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783283

registered interest
date	03/11/2017
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate his Department has made of the average time taken to process a personal independence payment application.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	111320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>The latest available data on the average clearance time (end to end decision) taken to process a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim from registration to DWP decision can be found in table 5A for normal rule claims and table 5B for Special Rules for the Terminally ill claims in the file “Data Tables: Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to July 2017” at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-2017</a></p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 13/11/2017 12:57:02 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

782821

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents have been recorded in each category of hate crime in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	111085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office collects information on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police, by monitored strand. The latest statistics are published in the ‘Hate crime, England and Wales, 2016 to 2017’ statistical bulletin, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2016-to-2017</a></p><p>This Government is committed to tackling hate crime. The UK has a strong legislative framework to tackle hate crime. We are working across Government with police, (including National Community Tensions Team), the Crown Prosecution Service and community partners to send out a clear message that hate crime will not be tolerated and we will vigorously pursue and prosecute those who commit these crimes.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 07/11/2017 15:54:27 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

782823

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
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 steps her Department is taking to improve the Disclosure and Barring Service checking service.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	111100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Baring Service (DBS) has a governance framework set out in the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 and a performance framework agreed with the Home Office. The DBS regularly reports on performance and risk to its Board and Home Office Ministers.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 06/11/2017 17:28:59 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

782827

registered interest
date	02/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Nurseries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what childcare facilities her Department makes available for its staff; how much her Department spent (a) overall and (b) per child on those facilities in the last 12 months; and how many of her Department's staff use those facilities.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	111064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>Staff in the Department can utilise the Westminster Holiday Play Scheme. This is a childcare facility that takes place during school holidays, open to children from the age of 4 years and 9 months up to 15 years’ old. It is run by a private company on behalf of a consortium of departments, through a contract led and administered by BEIS. It currently operates at 4 London locations. Parents/guardians meet more than half of the costs for children attending this scheme, but the Department pays either £14.78 or £15.68 (dependent on the age of the child) towards each day’s use of the scheme.</p><p>During FY 2016/17, Home Office has recorded spend of £4045.84 on this play scheme. The Department does not collate details on the number of individual staff members who made use of the scheme or on the amounts spent per child.</p><p>More widely, the Home Office operates a Childcare Voucher Salary Sacrifice Scheme for staff. Staff can choose to take part of their salary (up to £243 per month) in the form of childcare vouchers. As the vouchers are exempt from Tax and NI, a saving is made. The vouchers can be used to help meet the costs of a range of registered childcare.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 07/11/2017 14:59:42 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

782166

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Children
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 how the changes to the National Referral Mechanism announced on 17 October 2017 will affect children; and whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of implementing multi-agency decision-making in cases involving potential child victims of trafficking.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	110815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2017 answer text <p>The recently announced package of reforms for the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) incorporated a number of measures that will improve the NRM process for children. These measures were informed by an evaluation of an 18 month pilot testing changes to the NRM process, including multi-agency decision-making, for both adult and child cases.</p><p>The creation of a single, expert unit within the Home Office, to make decisions about whether somebody is a victim of modern slavery, will replace the current case management units in the National Crime Agency and UK Visas and Immigration, and will be separate from the immigration system. A priority for the new unit will be to ensure that it has the right balance of diverse expertise to be able to make effective decisions.</p><p>The creation of an independent multi-agency panel to review all negative NRM decisions will not only increase confidence in the decision making process but will also significantly add to the scrutiny each case currently receives.</p><p>In addition, we will roll out Independent Child Trafficking Advocates (ICTAs) nationally, and continue testing innovative ways of supporting trafficked children through the £2.2m funding we granted as part of the Child Trafficking Protection Fund. We will also explore how to make the NRM decision-making process more ‘child-friendly’, including looking at how we communicate NRM decisions to children and considering how local authorities can contribute to the decision-making process in a more consistent and structured way.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 07/11/2017 15:50:56 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

782169

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to roll out the Independent Child Trafficking Advocate scheme nationally.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	110804
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>The Minister for State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability announced on 26 October that this Government remains committed to rolling out Independent Child Trafficking Advocates (ICTAs) nationally.</p><p>That is why we have implemented ICTAs in three Early Adopter Sites (Greater Manchester, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and nationally in Wales) in order to make sure we implement the right model which best supports the specific and diverse needs of these incredibly vulnerable children.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 06/11/2017 17:29:49 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

782171

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery
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 number of organisations which have failed to publish a statement under section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 within the timeframes set out in Government guidelines; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	110772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government estimates that 9,000-11,000 businesses are required to publish statements. We do not have a definitive list of those businesses or a specific estimate of non-compliance. There are two independent websites which collate published statements at <a href="https://tiscreport.org" target="_blank">https://tiscreport.org</a> and <a href="http://www.modernslaveryregistry.org" target="_blank">www.modernslaveryregistry.org</a></p><p>The Government is taking action to improve compliance. We recently wrote to over 10,000 businesses that may be required to publish statements reminding them of their obligations and pointing them towards relevant guidance. We have also strengthened the wording in our guidance to set out our expectations for these statements more clearly.</p><p>In October the Government also launched a new ‘Business Against Slavery Forum’. This aims to establish a new partnership between Government and business to accelerate progress in tackling modern slavery. It will focus on sharing best practice and building new initiatives to tackle modern slavery, including improving business engagement with the Modern Slavery Act 2015.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 06/11/2017 17:37:31 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

782172

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds a central list of the IT and digital assets of its arm's-length bodies.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	110729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office holds information on those IT and digital assets provided by the Home Office to Arms Lengths Bodies and are supported by the Home Office Data Digital and Technology function. Some services supporting Arms Lengths Bodies are provided under arrangements managed directly by the bodies themselves and they would hold the relevant asset information.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 06/11/2017 17:37:43 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

782321

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
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, how each department responsible for the Government's Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy are contributing to her Department's development of (a) the Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill and (b) the non-legislative package supporting the Bill.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	110925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government recognises that tackling domestic abuse and supporting victims requires a robust cross-government approach. Departments are contributing to the development of both the Domestic Abuse Bill and accompanying non-legislative package through rigorous cross-Departmental discussions overseen by the Violence Against Women and Girls Inter-Ministerial Group, chaired by the Home Secretary.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 06/11/2017 17:24:29 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

782322

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Domestic Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what form of consultation her Department is undertaking with (a) civil society organisations and (b) academics and experts on the new definition of domestic violence and abuse to be included in the proposed new Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	110926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>As announced in the Queen’s Speech, our Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill will enshrine for the first time in statute a legal definition of domestic abuse. This will help to ensure domestic abuse is properly understood as more than simply violence, but also as including ongoing mental, emotional and financial abuse.</p><p>We recognise how important it is to get this right which is why we have already been in close contact with key partners and experts to shape our thinking, and we will shortly be launching a comprehensive consultation on all aspects of our domestic abuse programme.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 06/11/2017 17:20:09 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi