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178573

registered interest
date	09/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cybercrime
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 ensure that police forces (a) have a strategy and (b) are properly trained to respond to cybercrime; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	223891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answers I gave to him on 14 January 2015 in response to questions 220035 and 220043.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 16:00:15 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

178574

registered interest
date	09/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investigations into online child abuse have been delayed for 12 months or longer after being reported to the National Crime Agency; and how long the average delay is in investigating such cases.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	223892
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>Every referral of child sexual abuse reported to the National Crime Agency (NCA) is thoroughly assessed and developed. All cases where potential suspects are identified are disseminated to a UK police force, actioned by the NCA, or disseminated to a foreign jurisdiction via Interpol. It is for each of the recipients to assess the intelligence and potential for prosecution and to take executive action appropriately. Information on these investigations is not held centrally, except for NCA investigations. No investigations by the NCA into <br>online child sexual abuse have been subject to delays of 12 months or longer since its inception on 7 October 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 15:57:55 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

178180

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Business: 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 she is taking to strengthen police action against business fraud.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Nick de Bois
uin	223602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>Action Fraud is the national reporting point for fraud and cyber crime. It takes reports of crimes from members of the public and businesses online or via its dedicated helpline. These reports are then analysed by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), which looks for links between separate victims of the same scams, and matches information in Action Fraud reports with other data it holds. The NFIB then prepares intelligence packages and sends these to the police force best placed to consider enforcement action. It also carries out work to disrupt the enablers of this criminality, such as having websites used by criminals taken down.<br><br>Both Action Fraud and the NFIB are part of the City of London Police, which is the national lead force for fraud. The Government brought Action Fraud into the City of London Police in April 2014 to strengthen the end-to-end process for reporting and analysis of these crimes. Action Fraud also has two dedicated single points of contact for business, and continues to host open days for industry and attend business events to ensure understanding, share protective advice and foster close relationships. Action Fraud also circulates real-time information on the latest fraud threats via its website, social media channels and though police forces and businesses.<br><br>The Government is also working closely with law enforcement agencies, industry and third sector partners to support individuals and businesses to be better protected. This includes national and local level action to increase their awareness of the risks and adopting safe online behaviours. The Cyber Streetwise awareness campaign, funded by the National Cyber Security Programme, helps individuals and businesses understand how to stay safe online. The second phase of the campaign, including a refreshed website and online materials, launched in October last year. The Government’s Cyber Information Sharing Partnership, within CERT-UK, is also enabling industry to share <br>information on online threats including fraud, helping to reduce their vulnerability and the impact of online fraud on UK businesses.<br><br>The Home Office has introduced the Commercial Victimisation Survey to better understand and monitor crime against businesses, including fraud and online crime. Findings from the 2012 and 2013 surveys have been published at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-against-businesses" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-against-businesses</a></p><p>Findings from the 2014 survey will be published on 23rd April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 15:23:44 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4002 label Biography information for Nick de Bois

178183

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the current average waiting time is for her Department to process applications for people who are seeking British nationality.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Hancock
uin	223523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The average processing time for applications for British citizenship is 70 days from receipt of application to decision.<br><br>These figures are for the year 1 October 2013 – 30 September 2014, in line with the latest published data.<br><br>This compares with a peak average waiting time of 100 days from 1 October 2008 – 30 September 2009.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 15:58:50 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	59 label Biography information for Mr Mike Hancock

178187

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people seeking British nationality have been waiting more than (a) nine months and (b) one year for their application to be processed having paid all due fees.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Hancock
uin	223524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>(a) between 9 – 12 months 369 people.<br>(b) More than 12 months 487 people.<br><br>These figures are as of the end of September 2014, in line with the latest published data.<br><br>This compares with a peak in 2007-08 of 2592 people waiting between 9 and 12 months and 4166 people waiting more than 12 months.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 15:58:22 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	59 label Biography information for Mr Mike Hancock

178189

registered interest
date	05/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
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 5 January 2015 to Question 219468, whether her Department received further copies of the letter emailed on 5 December 2014 to Jackie Godwin of the Home Office Correspondence Team and on 18 December 2014 to Dipesh Lakhani in the Private Office Support Team.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth West
tabling member printed	Conor Burns
uin	223575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>Copies of the letters emailed on 5 December 2014 to Jackie Godwin and on 18 December to Dipesh Lakhani were received and will respond by Thursday 12 February.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/02/2015 17:13:17 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns

