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807176

registered interest
date	15/12/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	21st Century Fox: Sky
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications of Disney's takeover of 21st Century Fox for the Competition and Markets Authority's investigation into the anticipated acquisition of Sky Plc by 21st Century Fox; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	119824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>On 14 December, Disney and the 21st Century Fox announced details of an agreement for the sale of 21st Century Fox to Disney. This includes its interests in two major UK Media companies Sky PLC and Endemol/Shine. 21st Century Fox currently remains as the bidder for Sky PLC and Disney and 21st Century Fox confirmed in their joint announcement that they want the 21st Century Fox bid for Sky - announced in December 2016 – to continue. The current Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) inquiry into the Fox/Sky merger will therefore continue.</p><p>The CMA are of course fully aware of the Disney bid and it is for them to consider how to account for this development in their inquiry. The CMA are due to publish their interim findings on the merger in mid-January and provide their final report by 6 March. I will then consider all the relevant information and make the final decision on the merger.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 21/12/2017 14:17:05 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

535554

registered interest
date	12/07/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Female Genital Mutilation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the modal age is of girls experiencing female genital mutilation; whether and how this modal age has changed over the last 15 years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	42562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a crime and it is child abuse. We will not tolerate a practice that can cause extreme and lifelong physical and psychological suffering to women and girls.</p><p>As set out in the new statutory multi-agency FGM guidance, FGM is usually carried out between infancy and the age of 15, however the age at which it is carried out varies enormously according to the community.</p><p>We will not stop FGM until we have changed attitudes within communities. We are working closely with community organisations, faith groups and survivors through the FGM Unit which is carrying out an ongoing programme of outreach with local community groups and professionals across England and Wales.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/07/2016 10:30:22 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

535169

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Government plans to ratify the Istanbul Convention.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	Natalie McGarry
uin	42317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>The previous Government signed the Istanbul Convention to show the strong commitment it placed on tackling violence against women and girls and this Government remains committed to ratifying it.</p><p>The UK already complies with the vast majority of the Convention’s articles but further amendments to domestic law, to take extra-territorial jurisdiction over a range of offences (as required by Article 44), are necessary before the Convention can be ratified.</p><p>We are currently considering the approach to implementing the extra-territorial jurisdiction requirements in England and Wales and will seek to legislate when the approach is agreed and Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/07/2016 15:19:13 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4428 label Biography information for Natalie McGarry

535279

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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 Department's target waiting time is for a Disclosure and Barring Service local intelligence check to be completed by the Metropolitan Police Service.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	42337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>In 2015/16, the Disclosure and Barring Service processed 87% of all applications within 21 days, against a target of 85%.</p><p>Some of the over four million applications received each year need to be referred to one or more police forces for further checks. There is a service level agreement between the Disclosure and Barring Service and police forces in relation to the time taken to complete these local disclosure checks.</p><p>These standards are: -</p><p>85% of police checks must be completed in 14 days;</p><p>90% of police checks must be completed in 18 days;</p><p>95% of police checks must be completed in 25 days; and - 100% of police checks must be completed in 60 days.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 42336 question first answered 13/07/2016 15:36:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

535286

registered interest
date	11/07/2016
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 Department's target waiting time is for a Disclosure and Barring Service local intelligence check to be completed by the police.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	42336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>In 2015/16, the Disclosure and Barring Service processed 87% of all applications within 21 days, against a target of 85%.</p><p>Some of the over four million applications received each year need to be referred to one or more police forces for further checks. There is a service level agreement between the Disclosure and Barring Service and police forces in relation to the time taken to complete these local disclosure checks.</p><p>These standards are: -</p><p>85% of police checks must be completed in 14 days;</p><p>90% of police checks must be completed in 18 days;</p><p>95% of police checks must be completed in 25 days; and - 100% of police checks must be completed in 60 days.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley grouped question UIN 42337 question first answered 13/07/2016 15:36:32 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

533877

registered interest
date	08/07/2016
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, if she will make an assessment of the time taken to process counter-terrorism checks for job applications in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) other constituent parts of the UK.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Danny Kinahan
uin	42255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>Counter-terrorism checks conducted by the Home Office form part of the national security vetting process required for employment in the Home Office.</p><p>We continue to reduce the processing time for all national security vetting checks. Processing times will vary from case to case and are not broken down by constituent parts of the UK.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/07/2016 16:11:45 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4381 label Biography information for Danny Kinahan

533880

registered interest
date	08/07/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Racial Hatred
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance the Government has issued to local police forces in response to the recent increase in reported racist incidents.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	42266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>We have been working with the police at national level to monitor the increase in reported hate crime over the past few weeks and to ensure that local forces have the necessary guidance and assistance to respond. Operational guidance on hate crime was issued by the College of Policing to all forces in 2014.</p><p>Police forces are responding robustly to recent incidents, and victims can be reassured that their concerns about hate crime will be taken seriously by the police and courts. Any decisions regarding resourcing of front-line policing are a matter for chief constables in conjunction with their police and crime commissioner.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/07/2016 15:54:22 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

532970

registered interest
date	05/07/2016
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, for how long since the date of initial application the longest outstanding disclosure and barring check has been outstanding.
tabling member constituency	Hackney South and Shoreditch
tabling member printed	Meg Hillier
uin	41946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2016 answer text <p>The longest outstanding application for an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Certificate is 25 months.</p><p>It would not be appropriate to comment further on this specific case, but there are a number of factors which can affect the timely completion of checks. These include the length of time it can take for an employer to deal with the initial application, the accurate completion of the application form, the clarity of the information provided, the existence of conviction or non-conviction information, legal challenges and the operational effectiveness of the disclosure units of the police forces involved in the enhanced process.</p><p>In some cases, forces will ask DBS to clarify some details provided by the applicant which requires further investigation and this can cause further delays.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 13/07/2016 15:26:47 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1524 label Biography information for Dame Meg Hillier

532523

registered interest
date	04/07/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) how much has been paid to officials of her Department as an additional incentive for working overtime on top of their normal overtime payments, (b) how much has been offered to any individual staff member for a one-off occurrence, (c) how many staff received such incentivised additional payments, (d) from which budgets such payments were made and (e) at which Ministerial or official level the business cases or payment approval for such payments was made in (i) each of the last five years and (ii) 2016 to date.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	41810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>We do not hold this information centrally and providing it would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 11/07/2016 16:25:12 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

528919

registered interest
date	27/06/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hate Crime: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances of (a) religious and (b) hate crime were reported to the police in London in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	41330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office has collected information from police forces in England and Wales on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police since 2011/12. Data for religious hate crime and total crime measured across the five monitored strands (religion, race, sexual orientation, disability and transgender) are given in the attached table.</p><p>Data for 2015/16 are due to be published in October 2016.</p><p>As stated by the Office for National Statistics, action taken by police forces to improve their compliance with the National Crime Recording Standard has led to improved recording of crime over recent years, especially for violence against the person offences. Together with a greater awareness of hate crime, and improved willingness of victims to come forward, this is likely to be a factor in the increase in hate crimes recorded by the police shown in the table.</p><p>This Government is committed to tackling hate crime. The UK has one of the strongest legislative frameworks in the world to tackle hate crime. We are working across Government with police, (including National Community Tensions Team), the Crown Prosecution Service and community partners to send out a clear message that hate crime will not be tolerated and we will vigorously pursue and prosecute those who commit these crimes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 07/07/2016 12:30:36 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name Table - 41330.xls title Hate crimes recorded
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West