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452468

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2016 to Question 25396, if she will place in the Library the recovery plan in place at the Metropolitan Police Service for improving performance in completing Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	27013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The operational performance plans of police disclosure units are matters for Chief Constables in association with Police and Crime Commissioners.</p><p>The DBS regularly publishes detailed datasets showing statistics against internal performance standards which form the basis of its monthly reports to the Home Office. This includes performance against their target to issue 95% of all disclosures within 56 days and the number of disclosure applications in progress each month. This can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-1-disclosure-progress-information-disclosed-and-update-service-subscriptions.</p><p>DBS also publishes datasets showing statistics against service level agreements with police forces. These apply to the performance of police disclosure units and can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-5-police-disclosure-unit-performance.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 27015 27016 question first answered 22/02/2016 14:59:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

452470

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Disclosure and Barring Service
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 9 February 2016 to Question 25396, if she will place in the Library a copy of the formal monthly performance reports provided by the Disclosure and Barring Service in each of the last six months.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	27015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The operational performance plans of police disclosure units are matters for Chief Constables in association with Police and Crime Commissioners.</p><p>The DBS regularly publishes detailed datasets showing statistics against internal performance standards which form the basis of its monthly reports to the Home Office. This includes performance against their target to issue 95% of all disclosures within 56 days and the number of disclosure applications in progress each month. This can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-1-disclosure-progress-information-disclosed-and-update-service-subscriptions.</p><p>DBS also publishes datasets showing statistics against service level agreements with police forces. These apply to the performance of police disclosure units and can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-5-police-disclosure-unit-performance.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 27013 27016 question first answered 22/02/2016 14:59:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

452471

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2016 to Question 25396, if she will publish data from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) on the performance of police forces against the service level agreement standards for the time taken to complete local DBS checks over the last six months.
tabling member constituency	North Norfolk
tabling member printed	Norman Lamb
uin	27016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The operational performance plans of police disclosure units are matters for Chief Constables in association with Police and Crime Commissioners.</p><p>The DBS regularly publishes detailed datasets showing statistics against internal performance standards which form the basis of its monthly reports to the Home Office. This includes performance against their target to issue 95% of all disclosures within 56 days and the number of disclosure applications in progress each month. This can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-1-disclosure-progress-information-disclosed-and-update-service-subscriptions.</p><p>DBS also publishes datasets showing statistics against service level agreements with police forces. These apply to the performance of police disclosure units and can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dbs-dataset-5-police-disclosure-unit-performance.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 27013 27015 question first answered 22/02/2016 14:59:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb

452479

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Radicalism
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 implications of the reference to a number of protected characteristics in paragraph seven of the Government's Counter-Extremism Strategy, Cm 9148, for the effect of the Equality Act 2010 on all the protected characteristics it includes.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	27102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government is required to impact assess its policies against the protected characteristics as set out in the Equality Act 2010. I am satisfied that the Counter-Extremism Strategy demonstrates compliance, where relevant, with Section 149 of the Equality Act and that due regard has been made to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations.</p><p>The Counter-Extremism Strategy aims to tackle extremism in all its forms and reduce the harm it causes, iIncluding harms such as discrimination, harassment and victimisation. To tackle these harms the strategy focuses on four areas:</p><p>• Countering extremist ideology;</p><p>• Building partnerships;</p><p>• Disrupting extremists; and</p><p>• Building more cohesive communities.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/02/2016 15:53:51 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

452482

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Broken Rainbow UK
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with the charity Broken Rainbow on renewing funding from her Department; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South
tabling member printed	Stewart Malcolm McDonald
uin	27123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling domestic violence and abuse. Broken Rainbow plays an important role in supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender victims of domestic abuse, and the Home Office provided £120,000 to support the Broken Rainbow helpline for the 2015/16 financial year.</p><p>We are carefully considering ongoing funding of national helplines, in close consultation with helpline providers, and decisions on renewing funding will be announced shortly.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/02/2016 17:12:51 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 46420 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4461 label Biography information for Stewart Malcolm McDonald

452488

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
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, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making Disclosure and Barring Service certificates portable and valid from organisation to organisation by the person concerned.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
uin	26982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) offers an Update Service which can deliver savings in both time and costs. With the certificate holder’s permission, a potential employer or another person with a legitimate interest can check via a DBS online portal whether any new information has been recorded since the certificate was issued. Only if there has been a change is there any need for the individual to obtain a new certificate. This enables portability of certificates between organisations. It is only applicable where the certificate holder is moving within the same workforce – such as work with children or work with vulnerable adults. Where the person is moving between workforces a new certificate will be required, as there may be different factors affecting decisions about whether information is appropriate for disclosure.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/02/2016 14:56:29 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

453443

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
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 assessment she has made of the timeliness of the processing of Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	903676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The average processing time for disclosure applications is 15.3 days and 94.3% of applications are issued within 8 weeks, as of December 2015. Some Enhanced Certificate applications are referred to relevant police forces. DBS is working closely with the small number of forces whose performance does not meet turnaround targets.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/02/2016 17:25:27 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

452043

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	HM Passport Office: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what public consultation there has been on the proposed closure of 15 HM Passport Office interview offices.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	26844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>Under the planned changes to HM Passport Offices <ins class="ministerial">the vast majority of passport application interviewees will see no change to their travel time. In a small number of cases passport application interviewees will have to travel further but this should not be more than 65 miles or one and a half hours from their previous closest office.</ins> <del class="ministerial">no customer will need to travel for more than either one and a half hours or 65 miles and the vast majority of passport application interviewees will see no change to their travel time.</del> The decision to deliver greater value for money by reducing surplus capacity for interviews was clear, therefore public consultation on the changes was not applicable.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/02/2016 16:46:01 question first ministerially corrected 22/03/2016 11:41:48 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 46104 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

452046

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Fringe Benefits
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 in her Department and non-departmental public bodies receive (a) home to work travel allowance, (b) a car allowance and (c) subsidised health insurance.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	26820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not pay a home to office travel allowance for staff to travel to their normal place of work. There is one employee of an Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) who is paid an allowance for home to work travel.</p><p>Neither the Home Office nor its NDPBs pays any of its staff a car allowance.</p><p>Neither the Home Office nor its NDPBs provides subsidised health insurance to any of its staff.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/02/2016 15:59:33 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

452048

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Aviation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of general aviation flights that arrived in the UK (a) had correctly completed general aviation reports, (b) had incorrectly completed general aviation reports and (c) failed to complete a general aviation report in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	26774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>This information is not recorded in a reportable field on Home Office databases. Obtaining such information would therefore require a manual search of records and could only be achieved at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 22/02/2016 16:52:53 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson