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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

510125

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	Home Office: Resignations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of officials of her Department resigned in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	33293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The number and proportion of officials who have resigned from the Home Office in each of the last 6 years is shown in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 18/04/2016 11:05:54 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name Table 33293.xlsx title Home Deparment resignations
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

510127

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	Marriage: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Government's policy is on the prosecution of husbands of child brides resident in the UK, who married that bride outside of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	33257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2016 answer text <p>We made forced marriage a criminal offence in 2014 to better protect victims and send a clear message that this abhorrent practice is totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated in the UK. The offence relates to where a UK resident or national forces a child into marriage overseas as well as in the UK.</p><p>Our dedicated Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) leads efforts to combat forced marriage both at home and abroad. Where cases involve a minor in the UK, the FMU work with the relevant statutory agencies to provide advice and expertise to ensure that appropriate safeguarding measures are taken. Where a case involves a minor overseas, the FMU work with consular officers overseas and statutory agencies in the UK to ensure safeguarding obligations are fulfilled and appropriate action is taken where necessary.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/04/2016 11:02:54 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

510131

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	Knives: Young People
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 prevent young people obtaining knives online.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	33399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>Reducing violence including knife crime is a priority for this Government. In addition to our work with the police and other partners we are working closely with retailers to encourage the responsible sale of knives both in-store and online.</p><p>There are already strict laws on the sale of knives and on how knives can be marketed. It is illegal to sell knives to anyone under 18 (except for folding knives with a blade that does not exceed 7.62cm). The Home Secretary chaired a roundtable with major retailers and the British Retail Consortium on 14 March to encourage them to sell knives more responsibly and discuss what steps they can take to ensure that they have strong age verification processes in place.</p><p>On 23 March the Home Secretary announced agreement of a new set of principles with major retailers to prevent the underage sales of knives both in-store and online, together with commitments on staff training, safe displays, and sales in online marketplaces.</p><p>The agreement is available online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sale-of-knives-voluntary-agreement-by-retailers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sale-of-knives-voluntary-agreement-by-retailers</a></p><p>We will be working with the British Retail Consortium to promote and extend the principles to other retailers.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/04/2016 16:39:52 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

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

506654

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	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces take longest to process applications from the Disclosure and Barring Service; and what the average processing time for such application is for each police force in England.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
uin	33231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) processes applications in date order and is reliant on the police completing their checks in a timely manner. In very exceptional cases, where it is apparent that a delay is likely to cause undue hardship to an applicant, the DBS will do all it can to expedite the process by raising an escalation with the relevant police force.</p><p>The table below shows the average time spent by each police force in England to process disclosure applications between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Force Name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Days Taken By Force</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Avon And Somerset</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire</p></td><td><p>10.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of London</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleveland</p></td><td><p>8.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>13.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>14.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon And Cornwall</p></td><td><p>4.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>76.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>15.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>16.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucester</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>12.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p>11.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>10.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humberside</p></td><td><p>9.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>18.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>7.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>9.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Metropolitan</p></td><td><p>85.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p>1.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>17.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>17.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p>13.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>21.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>10.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p>8.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>13.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex</p></td><td><p>17.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>60.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>7.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Mercia</p></td><td><p>9.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>21.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>12.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 33232 question first answered 18/04/2016 11:05:02 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier

506655

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	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her policy is on priority categories in Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
uin	33232
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) processes applications in date order and is reliant on the police completing their checks in a timely manner. In very exceptional cases, where it is apparent that a delay is likely to cause undue hardship to an applicant, the DBS will do all it can to expedite the process by raising an escalation with the relevant police force.</p><p>The table below shows the average time spent by each police force in England to process disclosure applications between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Force Name</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average Days Taken By Force</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Avon And Somerset</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bedfordshire</p></td><td><p>3.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cambridgeshire</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire</p></td><td><p>10.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of London</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cleveland</p></td><td><p>8.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>13.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derbyshire</p></td><td><p>14.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Devon And Cornwall</p></td><td><p>4.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>76.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Durham</p></td><td><p>15.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Essex</p></td><td><p>16.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucester</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>12.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hampshire</p></td><td><p>11.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>10.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humberside</p></td><td><p>9.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>18.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>7.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>9.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merseyside</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Metropolitan</p></td><td><p>85.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Norfolk</p></td><td><p>1.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>17.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>17.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northumbria</p></td><td><p>13.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nottinghamshire</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>21.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>10.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Suffolk</p></td><td><p>8.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey</p></td><td><p>13.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sussex</p></td><td><p>17.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>60.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>7.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Mercia</p></td><td><p>9.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>21.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>12.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 33231 question first answered 18/04/2016 11:05:02 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier