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167527

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	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department last reviewed the time taken by the West Midlands Constabulary to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service application.
tabling member constituency	Aldridge-Brownhills
tabling member printed	Sir Richard Shepherd
uin	216892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department receives monthly updates from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) on the time taken by police forces, including West Midlands police, to complete local police checks as part of the disclosure application process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 16/12/2014 14:34:28 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 31894 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	295 label Biography information for Sir Richard Shepherd

167528

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	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what sanctions her Department has available to take against a Constabulary which takes over 90 working days to process a Disclosure and Barring Service application.
tabling member constituency	Aldridge-Brownhills
tabling member printed	Sir Richard Shepherd
uin	216893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The agreed standard for police disclosure performance is set out in a Service Level Agreement between each force and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The standards include a requirement for forces to complete 100% of <br>local checks within 60 days. Where performance falls below this standard, action will be taken. The DBS will work with the force to develop and agree a recovery plan. Performance will be monitored against the plan and further <br>action agreed as appropriate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/12/2014 12:07:13 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 31892 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530
tabling member	295 label Biography information for Sir Richard Shepherd

167529

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	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her officials last met officials from the Department for Health to consider the effect of late Disclosure and Barring clearances on the employment of hospital and care home workers.
tabling member constituency	Aldridge-Brownhills
tabling member printed	Sir Richard Shepherd
uin	216894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2014 answer text <p>The DBS hold quarterly meetings with NHS Professionals, a DBS Registered Body which supports applicants from the hospital and care home sectors in making disclosure applications. No complaints have been raised by this Registered Body with <br>regard to delays with applications.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/12/2014 12:10:39 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 31891 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	295 label Biography information for Sir Richard Shepherd

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

167532

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	Ministers' Private Offices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many departmental officials work in the private office of each of her Department's Ministers.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	216851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>The number of departmental officials working in each Ministerial private office is set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/12/2014 14:57:03 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name Table PO Staff as of Dec 2014.xls title Officials given in grades.
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