177742

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the vote in the Northern Ireland Assembly on 3 Feburary 2015, on the National Crime Agency, when she expects that Agency to be fully operational in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	223348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency operates UK-wide, including in Northern Ireland, and provides support to its partner agencies there in relation to customs and immigration matters whilst continuing to exchange information with the PSNI. The NCA has, to date, been unable fully to target serious and organised crime groups in Northern Ireland involved in activities which require policing powers to tackle them. <br><br>The draft Crime and Courts Act 2013 (National Crime Agency and Proceeds of Crime) (Northern Ireland) Order 2015, was laid before Parliament on 29 January 2015. It makes provision for the NCA to operate in Northern Ireland with full powers including the ability to recover criminal assets in relation to offences that are devolved, together with the ability to request the recovery of assets overseas in civil recovery cases. This will make Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK a safer place and means the most serious criminals can be pursued wherever they are. The Order details commencement of the provisions, some of which will come into force the day after it is made, including the extension to Northern Ireland of all of the relevant civil recovery provisions relating to freezing and recovery orders. The related civil recovery investigation powers will require further secondary legislation relating to a Code of Practice. <br><br>A number of provisions that relate to the NCA’s operational use of constable powers and covert techniques, which will be subject to a Memorandum of Understanding, which will come into force at the end of two months beginning with the day on which the Order is made. The Order may not be made until it has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/02/2015 17:10:41 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 43379 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

177894

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what practical arrangements will be made for co-operation between the National Crime Agency and security services in the Irish Republic when that agency becomes fully operational in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	223351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (National Crime Agency and Proceeds of Crime) (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 was laid before Parliament on 29 January. The Order makes provision for the National Crime Agency to operate in Northern Ireland with full powers. If approved by each House, it will allow NCA officers to be able to exercise constable powers and it also provides the NCA the ability to recover criminal assets in relation to offences that are devolved, together with the ability to request the recovery of assets overseas in civil recovery cases. <br><br>This will make Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK a safer place and means the most serious criminals can be pursued wherever they are. The NCA has dedicated resources currently working with Irish law enforcement agencies to tackle the threat from organised crime that affects both our countries.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 10/02/2015 16:52:18 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 43380 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

177549

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum applicants receiving support under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 have been receiving that support for more than (a) two, (b) four and (c) six years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brent Central
tabling member printed	Sarah Teather
uin	223236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The total number of main applicants supported under Section 4 is now well below the peak of 12,019 in the Quarter 3 of 2009, standing at 3,566 in the Quarter 3 of 2014.<br><br>The number of main asylum claimants receiving Section 4 support for more than two, four and six years is set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Duration</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of people</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>More than 2 years and up to 4 years</strong></p></td><td><p>1,405</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>More than 4 years and up to 6 years</strong></p></td><td><p>869</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>More than 6 years </strong></p></td><td><p>329</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 17:33:31 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name Data Table - PQ 223236.docx title PQ 223236 - Data Table
tabling member	1170 label Biography information for Sarah Teather

177550

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2015 to Questions 221902, how many of the asylum claimants referred to in the Answer were granted leave to remain in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	223158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>The answer of 2 February 2015 to Question 221902 stated that of the human trafficking victims who received positive conclusive grounds decisions in 2012 and 2013, 234 and 220 victims applied for asylum respectively.<br><br>This answer was based on Home Office internal management information extracted in June 2014. To answer the current question, the dataset has been fully refreshed, and updated to now include victims who have applied for asylum<br>since June 2014. <br><br>As such, the latest data shows that of those who received positive conclusive grounds decisions in 2012 and 2013, 235 and 270 victims respectively have since applied for asylum.<br><br>Of the 235 victims of trafficking who received a positive conclusive grounds decision in 2012 and have since applied for asylum, 156 have been granted asylum.<br><br>Of the 270 victims of trafficking who received a positive conclusive grounds decision in 2013 and have since applied for asylum, 126 have been granted asylum.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 16:03:44 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 43371 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