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444708

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date	13/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Advisory Services
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 8 December 2015 to Question 18753, whether the assessment of the FRANK website was based solely on preventing drug use.
tabling member constituency	Eastleigh
tabling member printed	Mims Davies
uin	22485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The purpose of the Frank website survey 2013 was to assess: website users' experiences, the information they accessed, their general satisfaction with the website and their intended behaviour after visiting the website.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/01/2016 17:46:10 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 39550 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies

444722

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Obesity: Harassment
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 reduce the hate mail and verbal attacks on people who are overweight.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	22506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>Weight is not a protected characteristic under discrimination or hate crime legislation. However, there are protections in place for all citizens against hatred and verbal abuse.</p><p>The Government is absolutely clear that abusive and threatening behaviour – in whatever form and whoever the target – is totally unacceptable. This includes harassment committed in person, or using phones or the internet. The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 has provisions for prosecution where harassment has taken place on two or more occasions. Harassment involves improper, oppressive and unreasonable conduct that is targeted at an individual and calculated to alarm them or cause them distress.</p><p>The Malicious Communications Act 1988 prohibits sending letters or emails which are grossly offensive, threatening or known or believed to be false by the sender, within England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/01/2016 15:27:24 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

444259

registered interest
date	12/01/2016
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: Standards
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 18 September 2015 to Question 8917, what recent assessment she has made of the performance of the Disclosure and Barring service; and what the average processing time is for disclosure applications.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	22099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The average processing time for disclosure applications was 15.3 days in December 2015, the latest month for which figures are available. The DBS operates to a target to issue 95% of disclosure certificates within 56 days (8 weeks) and 94.3% were issued within this target in December 2015.</p><p>DBS is working closely with those forces who performance does not meet turnaround time targets.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/01/2016 17:44:17 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 39555 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

443301

registered interest
date	07/01/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	US President: Candidates
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 threat to minority communities in the UK of language used by US presidential election candidates which her Department defines as extreme.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	21428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>HM Government does not routinely comment on assessments of alleged extremist behaviour by individuals. Tackling the threat that extremism poses to all UK communities is at the heart of HMG’s Counter-Extremism Strategy, and we are working in partnership with communities across the country to do so.</p><p>In July 2015, the Prime Minister charged Louise Casey with carrying out a review of ways to boost integration in UK communities to combat the divisive threat of extremism. An interim report for the review is due to be published in the early part of this year.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/01/2016 12:30:09 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

442710

registered interest
date	05/01/2016
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, how many (a) requests were made for and (b) individuals passed Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) adult first checks in each year since 2012; what the average time taken was for that check to be carried out; and how many of those passed subsequently failed their DBS check, and were therefore not issued with a DBS certificate.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	21044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Adult First is a service provided by the Disclosure and Barring Service that can be used in cases where, exceptionally, and in accordance with the terms of Department of Health guidance, a person is permitted to start work with adults before a DBS Certificate has been obtained.</p><p>An individual neither passes nor fails an Adult First check and a certificate is not withheld if a person is on the Adults barred list. If a person is on the list, that fact will be disclosed on the completed DBS certificate.</p><p>There are two outcomes to an Adult First check and the Registered Body is either advised that no match exists for this person on the current Adults barred list, or they must wait for the full disclosure as a match against the Adults barred list cannot be ruled out at this stage. Further investigation is then carried out through the normal disclosure checking process and if a match against the Adults barred list is confirmed, it will be disclosed on the certificate.</p><p>The table below shows the number of requests that were made for DBS Adult First checks, the average time taken to complete Adult First checks and the number of times the Registered Body received a ‘wait for the full disclosure’ or ‘no match found’ response between December 2012 and November 2015.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Number of Adult First Requests</p></td><td><p>Average Number of Days to Conduct Adult First Check</p></td><td><p>Number of “No Match Found” responses</p></td><td><p>Number of “wait for full Disclosure” responses</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-12 to Mar-13</p></td><td><p>50,175</p></td><td><p>1.07</p></td><td><p>39,200</p></td><td><p>10,975</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-13 to Mar-14</p></td><td><p>166,287</p></td><td><p>1.08</p></td><td><p>130,333</p></td><td><p>35,954</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-14 to Mar-15</p></td><td><p>173,503</p></td><td><p>1.19</p></td><td><p>135,792</p></td><td><p>37,711</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-15 to Nov-15</p></td><td><p>116,602</p></td><td><p>1.06</p></td><td><p>91,782</p></td><td><p>24,820</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/01/2016 17:58:09 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

442713

registered interest
date	05/01/2016
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, how many referrals the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) received for DBS checks from (a) local authorities, (b) keepers of statutory professional registers and (c) supervisory authorities in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	21045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>The following table provides the number of disclosure checks received for “Keepers of Registers” and “Supervisory Authorities” in each year since December 2012. Information relating to local authorities cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Number of disclosure check receipts</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Period</p></td><td><p>Keepers of Registers</p></td><td><p>Supervisory Authorities</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December -12 to March-13</p></td><td><p>300</p></td><td><p>5,140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April -13 to March -14</p></td><td><p>2,624</p></td><td><p>42,694</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April -14 to March -15</p></td><td><p>2,156</p></td><td><p>70,966</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April -15 to November -15</p></td><td><p>308</p></td><td><p>43,474</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br> <br></p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/01/2016 17:56:22 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq