Office legal branch has been treated as external legal costs, to ensure that year-on-year figures are comparable. <br><br>This government has been working to remove the opportunities for abusive litigation in the immigration system. The Immigration Act 2014 has replaced the old multiple decision points with a single decision notice, cutting out the multiple opportunities to bring a legal challenge under the previous legislation. It also reduces the number of immigration decisions that can be <br>appealed from 17 to 4, whilst introducing a quick and cost-effective system of Administrative Review to correct case-working errors – keeping unnecessary litigation out of the courts. It also makes more appeals non-suspensive, allowing us to deport certain harmful individuals before their appeals are heard if there is no risk of serious irreversible harm.</p><p /> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/01/2015 16:44:39 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 32783 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

168063

registered interest
date	04/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Personnel Management
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 her Department employs in human resources; how many of these are paid more than (a) £40,000, (b) £50,000, (c) £75,000 and (d) £100,000; how much was spent on outside human resources or recruitment consultants last year; and what her Department's total spend on human resources was last year.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	217151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The latest information the Department holds relating to the number and associated costs of staff employed in human resources activities are for the six month period ending 30th September 2014 (1st April 2014 to 30th September <br>2014). <br><br>The Department directly employs 210 staff (197.93 Full Time Equivalent) on Civil Service Human Resources activities. <br>a) 38 staff are paid above £40,000;<br>b) 60 are paid above £50,000;<br>c) 5 are paid above £75,000; and<br>d) Fewer than 5 are paid above £100,000.<br><br>A further 157.25 (FTE) civil servants in other Departments provided Shared and Expert Services (including Complex Casework, Employee Policies, Learning, Organisation Development &amp; Design, and recruitment activities) (from 1st <br>October 2014 74.48 (FTE) moved to Steria Shared Services Connected Ltd).<br><br>Together these staff provide HR services for a Home Office population of 32,004 (FTE). The total cost of these HR services for the six month period was £9.98 million. It is not possible to aggregate the previous two quarters to make a whole year figure, as there have been changes to what is being counted between the quarterly and half yearly figures.<br><br>It has not been possible to provide information on the following:<br>a) The cost of recruitment consultancy is included in the above overall consultancy cost figures associated with the HR function and the recruitment element cannot be disaggregated;<br>b) Department's total spend on human resources for the last financial year. Over the last 18 months the Home Office has undergone significant transformation: UKBA and HMPO staff moved into core Home Office; Immigration <br>Enforcement and United Kingdom Visas and Immigration were formed; and back office enabling services have been streamlined. The last annual survey related to the period 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013 and was succeeded by 3 quarterly <br>surveys. New biannual surveys now take place in line with midyear and end of year Departmental reporting responsibilities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/12/2014 14:55:48 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 32518 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

167530

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Official Cars
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cars from the Government Car Service have been allocated to her Department in each of the last four years; and what the total cost to her Department has been of using these cars in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	216870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>The spend and number of cars are as follows:<br><br>Financial Year Number of Car Journeys Spend<br>10-11 2,937 £237k<br>11-12 1,310 £3.2m<br>12-13 n/a 541k<br>13-14 n/a 233k<br><br>The Government Car Service stopped individual cars in April 2012, and pool cars were introduced. Therefore, there is no individual journey data available from 1 April 2012.<br><br>In 2011/12 financial year, one-off costs for fleet cars purchased is included in spend.<br><br>For comparison purposes, from 2005 -2010, the total spend was a total of £14.5m.</p><p /> <p>This is broken down as follows:<br><br></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Spend</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-2006</p></td><td><p>£937k</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006-2007</p></td><td><p>£5.8m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-2008</p></td><td><p>£2.2m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-2009</p></td><td><p>£2.5m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-2010</p></td><td><p>£3.1m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br><br>This Government's record therefore represents a significant saving to the taxpayer.</p><p /> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/12/2014 18:03:29 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 31896 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

167534

registered interest
date	02/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2014 to Question 215990, for which campaigns advertisements have been placed on social media; and how much was spent in that fashion on each such campaign.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	216938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The Home Office has used social media as one of many channels and approaches to deliver crime prevention and public awareness communications campaigns. <br><br>The attached table outlines the campaigns for which advertisements have been placed on social media, and a breakdown of how much was spent on this channel per campaign by the Department over the past five financial years. <br><br>The same points to note apply, specifically:<br>• Spend includes net media costs, excluding production and related fees, and VAT.<br>• Costs for 2014/15 shows campaign spend to date. <br>• There was no spend in the 2010-11 Financial Year due to a Government-wide freeze on marketing and advertising spend.<br>Costs regarding ‘other activity related to social media’ include the cost to measure online conversation (‘buzz monitoring’) on social media channels as a way to evaluate campaign effectiveness.</p><p /> <p /> <p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/12/2014 18:01:13 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 216938 TABLE.docx title Spending on Campaigns previous answer version 31895 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

166574

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2014 to Question 215386, how many of the suspicious activity reports were followed up in each year; and how many (a) investigations, (b) enforcement actions, (c) referrals to other agencies and (d) prosecutions there were as a result in each year.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	216267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>Suspicious activity reports (SARs) are submitted under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 or the Terrorism Act 2000 as a result of suspicion formed by the reporting sector. The SARs are then disseminated by the Financial Intelligence <br>Unit to end users who have direct access via a secure computer portal appropriate for the confidentiality of the data. This direct access then allows end users to use SARs for a variety of investigative and intelligence purposes. <br>No central record is held relating to the ultimate use of SARs data by these end users and therefore no data is available relating to how many investigations or enforcement actions may have resulted from SARs. A report providing an assessment of the operation of the SARs regime is published annually on the NCA website, the link is below: <a href="http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/suspicious-activity-reports-sars/94-sars-annual-report-2013" target="_blank">http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/suspicious-activity-reports-sars/94-sars-annual-report-2013</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 04/12/2014 09:30:18 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 31172 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

166035

registered interest
date	25/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what amount her Department spent on (a) advertisements placed on social media websites, (b) other promotional activities on social media, (c) social media consultants and (d) other activity related to social media in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	215990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>The total spend since April 2010 by the Department in total is:<br>a) Advertising placed on social media websites: £460,389<br>b) Other promotional activities on social media: £20,000<br>c) Social media consultants: £0<br>d) Other activity related to social media: £31,064<br>The following table outlines spend by the Department on social media advertising and promotional activity over the past five financial years.<br>To note:<br>• Spend includes net media costs, excluding production and related fees, and VAT.<br>• Costs for 2014/15 shows campaign spend to date. <br>• There was no spend in the 2010-11 Financial Year due to a Government-wide freeze on marketing and advertising spend.<br>• Costs regarding ‘other activity related to social media’ include the cost to measure online conversation (‘buzz monitoring’) on social media channels as a way to evaluate campaign effectiveness.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/12/2014 15:40:38 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 215990 TABLE.doc title Spend by the department on social media. previous answer version 30603 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

164407

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Information Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff have been employed by her Department's press office in each of the last five years; how many such staff were paid more than (a) £40,000, (b) £50,000, (c) £75,000 and (d) £100,000 in each such year; and what the total cost of her Department's press office was in those years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	215705
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of staff that were employed by the press office at 31 March of each year. It also shows the number of staff that cost the department over £40,000, £50,000, £75,000 and £100,000 in each year and <br>what the total cost of the press office was in each of those years. <br><br>These costs to the department do not represent salaries earned. The press office operates 24 hours a day 365 days a year and the figures include weekend and on-call allowances, overtime as well as pension and national insurance <br>costs.<br><br>Extra allowances were paid in 2012/13 for staff that were seconded to the Government Olympic Communication hub.<br><br>Since June 2010 we have reduced the number of posts by over 3,000 across the Home Office by centralising some corporate functions. The Home Office is still set to reduce overall spending by 23 per cent in real terms by 2015.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2009/10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staff</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>43</p></td><td><p>49</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>51</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2009/10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over £40,000</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over £50,000</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over £75,000</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over £100,000</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total cost £</p></td><td><p>2,176,898</p></td><td><p>2,356,422</p></td><td><p>2,310,054</p></td><td><p>2,474,550</p></td><td><p>2,564,513</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 03/12/2014 15:13:54 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 30460 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson