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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

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

483056

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	Employment: Vetting
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 effect on unemployed people starting employment of the time taken by the Disclosure and Barring Service to process applications.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	31817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>In the vast majority of cases, disclosure certificates are issued in a timely manner. Performance data relating to February 2016 indicates that average processing time for Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) applications was 15 days. It is important that checks undertaken are thorough and a proportion of the applications received by the DBS need to be referred to one or more police forces as part of the enhanced disclosure process.</p><p>The DBS is reliant on police forces completing their checks in a timely manner. A small number of forces have experienced difficulties in meeting the service level agreements in place between the DBS and each force. Whilst no assessment has been made of the impact of timeliness on unemployed customers, it is recognised that delays may create problems for some people. The DBS is working closely with those forces whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets. We will not compromise when it comes to the safety of children and vulnerable adults.</p><p>The number of applications to the DBS from people living in the Clacton constituency that have taken more than 60 days to process in the last 12 months is listed in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Number of certificates issued by DBS to applicants in Clacton constituency</p></td><td><p>Applications that took longer than 60 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2015– February 2016</p></td><td><p>5,707</p><p> </p></td><td><p>322</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 31818 31819 question first answered 24/03/2016 17:22:59 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 53542 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

483057

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	Vetting: Clacton
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 from people in Clacton constituency have taken more than 60 days to process in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	31818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>In the vast majority of cases, disclosure certificates are issued in a timely manner. Performance data relating to February 2016 indicates that average processing time for Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) applications was 15 days. It is important that checks undertaken are thorough and a proportion of the applications received by the DBS need to be referred to one or more police forces as part of the enhanced disclosure process.</p><p>The DBS is reliant on police forces completing their checks in a timely manner. A small number of forces have experienced difficulties in meeting the service level agreements in place between the DBS and each force. Whilst no assessment has been made of the impact of timeliness on unemployed customers, it is recognised that delays may create problems for some people. The DBS is working closely with those forces whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets. We will not compromise when it comes to the safety of children and vulnerable adults.</p><p>The number of applications to the DBS from people living in the Clacton constituency that have taken more than 60 days to process in the last 12 months is listed in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Number of certificates issued by DBS to applicants in Clacton constituency</p></td><td><p>Applications that took longer than 60 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2015– February 2016</p></td><td><p>5,707</p><p> </p></td><td><p>322</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 31817 31819 question first answered 24/03/2016 17:22:59 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 53541 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

483058

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	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the time taken to process Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	31819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>In the vast majority of cases, disclosure certificates are issued in a timely manner. Performance data relating to February 2016 indicates that average processing time for Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) applications was 15 days. It is important that checks undertaken are thorough and a proportion of the applications received by the DBS need to be referred to one or more police forces as part of the enhanced disclosure process.</p><p>The DBS is reliant on police forces completing their checks in a timely manner. A small number of forces have experienced difficulties in meeting the service level agreements in place between the DBS and each force. Whilst no assessment has been made of the impact of timeliness on unemployed customers, it is recognised that delays may create problems for some people. The DBS is working closely with those forces whose performance does not meet turnaround time targets. We will not compromise when it comes to the safety of children and vulnerable adults.</p><p>The number of applications to the DBS from people living in the Clacton constituency that have taken more than 60 days to process in the last 12 months is listed in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Number of certificates issued by DBS to applicants in Clacton constituency</p></td><td><p>Applications that took longer than 60 days</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2015– February 2016</p></td><td><p>5,707</p><p> </p></td><td><p>322</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 31817 31818 question first answered 24/03/2016 17:22:59 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

483185

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	Violent and Sex Offender Register: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what representations she has received from the North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner on the removal of people convicted of child abuse and rape from the Sex Offenders Register.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
tabling member printed	Susan Elan Jones
uin	32030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office has not received any representations from the North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner on the removal of people convicted of child abuse and rape from the sex offenders’ register.</p><p>Offenders who are on the register indefinitely are only able to seek a police review after 15 years. In 2012, the Home Office issued detailed guidance to police forces on assessing applications for review. All decisions to release a sex offender from the notification requirements must be authorised by a senior police officer. Public safety is at the heart of all decisions taken by police, and those who continue to pose a risk will remain on the sex offenders' register, if necessary for life.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/03/2016 13:31:40 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3956 label Biography information for Susan Elan Jones

483190

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	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 has taken to strengthen its data collection strategy to help combat human trafficking.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	31936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>We are strengthening data collection on human trafficking and other forms of modern slavery in several ways. In the Modern Slavery Act we introduced a duty on named public authorities to notify the Home Office every time they have reasonable grounds to believe they have encountered a victim of modern slavery.</p><p>These notifications can be anonymous so that data is collected even if the potential victim does not want to engage with the authorities. We are reviewing the National Referral Mechanism form, so that it better captures key data about potential victims and perpetrators. Polaris and Unseen UK are working with other NGOs and law enforcement to launch an enhanced modern slavery helpline later this year which will capture more data and help to shine a light on the scale and nature of this appalling crime.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/03/2016 13:31:12 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion