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167812

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Direct Marketing: Fraud
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 tackle fraud perpetrated by telephone cold callers.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	216979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>The Government takes all types of fraud extremely seriously. We are working closely with law enforcement agencies and industry to pursue and disrupt criminal activities, ensure that members of the public have the knowledge to protect themselves, and prevent criminals from using telephones to exploit vulnerable victims. <br><br>The City of London Police is the national lead force for fraud, and runs Action Fraud, the national reporting point for fraud and financially-motivated cyber crime. All reports made to Action Fraud are analysed for links between separate victims of the same scams. Where these are found, intelligence packages are sent to the police force best placed to consider enforcement action. In 2013/14, there were 40,000 intelligence reports disseminated to police forces in this way. We expect this number to increase this year and are working with the City of London Police, and their partners, to deliver further improvements. <br><br>We are also working closely with Financial Fraud Action UK, which has issued advice to consumers on how to protect themselves from phone scammers. This includes recognising when they might be targeted by criminals, and knowing not to give out sensitive details, such as four-digit PIN numbers, which a bank will never ask for.<br><br>Finally, Ofcom has worked closely with the Metropolitan Police Service, Action Fraud and landline providers to prevent criminals exploiting phone lines to trick and defraud members of the public. The majority of landline providers have reduced the time a call remains open after one party hangs up down to two seconds. This makes it much more difficult for criminals to exploit phone lines in this way.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 05/12/2014 17:05:48 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

167819

registered interest
date	03/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Energy
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 has taken to insulate her Departmental estate in order to improve energy efficiency; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	217046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>Insulation of the Departmental estate is routinely considered and installed to comply with building regulations, energy-efficiency programmes and through the application of the mandatory Government Buying Standards (GBS) for construction and refurbishment projects. Specific details are held at project level and not centrally recorded or aggregated.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 05/12/2014 16:22:11 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

167112

registered interest
date	01/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Renewable Energy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the capacity of her Department's buildings for the micro-generation of renewable energy; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	216590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>A ground source heat pump and photovoltaic panels have been installed at sites used by the College of Policing. With our facilities managers, we are constantly reviewing the latest technologies against the potential of our assets to reduce carbon emissions.</p><p /> <p><br>An example is the new passport office being constructed alongside the River Wear in Durham which is associated with a hydro-power turbine beinginstalled as part of the wider development.</p><p /> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 03/12/2014 16:31:40 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

166773

registered interest
date	28/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes involving fraud were recorded by Action Fraud but not passed on as part of intelligence packages to police forces for enforcement action in each of the last five reporting years.
tabling member constituency	Dover
tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
uin	216410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold data centrally on the number of fraud offences that were recorded by Action Fraud but were not passed to police forces for enforcement action. <br><br>This is because fraud offences that are passed to police forces may sometimes have been recorded by Action Fraud in previous years. It is therefore not possible to determine exactly how many of the crimes recorded in a given year were not passed to police forces to take enforcement action.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 03/12/2014 15:15:05 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

166776

registered interest
date	28/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime: East of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the monetary value was of assets (a) seized and (b) frozen under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in each police force area in the East of England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
uin	216374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>The amount recovered by each police force under the Proceeds of Crime Act and the previous asset recovery legislation is provided in Table A. There is no provision for police forces to freeze assets under the Proceeds of Crime Act; however we are able to provide force-by-force breakdowns of the amount of cash seized and value of property subjected to a restraint order during a criminal investigation or proceeding. A proportion of this may be deemed by the courts to be subject to forfeiture or confiscation. Table B provides figures for the amounts seized or restrained.<br><br>More assets have been recovered since 2010 than ever before, although prosecutors face greater difficulties in obtaining restraint orders following the impact of the Court of Appeal decision in Windsor &amp; Ors v Crown Prosecution Service [2011] EWCA Crim 143. The Government has taken steps to address this by bringing forward provisions in the Serious Crime Bill, which is currently before Parliament, to lower the legal test for restraint in order to make it easier to obtain restraint orders earlier in investigations.We are working with operational partners to ensure that the use of restraint orders is considered at the outset of all appropriate investigations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 216374 - Table A.docx title Table A - Assets recovered 2 file name PQ 216374 - Table B.doc title Table B - Cash seized & assets restrained question first answered 05/12/2014 16:27:31 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

166573

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Staff
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 25 November 2014 to Question 215331, what her Department's total headcount has been in each of the last five years; and which executive agencies were included in the figure given for frontline staff in that Answer.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	216266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The total headcount (full time equivalents) in the Home Department for the last five years is set out in Table 1. <br><br>The Executive Agencies included in these figures are:<br>• Criminal Records Bureau (to December 2012)<br>• UK Border Agency (to 1st April 2013)<br>• National Fraud Authority (from March 2012 to 31st March 2014)<br>• Identity and Passport Service/HM Passport Office</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/12/2014 12:57:36 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 216266 Table.xlsx title Department Headcount
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

166574

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
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 25 November 2014 to Question 215386, how many of the suspicious activity reports were followed up in each year; and how many (a) investigations, (b) enforcement actions, (c) referrals to other agencies and (d) prosecutions there were as a result in each year.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	216267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>Suspicious activity reports (SARs) are submitted under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 or the Terrorism Act 2000 as a result of suspicion formed by the reporting sector. The SARs are then disseminated by the Financial Intelligence <br>Unit to end users who have direct access via a secure computer portal appropriate for the confidentiality of the data. This direct access then allows end users to use SARs for a variety of investigative and intelligence purposes. <br>No central record is held relating to the ultimate use of SARs data by these end users and therefore no data is available relating to how many investigations or enforcement actions may have resulted from SARs. A report providing an assessment of the operation of the SARs regime is published annually on the NCA website, the link is below: <a href="http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/suspicious-activity-reports-sars/94-sars-annual-report-2013" target="_blank">http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/suspicious-activity-reports-sars/94-sars-annual-report-2013</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 04/12/2014 09:30:18 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 31172 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

166576

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
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 25 November 2014 to Question 215386, how many of the suspicious activity reports submitted to the National Crime Agency or the Serious Organised Crime Agency in the last five years were connected to (a) alleged terrorism and (b) each other category of offence.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	216268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>Suspicious activity reports (SARs) are submitted to the National Crime Agency under two pieces of legislation: the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 for suspicions of money laundering, or the Terrorism Act 2000 for suspicions of terrorist <br>financing. The predicate offence in each case is not required when submitting a SAR and therefore no record of other categories of offences is held.<br><br>The following table details the numbers of SARs submitted to the NCA and SOCA in the last five years which were submitted under suspicions of terrorist financing and those submitted under suspicion of money laundering offences.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total Number of SARs Submitted</p></td><td><p>Number of SARs</p><p>Submitted under TACT 2000</p></td><td><p>Number of SARs submitted under POCA 2002</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009 – 2010</p></td><td><p>240,582</p></td><td><p>599</p></td><td><p>239,983</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 – 2011</p></td><td><p>247,601</p></td><td><p>662</p></td><td><p>246,939</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011 – 2012</p></td><td><p>278,665</p></td><td><p>695</p></td><td><p>277,970</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 – 2013</p></td><td><p>316,527</p></td><td><p>856</p></td><td><p>315,671</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 – 2014</p></td><td><p>354,186</p></td><td><p>1342</p></td><td><p>352,844</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/12/2014 12:57:08 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

166578

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Departmental Responsibilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many days between 7 October 2013 and 3 November 2014 (a) she, (b) the Minister for Crime Prevention, (c) the Minister for Immigration and Security, (d) the Minister for Policing, (e) the Minister for Organised Crime and (f) the hon. Member for Forest of Dean attended meetings (i) in her Department, (ii) attended visits in their ministerial capacity and (iii) had contact with their Private Office outside of her Department.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	216248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>Home Office Ministers have regular meetings with Ministerial colleagues and others as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous administrations, it is not the Government's practice to <br>provide details of all such meetings.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 01/12/2014 15:41:25 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

166584

registered interest
date	27/11/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Slavery
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 to the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North of 20 October 2014 to Question 210663, whether any of the budget for raising awareness of modern slavery has been spent on online or print articles in publications other than The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	216343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office launched a marketing campaign in July 2014 to raise awareness of Modern Slavery in the UK and promote a new Modern Slavery helpline and website. National press partnerships with The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday <br>Telegraph, the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday formed one part of the campaign, which included sponsored online and print articles in these publications and their respective websites: ‘Mail Online’ and ‘The Telegraph’ website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/12/2014 17:09:55 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 31163 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield