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registered interest
date	07/10/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the biggest pay rise given to someone in her Department was in (a) percentage and (b) cash terms in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	100330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2020 answer text <p>In the last 12 months the biggest percentage pay rise in the Home Office was 9% and the biggest pay rise in cash terms was £7,292.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 15/10/2020 12:58:40 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1179283

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: International Men's Day
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 took to mark International Men's Day on 19 November 2019.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	18562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office recognised International Men’s Day on 19 November 2019 with a news item on our internal intranet site. The story explained the significance of the event and that the day shone a positive light on male role models, fatherhood and men’s issues.</p><p>It also highlighted the importance of good mental health for men. The story included an audio interview with a member of staff who discussed his experience of adoption and fatherhood. All staff had an opportunity to engage in these communications.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 30/06/2020 15:40:36 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

530696

registered interest
date	30/06/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
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 tobacco industry on the Government's commitment to tackle the illicit trade in tobacco products.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	41557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2016 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers have meetings with a wide variety of international partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery. Details of these meetings are passed to the Cabinet Office on a quarterly basis and are subsequently published on the Gov.uk website: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/ministerial-data-home-office</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 05/07/2016 13:40:31 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

529845

registered interest
date	29/06/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Tobacco: Smuggling
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 tackle the illicit trade in tobacco products.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	41449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2016 answer text <p>Border Force routinely searches for illicit tobacco at the border, acting as one element of a comprehensive cross-government Tobacco Strategy. Border Force targets and seizes illicit tobacco products, referring seizures on tonHM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) for prosecution.</p><p>In the Budget 2016, it was announced that Border Force would receive an additional £31 million of funding over four years to increase tobacco detection capability by the equivalent of 150 extra officers. HMRC also received additional resources in the summer Budget 2015 to tackle illicit tobacco.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 04/07/2016 13:23:42 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

518272

registered interest
date	09/05/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people who have had their application for asylum refused but cannot legally be returned to their country of origin.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	36867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>The government expects those who have been refused asylum and who have no lawful basis to remain in the UK to leave at the earliest opportunity. If there is a genuine obstacle that prevents a failed asylum seeker's departure from the UK and they are destitute, they can apply for support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. As of 31 December 2015, a total of 3,821 failed asylum seekers and their dependants were supported under section 4.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 12/05/2016 09:32:02 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

516856

registered interest
date	29/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Criminal Records
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what improvements have been made by the ACRO Criminal Records Office on access to overseas convictions of UK nationals convicted abroad.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	36194
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2016 answer text <p>The UK’s participation in the European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS) since 2012 means that EU Member States are now obligated to notify the UK each time a UK national is convicted of a criminal offence in another state.</p><p>In the last two years, the UK has agreed twelve bilateral agreements with countries outside the EU to improve the exchange of criminal records information (Jamaica, UAE, Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos, Antigua and Barbuda, Ghana, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and St Kitts and Nevis). The UK also receives conviction information on UK nationals with countries on an ad-hoc basis via Interpol.</p><p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office also notifies the ACRO Criminal Records Office when a UK national is subject to criminal proceedings overseas for a serious offence and seeks consular assistance. ACRO have also gained access to the OTRCIS system (Overseas Territory Regional Crime Intelligence System) so that they can now access convictions of British passport holders living in the British Overseas Territories).</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 06/05/2016 14:28:55 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

516858

registered interest
date	29/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Criminal Records: Foreign Nationals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimates she has made of the proportion of cases in which the previous convictions of a foreign offender were (a) checked by the police and (b) passed on to prosecutors in court in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	36195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2016 answer text <p>No figures are held centrally to show the proportion of cases in which previous overseas conviction records of arrested foreign nationals were checked by the police. However, the UK is rolling out nationally a semi-automated process so that when an arrest record is created in a custody suite, an overseas criminal conviction request is prompted. The aim is to ensure that in all cases overseas criminal convictions will be obtained when a foreign national is arrested in the UK.</p><p>In the last three years (2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16) 39,028, 60,226, and 95,156 requests respectively, were made by the police to EU Member States for previous convictions of foreign nationals under the European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS), an increase of over 140% in that time. In those same years, 19,018, 34,549 and 38,890 requests respectively were made by the police to countries outside the EU for previous convictions of foreign nationals, an increase of over 100% in that time.</p><p>No figures are held on the numbers of overseas criminal records which are subsequently passed on to the courts. However, to increase the amount of overseas criminal conviction information available to the courts, the Digital First programme, led by the National Police Chiefs Council, is working to improve the information on Digital Case Files to prompt police to ensure that overseas criminal convictions are obtained and passed on to the courts to inform criminal proceedings and sentencing.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 36188 question first answered 06/05/2016 14:34:31 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

516859

registered interest
date	29/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Criminal Records
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many overseas convictions of UK nationals have been recorded on the Police National Computer in the last year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	36192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2016 answer text <p>The ACRO Criminal Records Office recorded on to the Police National Computer (PNC) conviction notifications of UK nationals convicted (or conviction updated) in the EU and outside the EU for the years specified, as follows:</p><p>EU</p><p>FY13/14 -number of notifications added to PNC - 5,797</p><p>FY 14/15 -number of notifications added to PNC – 8,334</p><p>FY 15/16 -number of notifications added to PNC – 5,873</p><p>Non-EU</p><p>FY13/14 –number of notifications added to PNC - 175</p><p>FY 14/15 -number of notifications added to PNC – 341</p><p>FY 15/16 -number of notifications added to PNC – 593</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 06/05/2016 14:30:01 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

516863

registered interest
date	29/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Criminal Records
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress has been made on improving the processes used by the police in relaying the overseas convictions of offenders to prosecutors in court.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	36188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2016 answer text <p>No figures are held centrally to show the proportion of cases in which previous overseas conviction records of arrested foreign nationals were checked by the police. However, the UK is rolling out nationally a semi-automated process so that when an arrest record is created in a custody suite, an overseas criminal conviction request is prompted. The aim is to ensure that in all cases overseas criminal convictions will be obtained when a foreign national is arrested in the UK.</p><p>In the last three years (2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16) 39,028, 60,226, and 95,156 requests respectively, were made by the police to EU Member States for previous convictions of foreign nationals under the European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS), an increase of over 140% in that time. In those same years, 19,018, 34,549 and 38,890 requests respectively were made by the police to countries outside the EU for previous convictions of foreign nationals, an increase of over 100% in that time.</p><p>No figures are held on the numbers of overseas criminal records which are subsequently passed on to the courts. However, to increase the amount of overseas criminal conviction information available to the courts, the Digital First programme, led by the National Police Chiefs Council, is working to improve the information on Digital Case Files to prompt police to ensure that overseas criminal convictions are obtained and passed on to the courts to inform criminal proceedings and sentencing.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 36195 question first answered 06/05/2016 14:34:31 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

516880

registered interest
date	29/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Criminal Records
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has provided to the Courts and Tribunal Service on obtaining and using overseas conviction data in criminal proceedings.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	36196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>Most criminal records requests made by UK authorities are made by the police, where a subject has been arrested and is the subject of an investigation.</p><p>Where an investigation leads to a criminal prosecution, Prosecutors are required to make the courts aware of all convictions, including overseas convictions, in bail and sentencing hearings. Further, section 144 and schedule 17 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 makes it clear to judges that convictions from foreign jurisdictions should be considered during criminal proceedings, whenever they are available.</p><p>In the last three years (2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16) 39,028, 60,226, and 95,156 requests respectively, were made by the police to EU Member States for previous convictions of foreign nationals under the European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS), an increase of over 140% in that time.</p><p>In those same years, 19,018, 34,549 and 38,890 requests respectively were made by the police to countries outside the EU for previous convictions of foreign nationals, an increase of over 100% in that time.</p><p>To improve the availability of overseas convictions data in criminal proceedings, the Digital First programme, led by the National Police Chiefs Council, is working to improve the information held on Digital Case Files to ensure that overseas criminal convictions are routinely obtained and passed on to the courts.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/05/2016 10:54:48 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies