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523099

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of staff in her Department were (a) payroll and (b) non-payroll staff in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	39385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>Each Home Office Annual Report and Accounts publication includes information relating to payroll (civil servants) and non-payroll (agency and contractors substituting temporarily in civil servant roles as part of our flexible resourcing strategy) staff. Table 1 includes information for each of the financial years from 2010 – 11 to 2014-15. The percentage of non-payroll staff increased in 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15 as the Department operated on a lower overall level of permanent civil servants, which was then complemented by more flexible hires to meet seasonal and other temporary demands.</p><p>Information for the 2015-16 period will be published shortly.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/06/2016 15:55:16 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name Table - 39385.xlsx title Home Office payroll
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

523100

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Publications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department and its executive agencies spent on the publications (a) Who's Who, (b) Burke's Peerage and (c) Debrett's in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	39449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>This information is not available, except at disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/06/2016 15:14:39 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

523108

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: 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 use of child advocates to support social workers working with unaccompanied migrant children.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	39292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>Unaccompanied migrant children are looked after by local authorities, which provide social work support and access to legal representation. Such children are also referred to the Refugee Council’s Children’s Panel for specialist support.</p><p>In addition, the Government ran a trial of independent child trafficking advocates from 8 September 2014 for a period of 12 months across 23 local authorities in England. The trial provided a valuable contribution to our understanding of this area of work and we are currently working with a broad range of interested parties as well as Parliamentarians to further develop our thinking so that we ensure we support trafficked children appropriately. We will update Parliament in due course.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 15/06/2016 14:58:19 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

523216

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Sexual Offences
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 to the public purse has been of investigations into sexual offences in (a) Wiltshire and (b) the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Chippenham
tabling member printed	Michelle Donelan
uin	39526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold this information. It is an operational decision for chief officers to determine the best use of available resources according to local priorities and held to account by their elected Police and Crime Commissioner.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 09/06/2016 14:56:16 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan

522637

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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 applications to the Disclosure and Barring Service had been in process for more than 30 days in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	39043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>As of 31 May 2016, the DBS had 78,596 disclosure applications in progress which were over 30 days old. In 2015/16, the DBS processed 86.9% of applications within 21 days, against a target of 85%.</p><p>In 2014-15 the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) issued 4,111,856 disclosures. 400,883 of these took longer than 30 days.</p><p>The DBS is reliant on police forces completing their checks in a timely manner and is working closely with those forces whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 39045 question first answered 13/06/2016 15:31:21 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

522638

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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 applications the Disclosure and Barring Service has processed in each week of the last six months.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	39044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The number of disclosures dispatched by the Disclosure and Barring Service in each week for each of the last six months is listed in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>W/C Date</p></td><td><p>Total Disclosures Despatched</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>29/11/2015</p></td><td><p>82,679</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/12/2015</p></td><td><p>79,448</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/12/2015</p></td><td><p>76,152</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20/12/2015</p></td><td><p>55,903</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>27/12/2015</p></td><td><p>23,642</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03/01/2016</p></td><td><p>62,541</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/01/2016</p></td><td><p>78,969</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17/01/2016</p></td><td><p>86,479</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>24/01/2016</p></td><td><p>80,221</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31/01/2016</p></td><td><p>79,626</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>07/02/2016</p></td><td><p>69,471</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14/02/2016</p></td><td><p>91,293</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21/02/2016</p></td><td><p>80,038</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28/02/2016</p></td><td><p>86,288</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>06/03/2016</p></td><td><p>81,618</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/03/2016</p></td><td><p>85,742</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20/03/2016</p></td><td><p>69,147</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>27/03/2016</p></td><td><p>67,183</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>03/04/2016</p></td><td><p>19,431</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/04/2016</p></td><td><p>140,612</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17/04/2016</p></td><td><p>83,424</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>24/04/2016</p></td><td><p>84,597</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>01/05/2016</p></td><td><p>73,455</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>08/05/2016</p></td><td><p>84,651</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15/05/2016</p></td><td><p>91,588</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22/05/2016</p></td><td><p>89,172</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>2,003,370</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/06/2016 15:36:59 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

522639

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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 applications to the Disclosure and Barring Service took longer than 30 days to process in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	39045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>As of 31 May 2016, the DBS had 78,596 disclosure applications in progress which were over 30 days old. In 2015/16, the DBS processed 86.9% of applications within 21 days, against a target of 85%.</p><p>In 2014-15 the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) issued 4,111,856 disclosures. 400,883 of these took longer than 30 days.</p><p>The DBS is reliant on police forces completing their checks in a timely manner and is working closely with those forces whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 39043 question first answered 13/06/2016 15:31:21 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

522642

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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 steps her Department is taking to ensure that Adult First applications to the Disclosure and Barring Service are dealt with promptly.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	39042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The Disclosure and Barring Service has a target to complete 98% of Adult First Checks within 48 hours. In 2015/16, 99.3% of such checks were completed within this time frame.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/06/2016 14:51:56 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

522643

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
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 steps her Department is taking to assess how many people have had (a) offers of employment rescinded and (b) their employment terminated due to the time taken for Disclosure and Barring Service checks to be concluded.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	39041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the impact of timeliness on the numbers of offers of employment rescinded or terminated.</p><p>Disclosure and Barring Service performance is closely monitored and in the vast majority of cases (95%), disclosure certificates are issued within 8 weeks (2015/16).</p><p>In 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> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/06/2016 15:26:56 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

522647

registered interest
date	03/06/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting: Dulwich and West Norwood
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has a target for when the time taken to process Disclosure and Barring Service applications for residents of Dulwich and West Norwood constituency will routinely be completed within 60 days or less.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	38962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>In the last 12 months (April 2015 – May 2016), 85% of applications from people living in Dulwich and West Norwood constituency were completed within 60 days.</p><p>The Disclosure and Barring Service is reliant on police forces completing their checks in a timely manner and is working closely with those forces whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/06/2016 16:57:22 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes