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510120

registered interest
date	11/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Psychoactive Substances Act 2016
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when those parts of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 which have not come into force are expected to come into force; and what the reason is for the time taken to bring all provisions of that Act into force.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	33406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>We expect to commence the Psychoactive Substances Act in its entirety in the spring. In line with the advice of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, we are in the final stages of putting in place a programme of testing to demonstrate the psychoactivity of a substance prior to commencement of the Act. The timing of commencement has always been subject to consideration of all the activity necessary across the UK for the provisions to come into force</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/04/2016 16:09:34 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

510123

registered interest
date	11/04/2016
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 steps she is taking to prevent the emotional abuse of women.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	33470
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government has introduced a new offence of coercive or controlling behaviour in an intimate or family relationship which came into force on 29 December 2015. The offence carries a maximum of 5 years imprisonment. Guidance for professionals on the new offence was issued on 5 December 2015.</p><p>The new offence will mean victims who experience coercive and controlling behaviour that stops short of serious physical violence, but amounts to extreme psychological and emotional abuse, can see their perpetrators brought to justice. Criminalising domestic abuse demonstrates this Government’s commitment to tackling all forms of abuse and improving the protection available to victims.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/04/2016 16:06:38 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

510124

registered interest
date	11/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cannabis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to prevent the growing of cannabis.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	33472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>Growing cannabis, whether for personal use or organised supply, is illegal and those who do so can face significant jail sentences.</p><p>The investigation and prevention of illegal cannabis cultivation is an operational matter for the police. The police use proactive operations and seizures to target dealers and the organised gangs behind illegal cannabis farms and promoting cooperation with all partners including the fire service, energy companies and the property sector.</p><p>They are also working to continually improve their knowledge and understanding of the trade through activity-led intelligence gathering.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/04/2016 16:08:25 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

506634

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Judicial Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many judicial reviews against her Department have (a) been initiated and (b) were successful since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
uin	32996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>No central records are kept of (i) the number of judicial reviews initiated against the department since 2010; (ii) the cost of defending such challenges; or (iii) the number of such challenges which have been successful. It would incur disproportionate cost to try to acquire this information.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 33213 question first answered 13/04/2016 16:09:18 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

506649

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cannabis
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 quantity of cannabis recovered from cannabis factories in the UK in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Dartford
tabling member printed	Gareth Johnson
uin	32979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold data centrally on the quantity of cannabis recovered specifically from cannabis factories in the UK. However, the Home Office does hold data on the total quantity of cannabis seized in England and Wales.</p><p>The statistical release ‘Drug Seizures in England and Wales, 2014/15’ covers the number and quantity of drug seizures made by both police forces and Border Force in England and Wales from 2006/07 to 2014/15.</p><p>The publication contains the number and quantity of seizures of herbal cannabis, resin cannabis, and cannabis plants for England and Wales only. The Home Office does not hold information centrally on the number of drug seizures in Scotland or Northern Ireland.</p><p>The publication can be found at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/seizures-of-drugs-in-england-and-wales-financial-year-ending-2015</p><p>Data specifically on the quantity of cannabis seizures, made by police forces and Border Force in England and Wales, can be found in Summary Table 2 of the data tables.</p><p>Border Force publishes the number and quantity of seizures of drugs at the UK border on Gov.UK:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-force-transparency-data-february-2016</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/04/2016 16:06:17 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson

506660

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Judicial Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost of defending judicial reviews brought against her Department has been since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
uin	33213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>No central records are kept of (i) the number of judicial reviews initiated against the department since 2010; (ii) the cost of defending such challenges; or (iii) the number of such challenges which have been successful. It would incur disproportionate cost to try to acquire this information.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 32996 question first answered 13/04/2016 16:09:18 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

508951

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Human Trafficking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to tackle people trafficking.
tabling member constituency	South Suffolk
tabling member printed	James Cartlidge
uin	904392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>This Government is committed to stamping out Modern Slavery, including human trafficking. Our Modern slavery Act gives law enforcement agencies the tools they need to tackle this heinous crime, places a duty on large businesses to report on their steps to prevent modern slavery in their global supply chains, and ensures that perpetrators can receive suitably severe sentences of up to life imprisonment.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 11/04/2016 15:56:06 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge

484440

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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: Ethnic Groups
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will bring forward policies to tackle violence against women and girls in the BAME communities.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	32150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government published a new Violence Against Women and Girls strategy on 8 March committing £80 million between 2016 and 2020 to protect women and girls from violence and abuse. The increased funding will help to deliver our goal to work with local commissioners to ensure a secure future for rape support centres, refuges and the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Forced Marriage Units, whilst driving a major change across all services which promote early intervention and prevention.</p><p>The strategy sets out how we will support local areas in implementing tailored services for victims who experience different forms of discrimination or additional barriers to accessing support. This includes the launch of a Service Transformation Fund from 2017 which will help to meet the needs of women and girls experiencing multiple disadvantage including victims from black and minority ethnic communities.</p><p>We continue to challenge the cultural attitudes that may underpin practices of FGM and forced marriage. We have criminalised forced marriage, set up a specialist FGM Unit, created a mandatory duty for frontline professionals to report FGM to the police, and will publish multi-agency FGM guidance for front-line professionals which we will put on a statutory footing.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 11/04/2016 16:34:41 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

484451

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish her Department's proposals on repealing or amending Section 24 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Kelvin Hopkins
uin	32160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government intends to publish its intentions about the review of Section 24 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 shortly.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 11/04/2016 12:30:35 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	2 label Biography information for Kelvin Hopkins

483055

registered interest
date	21/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of online retail fraud was to retailers in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	31815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested.</p><p>The Home Office runs an annual Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS) which asks business premises in different sectors about their experience of various crime types, including fraud, in the latest year.</p><p>In order to keep the length of the survey, and hence the burden on respondents, to a minimum, businesses are only asked about the cost of the latest incident of each crime type experienced in the year. Therefore, it is not possible to provide an aggregate cost of fraud or overall crime to businesses in the retail sector.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 31795 question first answered 24/03/2016 13:32:19 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan